Customer Reviews

The Art of Exotic Dancing: Striptease Series- Pole Dancing

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I've owned this DVD for a couple years now (this one, and the second one of the series) because they've been available through Fawnia Mondey's website for a very long time, although they look like they've been repackaged for Amazon. From what another reviewer said, I can assume that the DVD itself is the same: set in a clothing shop, not many tricks, etc. The intruction for pole tricks isn't bad, it's just a little too easy for me. There really weren't many pole tricks at all- a lot of info on covering ground/travelling across a stage, and other stuff. I do like her sequence on stretching for extreme flexibility, as it only helps make you a better, stronger poledancer. The additional advice about what to wear & when to actually strip I personally don't like, but that's probably because I got into this for fitness, not for stripping. It felt a little cheesy to me. I'm currently checking out other DVD options for poledance tricks.

This is been by far the best DVD I have seen on Pole Dancing. Very Easy, slow paced, slow music. Hey, I'm a beginner, I want it easy! This was great to learn by. If you are super advanced it's not for you.

This is good stuff. I was surprised that I could pick up the moves so quickly. Some take some practice and when attempting them the first time, sometimes you will invent your own twist, so give it a try and see what happens. Lots of good basics but also room to grow (and other stuff that's just amazing to watch and aspire to!) If you have a portable/non-installed pole, you will want to be careful in which moves you attempt for safety's sake. Otherwise, lots of fun to watch and try to do Fawnia's moves at home.

Having wasted money on what I call 'pole-dancing theory' and 'mental-preperation-to-be-sexy' where they crawl around on the floor for 45 minutes then later remember there IS a pole -- for all the horrible production (non-existant, more correctly) this dvd DOES MOVES! Fawnia is sweet, unpretentious, balanced, thoughful and intelligent.

Sure, it's shot in a clothing shop in like 1995, and all I can think when I watch it is that someone from Motley Crew is about to swing by with said hair-band in-tow and whisk her away in the middle of the lesson, but God bless her, she SHOWS how to do moves on the pole! Which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for Shelia Kelly's horrible waste of money dvds which is all 'emotional-prepardness-to-bring-out-your-inner-sex-kitten' sham/scam for 2 dvds before they feel they can emotionally 'bond' with a pole. Gag.

This dvd assumes you're already a sexy female and doesn't hold your hand and explain it to you first. It's ALL about the athletism of the pole. If you're a 'lets get to the point yesterday' kind of learner, this dvd will keep you busy for a while. It's not for beginners in my opinion, but it is good for intermediate vertical dancers that are confident on the pole already.

Fawnia thank goodness you're an instructor not a rambler! The world of dvd instructional dance needs more people like you!

This DVD is a big waste of time and money. I've been learning tricks for about 3 months with a few different DVD's and I'd have to say this is the worst one I've seen yet. Since the teacher is a stripper that won all these awards I thought it would have been better then what it was. It's filmed in some dance clothing store for goodness sakes!
If you're interested in learning pole tricks you should really start with Sheila Kelly's S Factor pole work video (step by step with a good 20 minute warm up session) or Pole Kats Intermediate video (both teachers were strippers and do a pretty good job of instruction). Those are both way better. I do NOT recommend this DVD to anyone. I'm glad I only paid $13.00 for it.

This DVD was not what I expected, she was a good teacher but the advanced moves are pretty basic and it don't teach many swings. Waste of money

The cover of the DVD is deceiving as it makes it look like this is actually a professional production! In the beginning, the instructor openly admits that she couldn't get the rights to any song, so there's no music in the video. Also, it's horribly videotaped, and she also has her friend do the "painful" or hard moves. You can find better quality on Youtube... I ordered "Art of Pole" by Jemilla (not sold on Amazon), and I"m hoping that one will be more effective. Don't waste your money on this.

This movie was filmed very ghetto. I think an amature could have done a better job. The pole tricks were good but the video was not impressive at all. It looks like it was filmed at a random store. I am a bit disappointed with this film. I probably won't purchase another one of these videos.

This DVD is 100% what I was looking for. There's no music and it is a super cheesy setting, but that's not what I was looking for in a how to pole dance DVD. There's a really brief warm-up section. And then it's right to the moves. They're separated by difficulty level. She does the move first, then she breaks it down and shows you step by step. Then she does the move again a few times. Along the way, she completes and then breaks down some transitional moves. A lot of the moves are variations from an earlier move. That way, it's easy to start to get the hang of coming up with your own slight variations.

This DVD is really great at breaking down each move and transition move. There's no choreographed routine in here, just the individual moves. I think putting it all together is the easy part, though, once you know what you're doing. That wasn't what I was looking for in this DVD. Still, she probably could have added a quick routine at the end as a summary.

I really found this to be a great workout and lots of fun!

The video showed several moves, and over half of them were not for beginners.
It was extremely low budget, and did not have any music to accompany it.

I was really hoping to learn tricks and moves, but also how to do transitions and put them into a routine. This DVD does NOT in any way do that. It shows clips that move on from one to another, never putting them into a routine.

I would not recommend this, and I am currently shopping for a different DVD