![]() ![]() I personally like to practise my body waves in front of the mirror before breakfast! Practise makes perfect, and is the only route to success. ![]() At home you can easily train your headstands and splits with even a little bit of space. If you have a gym membership get on that lat pull-down, and maybe do some arm rows or try the shoulder press. At Ecole de Pole there are some great non-pole classes, like Whack Me, or Flexibility but there are other things you can do which will boost your learning massively. Supplement your pole training off the pole.You are on your own pole journey that is unique to you. Be happy for your classmates’ successes, but don’t ever let them get you down. Never get caught up in how that former ballet dancer can move like liquid, or that weight lifter can pull herself up so much higher than you. Some may even have very little experience of anything! We’re all welcome and equally important, but our backgrounds may enable us to succeed faster in different ways. Some come from dance, but others may come from fitness or martial arts. Everyone comes to pole with a very different background. Don’t think too much about what anyone else is doing.It will change the way everything you do looks, and it will look great. Then copy and repeat until they are second nature to you. Watch your teachers closely, and see the attention to detail they put into every motion – each toe point, each careful arm movement. If like me you didn’t have a substantial background in ballet or contemporary dance then you should use every second you get to start developing these movements as soon as you can. Start training choreography and good movement early.Plus, believe me – grip opens you up to a much greater chance of painful skin rips which you don’t want to deal with when you’re learning! Having a strong grip without aids will make you a better poler. Train your physical grip early on and don’t go anywhere near Dry Hands or Itac until your instructor says you should use it. So without further adieu, here is my top 12 things I wish I’d known back when I was a pole beginner □ Even so, I got to thinking about the advice I would have given myself starting out from the beginning again. Pole fitness is not the easiest sport and I was really lucky to have picked a studio with such great teachers to push me on. But really, I have come so far, and it was tough at times. January is typically beginner season, and say what you want about New Year’s Resolutions – anything that makes people try pole is good in my opinion! It seems like a lifetime ago that I started pole, but really it wasn’t so far off, and I still feel like such a newbie at times, especially when I try (and fail) a new move. ![]()
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