Pole Is 2,000 Years Old....And Practiced By Men!

Did you know that Pole Fitness can be traced back more than two thousand years?

Mellakhamb is an Indian sport practiced for thousands of years by primarily men- and uses the same principles of endurance and strength as pole fitness. Check out our blog for the video below-

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you will see that they use a wooden pole- that is wider than the pole we use- and has a large wooden ball on the top.

Chinese pole is practiced by more males as well, using two poles, on which men would defy gravity as they leapt from pole to pole, at approximately twenty feet in the air.

Pole dancing by women was initially part of dances performed in matriarchal societies- performed by women for women.

In the 1920’s, traveling circuses and side shows would utilize pole dancing with a pole in the middle of a tent- sometimes swinging the pole as well. Eventually the activity moved from tents to bars, and combined with burlesque dance aspects, but did not move into erotic or strip tease territory until the 1980’s, first in Canada, then the United States.

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Thanks for reading!  Linda