Sunday, June 3, 2012 11:04:46 PM
I definitely respect their fitness, and I would actually like to try it. But over coming the stigma is another thing. How do you convince the general public this pole isn't a phallic symbol, as it was originally intended to be with pole dancing? They have their work cut out for them, but we`ve been making social changes a lot lately...or trying.
Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:27:10 AM
If they rebranded it as vertical pole and removed the sexual connection and the dancing aspect, it could fly as an olympic sport. That's a tall order, though.
There are vertical pole gymnastic events that aren`t sexual, e.g. mallakhamb.