Dance It Out
As the competition season wraps up this year, I am forced to sit back and evaluate my pole journey and where I am headed. I found myself saying “I want to focus on my dancing this year.” I feel as…
A Beginner poler's pep talk to attending Pole Con
So you're thinking about coming to International Pole Convention 2016, or know someone who attended last year and swooned over their posts and photos. I want to take the time to reintroduce myself. My name is Ariel Blanco, and I…
Interview with Paige and Haley!
123TV and 123poling.com, the best resource for online pole training for students and instructors, interviews Paige Olsen and Haley Pafford! Paige and Haley are both competing this weekend at the International Pole Sport Federation World Pole Sports Competition in London.…
Interview with Kristy Sellars
123TV and 123poling.com, the best resource for online pole training for students and instructors, interviews Kristy Sellars! Kristy had three workshops at #polecon2015, exhibited with her cute merch and did a brand new performance especially for this year's PoleCon! She…
THE SOCIAL SIDE OF POLE: Come for the workout, stay for the community
I'm a self-proclaimed fitness junkie. I'll try anything. The less-conventional, the better. Trampoline cardio. Kangoo. Rock climbing. Circus. That one time I took a class that I thought was about circus/gymnastics, but really we spent the hour body-slamming ourselves against…
Choreography 101: How to Jump Start the Creative Process
Everyone has that one motivational dance they never forget. You go to it when all other motivation goes out the window. You play it over and over when you dive into the YouTube black hole. You’re friends ask, “What is…
Interview with Marlo Fisken
123TV and 123poling.com, the best resource for online pole training for students and instructors, interviews Marlo Fisken from Flow Movement® Marlo conducted three workshops at #polecon2015 that focused on fluidity. She brings 15 years of dance experience to her poling…
Pole Con Recap!
PoleCon has officially returned! We had more than 500 attendees from all over the world, almost 100 different workshops and an absolutely amazing slew of performances! Some things you're saying about the event (from our survey): “Many of the vendors…
Combating Anxiety with Dance
"I have always been somewhat of a high-strung person. I get bored very easily and therefore need lots of things happening in my life to keep me from getting anxious. I am a Gemini, and can move very easily and…
Why Come to PoleCon as a Student
I took my first pole class in the summer of 2011 and by 2012, I was absolutely hooked. Google-ing around one day I found the International Pole Convention, held that year in LA. I saw hordes and hordes of people…