Pole dancing competition challenges stereotypes

[loosekarrott]

i had absolutely no problem masturbating to this

[loosekarrott]

lol whores

[LEILINHA46]

it's news everywhere lol

[Rocklobsterport]

who's the last dancer in the tape??? Totally amazing..........

[ladiiijaguar19]

@Rocklobsterport the last dancer goes by the name jeyne butterfly . i met her in person last nite @ a party that was givin in the uspdf honor. she is a really beautiful person inside and out

[Rocklobsterport]

@ladiiijaguar19 Thanks for the info. I'm just amazed by the movement on the pole because it looked so anti-gravity. That needs a long time work out and training. Absolutely wonderful.....

[ladiiijaguar19]

@Rocklobsterport yes it is amazing. i do it myself but i know i am no where near the level of these ladies. u need a great deal of upper body strength just to hold urself up. its a very challenging thing to do but u gain sooo much from it

[r92cab]

the last one was the best

[dominogirl]

A few points that may interest people...

- Pole dancing in this form has a predominantly female audience.

- Men also compete in these competitions. And no, they are not all gay.

- It's pretty hard to feel objectified when you're one of the few people in the room who can support your entire body weight- sideways.

[Sash5034]

I guarantee that all of the idiots here saying things like "Whores, THIS IS IMMORAL" are probably jerking off to this as we speak.

[Crumpledheap]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES  You obviously don't know a single thing about what you're talking about, when pole dancing competitions were held BEFORE 2009, so stop acting like you know. No "amateur night" because amateurs couldn't hope to execute aerial acrobatics. Oh, you compared it to video games? Let's see you fall on your face trying HALF this shit, lolol oh wait you can't.

[Crumpledheap]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES Oh I know a virgin girl who pole dances, is she automatically a whore, being paid for sex, because she has the body strength and elegance to pole dance? lol you're a fucking moron.

[herobbinsvideos]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES video games take no amount of physical strength, grace or agility to play them. these girls are athletes and you are ignorant to make such misguided comments. These girls, and the men in the sport, are all as tough and conditioned athletes as professional football players or gymnasts.

@dominogirl you said it beautifully.

[Crumpledheap]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES Hahaha you must be a troll, or just a complete imbecile. The history of it lies in the circus, and even in gentlemen's clubs, strippers /=/ prostitutes. You misuse the very definition of the word "whore" and applying it to something completely irrelevant. Basically, you are convincing no one. You must be one pathetic man if you equate video game skills with something astronomically more athletically challenging. Do you live in your mom's basement? No one agrees with you.

[TiMMYSQUibbLES]

@Crumpledheap blah blah TROLL, blah blah, IMBECILE, blah blah PATHETIC, blah blah MOMS BASEMENT, blah blah NO ONE AGREES, Spoken like the truest of trolls.

Pole dance without a cash reward in a gym suit and I won't call it WHORE DANCING!

[Crumpledheap]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES OK TIMMY SQUIBBLESZ. DId you watch the video before commenting? It's not physically possible to grip the pole with anything but skin and vinyl. Unless you get off on someone sliding to the ground on their face in a jumpsuit. These women don't have to sell their bodies for money, the winner of this is a wife and mother. Go to spankwire and look up whore dancing, then look at this video. Really?

[TiMMYSQUibbLES]

@Crumpledheap It must be physically impossible to climb a rope fully dressed in a snow suit too. I'll pass on spankwire thanks, while you continue "gripping the pole" in something you bought at Victoria Secrets. Troll on someone else already. Good day!

[yalcrab7]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES Well then, I can't possibly consider swimmers to be serious athletes--what with those skanky little speedos they run around in! Whores, I tell you! A REAL athlete would swim in a snowsuit, right? Don't even get me started on gymnasts--total sluts! Look, man, you do realize this is also a dance performance right? So these are just like the embellished costumes that figure skaters, gymnasts, & cirque performers wear.& are you really comparing the surface of a rope to a pole?

[TiMMYSQUibbLES]

@yalcrab7 You're trying to compare the resistance of air to the resistance of water. And even a female swimmer wears more than whore dancers. Troll on back to school. I'm sure the banks that fund this movement are proud of your lack of critical thinking.

[yalcrab7]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES yeah, as a joke to satirize YOUR stream of illogical comments and comparisons. Irony--look it up. And have you seen Serena Williams' outfits lately? It's straight up lingerie but does that discredit her athleticism? And this whole business about dancing for a cash reward...really? Do you think athletes don't get paid or sponsored for what they do? Better tell them all that they're really just a bunch of prostitutes. And why are you so uncomfortable w/ sexuality anyway?

[TiMMYSQUibbLES]

@yalcrab7 Professional athletes of American sports are whores too, don't confuse yourself. Trust me, Sarena is twice the athlete any girl in this whore ballet could ever be and she doesn't wear lingerie on the court. I never said that I didn't sprout an erection watching these scantily clad women "gripping some pole", I advocate that it's wrong because of its foundation of sexual showcase for monetary gain. Troll on, Trolly Trollerton..

[herobbinsvideos]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES you are an idiot. these women are wearing the same amount, if not more than swimmers, gymnasts, cheerleaders, all world class athletes. and frankly, any one of the girls in USPDF could kick your butt, and the butt of any pro football player or other professional athlete. at the very least hang with them. you are a sad human who obviously closed minded and spends way too much time in the dark playing video games. to even compare video games to a sport is absurd.

[TiMMYSQUibbLES]

@herobbinsvideos You and your entire cackle of suckers couldn't tackle me on a field, go 10 rounds in a ring, post me up in the paint or even beat me at a game of chess. I may submit to a horizontal mambo though. Do yourself a favor and save the money your lobbying for the olympics because it won't happen. "Pole Play". lol

Go run a few miles if you want to get tone. Bye now.

[aretamarie]

Yay! What a nice piece. Pole dancing is whatever we want it to be, while I prefer pure club style dancing, I love that we have the freedom to create artistic pieces as well as divorce it from it's origins and participate in pure athleticism! People who are having these silly knee jerk reactions are just.. silly. Is belly dancing a filthy harem dance? Do you think if I belly dance that I must have been sold by my family to some rich man?

[truthificationx]

I was very good at pole dancing until I hurt my arm doing it. It takes a lot of arm streangth and having to stick to the pole. I took a break from it and I want to go back to it. It is an art form really. You don't have to take your clothes off to do it.

[UnderseaCaveman]

Ok, these female dancers need to pump up their earnings by WHATEVA means!!!

Hard times in the economy, this is just another clue that our economy is a wreck!!

"The stigma of the pole dance".......hahhahaha

[TheRiobezerko]

whores

[yameyameyame]

Props to Al Jazeera for covering this in such a neutral light!

[minniesweetgreen]

i so want to learn how to do that :)

[JunnyICurosi]

Amazing! But if she can make sandwiches while she grinds on the pole, I'll be impressed.

[yalcrab7]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES

yeah, kind of like how your mom is a whore--just calling it what it is...

[Malgorzata64]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES Why? it's actually quite impressive. Give it some years and I think it could become an olympic discipline.

[Malgorzata64]

@TiMMYSQUibbLES Well, I'm not THAT ignorant. But what is shown here IS impression from an athletic point of view. Besides, whilen on the subject, I have more respect for what you call whores than for those who use them. These guys should be hanged, instead they are often respected.

[RCvolunteer1978]

Here is a sinful thought have pole dancing in an Arabic County !

[PunkyJessie]

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a difference between a vertical bar and a horizontal bar??? It's 2011... >.> If I choose to dance or do gymnastics, what difference does it make if it's on the floor, in the air, or on a vertical bar??

[ylaenna]

@PunkyJessie Because a horizontal bar has no connotation. If you set it up to a vertical position, well, then it's erect.

[aretamarie]

@ylaenna What about malkhamb or chinese pole? Are they strippin'? And those dudes do it in barely there loincloths!

[ylaenna]

@aretamarie I didn't say anything about stripping. I'm just explaining why people can't go beyond the idea that pole dancing is whore dancing – because that's how it started, that's even how Flirty Girl Pole Fitness is advertised, as something "sexy" you can do to gain confidence and maybe dance for your man. I don't necessarily agree but I can see why some people can't dissociate one from the other.

[FloydIV]

Finally.. Female athletes that are fucking hot.

[zambimaru]

I've been waiting for this for years.

[city212girl]

Pole dancing can be beautiful, artistic, raunchy, sexy and so much more. It can be taken to any limit the dancer wishes to take it to. It's a form of DANCE that provides creative expression while also remaining physically challenging. Yes it has roots in strip clubs, but it's history goes back much further than that. Any objectifying thoughts you project onto pole dancing merely reflect your own perverted mental state. Try it before you judge it.

[MidnightAngel92]

how is that physically possible?!?! :O 

[TheEviIOyo]

who cares if kids see this, they fuck smoke and drink like everyone else, everyone on here was a kid seeing this type of shit.The prudish nonsense has to end.

[lethalblonde0911]

@TheEviIOyo We aren't talking about kids seeing this video. Some haggard man (gabiotta) in his 30's/40's that yells at his webcam started calling ME, a 20 year old, a pedophile because I uploaded a harry potter themed pole dance lol.

[se15code]

hey this is the same kid of thing u see at a strip club

[jendeh1000]

nice....

[Videoslaper]

@jackie189 LOL was just about to say the same.... people give him/her thumbs up :P

[yalcrab7]

@jackie189

yeah because the ONLY reason a woman would ever show some skin is so that she can sexually objectify herself, right? *rolls eyes* Stop being so ignorant--they are dressed like that for functionality. It's common sense, people! If you have fabric covering your skin, then you can't stick to the pole. These moves require skin contact of the upper thighs, arms, and stomach--hence their outfits. For anyone arguing against this, go try it for yourself and prove me wrong.

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta If you're all about sexy go watch porn, like this "field" wants your skewed outlook involvement anyways. I taught myself to pole dance, you need to sit down and shut up about things you obviously don't know about.

[gabiotta]

@lethalblonde0911

I see, you have a vested interest in divorcing it from the sexual, i wondered why you were getting so hot under the collar. You like to do it for children.

The Harry Potter pole dance?

Get fucked. What is next you ignorant cunt?

Are you really so stupid as to sexualise characters from a book aimed at eight year olds?

You are some kind of fucking groomer or pederast or what?

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta LOL YOU MAD BRO? 

[gabiotta]

@lethalblonde0911

No, you performed a sexual dance aimed at eight year olds.

Am i making it up?

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta So? Kids aren't watching it. Kids shouldn't be on Youtube. I'm not going to be careful of some ass wipe on here, I can say whatever I want. I do pole performances, without taking anything off, and get paid for it. You can go fuck yourself now, not like you'll be getting with any incredible dancers any time soon.

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta Pressing enter after every line is cool. I'm worried about internet tough guys, lol.

[gabiotta]

@lethalblonde0911

XXX

[Crumpledheap]

@gabiotta dumbass doesn't know what sexy is

[TheKafir1]

Amazing, beautiful

now i'm a fan of pol dancing.

[ThePoleGarage]

GORGEOUS! Beautiful glimpse and showcase of the performances from the competition! Congratulations to all of the extraordinary women competing, you are truly inspirational with your style, flexibility, strength and art form. We are beyond thrilled for each of you and wish you all of our love, support and encouragement!

[yalcrab7]

To all of you making derogatory comments about this sport, grow the fuck up! Your puritanical attitudes and obvious disdain for strong women have no place in the 21st century. Your ignorance is repulsive & it's ppl like you who perpetuate these outdated misogynistic notions that have kept women oppressed for centuries. Not everything is about your penis. And to the women who are talking shit, pls work out your insecurities before dumping them on other women. The women in this video are athletes!

[motoian84]

AlJazeera, i enjoyed not reading the comments. Please disable.

[creebaby99]

being a "stripper" shows nudity and for those that don't know most strippers cant do the moves that these men and women are doing. it's all in the mind and vision of the on looker if the pole was turned the other way I think it would be called BALLET and most ballroom dancers are very scantily dressed usually without a negative comment! yes pole dance "sexy" because thebodies of the performers are almost perfect no one is showing bare boobs and ass or solicting sex! big ups to pole dance!!!!!

[IrishFoodHunter]

Fuckin' yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!

[Deathstar1020]

Impressive that they make supporting themselves on that pole while still doing routines so simple. Sick and good for the organizers. Although you can't deny the connections people will make with pole dancing, but this is a nice start in changing things. It changed my perception anyway.

[RagingBubuli]

Imagine these women dancing on your pole.

[TheKafir1]

@RagingBubuli i don't mind

any time anywhere

[ShayShay21489]

Yay!!!!

[polepowerstudio]

Awesome!!!

[The1sista]

they are not stripping they are already almost naked. why are you showing this shit aljazeera?

[excitedsynapses]

Al Jazeera? I never knew. Most American news channels would be too prudish to show this. Yet we'll have American trolls coming on here decrying Al Jazeera as an Islamist mouthpiece...what morons.

[chelsbean18]

Amazing! Wish I had been there :( Pole fitness is extremely hard but extremely rewarding. Stripping is exposing certain body parts which clearly none of these ladies were doing. This isnt naughty, its pure strength, passion , and dedication

[Hulkmania316]

Poledancing is amazing. This demostrations were amazing.

[chiyerano]

This stuff requires skill to look almost effortless. Those displays were amazing.

[Devilock79]

It's really no different to circus performers who wear tight-fitting/revealing outfits. If women enjoy doing it and people enjoy watching them then I don't see the problem.

[micahgee]

@Devilock79

exactly! Ever seen Cirque du Soleil (spelling?)? There are acts with tight fitting clothing OMG!

They aren't taking their clothes off...

Amazing athleticism, little bit of looking at the beautiful female form what is the problem agai?

[majhoool100]

this is sexy

[chiyerano]

@gabiotta I think your mind is the thing that is being naughty here.

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta What she said is fact. It is impossible to perform those moves without flesh gripping the pole. These women are certified athletes, and it's not reclaiming something naughty, maybe in your ignorant mind, but these moves are acrobatic and did not come from a strip club but a circus, moron.

[lethalblonde0911]

@gabiotta I'm not one of those people. I just didn't like how you undermined these women's skill, and what dark corner? Maybe you're unaware that this dance is now taught at gyms all over.

[cyberknight2010]

why is more aljazzerra usually blocked for comments but not this video?

[cyberknight2010]

lol they are strippers, nothing more

[micahgee]

@cyberknight2010

no...

they are not stripping



[chiyerano]

@cyberknight2010 I guess in your mind they are strippers. Some of the rest of us know better.

[phooey108]

the athleticism is extraordinary.

[Steve7508]

Whatever they say about 'reclaiming the pole', it's still about sex and turning men on. You can't divorce it from the strip club association.

[idimdb]

@Steve7508

i second that.

[chiyerano]

@Steve7508 I can definitely divorce it quite easily from the strip club association. As long as they keep their outfits on I see no reason to associate it with stripping. Since you mentioned men, I would like to see more men doing this sort of thing as well. It would make for a nice mix.

[jelloshotlady]

@chiyerano There are competitions that involve men, USPDF is just not one of them. American Pole Fitness is one in the States and there are others that have taken place in Australia and Japan.

[chiyerano]

@jelloshotlady Good to know, thanks.

[aretamarie]

@Steve7508 Hee. Considering USPDF spectators are primarily female, I'd say it has very little to do with turning men on.

[magd]

When I read the title I thought it was an Onion video.

[74brooklynboi]

I just wanna bury my face between their legs.

[8OBHRZ]

that requires some serious skill and strength, that is amazing stuff!