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Dance & Personal Growth ·Jun 12, 2026 ·5 min read

My First Hip Hop Battle - Jumping into Deep Water

One of the bravest things I ever did was joining a dance battle after only 2 months of learning hip hop. I had so much anxiety before the battle that I learned multiple methods to boost my self-confidence and get me out of a frozen state.

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8 posts

· Jun 12, 2026 · 5 min

My First Hip Hop Battle - Jumping into Deep Water

· Jun 12, 2026 · 5 min

The confidence paradox

I signed up for a pole performance after five months of training. I entered a hip-hop battle after four months. Most people call this bravery. I call it not knowing enough to be scared.

· Jun 02, 2026 · 3 min

Being a 'polydancer': Jack of all trades, master of none?

I've been asked to pick a favourite dance for as long as I can remember. I won't. Here's what each style I practise continues to teach me about myself.

· May 23, 2026 · 5 min

My hands were too sweaty

Hyperhidrosis made climbing a pole feel impossible — and the wrong instructors made everything worse. This is the story of one teacher who changed that, and why it changed how I teach.

· Apr 17, 2026 · 5 min

From being looked at to serving looks: how pole dance empowered me

Content warning: sexual abuse. This is the story of how the most erotic dance form I could find became the thing that gave me my body back.

· Mar 28, 2026 · 6 min

What posing naked taught me about dancing

I spent years as a life drawing model — sitting still while artists stared. It turned out to be one of the best educations in how to inhabit a body I ever had.

· Mar 08, 2026 · 4 min

Story time: Am I beautiful?

I was called 'the ugly girl' at school. Then I got a glow-up, a cheer squad, and 'pretty privilege' — and none of it made me feel at home in my body. Dance did.

· Feb 06, 2026 · 4 min

My story: how I became a dance teacher

From ballet at age five to building FufeFlow — the story of a curious dancer who quit, started again, doubted herself constantly, and never quite managed to stop.