PoleMovebook has been used in 181 countries over the past year. For a niche sport, that number feels crazy!
The global pole community trains across language lines, but most of the shared vocabulary, the move names, the hashtags, the tutorial titles, all live primarily in English. This creates an accessibility barrier where English speakers have easier access to more content, better ability to connect on social media, and more ways to learn available to them.
One of my main goals in creating PoleMovebook was to reduce accessibility barriers and help every dancer unlock their highest form of artistry. As I brainstorm how to make PoleMovebook more useful to more pole dancers, those international dancers are at the forefront of my mind.
The Move Finder is one of the tools I’m proudest of, and it’s also one that I think would be SO useful to dancers learning pole in other languages. So that’s where I’ve been putting my efforts the past few weeks!
The Move Finder will soon be able to toggle between Korean, Japanese, Spanish, French, and English. The text is all manually translated, and the page will automatically default to your device's language if it's one of the four. The move names themselves stay in English (or whatever language their most commonly-used name is--looking at you, Poisson and Cle de Sol), but getting to that move name will feel WAY more accessible across language lines.
Before this goes live to the greater PoleMovebook community, I'd love your help testing it! If you're a fluent speaker of any of these four languages, I want to know if anything reads awkwardly, feels off, or just doesn't make sense in context. My 5 years of high school Spanish, 2 of Japanese, and 1 BTS concert (which was life-changing) weren’t the most useful for pole-specific terminology like kneepit, elbowpit, and inversions.
[UPDATE] Testing channel now closed, try it out on the main site: https://polemovebook.web.app/movefinder
Still feel free to drop feedback below or via a DM — anything from "this word feels unnatural" to "looks great" is super useful feedback.
And if you speak a language that isn't on this list yet and want to help bring the Move Finder to your pole community, reach out! The more accessible this resource is across languages, the more people can tap into the global knowledge base that makes this sport move forward :)