Description
Chinese pole climbing is one of the country’s classic circus disciplines. It can be traced back to 1000-year-old drawings. The discipline is practiced on two or more adjacent nine-meter-tall poles, onto which groups of acrobats climb and perform various tricks demanding extreme physical strength. Chinese pole climbing has a somewhat different origin than the most common Western pole discipline, known as pole dancing. For many years, the Western dance around the pole used to be known exclusively from strip clubs or similar venues, but in recent years it has achieved wider acceptance and gained some foothold. As part of this development, many pole dancers have even incorporated a number of tricks from the more desexualised Chinese version.
