The story of this Pole Brand was written by current owner of Mighty Grip, Stephanie Housel Mighty Grip was founded in 1998.  The creators of the first Heat activate sports hand grip, the only of its kind in the world.  The Original Powder grip is made with thermoplastic paraffin, grinded into powder form which activates by the body’s blood circulation.  Creator Joel Bretan designed this component because of his love for Racquetball.  Joel has very tiny hands and had trouble gripping the racquet.  Having a background in health and beauty composition, Joel set out to des ..read more

The owners of 123Poling Tutorials are dramatically lowering their prices for you to be able to continue your training at home.  We wanted you to know about this offer.  Read their note to polers around the world below. Dear poler,  we understand that now a lot of pole studios around the world are closing due to coronavirus outbreak. We want you to continue your pole training through these tough times that’s why we are giving you ALL tutorials in ONE Deal! We are offering you a special limited-time ALL-IN-ONE DEAL for ONLY $99 USD to make it more affordable for you to train at h ..read more

The story of this Pole Brand was written by current owner of Mighty Grip, Stephanie Housel Mighty Grip was founded in 1998.  The creators of the first Heat activate sports hand grip, the only of its kind in the world.  The Original Powder grip is made with thermoplastic paraffin, grinded into powder form which activates by the body’s blood circulation.  Creator Joel Bretan designed this component because of his love for Racquetball.  Joel has very tiny hands and had trouble gripping the racquet.  Having a background in health and beauty composition, Joel set out to design a formula that would ..read more

The owners of 123Poling Tutorials are dramatically lowering their prices for you to be able to continue your training at home.  We wanted you to know about this offer.  Read their note to polers around the world below. Dear poler,  we understand that now a lot of pole studios around the world are closing due to coronavirus outbreak. We want you to continue your pole training through these tough times that’s why we are giving you ALL tutorials in ONE Deal! We are offering you a special limited-time ALL-IN-ONE DEAL for ONLY $99 USD to make it more affordable for you to train at home. We underst ..read more

This is a FREE webinar that was recorded live on December 18, 2019  · What is Shadow Banning? · How you can avoid it · How accepting each other is the key · Change begins with us. How sticking together is one way to fight back against stigma Register: Hosted by AM Davies The post UPA Webinar – All About Shadow Banning appeared first on United Pole Artists ..read more

This is where you can find all the links pertaining to the UPA Coaching Webinar – All About Shadow Banning.  If you’ve found this page before the webinar, you can follow this link to watch the replay.  (Webinar live on December 18, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST) Salty World Article – Exclusive: Victoria’s Secret Influence on Instagram’s Censorship Policies Examples of a shadow banned vs not shadow banned hashtags Read story after story of discrimination on the everyBODYvisible.com website   Later.com reports on shadow banning in 2017, but in recent personal correspondence bet ..read more

Written by AM Davies We have pivoted and decided to move in the direction of marketing, consulting and coaching.  This started happening organically, so we went with the flow and found a new path!  This is very exciting for us and we’ve been dying to show you the new site.  It’s not 100% done yet, but it’s close.  Should be any week now, gearing up for the new year!  Below is a screen shot of the home page.  Hope you like!   The post New UPA Site Coming Soon appeared first on United Pole Artists ..read more

Written by Lindsey Madla “I cant do that. I cant wear those shoes, I cant take my shirt off in class, I cant get strong enough, I cant get my tricks back, I cant start over again. I cant do that.” The thieves of joy no matter what we do, and these were consistent thoughts throughout the past 7 years. Sometimes we really dont know ourselves as well as we think- because I CAN do that, and I am. I had a 7 inch mass removed from my ovary, I’ve learned the hard way by injury when repeating a trick over and over again. I’ve learned to LET JOY LEAD when pole dancing, all else will follow. Comparison ..read more

Written by AM Davies – Photo Credit: Brynne Levy, Sage Sovereighn, Frankie Msgendered, Blaine Petrovia, Cheeky Lane,  Yes, you read that title correctly, Instagram censors everyBODYvisible.  They have censored the anti-censorship campaign, further proving our point.  IG execs have turned their profiles private, they have blocked the @everybodyvisible account.  They have taken notice.  We thought maybe this would be it for us, but we are slowly finding out, we think this may just be the beginning. Blogger on the Pole, Carolina, summed up our day of protest best… “On 29 October 2019 – World Inte ..read more

Written by AM Davies Well, why should I be surprised… the National Day Archives just rejected our application to make World Pole Dance Day an official day on September 30.  In the midst of my mind boggling busy schedule, I felt compelled to share this with you as I am fighting back the tears.  Gosh, you know, I thought we were past this.  It’s 2019… We very thoughtfully made a website, worldpoledanceday.com, to use as part of the National Day Archives application.  We wanted to look “official”.  Then, we were prepared to pay for the day to be legit on the calendar for all the world to see.  Th ..read more