Meet SA’s pole dancing champio

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Meet SA’s pole dancing champion, Julie Fowler

Julie co-founded the Pole Sports Federation of South Africa.

Meet SA’s pole dancing champio

https://www.instagram.com/julzfowler/

SA’s pole dancing champion, Julie Fowler, started pole dancing hoping to shed some unwanted weight gained during her travels in the UK back in 2005. Years later, she’s still in the game and managed to make quite the name for herself.

“She found her passion in pole dance, yoga, and aerial acrobatics and in 2011 Julie decided to turn her passion into a full-time endeavor,” reads her bio on Vertical Vixen, a pole and fitness studio of which Julie is the founder of.

Julie also co-founded the Pole Sports Federation of South Africa who wants to “enable their coaches, judges, athletes and the wider pole sports community the best opportunity to achieve their highest potential in all aspects of Pole Sports.”

Most recently, Julie was crowned SA’s pole champion at the National Pole Sports Competition, where Julie took first place in the Elite Division.

She also qualified to compete at the World Pole Sports Championship in Spain. There she will compete with 41 athletes in the pole-sports women division, the top among some registered athletes from around the world. She is currently ranked 35th.

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During an interview on SABC Live News, Julie said that it is actually not an easy sport and that plans are in the making to get pole dancing into the Olympics.

“Everybody knows pole dancing from the clubs, unfortunately, but it is a recognized sport. There’s a drive to get it into the Olympics and the International Pole Sports Federation is on drive for that…”

She says it requires dedication for her as an athlete to compete at the World Pole Sports Championship: “To be at that level requires so much dedication. It’s not just training the actual pole moves…it is flexibility and conditioning. It requires so much just to be able to do that four-minute routine.”

Watch Julie’s pole dancing routine at the National Pole Sports Competition in 2018 over here:

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