{"id":56456,"date":"2018-10-26T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=56456"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:50:19","slug":"pinup-pole-show-pinup-of-the-week-tilly-erikson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/pinup-pole-show-pinup-of-the-week-tilly-erikson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinup Pole Show Pinup of the Week: Tilly Erikson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-56456-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/2015.06.06.PinupPoleShowClassicCarCruisein_ShaneKarns-24_001-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;56458&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Pinup Pole Show Pinup of the Week: Tilly Erikson&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Pinup Pole Show Pinup of the Week: Tilly Erikson&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nIntroducing this week\\u2019s Pinup Pole Show Pinup of the Week, the unsinkable Tilly Erikson! Tilly is a Los Angeles-based pole dancer, animal rescuer and free spirit seen here posing with Teddy Yonenaka\\u2019s 1973 Datsun 240z and photographed by Shane Karns at Tonya Kay\\u2019s Pinup Pole Show and classic car cruise-in.\\n\\nTilly is big into education and pole fitness and is extremely passionate about teaching, her students and constantly learning and sharing what she\\u2019s learned. She works as a pole choreographer and coach and helps others find their pole voice and their own passion for performing. When she\\u2019s not in the pole studio, she\\u2019s volunteering with local animal shelters and fostering rescues while they await their forever homes.\\n\\nWhen Tilly first started pole dancing, she didn\\u2019t want to tell her dad, afraid of what he\\u2019d think. So she told him she was \\u201cworking and performing with a dance group\\u201d, which is not exactly a lie. Tilly\\u2019s sister ended up spilling the beans to her pops and when dad revealed that he knew Tilly was pole dancing, she braced herself for judgement. To her surprise, pops said he \\u201clooked it up on the YOU tube\\u201d and saw how physically difficult this sport really is, and that he was proud of her for doing something new and beautiful, yet sexy, athletic and empowering.\\n\\n\\u201cI almost cried at how lucky I am to have someone like that in my life,\\u201d Tilly shares.\\n\\nShe finds inspiration for her movement in a good beat, a meaningful lyric, a foul mood or loving feeling that needs to be expressed. But as graceful and powerful as she is now, she wasn\\u2019t always so. When she first put on her pole dancing platform heels, she looked like a \\u201cbaby giraffe.\\u201d\\n\\nShe says about this shoot with photographer Shane Karns, \\u201cEven when Shane took photos of me with the Datsun, you see me leaning or sitting \\u0026#8211; you think that was a pose? NOPE! I was trying to hold myself up in those shoes and not die!\\u201d Luckily, Shane knows how to make anyone look like a natural.\\n\\nShane Karns instantly made Tilly feel comfortable with herself in front of the camera.\\n\\n\\u201cI felt like he was able to capture a bunch of different sides of what makes me, well \\u0026#8211; ME,\\u201d  says Tilly. Combine that self-confidence with Shane\\u2019s photography skills, and how could any model not enjoy working with Shane?\\n\\nTilly had wanted her first car to be her dad\\u0026#8217;s \\u0026#8217;85 El Camino (the vehicle people either love or hate), but instead she got the hand-me-down \\u0026#8217;90 Camry with a modest 150,000 miles on it. \\u201cHey, I can\\u0026#8217;t complain about a free car! Plus, the El Camino is still in the family so that bad boy is mine once I figure out how to get it from Rhode Island to California!\\u201d\\n\\nThank you, Tilly, Teddy and Shane! 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