Home to Mecca, Saudi Arabia is usually thought of as a highly religious, and often rather intolerant, country. But I was invited there to teach pole dancing. Women in Saudi Arabia Saudi is now the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. Women must also cover their bodies with … Read more →

We’re very excited to announce the release of a digitally remastered version of our first Pole Exercise DVD. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work reworking and improving the quality of the video. We’ve had a lot of comments from you about the DVD, some of it telling us what you liked (which is … Read more →

I’m starting teaching pole dancing at Kinesis Pilates Studio in a couple of weeks. I covered some lessons for a fellow instructor a few years ago, and it was wonderful to see what a personal interest the owner, Mel, took in pole dancing – she’s invested in four fabulously high poles for her studio in Ladbroke … Read more →

We’re really grateful for all of the support you were able to give us through DVDs for Haiti. Through your generosity we raised £530.18 (about $855) during our appeal week, and we want to say thank you to everyone who helped. Read more →

I’m sure you’ve all seen the shocking pictures from Haiti over the past few days. Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, 12 January, destroying much of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross estimates 100-200,000 people have died and up to three million have been affected. Haiti is a … Read more →

Vertical Leisure, the company behind the X-Pole, have announced their new range of poles. The original X-Pole was quite revolutionary when it was launched, with its adjustable height, spinning and static modes and solid construction, and quickly became one of the most popular poles on the market. But by Christmas it will be gone. … Read more →

I was invited by pop legend Jarvis Cocker to take part in his conceptual gallery project, joining together music, art and motion. He “wanted to look at another way of presenting music rather than just putting on a show. Can it work in an art gallery? Will people come along?” Apparently they will. … Read more →

The second Pole Exercise DVD is finally here! After eight long months of production, filming and editing, Pole Exercise DVD 2 is back from the duplicators and ready to ship. (If you’ve pre-ordered, your DVD is already in the post.) What’s on the DVD? Pole Exercise 2 teaches you 16 advanced and 11 training spins, climbs, poses … Read more →

The second Pole Exercise DVD will be arriving from the duplicators any day now, and I wanted to give you a quick preview of what’s coming – from the outside at least. I spent a long time (rather too long!) working on the DVD cover. The picture comes from a nice photoshoot of Lucy … Read more →

So how are you? It’s been a while. I know we haven’t written anything here for a long time. Lucy wasn’t very well for a few months, then it was my turn, and then we kinda got out of the habit of posting here. And of course since then we’ve had other life stuff … Read more →