Rock Climbers Try to Keep Up With a Pole Dancer | SELF

very sexy, yeah, so I can't do that yet. Hi, I'm Sam. I have been practicing pull dance for 16 years. I am a professional

pole

dancer

. I compete as a judge and work here in body and

pole

. I'm excited to teach you. guys and let's see what we can do today. I know

rock

climbers

have a lot of upper body strength and grip strength, but it's a little different to grip with your fingers and bunch up on the pole, grind the pole, we're going to learn how to do that. do a basic step up so what we're going to try to look at is a squat basically up and then switch hands so the starting point is here you're going to squat up the forearm grip switches and up on your way down, you can hold on. the grip loosens up a little bit so try it yeah and then push your knees towards your elbow yeah push the knee switch so

keep

your forearm elbow crossed yeah push it back towards your knee and then upwards, so slippery it's different. finger strength.

I just find it pretty hard to get my feet off the ground and I don't know how I'm going to pick this thing up and then slide it down, so I want to teach you a spin combo that probably plays with your brain a little bit because it loops and repeats. This is a layup table spin with dip spin and 1/2 fan kick and a step back around the spin, of course the first move is the spin combo which will be a dip spin so this. It's a dip turn, this is usually the most basic first turn, but a lot of people learn, so stretching your leg on the inside is closed on the outside like it's pulling you in and then you replace one foot with the other when you come back with this. .

On the first leg, you come all the way in as if you were leaning over it, try to stay upright. As far as I remember, I had never danced before in my life. I think the hardest part of trying something new is overcoming the fear and just doing the same thing, it's the same when climbing, if you come across a move that you just don't know, the fear of failing is a big deterrent, we just need to overcome it. that move 1, we have it in the second move RS, then the combo is a tray table spin, then the dip with the tray table spin, so you're going to take that dip, stay on the table from the left leg tray, your left hand, slide it up over your head,

keep

turning towards your armpit and then step your right leg back, okay, you lost me.

I haven't tried pole dancing, but I've always been fascinated by people who can't hold it, so their left hip is in the POE. I think maybe yes, we could use the same muscle groups, but it's just a different technique. keep going keep going left armpit take a step back this is not like that and someone tells you this is going to be sexy although that impression right now I look like a negative zero and a pole dance going up to a zero keep spinning keep spinning keep spinning keep spinning spinning Arvid, it's very intimidating, it's really the third move of our combo it's a fan kick, so the inside arm will be the bottom arm, switch arms out, the side arm will be the top arm, the inside leg will kick and the other follows the pole.

Dancing is an incredible mix of art and body movement in a way that has always been super impressive to me. Then like doing the fan kick, I just feel like it's not funny, like my body isn't doing what I want it to do, something that might help when you. What you're doing, say, a fan kick, your inside arm will be the forearm, your outside arm will be, the higher your inside leg goes first, I've never danced before or been sober, just maybe in a club when I was drunk, right? Feel it now start to power your move, yeah once it clicks it feels so good, the explosive part of the Sting combo is a step back and spin, so from here with the last part of the mood the top hand will take a cup grip which is a thumbs down with the thumb on the same side as the fingers so watch it once I'm going to go up it goes up the top hand is going to change I'm going to continue in that direction to open my body out, the leg is going to cross, I'm going to switch hands to the other side, yeah, maybe you already know that, and then do a boomerang to the other side, which again, forever, in a repeating loop , I'm a perfectionist and I'm really sucking right now, my brain is backwards, man.

The idea is that you want to make really difficult things seem super easy. It's the same with

rock

climbing: first you do the easy route and it's a struggle and then as you continue to do it you start to get better and then you can start to make it harder. routes, it takes time and repetitive muscle memory in practice to make something you haven't done before look easy and graceful, it's not easy, but it can be a skill you can develop. I got it, changing something like that, big success, yeah. It was really hard to just challenge, super fun, the hardest part of trying something new is the initial try and once you get through it you're like okay this wasn't that bad.

There were times when I was going around the pole when I wasn't even thinking about what I was doing. I thought, oh, I'm going to switch to this and it just made sense. Rock climbing is very different from this. I feel like I definitely read a solid zero, so I'll give it to you guys, yeah, cool, so I'll go with the solid nine. He would probably write me a three, but with enthusiasm definitely two sixes. I'm going to give my

self

like a seven or eight, definitely some things I could. I've improved or fixed it but I felt pretty good.

I think today was really amazing. I was actually worried that they wouldn't be able to pick up skills very quickly, but they did very well. That's crazy. Now just present it.