So I made a post about our pole dancing classes but that had crappy photos of us. Last week, we had Urbanatomy come to our class since they were going to do their write up on it, and we also had the amazing Elena Savelieva photograph us. And boy, did she do a good job! Granted, she took hundreds of photos to get a few where we weren’t either 1) going in all different directions or 2) showing pained/strange looks on our faces :P But still, her camera is fantastic and the photos look really good. We honestly look like we know our stuff!
So here are more photos, of us in motion and whizzing around. I’m a bit miffed at how it looks so simple in the photos.. when in reality we were struggling and huffing away and falling flat on our asses all over the place :P Ahhhh the magic and trickery of photography ;)
All photo credit goes to the talented Elena!
Streeeetching before class to warm up
Whizzing round!
Our (tiny) instructor Adel
Looking strange sticking my ass out ;)
Hanging out like monkeys!
Every one doing a completely different thing, haha
This is my worst move, I can’t quite seem to get it right
Chilling out. Nah just kidding, this was mad difficult!
Very un-classily falling down ;)
Collapsed :P Now just gotta figure out a dainty way to get up!
Sadly, pole dancing is no more, at least for now. The locals in the area saw us going in/out of the building and didn’t like to see foreigners in THEIR area. So they called the police and the police raided the studio, taking everything away. Yeah, I was in freakin’ DISBELIEF when I heard about it too. If white Australians had gathered together and called the police saying “We don’t want to see Chinese faces in our area, come get rid of them” there would be an absolute RIOT. But somehow it’s okay here. Oh well…….. part of the charm of living in China! :P
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