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Gain knowledge of the basic, fundamental mechanics needed for turning a standard forearm climb into a rotational/sinuous pole climb.

An improvisational format to sex up the “teddy” trick with a split and transitions that allow for the sensations and mechanics to gel into place seamless.

In this conditioning session practice the postural, muscle recruitments and grip wisdom needed to begin to understand how to polestand.

This polework sessions reintroduces the mobility and muscular+joint wisdom to understand and use a straddle for acrobatic movement. From on the floor to up the pole learn practice rituals to…

Advancing straddle basics in this polework session into fine understandings of compound skills. Featuring posterior and anterior fine-tuning that recruit the straddle as a tool for pole trick movement.

Realizations about inverting and what it means for different body types, dance styles and lived experiences. Experiment with several modulations that address function, posture and movement with the safety of…

Continuing to modulate with invert mechanics and techniques, aerial considerations are brought to light. The advantages to using momentum to build strength AND coordination are practiced as well.

Sense of position practice with upper and lower body adjustments for inverts. This proprioceptive conditioning session is a progression class that can be repeated for more body awareness and coordination….

To condition the body to tilt back and the shoulders to remain engaged, we’ll focus on coordinating invert mechanics primarily using momentum. This, becoming a building block towards deadlifting an…

Revisiting knee-pit grip for effectiveness and performance. Become more confident the stability and transitioning component of double and single knee-pit grips.

How to use your knee-pit as a transition contact point is what is explored in this class session. Expanding upon knee-pit functionality, explore what takes shape through sustaining, extending, releasing…

Continuation modulations for transitioning through Knee-Pit. In this spicy conditioning class we talk rolling through the knee-pit for rotations, low pole tricking and we revisit inverting in the warm up….

Learn basic entries intro brass knee from floor, standing and aerial without the need of complex muscular strength. Condition the bodily mobility and contact points needed to have a secure…

Rethink pole climb basics with full body cue’ing to understand what effects and affects a basic pole climb. Learn that it isn’t just upper body strength that enables a climb;…

Extend your pole climb skill into non-invert transitional skillsets. Take the pole climb into a thread through leg hook or an airwalk using the cues taught in this spicy conditioning…

Problem solve through cues and modulation adjustments previous learning about thread-through and full/split bracket climb transitioning.

Thoracic Rotation can be intense, but it’s a critical key to unlocking a lot of mobility in pole tricks. From the climb position (x-grip) we explore snaking around the pole…

Cues for rotating the spine around the pole to transition through ballerina hold variations and create sexy shapes as you come in and come out.

A moderate effort session that gives a framework for actively resting and trick skill building without high energy or while experiencing moderate stress.

Returning to Brass Knee from the introduction, this class focuses on conditioning the grip with a transition from the base.

Taking ‘brass’ tricks up the pole without inverting learn how to maneuver into two shapes “Goddess Sit” and a variation of the brass “Knot”.

How do you invert with a brass knee grip? This workshop class will teach you just that. Progressing from the ‘knot’ shape you will learn how to recline into being…

Refresh your understanding of armpit grip as a lever and something that you can use the efficiency of force/tension instead muscular strength to execute.

Start here in week one, learning the musculature coordination for cross ankle release. Condition the skin and trust from standing.

From aerial heights of the pole, hands off the ground, practice the cross ankle release trick. Learn ways to check-in with security and transition.

Active resting with BodyBasing, straddles with the pole and an inside leg hook at the base of the pole.

An introduction to one of the more painful shapes/tricks on the pole “Remi Sit”. Learn how to manage discomfort and make adjustments to bring some relief.