Ai Nguyen

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ai's friend took her to a pole-dance class in Brooklyn. Ai agreed and she loved it. Ai began regularly taking classes at Foxy Fitness and Pole, and then the lockdown occurred. Someone she was dating at the time bought a home pole and installed it in her studio. Ai's work hours were uncertain, so she mostly stretched and self-taught pole dancing until businesses reopened. 

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Ai resumed training at Foxy Fitness and Pole. She started competing with the studio in spring 2021. She also became XPERT certified and began teaching in fall 2021.

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Ai founded Subtle Asian Polers (a community for Asian-American artists) in fall 2022 and created an LLC in spring 2023 due to its success. The Bushwick Daily released an article on how Ai started Subtle Asian Polers.