I realised recently that I always make excuses for myself when I need them. Sometimes they are genuine like going to hospital or having injuries, and then there are those that you feel you need to cling to, as you know they are not quite justified excuses. I keep making excuses and I need to stop […]
You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet recently – not many posts or pics until a few days ago. Sorry, I’ve been busy! I’ve been at the UK Pole Dance and Fitness Convention in Blackpool. I’ve not been before and had no idea what to expect when I got there. I was […]
Last night my partner James and I were talking about pole – what he first thought when he knew I poled, how he feels about me teaching, and how he feels now that he is learning to pole. To give you a brief history, James and I met in a bar where I used to […]
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 – […]
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 […]
