pole dance

In 2011, she entered her first pole dance competition in the 40-and-over masters category just three months after she started taking classes.

The music video featured the rapper in knee-high platform boots performing the ultimate pole dance – sliding into hell on the pole and giving the devil a lapdance.

That summer he started teaching at Secret Pole Dance Studio, commuting 35 miles each way to the Fox Hills studio where he was paid $20 a class.

A veteran of L.A.’s nascent pole dance community that began in the early aughts, he has been dancing professionally since he was 19.

Pole dance made me value being physically strong for the first time in my life.