Deborah Roach, One-Armed Pole Dancer

ne-armed Deborah Roach stole the show at the International Pole Dancing competition held in Hong Kong, and won the ‘Ultimate Pole’ title. Her facebook-post revealed her elation: “Last night I won my division in IPC. I came, I saw, I conquered!” In her competitor profile page she wrote: “as a child and teen with low self esteem I believed that aesthetic and athletic pursuits were not for me, not for my “different” body… Luckily as an adult, I learned to challenge my assumptions” and she thanked her two friends for their untiring support and deep conviction in her abilities. The teen who took refuge in underground Goth scene dance floors to escape from the ‘normal’ society later grew in boldness and took a job in IT, later quit it to devote fully to pole dancing, learned bike-riding, got a prosthetic limb. But she competes without the aid of the artificial limb.

Australian Deborah Roach, who is missing an arm, claimed the Ultimate Pole title in the disabled division and said she had always loved to dance."I actually got into an underground Goth scene in my teenage years because I didn't fit into normal society. I loved dancing the night away on the dance floor, and that led to stage dancing in clubs," she said.In 2006, inspired by a circus-themed double act she saw at a club she was dancing in, Roach took up pole dancing and aerial acrobatics, and hasn't looked back.

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