Male Empowerment: Pole Fitness and Hardware Store Haul Video!

[PoleHeatherNicole]

I stumbeled into this one!! What a hoot!! Beautiful ext bf at the park!! I luv all your vids tho! Its amazing reading some of these comments here I just shake my head!

[Poledancefan]

@PoleHeatherNicole Thanks, Heather Nicole. I do get some funny comments from people! I'd completely forgotten about this video...

[jimmatson]

Very wise to but the concrete, let it sit in the basement for a few months and the humidity will give you some nice solid blocks, handy for landscaping.

[Poledancefan]

LOL, I think that's already happened! I never got around to fixing the porch because the village dug up the stree. I think we are going to hire a contractor and do the entire sidewalk and porch..

[TheSecretSmoker1]

What the hell is wrong with you?

[Poledancefan]

Well, if I knew the answer to that question, I wouldn't be having so much fun trying to figure it out! Anyway, thanks for watching my video...and giving me a chance to write another of my lame You-Tube comment one liners. By the way, I like your screen name--it is a vice that I can relate to--once in a great while--usually after a few beers! /joel

[MayorError]

nothing like turning a local kids park into a gay strip club

[Poledancefan]

Thanks for watching and enjoying the video, Mayor Error--but just to clarify-- there is no stripping or sexual activity involved in this video. It's just pole dance...or in this case, pole fitness, an activity similar to gymnastics, but done on a vertical, instead of a horizontal bar. Mayor Error, pole is fairly popular and mainstream now. It can be exercise or dancebut it is not a statement about anyone's particular sexual orientation. Everyone is welcome, gay, straight, male, female--whatever!

[djbrandonr]

Ill give you props on that. Now I need to go train, no offense but if you can do it then so can I..

[Poledancefan]

Thank You, Brandon! Well, I don't spend as much time as I should on perfecting the moves. Work is really busy now and while the weather is still decent here in the midwest, I try to ride the bike as much as possible...

[MPsuzziQ]

Hi Joel. You're great. You always keep my attention. You're so dern funny.

[Poledancefan]

LOL! Thank You!

[b00mface]

haha, hella funny. Haul video for guys, now that's what I'm talking about.

[Poledancefan]

Thank You!

[tigiee]

hahaha you're so funny! loved your extended butterfly & your counting is so cute! :D

[Poledancefan]

Thanks...I've been trying to add as much endurance to my split grip as possible. I still want to get some kind of pencil or Aysha type move in the split grip. I can't do handsprings in the basement, so falling into the move from the S/G is the only was to do it for now...

[gsylass]

Joel you're crazy, but in the best way! xoxo loved it!

[Poledancefan]

LOL! Thank You!

[poleaddix]

lmao joel... u are sooo lucky someone didnt call security.. but good butterflies..

[Poledancefan]

Oh...they WERE driving around in their little car with the light. I had the keys in the car and the motor running...just like on Bonnie and Clyde!

[thatlarawoman]

i loved this video...i wanted to see more of the couple arguing !!!! and you make your aerial inverts look so so easy, i can still only do mine about 6 times out of ten :-( xx

[Poledancefan]

I WISH I had a taller pole. Now I really have the polebug and I am desperate for a better location. I probably will call CRUNCH about their studio lessons. Glitte said she might go with me...I'm a little scared of lessons by myself..but I would love to work out on a decent pole!

[castleoutsider]

hehe yea yevy bought some of those mighty grip gloves at the comp. basically theyre like boots.. on ur hands LOL and i think karols jean vdo inspired you cuz damn =) that was awesum. Ur extended is coming along GREAT! i sooo need to try it;; i still havent. thanks for empowering us Joel =) <3

[Poledancefan]

THose were workmans' gloves--super cheap--like $5.00 They did tend to slip off a little. But I have boxer's tape for boxing gloves and I'll bring it next time and just put a little tape at the wrist seam to keep the gloves from sliding around...

[jnybeth]

Funny stuff, haha. I never would have thought of doing a trick on the shopping cart receptacle. You could have probably gotten away with a shoulder mount! How are those gloves working out for you? I heard that Mighty grip has come out with some gloves too.

[Poledancefan]

The gloves were in Laurie's garden bin. I grabbed then because it was in the 30's and 40' Sunday morning and it didn't seem like I could warm up any of the.park poles. The pole hash was kind of fun...I think next summer I'll try to map out a route for a bike ride to parks with poles and try to organize Chicago area polers to do a bike ride and a move at each location. But it would have to be EARLY...so as not to upset moms and dads! The gloves were grippy even on ice cold poles...

[Keiloces]

Haha your awesome Joel!!

[Poledancefan]

Thanks! I had a fun time. I never did caulk the tub/shower, though...Next weekend, maybe..., Really, I promise!

[PoleMistress]

and here I thought it had something to do with hot knifing....LOL! That rocked anyway!

[Poledancefan]

I actually came across one of those "haul videos" by accident when one of the polers had gone shopping for injectors, nitrogen fuel systems, exhaust pipes, turbines...all kinds of equipment for her car--a corvette or something. She had all of this hardware laid out onthe bed and was so excited she sounded like she was going to pop out of her skin. It was a sweet video, though. I think her boyfriend is a mechanic and hot rodder and they are both really into cars...

[pinkysui]

your so cool man . now i want to hit up the hardware store and make a vid like that . that was so cool you rock

[Poledancefan]

LOL! Thanks..well I really do need to get some of that stuff done. RIght now, the village is re-doing the street. They are tearing up the sidewalks anyway, so I'll wait and see what happens. If they damage the steps with vibrations, we may just have a contractor re-do them from scratch. I was only planning to patch the top layer. Really, I am not much of a do-it yourselfer. I am very good at calling up the contractor or carpenter, though! One time I changed an electrical outlet--it took all day!

[VivienneVonSpin]

Fabulous!

I think you should use that cement to put a pole in your back yard though, stuff the porch ;-)

[Poledancefan]

We are thinking the same way. I have had this idea for a long time: to bury a PVC sleeve into the ground, encased in a large block of concrete. The PVC (plastic ) pipe would be hollow, but deep enough to slide a slightly smaller diameter metal pole down inside of it. You could put the pole up and take it down whenever you pleased. You could put a cap over the hole (the top of the plastic pipe) at other times. Ha Ha:even make a fake little "grass hairpiece" to disguise the pole "socket" !!!

[VivienneVonSpin]

That's an awesome idea!! :)

[Hoddska]

well you've done it again and created one of the most entertaining and unexpected pole vids...the cart return pole! The people in the playground as you practice!

the commentary on the people arguing ! and all that LOOT!!! Joel, you are so great! I'm inspired to go and work on my split grip right now!

[Poledancefan]

Thank You! Well I originally wanted to do TARGET. They have PERFECT tall red poles--EXACTLY the right size and diameter. But security is very tight...a guard drives around the parking lot ALL the time, LOL! All of the poles are across from the handicapped parking and I couldn't park the car in a good spot to put the camera on top of the car. I was afraid I would get in big trouble...but those Target poles are very tempting...sooner or later somebody is going to try to pole on one of them!

[killerredtex]

hey joel! several things: I LOVE HASHING! on-on :) second: the pole for the cart return?? awesome! third: that couple argueing sounds like me and my husband when were trying to get shit done, i probably wouldnt call him an idiot like that lady did, but we would be standing in the parking lot going back and forth for sure.

[Poledancefan]

I got curious about Hashing..I had heard of the real thing..but I am not a runner so I've never done it that way. But friends here in Chicago have done it when they were younger. It turns out it really does come from a Hash place in Kuala Lumpur and the men and women were called "Harriers and Harriets" cuz that was the name of the guy who ran the scavenger hunts! So now I think we could do a pole Hash in Chicago. Map out a group bike ride to parks with poles, and do one move at each one!

[angel612001]

LMAO!!! That's awesome Joel...and I love the comment about the civic, I have one too and I'm still amazed what I can fit in it. Nice descent from the inverts too...very controlled : )

[Poledancefan]

Thanks!...I am just trying to strengthen my split grip... I was trying to to as many as possible and I need to be outdoors for any aerial work. My home pole is barely over my head.

[angel612001]

Totally understand, split grips are more comfortable for me oo so I usually do those tricks in my studio cause my pole at home is only 8' and I can't get the height I want on it : (

[fleurthefrenchcat]

ou should try doing a controlled cartwheel down out of the split grip ex. butt. might give you the feel for the split grip release into aysha :)

[Poledancefan]

Thanks, Fleur... I will try that! My arms are really hurting today after yesterdays multi-park adventure. It was pretty cold...but a fun way to combine cardio (run/walking/riding) and pole. By the way, do you see the young lady behind me with her little boy? I edited out the instances where she was identifiable on camera to protect her privacy. Her sweatshirt read "property of U****** class of 2001" (Your alumni school for dance). She said her sister teaches belly, yoga, and pilates...