Addicted to Pole Dancing

Street Pole Dance!

As a pole dancing student, it is very difficult for me to resist the dark force to strike some pole poses on these street “poles” :p

These “poles” are indeed directional signs, which are part of the “Visitor Signage Improvement Scheme” implemented by the Hong Kong Tourism Commission.

There are mainly 3 types: Directional Sign, Mapboard and Idenification Sign. These visitor signage aimed to provide convenience for visitors while travelling around Hong Kong.

These photos are listed according to the dates they were taken:

Lamma Island 南丫島	Central 中環	Wan Chai 灣仔
Cause Way Bay 銅鑼灣	Deep Water Bay 深水灣	Wong Chuk Hang 黃竹坑
Wong Nai Chung 黃泥涌	Tin Hau 天后	Sheung Wan 上環
Shau Kei Wan 筲箕灣	Sai Wan Ho 西灣河	Quarry Bay 鰂魚涌
North Point 北角	Happy Valley 跑馬地	Sai Ying Pun 西營盤
Tung Chung 東涌	The Peak 山頂	Wanchai Gap 灣仔峽
Bowen Road 寶雲道	Mongkok 旺角	Yau Ma Tei 油麻地
Sai Kung 西貢	Tsim Sha Tsui 尖沙咀	Ho Man Tin 何文田
Repulse Bay 淺水灣	Stanley 赤柱	Ap Lei Chau 鴨脷洲
Tin Wan 田灣	Aberdeen 香港仔	Peng Chau 坪洲
Ngong Ping 昂平	Pui O 貝澳	Mui Wo 梅窩
Hung Hom 紅磡	Mid-Levels 半山	Chai Wan 柴灣
Kowloon City 九龍城

See these photos on a map!:

View Pole Dance Around Hong Kong in a larger map

Have been wanting to do this for ages after seeing Mariana and Loic’s Tango (Double) pole dance video on youtube… anyway…

Finally managed to force someone to do this stupid move with me, it turned out to be quite fun, hoho.

Thank you everyone for their laughter :p

Went to the Asia World Expo Hong Kong for a car show and saw a nice little street lamp… couldn’t resist on doing some pole move there! Sorry that I showed my little belly there :p

You know, since it’s a car show, there are loads of weird guys over there, I had to wait for quite a while until nobody was there to see my stupid action! Anyway, it was fun

Working on “getting into shoulder mount and cartwheel mount” smoothly… (although it still looks weird)…

anyway, have fun.

p.s. the song is Pilots, by the Goldfrapp

Got my shoulder mount several weeks ago and I now have no problems in doing it.

Even tried shoulder mount into an inverted V. The only problem is that my head seems to be touching the ground while I shoulder mount from the sitting down position. Anyway, I think it’s because you do have a tendency of sliding down after you have inverted, so I will have to do the inverted caterpillar climb immediately rather than “taking a rest” after I’ve inverted.

So, my next step is to try shoulder mounting from mid-air. One of my goal is to do a shoulder mount in mid-air into the superman pose. That requires alot more arm strength which IS something I don’t have.

Just want to drop down several tips on shoulder mount:

1. make sure you place the pole on the muscle (not your bones) right next to your neck and press hard!
2. grip your palm and fingers tight against the pole, this will create an inward force towards your body; and while your shoulder is pressing hard against the pole, you will be creating a “two-side” force allowing you to grip the pole steadily.
3. Do not loosen your grip; nor the pressure from your shoulder from pressing against the pole. Never loosen the grip, never, never, never! Otherwise your body would slide down and you will lose the power required for the shoulder mount.
4. Once you have inverted, grip the pole tight with your legs and allow your body to slide down along the pole.
5. Flatten your back immediately after you have inverted, this movement will allow your collar bone to be hidden rather than exposed when you curl up. This is very important cos someone broke her collar bone while doing a shoulder mount!
6. Tell yourself that you CAN do it. I think this is a general tip on pole dancing. Just be confident and you’ll be able to do what you want

Hope these helps

Ashley, Charlene and Toni all came over for some crazy pole dancing shots on Friday night…. it was nuts, but we did have loads of fun, hee

So here are some of the “normal” + proper looking pics

the Banana Splits (AKA Pole Splits)	Extended Butterfly

???	Inverted Crucifix	Shoulder Mount
Recliner	Ballerina	Gazelle? (or Gizelle?)

Got my shoulder mount last Friday (finally! It took me like 4 months to do it… cos it was tooo painful and I kept on giving up :p)… have had horrible muscle pain on my right shoulder for like a week and I decided to give it a go today (yes, it was the first time I did shoulder mount ever since I’ve got it…)

Anyway, thought it would be fun/nice to do a superman from shoulder mount, and here’s the result. It was done in quite an ugly + funny way… but hey, it was my first… gonna practise more

Also did a shoulder mount -> inverted thigh hold -> superman… but donno why my stupid cam didn’t record it >.<