I was very excited to be able to do three workshops with Yvonne Smink at the Pole Rocks studio in Bookham this weekend. I had booked it up as soon as I found out about it, and was really excited to go. I first came across Yvonne Smink when the video of her winning performance at […]
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 don’t know about you but I’ve got so many pole friends – some real and others just through Facebook. I ‘like’ so many pole sites and groups that I am surrounded day in and day out with pole images, crazy flexibility tricks and our Kings and Queens of pole. I love it. It’s great for […]
The pole world is small! Yes, there are hundreds and thousands of us out there (and probably more than that too!) but in the grand scheme of things, we are a small community. In some respects this can be a great thing, and in others not so great. You know the old stereotype of what […]
Every so often I lose motivation to pole. I get to the point where some of my moves are just too hard to try and think about, and I just don’t have the energy. If I have a performance or a competition, I spend all of my time rehearsing and going over and over my […]
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 […]
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 […]
So for me it’s the day before a performance. This time tomorrow all of the months of planning, hard work, sweating and bruises will be over – but luckily I’ll still be able to keep the strength and new moves! It’s 11pm and I’m trying to keep myself off of the pole and going through […]
Let’s face it – on the pole we tend to have one side that we prefer to use – it’s usually stronger and more coordinated… And then we have our ‘bad side’. This tends to be the weaker arm or leg – we have less control of it and for some reason we just don’t […]
