I had to remember it really
quickly!
knew exactly from which
tricks I might choose, I
also learnt new tricks not
only because I had to do it
PM: You mentioned com- but I wanted it myself. On
pulsory tricks and protothe other side I think that
cols. There are quite strict the rules could be more
rules set up in pole sport. liberal when it comes to
Do you think that it is
costumes. I understand to
right? Wouldn’t it be better some extent that the strict
if athletes had more free- rules are there because
dom in creating their cho- of the fact that there is
reographies?
still a lot of prejudice and
stigma connected with
R: Thanks to championpole sport. I believe that as
ship I had finally started
soon as pole sport comes
to train thoroughly and
to awareness of general
I started enjoying it. It’s
public and people start to
true that rules tie one up
consider it a real sport, the
but I like when one has to
rules will become more
train hard and I also like
benevolent.
to deal with the rules in
detail. It suited me that I
PM: I know that besides
20
pole sport you are also
successful in Latin-American dance and billiard.
Which sport is your favorite? What did you find
attractive about these
sports?
R: I like Latin dancing the
most. From my age of 7 to
12 years I had pursued figure skating (performed in a
children’s show on ice) and
it was recommended to
me to practice some additional sport to improve my
posture. My teacher from
elementary school ran a
course of Latin-American
dancing so I started attending it when I was 8.
When I started with danc-