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…
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…
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…
I recently completed a two year international tour with the spiegeltent show Limbo, performing 370 shows for over 100,000 people. Exiting the tent with Clover the Beagle in tow—tired, elated and wafting of Ben Gay/Deep Heat—there are two questions I’m…
I love my clients. I do. And one of the best things about being a trainer is becoming part of someone's life. I get to hear about the daily/weekly events in people's lives. I know about pregnancies before friends and…
Have you checked out the workshop and event line-up at PoleCon? There is such a diverse group of instructors and classes. I can’t wait to get there! Now I have to figure out which classes I’m going to take. Since…
As instructors, we wear a lot of hats. We prepare our class material and we work on choreography. Sometimes we teach 8-10 classes a day. We have to fit in our own pole workout to stay current with what is…
PoleCon workshop leader, studio owner and creator of FabPole—we sat down to talk with the aerial innovator, Leesi L’Ru from Colorado. Mica: How did your pole journey start? Leesi: I have worked throughout the US as a professional entertainer…
As a pole athlete, I spend most of my time either contorting myself into crazy shapes, throwing my body weight around in the air, teaching other people how to do these things, or thinking up new, even crazier ways that…
So as I’ve written before, I’m huge fan of Crossfit and a massive promoter of the positives that it brings to polers, and vice versa. As some of you may be aware, the 2015 Crossfit Open is currently going on…