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Chinese-Pole-Dancing
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There's vid if you click to Standaert's twitfeed. I wonder if anything would've happened if it didn't get the attention from a western journalist. As I've pointed out on this thread, pole dancing...

New Olympic candidates: arm-wrestling, dodgeball, poker, kettlebell lifting, footgolf, foosball & pole dancing



Olympics & Pole Dancing

This news item is a few months old - I found it off a link from the news above.

Anyone ever been to the World Pole Sport & Fitness Championships?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JktdQ0iasw0

This story is so wonderfully weird. So China.

Hold the phone...Why does China have a national pole-dancing team? Does the U.S. have one? Does Taiwan? What about Tibet? :rolleyes:

What is up with all the issues with the Chinese flag at international competitions? Doesn't China make all the flags for everyone already?

Clearly it's completely different culturally in China. Variations of pole dancing exist in traditional Chinese acrobatics so it isn't viewed as prurient like it is here in America.

But...

Not Chinese, Japanese. And in Italy. And at age 70. :eek:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tjCib_viY


This thread has gotten odd. :o

Wonder how the delivery will go...

It was in the 'Speaking of the Ukraine...' post #3, but looks like that version was removed from YouTube. Or maybe that was another one? Is pole dancing big in the Ukraine? Anyways, thanks for the...

Couldn't get that facebook vid to embed properly, but it's worth a peek.

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Give it up for the elderly....

Not 'Chinese' but of interest... a women friend forwarded this to me, someone not on this forum or even connected to the martial arts at all. Seemed relevant, or at least timely.

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Apparently this is really becoming a 'thing' in China.

:D

There is a traditional form of Chinese acrobatics that involves pole dancing. The western stripper version is different. That has been spreading in China, on the heels of the original acrobatic...

I'm thinking of splitting this thread - keeping a My daughter won the 2013 International Pole Championship and splitting the rest to its own indie thread. Seems there's a lot of Chinese pole dancing...

Unless there's a solid connection to Kung Fu, I'm gonna move this thread to the OT forum soon. Did your daughter train in martial arts for this, YouKnowWho?