A few weeks ago I was writing to someone who had commented on a PoleFreaks article – her point of view was that people perhaps get jealous of her as she progressed quickly, inverting after only her second lesson. I started to think about pole jealousy and whether it exists. I know I’ve had my own […]
Ahh! Okay, so I need help. I have a competition in two weeks and haven’t trained as much as I wanted to. I hurt my wrist about 5 weeks ago and only started to feel better this week. Any moves where I push with that hand have been off limits… so I haven’t been up […]
When I’m in class and show the new move we will be learning, it can go one way or the other. Either it looks doable and people jump on in, or it doesn’t. Sometimes when I show my students how to do the move and I finally get off the pole to allow others to do it, no […]
I kept so many of my pole pictures hidden for so long from most of the people that I knew. Not because I was worried what they would think about pole fitness – most already knew, but because I would worry my moves wouldn’t look good enough. Whenever I put a picture up, I force myself to think […]
It’s so hard in pole not to get invested. We study moves over and over, and try them out so many times on the pole. As I’m sure you’re aware, we can have great days on the pole… and then we can have awful days. The great days are amazing. You nail a new move, […]
In class we learn pole moves and might put them together in a routine. When we’re at home we might just put on some music and dance away. Sometimes you move in relation to how you feel and other times, it’s more structured. I’ve started thinking about the stories that we tell in pole – […]
Do you have that one painful move that for some reason or another, gets the best of you? I’m pretty sure we all do! We were talking in class last night about those moves that just don’t get better. For some reason or another you can’t quite fight through the pain. So how do we progress? […]
Let’s talk flexibility. I don’t have it. Okay, so I have enough to get by and I probably have more than the average non-poler, gymnastic, contortionist etc, but it’s still not enough. I’m working on my leg flexibility in the gym and I’m happy with how that’s going, but I struggle with my back. It’s super […]
So once again, I’m probably about to tell you something really obvious, but there is a reason – I promise. Our pole moves all have a push and a pull. Yes, okay so you might know this one already – but are you really thinking about it? I’ll tell people how to do moves with […]
There are some moves in pole that we need to work on over just a couple of sessions, and then there are those moves that can take weeks, months and in some cases, years. When we get these latter moves, they really should be considered as milestone moments in our poling career. They are the […]
