Posts Tagged: ‘Alethea Austin’

Hot Tricks with Alethea Austin

2012/08/20 Posted by MsAJL

Andrea James Lui pole tricks Shoulder Mount Splits

My blog’s been hibernating for the last while, but I’m back to write about my pole workshop with Alethea Austin at Brass Vixens Downtown. The essence of her Hot Tricks class was not to teach the most difficult tricks, but to focus on the most impressive tricks. Frequently, difficult does not equate impressive because more […]

The Truth About Pole

2012/02/28 Posted by MsAJL

YouTube thumbnails of Felix Cane, Zoraya Judd, Oona Kivela, Alethea Austin, and Wilson Alexander

It’s part dance, part fitness, part acrobatics, and it’s not just for strippers anymore. Actually, it was never just for strippers. The circus has Chinese pole – which tends to be a male-dominated apparatus because of the strength and fitness required – and although their poles are longer and stickier *tee hee hee* some of […]