Sounds like
some of the changes will take a lot of the fun out of it, but they appear to want to become an Olympic sport or something...
Here, her move was officially the "FM10," and for good reason: The
meet's organizers want to reform pole dancing into a sport respectable
enough to go to the Olympics.
So they've written a rule book that gives code names to compulsory
moves, specifies scoring methodology and bans pole-dancing staples such
as removable articles of clothing. And they'd like people to call their
event "pole sports" now.
"We're trying to be stricter here and
become respected as a sport," said Florenza Pizanis, 43, a pole-dancing
coach in Dortmund, Germany, and head of the International Pole Sports
Federation's technical committee, which wrote the rules and applied them
for the first time at the London championships.
Among the written regulations: no dancing "in
an overtly erotic manner"—banned, for example, is "gluteal dance"—and
no "hats, canes and anything that is not considered attached to the
costume."
Regulation is the latest advance in pole dancing's evolution from
strip-club staple toward serious sport. The pole has already won some
global respect in recent decades, and organizations have formed in
various regions to press its cause.
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