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You are here: Home / My friend Natasha Wang is a kickass National Championship-winning pole dancer [Updated]

My friend Natasha Wang is a kickass National Championship-winning pole dancer [Updated]

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  May 26, 20117:27 pm| 73 Comments

This post is in: Rare Sincerity

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Pole Cricket Reigns Supreme

Last month, one of my BFFs4Lyfe1 won the United States Pole Dancing Federation pole-off. (Dance-off? I don’t know. She’s number one and that’s all that matters. ::raises foam finger::)

As a result she’s been thrust into the spotlight. She was featured in Huffington Post (which I won’t link because bite me, Arianna; but if you use the Googlez, you can find it quickly enough); she’s been contacted by TMZ, she’s going to perform on The View*** next week (I’m going to try to convince her to slip some Colon Blow in to Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s coffee — she’d never do it though. She plays by the rules); and this past Monday she performed on Good Day LA.

I have seen Natasha perform at competitions a bunch of times and I have never seen her fall, nor have I been nervous that she might fall. So when my neighbor Rio texted me “Your friend is on Good Day LA. She fell but she played it off really well…Would have seemed like less but the stupid news casters rushed over and were like “r u ok” a billion times..idiots” I thought, “Oh noes!”

I rushed to turn on the TV, but of course, I missed the performance and only caught the tail end of her trying to convince the newscasters that she was fine. I then rushed to call her and she was, as she had reiterated to the newscasters, totally fine. A bit embarrassed, but fine. I told her she looks hot on TV. I don’t think that really helped at the moment.

I wanted to blog about this yesterday, including a funny picture that she took in the Green Room [after the jump] which demonstrates that she has an awesome sense of humor about her “so not a big deal” fall, but I was too nervous to watch the Good Day LA video. What if it was a total face plant? Like one of those “Greg Louganis hits his head on the diving board” moments that will replay in my mind FO-EVAH. (I’m not kidding about ol’ Louganis. He went from “hot” to “damn, he busted his head” in two seconds flat — two seconds of video that would be replayed ad nauseum during the 1980-whatever Olympics. LEAVE LOUGANIS ALOOOOOONE!!)

Finally I decided I had to watch the video. So, I just did — nervously, I might add. Every time her feet left the floor, I winced. When she hangs off the pole with her leg, I winced. When she does that crazy ass move where she’s perpendicular to the floor clinging to the pole, seemingly by her fingernails only, I winced.

And when I saw The Fall, I was relieved.

IT AIN’T THAT BAD.

It certainly ain’t Greg Louganis bad.

Bah!

In a year that, I imagine, pole dancing muckity mucks will begin making more noise about pole dancing being featured at the Olympics (if snowboarding is an Olympic sport, then pole dancing sure as hell is an Olympic sport), I’m proud that Natasha will be the face of USPDF. She’s smart as a whip. She’s also an accomplished poet (I know — she rubs your face in her awesomeness; it’s a bit much, really.)

As for pole dancing, she didn’t start until she was 29. She is not nor has she ever been a stripper or an exotic dancer. She prefers to do her routines barefoot rather than in crazy shoes (have you seen those shoes? THEY ARE BANANAS!)

If you watch these videos, you will be absolutely amazed at Natasha’s athleticism and artistic ability, and the grace she exudes. So graceful is my dear friend Natasha, that she even falls gracefully.

***UPDATE: I started to write this post a couple weeks ago, and as I am wont to do got distracted because I — oooh shiny! But after I originally started to write this post, Miss Thang redeemed herself on Good Day LA. So here’s Natasha’s redemption video — I’m certain it has erased all memory of The Fall Heard Round the News Studio that caused the newscasters to suffer an acute case of the vapors. “Mah, mah, mah, did you see that poor dear fall offa that pole. I do declayah! Somebody fetch me mah smellin’ salts.”

And here, you can watch Natasha showing the ladies on The View a thing or two about a thing or two:

Yup. That’s my friend. SHE’S SO CUTE ON TV.

Finally, here’s the outtake shot from the Good Day LA shenanigans:

Love her. LOVE.

UPDATE AGAIN: This video is one of my favorites.  It’s her first win last summer, and that is me (and her fiance) yelling in the background:

 

1 If one person makes a joke about her last name because “ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho! Her name is Wang!”, I’m going to stab you where you stand. I mean, really people: do you know how many Wangs there are in China?2

2 (Okay, that just made me giggle because I’m four years old. I’ll go get my stabbing knives. Self-stabulation is never pleasant, but I should have heeded my own warning.)

[cross-posted at ABLC]

[Please do me a solid and keep the comments civil.  She took a lot of heat on the intertrons for that fall and has also had to read very nasty and misogynist comments about herself on various blogs and whatnot.  As you know, people can be real dicks on the Internet.  She doesn’t deserve it — she is one of the nicest people on earth.  I questioned whether to post this here, but I think her talents are such that they should be shared far and wide.  So let’s keep it clean, boys! -ABLxx]

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  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    May 26, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Well, this is Amurka, damnit, and next time we get the Olympics(tm) we can make pole dancing a demo sport.

    So there.

    Much luck with recovery from the skull-wacking. Never a trivial thing.

    Wanted to add: muscles–she haz them.

  2. 2.

    Fred

    May 26, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    Bet her parents are proud.

    “My main goal as a father is to keep my daughters off the pole”
    –Chris Rock

  3. 3.

    ruemara

    May 26, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    @Fred:

    I’d call you a jackass, but that’s an insult to a useful mammal.

  4. 4.

    Linda Featheringill

    May 26, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    Brava! Brava!

    BTW, I actually remember Greg Louganis. A real cutie!

  5. 5.

    MattR

    May 26, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    Amazing flexibility and body control (and strength). To steal from an old, old Jon Stewart routine about how impressive Olympic gymnasts are – I can throw and hit a ball and I can run. I can’t do those very well, but I can do them. I cannot put my leg over my head and flip over.

    PS. Am I at least allowed to laugh that I had a friend growing up with the last name Wang whose father’s first name was Long?

  6. 6.

    BethanyAnne

    May 26, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    Pearls before swine, ABL, pearls before swine.

  7. 7.

    joeyess

    May 26, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    And to think they just outlawed this activity in Missouri. Kansas is next. Republicans: Jobs, jobs, jobs!

  8. 8.

    PurpleGirl

    May 26, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Free-form gymnastics but on a vertical pole instead of horizontal bars.

    She’s very good, ABL.

  9. 9.

    freelancer

    May 26, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    @Fred:

    What are you still doing here? Oh that’s right, this post was too cool so you just had to crap in its punchbowl.

    As for Natasha, Dayum. Dayum. Dayum. Awesome.

  10. 10.

    MobiusKlein

    May 26, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    Dang, there go all my cheap jokes.

    as for name jokes, I knew kids in elementary school
    Cotton Seed and Huckleberry Seed. So name jokes are worst when inflicted intentionally on your own kid.

  11. 11.

    Jewish Steel

    May 26, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    @Fred: Fred, you are up-to-date, urban and saucy! A triple threat!

    How did we ever get by without you?

  12. 12.

    JordanRules

    May 26, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    I truly wish I have the strength one day to do what they do, the skrippers and sporting pole dancers, but I just don’t.

    The things that the ones who really earn their scrilla can do in those ‘industry’ shoes is amazing and it usually shows in their physique.

  13. 13.

    pragmatism

    May 26, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    @MobiusKlein: huck is one hell of a cardplayer.

  14. 14.

    Violet

    May 26, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    Wow, she’s so fit. It reminds me of Cirque du Soleil.

  15. 15.

    BGinCHI

    May 26, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    I can’t believe Fuckhead has not savaged this thread already.

    /tapping foot

  16. 16.

    Gozer

    May 26, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Wow…way back when I used to do martial arts I’d see lots of people with that kind of spatial control. Still amazes me to see anyone with such control to this day.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    May 26, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    When I was on the swim team in high school, we used to have a swim/dive combined meet every year against this other high school, and although they only had ONE GUY on their diving team, they kicked our collective asses every time because, yes, you guessed it, that guy was … anyway, along those lines, The Awesome Natasha could be the only person on the USA Pole Dance Olympic team and we would still kick the world’s collective asses, although they would certainly all be nice, trim, muscular ones.

  18. 18.

    Fred

    May 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @ruemara: I’d call you incapable of seeing obvious snark but that is an insult to most 2year olds.

  19. 19.

    bystander

    May 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    All I know is that it takes some serious-over-the-top-rock-ribs-of-steel (that I don’t have, but envy to the marrow of my bones) to pull off that pose in the top pic. Damn.

  20. 20.

    Fred

    May 26, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @freelancer: Lighten up sunshine! It’s the internet. If that bothers you here’s something more your speed.
    http://disney.go.com/index

  21. 21.

    Fred

    May 26, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @Jewish Steel: Always happy to hear from my fans. Autographs are $100 and you pay for return postage.

  22. 22.

    Dilbatt

    May 26, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    She’s just an incredible athlete, beautiful, graceful and more powerful than you behind the keyboard (yes, you). Awesome!

  23. 23.

    Yurpean

    May 26, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    I must admit I don’t like the imagery surrounding pole-dancing generally, but the routine she performed was athletically stunning, a great combination of strength and elegant control.

    Did anyone else think the male host was being a little too touchy-feely? Ick.

  24. 24.

    matt

    May 26, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    This admonition against making Wang jokes reminds me of the time when my elementary school teacher told everybody not to call David P. “David Pee”. It hadn’t even occurred to us before then.

    Serious core strength, Wang’s.

  25. 25.

    Hawes

    May 26, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    Very, very impressive, but unless it was just included in gymnastics as another apparatus, please no more Olympic sports where “judges” get to decide who won.

    On a side note, I’ve always wanted to see Cirque d’Soleil throw down with Ringling Brothers. You’d get to see all these funky-assed acrobats combating elephants and clowns in cars.

  26. 26.

    Friday Jones

    May 26, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: AND he’s one of the gays. How cool is that?!

  27. 27.

    MobiusKlein

    May 26, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    @MobiusKlein: Well what do you know, that is the kid I knew as a kid. The Wikipedia has incomplete details, but did go to school in Oakland.

  28. 28.

    TaMara (BHF)

    May 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    I saw her videos a few weeks ago and was totally amazed at her control. I love the idea of pole dancing (first it would piss my mom off completely), because damn it gets you into fine shape. Awesome talent.

  29. 29.

    TaMara (BHF)

    May 26, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    @MobiusKlein: I had to look. He kinda looks like a Huckleberry Seed, though, doesn’t he?

  30. 30.

    reflectionephemeral

    May 26, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    slip some Colon Blow in to Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s coffee

    A bit of a deep cut, but a pretty awesome reference, imho.

    But why not Super Colon Blow?

  31. 31.

    Luci

    May 26, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Wow! ABL… you run with an exalted crowd! I am impressed. I’ve seen some other pole routines that are pure gymnastics I think, and they are just amazing! Maybe the pole will be co-opted into being just another piece of exercise equipment and not only for strippers, and that would be good. :)

  32. 32.

    Matt Mangels

    May 26, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    I am not making a judgment about your friend one way or the other but I really don’t think this belongs on the front page. This is material for your own personal blog.

  33. 33.

    General Stuck

    May 26, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    @Luci:

    and not only for strippers, and that would be good.

    I actually thought the pole was only for strippers. I grew up in the bible belt though, where pole dancing was done in Pee Wee’s short barn late at night when the preachers were all getting blow jobs from each others wives.

    Now I’ve been educated to the peaceful use of dancing poles.

  34. 34.

    BruceFromOhio

    May 26, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @reflectionephemeral: How many boxes??

    Natasha rocks, cats in a handbag, just look at her. Fracking wondrously awesome strength and control. You don’t just hop up one day and say, “hey, this looks like fun!” and then start climbing. Its like any other individually competitive sport: train, train, train, and if you’re good enough, compete.

    To do your best and then win is just outstanding.

    -*applause*-

  35. 35.

    ABL

    May 26, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @Matt Mangels: good thing no one really cares what you think then, innit?

  36. 36.

    ABL

    May 26, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @Yurpean: i had the same thoughts when she told me she was going to start taking classes 6 years ago. after i saw her perform for the first time, i’ve never had those thoughts again. and when she won her first competition last summer, i just knew in my bones she would win this year. she’s just amazing to watch.

    You can check out her first win here (and yes, that’s me yelling in the background.)

  37. 37.

    General Stuck

    May 26, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @Matt Mangels:

    Jeebus dood, are you new here? We had posts yesterday on John Cole’s nap habits, and how his dog likes crates. Then there are the oldie but goldie mega threads on net pots and post nasal drainage. This here post is a massive step forward, if you ask me. Plus, ABL’s friend is a super fox, and quite limber to boot. Go look up Cole’s naked mopping thread if you are offended by pole dancing threads. jeebus,

  38. 38.

    Cliff in NH

    May 26, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    back when I was climbing and wasn’t outta shape I could do a whatever you call the thing where you hold your body 90 deg from the pole/tree

    It’s Very hard to do. Let alone to do it gracefully and with massive style.

    So Beautiful and full of strength and grace.

    Lovely!

  39. 39.

    PurpleGirl

    May 26, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    @General Stuck: Word. LOL.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @ABL: You’re just lucky he didn’t give you detention. And spit out that gum.

  41. 41.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    May 26, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    I predict a server crash sparked by people rushing in here to disapprove* of the footage in 5…4…3…

    Congrats to your friend ABL.

    *For some reason this form of disapproval requires lotion and a sweatsock.

  42. 42.

    eemom

    May 26, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    fuckie is hedging his bets. He’s making jokes about ABL banning people on other threads, while sucking up on hers.

  43. 43.

    Ecks

    May 26, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    The guy who was the head of my bro’s high school student council was called “Eric Shin”. Apparently whenever they had to say his name on the morning announcement they put a large pause between his first and last names, because I guess they’d figured out what it sounded like otherwise. Dirty dirty minds those student announcers.

  44. 44.

    ABL

    May 26, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    @eemom: i’m flattered they just can’t keep me out their heads. ::cue kylie minogue::

  45. 45.

    Beth in VA

    May 26, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Well I feel bad. I told a friend of mine she shouldn’t keep going to the pole dancing class she loved. Mostly because of the money but I admit I had a whole other idea about what this was. That was just beautiful! I love the strength, grace, and beauty all rolled into one. Really wonderful, and mind-opening for me.

  46. 46.

    Ecks

    May 26, 2011 at 9:39 pm

    Just watched the vids. Ho-lee shit. That is one talented lady right there. Mad props to your friend ABL. Mad. Fricken. Props.

  47. 47.

    DaveinME

    May 26, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    Damn has she got mad skillz and muscles! That is some serious talent. Wonder why this couldn’t be incorporated into gymnastics somehow? The have rings, high/low bar, pommelhorse, so why not a pole?

  48. 48.

    General Stuck

    May 26, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    Wow, just watched The View clip, and am stunned at the grace and beauty of what this lady does. Gets my vote for an Olympic event.

  49. 49.

    eemom

    May 26, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    umm…..I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there’s ads for corsets popping up on this page….

  50. 50.

    Arclite

    May 26, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    She’s hot. I love athletic muscular women (although bodybuilding is too much). Reminds me of my Japanese wife who surfs four hours a day: 5’2″, 105 lbs, and about 12% body fat with feminine muscles popping out all over the place (she wears tanks everyday). Wang is talented and gorgeous.

  51. 51.

    Joy

    May 26, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    What athleticism, grace, and beauty all rolled into one.

  52. 52.

    John Weiss

    May 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Beautiful. Power. Gorgeous. What’s not to like? Oh, and she’s beautiful.

    ABL, one is known by the company they keep.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    May 26, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    @ABL:

    ::cue kylie minogue::

    I saw what you did there.

    And talent should always be recognized.

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 27, 2011 at 12:32 am

    Natasha is freaking amazing. Wow. Just wow. That’s talent, for real. I am in awe.

    @Yutsano: Hi, hon. You still around? I will check upstream.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    May 27, 2011 at 12:34 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m here playing around upstairs some. Sarah popped in so I had to pay some respects and such. Do need to dash to the store here in a few though, out of kitteh fud.

  56. 56.

    hilzoy

    May 27, 2011 at 2:17 am

    Wow. That’s amazing.

    I imagine that if it does become an Olympic sport, it will be women-only, since somehow I can’t imagine a lot of guys overcoming the stigma of doing a sport derived from female exotic dancing. Pity: if you just think about the pole as a piece of gymnastics equipment, it seems like something that would be interesting to watch guys do as well.

  57. 57.

    Jimmm

    May 27, 2011 at 2:21 am

    Change the name from “pole dancing” to “vertical bar”, and suddenly it fits right in between uneven bars and floor routine in the gymnastics program.

    Problem solved.

  58. 58.

    ruemara

    May 27, 2011 at 2:27 am

    @Fred:

    Yes, your ability to “snark” would be an insult to most 2 year olds. Jackass.

  59. 59.

    R-Jud

    May 27, 2011 at 3:14 am

    Oh my God. I thought I was bad-ass because I can do pull-ups and handstand push-ups. She is STRONG. Does she lift weights, or is it all bodyweight gymnastic training?

  60. 60.

    A Humble Lurker

    May 27, 2011 at 5:15 am

    @General Stuck:

    Go look up Cole’s naked mopping thread if you are offended by pole dancing threads.

    I’m not offended by pole dancing threads, but I’m newer than most of you, and I’ve never seen the mythical naked mopping thread. Can anyone point me in its direction?

  61. 61.

    electricgrendel

    May 27, 2011 at 6:35 am

    Pole dancing is awesome. And I say that as a 180% faggity fag fag faggerson. Those women are crazy athletic! Congrats to your friend!

  62. 62.

    harlana

    May 27, 2011 at 6:58 am

    @Matt Mangels: I have to agree with you, I personally feel that this does not belong on the front page of BJ. It might have been nice if ABL had made reference to, I dunno, “here, read up on my friend who is amazing” and linked to this as an entry to her own blog. I also do not understand two threadS in a row meeting me in the morning, that, while the most recent one being quite delightful, are just not the red meat I am looking for with my morning coffee.

    DISCLAIMER
    These are just my opinions, JC can run his blog anyway he likes, this is only an opinion. Thank you.

  63. 63.

    jcgrim

    May 27, 2011 at 7:32 am

    Jaw-droppingly beautiful! I thoroughly enjoyed sitting my fat a** on the couch, drinking am coffee, watching someone else work their muscles to perfection. Amazing.

  64. 64.

    AxelFoley

    May 27, 2011 at 8:12 am

    Shit, they got a national contest for pole dancing? Hell, why am I acting surprised? They got everything nowadays.

  65. 65.

    AxelFoley

    May 27, 2011 at 8:16 am

    I mean, really people: do you know how many Wangs there are in China?2

    Let’s see…China’s got, what, a billion people? And, what, 51% of the population is female, right? So 49% of the population has–oh, you didn’t literally mean…

    My bad.

  66. 66.

    Tata

    May 27, 2011 at 8:56 am

    Miss Natasha is totally fantastic. Thank you, ABL!

  67. 67.

    Gordon Guano

    May 27, 2011 at 10:48 am

    Violet @ 14 nailed it- this is dance that happens to have a pole. Absolutely stunning.

    I gotta say though, as someone who frequents the Canadian ballet a few times a year, even for the dancers with 1% of Ms. Wang’s talent on the pole, I am always amazed that dancers can stay up there. You’d think sweat would make it slick in no time. Maybe there’s a rosin saddle in the dressing room?

    Edited to add: and if throwing a frickin’ metal ball is a sport, pole dancing absolutely is. I say, make the Olympics watchable again!

  68. 68.

    kc

    May 27, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    Ms. Wang is amazing! I wanna learn how to do that. Not that I could . . .

  69. 69.

    motorik

    May 28, 2011 at 5:07 am

    She’s completely hot and I disagree with nothing you’ve written and your post is still a pile of unreadable garbage.

    Jesus fuck, get a clue.

  70. 70.

    gil mann

    May 28, 2011 at 8:58 am

    Nothing to add, but letting this thread top out at 69 comments seemed like asking for trouble

  71. 71.

    Comrade PhysioProf

    May 28, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    I went to high school with a dude named Richard Wiener.

  72. 72.

    ABL

    May 28, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @motorik: and you are still a pile of shit.

    ::bangs gavel::

  73. 73.

    miwome

    May 30, 2011 at 5:33 am

    I’m not sure if that’s Sigur Ros or Jonsi (as in, Jonsi’s solo record without the rest of them) playing in her winning routine, but I am pleased about it either way. As for the actual dancing: holy shit.

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