The highly anticipated Artistic Pole marked its debut during the 2017/2018 competition season with Federations and Endorsed Competitions ramping up inclusion of this more artistic version of Pole in their National and Regional competitions. The second annual World Artistic Pole Championships will be held in July 2018 in the Spain during World Pole Weekend.

Artistic Pole, the more artistically inclined sibling of Pole Sports, encourages creativity and emboldens freedom of expression with more emphasis on artistic interpretation and is judged by the newly created Freestyle Pole Series Rules, which does not include a Code of Points, but relies more heavily on art, choreography and musicality.

ARTISTIC POLE

The IPSF has developed a three year plan for qualifications for new pole disciplines to introduce each one throughout the pole community and evolve the standards required of an IPSF discipline.

Years 1 / 2

• National and video applications permitted for qualification
• 10 places per categories in the finals
• No age categories

Year 3

• National and Open championships applications permitted only
• 10+ places per categories in the finals
• Age categories to be developed

WORLD ARTISTIC POLE CHAMPIONS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Athletes must be at least 15 years old on the date of the World Artistic Pole Championships to apply
• There will be three categories: Men, Women and Doubles
• There are 10 places available in each category
• Applications open on March 1st 2018

HOW TO QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD ARTISTIC POLE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

National Championships Qualification

1. If your country is hosting an Artistic Pole Championships, you must compete in this to qualify.
2. When all the national Artistic Pole competitions have taken place, the scores from the 1st place winners will be collated; a maximum of five athletes with the top scores will automatically be allocated a place in the World Artistic Pole Championships.
3. The scores of other athletes placed will be considered depending on numbers.

Video applications qualification

1. If your country is not hosting an Artistic Pole Championships, you may send in a video application.
2. Athletes with the top scores will automatically be allocated a place in the World Artistic Pole Championships.
3. The video application criteria can be downloaded below.