Apologies if you haven’t heard much from me in the last few days. I’ve been travelling about for various family and work commitments, and then of course to a pole competition. I wanted to write a diary entry for each day leading up to the competition. I always go through certain thoughts and emotions in the run […]
I read a comment from someone a few weeks ago (and can’t remember who it was!) and they were talking about putting pictures and videos up for all the world to see. The gist of the comment was about why we feel the need to put up perfect pole pictures of us doing the hardest […]
I’m currently writing a post about what is ‘normal’ for a pole class. Chances are you may have been to only one pole school and stayed there, which is great 😀 The difficulty comes when you don’t know what should and shouldn’t be done, or happen in a class. I’ve been in a class (as both […]
Having run lots of beginner’s courses, as well as going to other new pole schools for the first time, (and of course being a beginner back in the day myself) I like to think that I know how to be prepared for a class. I send out emails to every beginner before they start their […]
As you may be aware I was away this weekend watching the World Pole Sports Championships in London. I also went the year before, so it’s really interesting for me to be able to see how the competition has progressed – both in performer standards and styles, as well as how the competition itself and the […]
I try and make my poles as grippy as I can for class – I want everyone to be safe and to be as successful as they can in their class. Now I’ve been doing this for about 8 years and I’ve so far managed to get the poles relatively grippy without the use of […]
I’ve been at the World Pole Sports Championships in London all day watching the doubles, men’s and women’s preliminaries and will go back tomorrow to watch the finals. It’s been such a lovely day and especially great to be able to sit in a room with so many people who apprecaite pole for the skilled […]
In class the other night one of the students was talking (and joking) about punishing herself like Silas does in The Da Vinci Code. As much as we all laughed along, that feeling is still real – that of punishing yourself if you can’t get a move. I know we all have felt that we […]
Over the last few years I’ve come to realise that there are certain things that happen to a lot of polers – almost rites of passage. This isn’t the old ‘you will get bruises’ or ‘your skin will become rough’ but just things that have happened to me, and to a lot of others too. […]
When I had been poling for about 6 years, for some reason I had been keeping it to myself – I never meant to, it just never seemed to come up in conversation. It’s very rare when you tell someone you’ve been working out, that they ask specifics of what you have been doing. I’m […]
