Fandom High School

"It's our last week together! I hope you guys had fun," Vanessa said. "You're not really going to have time to master any of these, I'm afraid, but I wanted to show you some more advanced spins you can start working on, and maybe improve if you decide to continue pole dancing...uh, for fitness. Or profit, once you turn eighteen! In the future." Yeah. "So let's get to that, shall we? And then you can work on whatever you want to for the rest of class." Vanessa proceeded to demonstrate several different spins before asking, "Does anyone have any questions?"

The teacher was... nowhere to be found today. Instead, the poles were festooned with beads. Mardi Gras beads. Even though it was May.

Also, there was a note instructing the students to think about their musical choices or whatever.

The students would enter the Danger Shop, which was outfitted as a dance studio, but with poles, to find their teacher muttering and flipping through some paperwork. "What? What? I thought I was supposed to be teaching adults!" Sorry, Vanessa, it's teenagers. Keep it clean!

"Okay," Vanessa said, switching on a smile. "Hi, guys! I'm Vanessa, and I'll be teaching you to--" Oh, God "--pole dance. For fitness! Definitely not for anything else! Although if you have to work your way through college, I mean, there are worse ways." She wasn't wrong. "So! Today we're going to go over the rules and a few basic moves, and then I want everyone to introduce themselves and--" asking them to tell her why they'd signed up for a pole dancing class seemed like a minefield "--tell me something about yourself!" That was probably also a minefield, but it seemed slightly safer.

"So, rules. Shoes and socks off, please, you'll need to be barefoot for this class. Come dressed in something you can move in, and, barring any island weirdness, come dressed. Form-fitting so we can see your movements is good; exposed is less good. Now stand on tip-toes and grasp the pole with your dominant hand up as high as you can go, like this," she demonstrated the video being for player edification. "Hold it like it's a baseball bat, get a good grip on it. Shoulders down and back. You always want your weight to be leaning away from the pole, so that your momentum doesn't smack your face into it. No one likes a pole dancer with a black eye, am I right?" Right. Teenagers. Awkward. "Anyway. Take three steps around the pole, starting with the inner foot. Then you're going lift your exterior leg and push off as you do so, using your momentum to spin, like in the video so." Vanessa demonstrated. "This is called a Fireman Spin for how it resembles the way a fireman, uh, goes down a pole. If you do it with your free leg bent, like so," and she demonstrated that as well, "it's a Pinwheel. Give it a try a few times, try a Pinwheel if you feel up for it, and then once you have a feel for it, show me your best attempt and introduce yourself."