Fascia is like a plastic wrap that covers literally all your internal bits including bones, nerves, organs, and muscles. It is a thin and flexible film made of collagen, as sensitive as skin, that crisscrosses around your body like a…
You’ve decided to compete in your first pole competition! You’ve got your song, your concept and even your costume! Hurray! Now, how to do you actually train for it? There are a lot of schools of thought on how to…
Talk about a controversial start to a blog post! When I first started doing pole, there was a clear progression for any pole student on their pole journey: First, you took some classes. Then you started performing Then you started…
Whatever you do outside of the gym/studio/other moving “arena” is going to impact what you do in the gym/studio/other moving “arena” MUCH MORE than what you do in it. I’ll say it again: stop blaming the time spent (or not…
Spin pole can be super exhilarating and fun aAND it can also be the vomitron – sometimes in the same movement pass! If you find that you’re often very dizzy and even nauseous or sick when doing spin pole, check…
Here are the upcoming changes for the 2022 event held at the Sheraton Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, Georgia June 2-5, 2022 We made several changes for the 2021 event and will be keeping: Hand sanitizer stations throughout the space. Showcases…
Hi folks! Thank you so much for coming to the second annual #VirtualPoleCon! This was my eighth PoleCon event and our second purely virtual event. I’m continuing the tradition of providing you personally with my recap and combining it with…
Thank you for taking our survey! Every response helps us get better and better! I personally read every single response and email a few people that require responses or have specific questions. Overall This year 96% of you said the…
Last year we created our first ever Virtual PoleCon when the pandemic impacted our ability to run PoleCon live. Even though this year we did run a live PoleCon in NOLA in August, not everyone could come first due to…
Proprioception is a fancy way of saying how you understand where your body is in space. This can be expressed in many ways such as being able to touch your finger to your nose with your eyes closed, applying the…