Are Pole Dancing Shoes Essential For Pole Dancing?
Pole dancing is the latest exercise fad by many girls around the world.No longer is it just for gentleman's clubs
. If you take a look at pole dancing today it has many parallels with gymnastics in fact I think that it is gymnastics for adults.Not many people would get away with rocking up to the gymnastics session with a bunch of 5 years olds or wouldn't even attend a gym class if they thought they would be performing handstands, headstands, handsprings.Well that's exactly what hundreds of girls all over the country are doing when they attend their local pole dancing lesson.
More about how it can be compared to gymnastics. Look at moves performed by advanced pole dancers, the iron cross, straight edge, twisted handspring, flag pole you need core strength, arm strength.It's amazing for toning every part of your body.You even get a cardio workout.
Now we know what pole dancing is let's answer the question posed in the title: Are pole dancing shoes essential for pole dancing?
The short answer to that is NO, in fact many pole dancing schools ask you not to wear pole shoes, and if you can perform a move without shoes you can most probably perform an advanced move whilst wearing shoes.Let's take a look at the advantages of wearing or not wearing pole dancing shoes.
The advantages of wearing pole dancing shoes:
1. Firstly they help you stick to the pole.Pole dancing shoes are made out of plastic.This helps you stick to the pole.Very important when you are learning because when you are first you don't have enough strength or the correct technique.The shoes just make it that little bit easier to stick to the pole.
2. The weight of the shoe will improve your spins by giving you extra momentum.
3. Pole dancing shoes have a curved end to help you rotate on the ball of your foot which allow you to pivot gracefully around the pole.
4. As pole shoes are relatively heavy, they can help you get a deeper stretch across your legs when you invert. This deeper stretch will make your tricks look incredible.
5. Strength give you a better workout. When wearing pole dancing shoes you are basically on tip-toes for your whole workout, the shoes force your calf muscles to work harder and subsequently your claves. Plus imagine how much more effort you need to use to kick a shoe instead of just your foot into the air.Those legs and stomach muscles will have to work that little bit harder.
6. Pole shoes elongate your legs making them look gorgeous!Your long elongated legs with make you look youthful, slender and tall. Attractive to men and gives the impression that your still a young girl with long slender limbs. They will make you look amazing.
7. Pole dancing shoes will also:
Improve your posture as you walk around the pole.
Protect you from bruising and scrapes to the skin on your feet
give you comfort - poles dancing shoes have padding on the insoles so are Fantastically comfortable
Are hygienic they will prevent the spread of verrucas etc.
The advantages of not wearing pole dancing shoes:
1. You learn to stick to the pole without wearing shoes, if you can climb the pole without shoes, perform an inverted crucifix without shoes you have learned correct technique and have lots and lots of strength.The more friction on the pole the better, bare feet are great at sticking to the pole but you will get bruises and scrapes on the tops of your feet, a pair of shoes will prevent you damaging your feet.Pole shoes are a lot grippier than bare feet, so they should make climbing or inverts a lot easier.
2. You will not get extra momentum from the weight of the shoe.If you can achieve great momentum without shoes imagine how much you would obtain when wearing shoes?
3. You will find pivoting without a pair of pole dancing shoes difficult as you will have a smooth surface to pivot on, their will be more friction between you foot and the floor
4. Achieving the stretch required without shoes will ensure you obtain the required technique, there will be no extra weight provided by the shoe.
5. Whilst you will obtain more stomach, arm strength from kicking your feet with shoes into the air, you will obtain more strength in other muscles from gripping the pole with out shoes.You calves muscles will also not shrink like they will when wearing shoes.Try having a calf massage if you wear heels frequently and experience the pain that tight calf muscles cause.
6. If you do not wear shoes your feet will be likely to get bruises and scrapes to the skin on your feet, pole shoes protect your feet.
Are there any other shoes that you can wear to pole dance in? You are not limited to just wearing pole dancing shoes or bear feet you could wear trainers, pole dancing boots or ballet shoes.
by:Grace Belinda S
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