It seems that even now, pole dancing is still seen as something seedy and related to the sex industry. Pole Spin Magazine were the first to report this story.

Never-the-less all the other performers who are in the Elite category are flying into the States (hopefully without Visa problems) over the next few weeks to start their last minute training before the competition kicks off on the 14th.

Our very own “Judge Lucy” is flying out to be part of the Elite judging panel. Lucy can’t wait to meet all the American pole people she knows by reputation, but has never met! Judging competitions is a great responsibility, as Lucy knows that competitors have dedicated hours, days and weeks to their training and as a performer she knows how nerves can get the better of you.

Particularly with pole, where nerves create your sweat glands to go into overdrive, having to then grip a very tall and spinning pole is something that is extremely tricky to do. Practice is the key to a successful performance, some performers swear by freestyle, but experience teaches us that you should rehearse until you can do your routine backwards and in your sleep.

Oh, and if you’re reading this Stateside or even New York City where the competition is being held you can buy your tickets here and if you do make it, make sure you track Lucy down and say “Hi” to Lucy she’d love to meet you!

There are four Lulu Mats that we have designed to suit many different pole spaces and pole dancers, so hopefully there’s one that’s right for you and your needs, whether you’re a beginner with a small pole room or a pole dance diva with a brace of 8 m high poles.

• The Lulu Mat Home is a light mat designed for home users and travelling instructors. At 1600 mm diameter, it’s wide enough for most poles and pole dancers and it folds up into quarters for easy storage and transportation.
• The Lulu Mat ProX is also 1600 mm wide – a perfect fit for the X-Stage, and it’s also ideal for smaller rooms. The mat is 200 mm (8") thick, giving some pretty serious impact protection should the worst happen.
• The Lulu Mat Pro is a wider version of the ProX at 2130 mm (7') in diameter, making it perfect for studios and dancers with long poles or large pole spaces.
• The Lulu Mat Xtreme is, well, pretty extreme – it’s a huge mat (2750 mm or 9' wide) that offers the ultimate protection for advanced pole artists and aerial performers. At 360 mm (14") thick, it has a maximum fall height of 10 m, making it suitable for even the tallest poles.

Why pole dance mats?

Pole dance mats are a great concept. They help protect against the most obvious (and probably greatest) danger in pole dancing: falling off the pole. As pole dancing matures as a sport, more and more schools and individual dancers are thinking about keeping themselves and their students safe from falls.

Mats can also be a great motivator. Teaching with a mat has also given many of my students the courage to try moves that I know they can do, but which they don’t yet believe they can do themselves.

Over the past few years of teaching and performing, I’ve had the chance to use quite a few different pole mats. Many of these mats contained good ideas and nice features, but none of them seemed like ideal pole dance mat.

And this set me thinking: How could the pole dance mats I’ve seen and used be improved? What makes a perfect pole dance mat?

For me, the perfect pole dance mat will do two things

• Protect you if you fall
• Get out of the way when you’re practising or performing

We’ve spent the last three months developing the Lulu Mat with the suppliers of crash mats to all the British Athletics and Olympic events. And I think the mat we created – designed for pole dancers by pole dancers, and backed up with the technical expertise from one of the UK’s leading crash mat manufacturers – does pretty well at both of those things.

Protecting against falls – a thick pole dance mat

The Lulu Mat comes in three different thicknesses, all with different critical fall heights. The Home mat is 25 mm (1") thick and has a critical fall height of 2 m; the Pro and ProX mats are 200 mm (8") thick and have a fall height of 4 m; and the Xtreme mat is 360 mm (14") thick, with a fall height of 10 m.

Critical fall heights are not really much fun to talk about. We have another post on mats coming up that goes into this in more detail, but basically it means you are unlikely to die or suffer serious injury if you fall from below that height. It doesn’t mean that it won’t hurt, even if you fall less far than that.

I know this isn’t particularly pleasant to discuss, but it’s important to know when you can use Lulu Mats safely. Unlike more established sports, there are no standards that apply to pole dance mats. I haven’t come across any other pole mats suppliers that talk about critical fall heights either, and I think that’s a problem. We want to be very upfront about what the mats can (and can’t) do.

To be safe, the best approach is to calculate the maximum fall height for your pole and then add a generous safety margin. If your pole is long enough for you to find your waist close to 2 m above the ground, get a Pro or ProX mat. If you can climb all the way up to 4 m on your pole, get an Xtreme mat.

Kate and Annie, the gorgeous girls in the photos, practised drops during the shoot from about 2 m onto the Pro mat and from the top of our pole (just over 3 m) onto the Xtreme mat without incident. Though if you want to do the same, please start low and work your way up…

Protecting against falls – a big pole dance mat

Because it doesn’t matter how good the mat is if you miss it when you fall. The Home and ProX Lulu Mats are 1600 mm in diameter, wide enough for most poles and pole moves. (A 1600 mm mat is actually getting on for twice the size of the 1200 mm mats I’ve seen elsewhere.) Both these mats also fit the X-Stage perfectly, making them aesthetically-pleasing dance mats for podium poles – no missing bits or floppy overhangs!

If you’re lucky enough to have a high pole or the skills to perform hyperextended advanced moves like the Extended Butterfly, the Pro mat is 2130 mm (7') in diameter, and the Xtreme mat comes in at a massive 2750 mm (9').

Getting out of the way – walking on the mat

When they’re not stopping falls, we wanted to make the mats as unobtrusive and, well, floor-like as possible. All Lulu Mats have a firm top surface so you can walk on the mat without sinking in or tripping up. This also lets you get close to the pole if you’re teaching or spotting someone.

One annoying limitation I’ve found with many pole mats is that it’s not possible to use them in heels. Obviously I don’t wear heels on the pole most of the time, but when I’m practising for a performance – or just because I want to – then the heels come out, and that means the mat has to go. We wanted to do something about this, and the Lulu Mats’ firm top surface and heavy duty cover means it’s OK to wear heels while using the mats.

And if your training for specific moves or poses involves a lot of drops onto the mat, you can flip the ProX, Pro and Extreme mats over and use the softer bottom surface to get a gentler landing. (Though using heels on this side of the mat is not a great idea.)

Getting out of the way – moving and storing

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a dedicated pole room or studio, so was important for us that the mats are easy to move and store. All of the mats fasten together with industrial-strength Velcro, so you can have them in place or removed in under a minute.

The Home mat folds up into quarters and weighs just 5 kg, while the ProX mat splits into two parts and weighs 18 kg. Both these mats are 1600 mm in diameter, so the Home mat will fold and fit into a gap 0.8 × 0.8 m, while the ProX mat’s halves are 1.6 × 0.8 m.

We think we’ve struck the right balance here: the Home and ProX mats are both pretty light and small, and should be easy to store for most people. The Pro and Xtreme mats are obviously a bit bigger (a lot bigger in the case of the Xtreme mat), but they’re designed for larger poles in larger pole spaces – if you’re fortunate enough to have a dedicated pole wing in your house (or, more realistically, you run a big studio) then they should fit right in. :)

Hope you like it

We’re really excited about the Lulu Mats, and I hope you are too. We’ve had some great feedback from the community, and quite a lot of interest already from people hoping to buy the mats. (In fact Annie, one of the girls in the photos here, bought two of the sample mats for her pole studio.)

• For more about all the Lulu Mats, download the brochure or feel free to ask us a question.
• And if you’d like to get your own Lulu Mat, just head on over to the shop.

Download the Lulu Mat brochure →

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 an abaya in public at all times and are asked to cover their faces and heads with a burqua.

Men may marry up to four wives and until recently women had almost no rights in the judicial system, effectively making them the property of their husbands. It’s not an easy place to visit for anyone, but all single women travelling to Saudi need a sponsor to explain the reasons for the trip in order to secure a visa.

Life in Saudi Arabia

Most of Saudi life takes place inside the home due to the extreme desert heat, where blissful air conditioning allows people to enjoy the sorts of lifestyles familiar to most of us. Generally speaking women and men live in separate houses, and men are not allowed to socialise with women who are not family members.

Many Saudi households are well off and have a staff, including drivers to chauffeur female family members and pick the children up from school. It was strange at first, but I got used to having my own driver – I was able to relax and see much more of Saudi, which was rather nice. (Though not everyone has such positive experiences.)

There is a large foreign population in Saudi too, often working in or with the oil industry, and living in complexes known as compounds. In such a compound, a British one for example, about 40 homes are surrounded by a large wall with guards. Also inside the complex are shops, schools and entertainment, and residents of the complex must uncover themselves and act ‘British’.

My home in Saudi

Upon arriving into the Kingdom, I was whisked off to a wonderful complex (surrounded by big walls and with a huge gate) and introduced to my host family. They all made me feel very comfortable, and I was shown how to order food from the pantry(!) and ask for anything I needed.

I had the chance to have some excellent discussions and debate with the family regarding culture and lifestyle within the Kingdom. I had my own reservations about the country and the culture before I visited Saudi – in particular the treatment of women – but I saw a completely different side to life when I was staying there.

There is a huge difference in Saudi between public life, which is very conservative, and home life, where the family can choose to live how they please. In some households the women and men live in separate houses, but I was embraced as a family member and ate every night in the same room as the whole family. The women can walk around freely without covering themselves, and even sunbathe in bikinis by their swimming pools! (Yeah, it was tough.)

Pole dancing in Saudi

Alcohol and drugs are outlawed in Saudi and punished with strict penalties of imprisonment and execution. Theatres, restaurants, parks, cemeteries and other public venues are segregated by gender. Needless to say, there is no history of pole dancing in Saudi Arabia.

So why was I invited to Saudi to teach pole? The answer is actually remarkably mundane. My client’s sister lives in Europe where she’d discovered pole dancing for fitness, and they’d talked about the amazing benefits pole can have on the body.

My client wanted the same things that attracted many of you to pole dancing: a great, exhilarating workout to get her fit and toned. She liked the fact that it was a feminine exercise, and that she could feel liberated and sexy whilst doing it.

I taught my client pole six days a week, with one day off a week for recovery and rest. I had already arranged to have three X-Stages shipped to my client, which looked wonderful set up in her pole room, with large mirrors spanning the length one wall. (Yes, she had a whole room dedicated entirely to pole.)

Tight pole clothes weren’t a problem at home – we had more privacy than I’ve had in some fitness centres in the UK, and the staff didn’t disturb us while we were training.

Although my client kept our sessions top secret, she assured me it was not because she didn’t want her friends to know, but because she wanted to make the most of our time together and didn’t want thousands of her friends turning up for lessons!

Towards the end of my time I choreographed a routine for her to perform, and she donned her heels and performed for her husband and eldest daughter. They were amazed at what pole dancing had done for her!

Her husband was very impressed by how much she had learned, and was pleased that she was responding so well to the exercise and with the enjoyment she was getting from it – not to mention her dramatically changing body shape. :) And her daughter couldn’t wait to start swinging round the pole – she was a natural.

A new fitness craze in the Middle East?

As far as I know, the poles I taught on are the only poles in Saudi, but it’s interesting to ask what would happen if pole dancing for fitness and fun started to become more popular across the country.

Because there’s no history of strip clubs or pole dancing, most men would think women were just learning a new form of exercise – ironically in a place where religion and judgement plays such a large role, pole suffers from fewer preconceived connotations or moral judgements.

My client’s husband didn’t try the pole while I was there, but he didn’t try because he felt he lacked the strength, not because of pole dancing’s less salubrious roots.

Changing through pole dancing

As someone who lives in a liberal, pro-woman world I thought I would find Saudi a very different place to be. It certainly was different, but my experiences were overwhelmingly positive.

Pole dancing for fun and fitness will always happen in the home and in private classes, something that suits Saudi culture well. If pole dancing were to take off in Saudi, it could well mark the beginning of a new era for freedom of choice from the women and men living in the country.

Change is happening, if sometimes painfully slowly, but my visit to Riyadh suggest that the change is a positive one and that pole dancing may someday be embraced by the good people of the Middle East.

This post was linked to by American Bedu and some of the comments relate to that.

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 great :) and some telling us what you’d change.

What came up most in your feedback was

• The quality of the teaching was great, and you liked having all those moves on one disc too.
• The quality of the footage wasn’t so great. In particular, it was rather dark.

Recolouring the DVD

You’ve probably noticed how the ‘feel’ of the colours varies between films. Take the image here from the latest Transformers blockbuster: it’s vibrant, energetic and glossy; the colours really seem to pop out of the screen, reinforcing the action movie theme.

Now compare it to the screenshot from Lost in Translation. These colours are a lot more subdued and desaturated to give a darker, more melancholy feel, again complementing the plotline.

Most of the film and TV you see today has been recoloured (or graded) to give the look that the director was after. Luckily this is done after the film has been shot, so we were able put our DVD through the same grading process.

After settling on the look we wanted, we spent quite a bit of time making the footage brighter and more vibrant. We also revised the music and sound, updated the move names (adding some alternative names that are now common) and replaced the DVD navigation and extras to give it a more polished feel.

Here’s a short video showing the original footage (actually one of the better clips) and the grading steps we applied to make the new DVD.

DVD 1 remastered

I’m extremely proud of our remaster. It’s great to be able to showcase our teaching in a better light (literally!) and it shows how far we have come as a producer of DVDs.

The DVD is on pre-order now and will be released on 15 February. Order now to get your DVD posted as soon as the new stock arrives!

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 Grove, London.

I really enjoyed working with my clients and the team at Kinesis and was sad to stop.

So I’m really excited to be back! We’re having a launch pole party on 18 February. The party is open to everyone, even if you just want to come down for a chat and have a swing on the four metre poles! Everyone from beginners to super advanced are welcome, and I would love you to pop in to say hi!

Join us at 8.15 for a drink, a nibble, a show and a chance to ask the pole performers and me questions about pole, or learn more about the Pilates and Gyrotonic classes they also offer. The studio is equipped with some stunning Pilates kit and the instructors are so experienced and friendly – it’s worth coming along just to gawp at the bizarre equipment! :)

Please invite all your friends to join us for a drink and find out more about the studio too. I look forward to seeing some familiar faces – and hopefully some new faces too!

Love Lucy
xx

Through your generosity we raised £530.18 (about $855) during our appeal week, and we want to say thank you to everyone who helped.

Thanks to: Jessica, Claire, Georgina, Cherri, Caoilfhionn, Nathan, Zoe, Cammie, Doris, Maud, David, Ana, Jason, Dawn, Emma, Sarah, Linda, Michelle, Angela and Luis.

If you’d still like to help, you can donate now through DEC in the UK or the Red Cross anywhere in the world.

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 poor country anyway, but what little infrastructure they had is now virtually gone.

Haitians feel very alone at the moment. The promise of aid has not yet materialised and many locals are still digging through the rubble with their hands.

Most of the bodies are covered in white bed sheets or rolled inside carpets, but others have been left exposed to the hot sun and the stench of rotting bodies has begun to fill the air.

Families who are desperately searching for their loved ones are gingerly uncovering the sheets that cover the corpses in the hope they can at least identify family members.

– Andy Gallacher, BBC

The people of Haiti need our help. Taking a lead from Chuck Anderson, James White and others, we’ll be donating 100% of the sales of the Pole Exercise DVDs (DVD 1, DVD 2 or both together) bought from this site for the next week (15 January – 21 January) directly in support of Haiti. So if you buy Pole Exercise DVD 2 for £19.99, we’ll donate £19.99 to the DEC appeal.

“It’s easy to feel separated from things like this based on geography, but it doesn’t mean we’re not all in this together. Every bit counts. My heart goes out to you, Haiti.”

Thanks to

• Jessica
• Claire
• Georgina
• Cherri
• Caoilfhionn
• Nathan
• Zoe
• Cammie
• Doris
• Maud
• David
• Ana
• Jason
• Dawn
• Emma
• Sarah
• Linda
• Michelle
• Angela
• Luis

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. Instead we have two new poles, the X-Pole XPert and the X-Pole Sport.

X-Pole XPert

The closest replacement for the old £180 X-Pole is the £200 XPert. If you own an X-Pole, you’ll know how difficult it is to separate the pole sections after the pole’s been up for a while. (And you’ll know how inadequate the standard release tools are too.) Vertical Leisure have replaced the screw threads entirely with something they call the X-Joint.

How the X-Joint works

The pole tubes now have a couple of grooves running vertically up their insides. The X-Joint slots inside the pole between two segments, using the grooves stop the pole sections from rotating, and the whole thing is held in place by tightening a couple of bolts with an Allen key.

If you’ve used an X-Pole then you may be drawing a quick breath right now. The X-Pole’s static / spinning adjuster also uses a couple of bolts to keep it in place, and that inevitably seems to loosen after a few minutes’ vigorous poling.

But it’s OK. When the pole’s up, the X-Joints don’t rely on the bolts to prevent the pole sections rotating, and pressure from floor and ceiling stops the pole from coming apart. So even if you don’t tighten the bolts at all, you’ll be perfectly safe when performing, though you could get a bit of a shock if the pole falls apart when you take it down again.

Vertical Leisure say the X-Joints make the pole more rigid than before, so you could potentially make an even longer pole. Previous X-Poles have been limited to 11' or 12' (3.3 to 3.6m) in length, but they’ve been testing a 13' (4.0m) pole that seems fine so far. If you’re fortunate enough to have such a high ceiling, you could be in luck!

No more ladders

The other big change is that the XPert is bottom loading, so there’s no need to get up a ladder to tighten your pole now – a big bonus if you take your pole down frequently. (Vertical Leisure also have a kit to change your existing X-Pole into a bottom loader, albeit for a not inconsiderable £90.)

This means that the height adjuster cover is now at the bottom of the pole. I know not a lot of moves use that area, but I wonder if it will get in the way more often than it did at the top.

The XPert has the same wide dome at the top as the old X-Pole. The base is a bit smaller, though it looks much the same otherwise.

X-Pole Sport

X-Pole Sport is Vertical Leisure’s entry level model, coming in at £150. It uses the same X-Joints and bottom loading adjuster as the XPert, but money has been saved by making it static only. The pole also comes with a smaller ceiling plate and (bizarrely) a larger floor plate.

Unlike all other X-Poles to date, the Sport isn’t smooth all the way from floor to ceiling. Instead it has a foam cover (apparently like silver pipe lagging) over the height adjuster.

Again, it could be a bit disconcerting to kick during a spin or pose, though Vertical Leisure now stocks a much larger range of pole extensions so you can minimize the height of the adjuster – and the foam covering – if it bothers you.

The X-Stage is also being given new X-Joints, but is otherwise unchanged.

The new poles go on sale on 16 December (including in our shop, if you’d like to support us). We can’t wait to try them out!

• For more information, visit Vertical Leisure or give them a call on +44 (0)1707 665933.
• Update: New X-Poles are now on sale in the USA too. Check out X-Pole US or Pole Dancing Shop for more.
• If you’d like to read Vertical Leisure’s sales copy, here’s the new X-Pole brochure (pdf).

Click on any of the pictures for a bigger copy.

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. He’d already tried out the idea in Paris, where he now lives, running a similar event at Galerie Chappe in May. By the end of the week, they were playing to a street full of people.

Village Underground event

His London event took place at the wonderful Village Underground art gallery. The space has an awesome vibe to it, with multiply repurposed brick walls that lend it the feel of a warehouse or deserted train station. As well as music, he organised three days of burlesque, yoga, hula hoops, performance poetry and live graffiti. And pole dancing.

“There is too much spectating, it’s important to get people creating themselves – that is a lot more interesting,” Jarvis told the Guardian. “I wanted to get away from the idea that culture is something you consume, you can make it yourself.”

Participate! Pole dance!

My job was to get people creating themselves through pole dancing. After a nice introduction from Jarvis, I invited those brave enough to jump up and join in. Nine brave ladies and one even braver gentleman came up.

I took them through my warm up, and then separated them into two groups. I gave them a thorough introduction to pole dancing, covering some basic spins like the Fireman and Fairy and then moving on to a few slightly more adventurous tricks like the Basic Invert and Chopper. They did really well considering the venue and that they had an audience!

After the class, it was my turn to take centre stage for my pole dancing performance. Jarvis and his band had been accompanying me throughout my class, and Jarvis came down to ask me what type of music I wanted for my performance. “Slow but sexy,” I replied, and boy did they pull out all the stops!

I freestyled my way through my routine and was really pleased with the response the audience gave me, clapping and cheering throughout.

Jarvis didn’t get on the pole in the end, but I think he looked interested. (Maybe next time!)

It was a fabulous afternoon. I really enjoyed meeting Jarvis and his team, and having his awesome band accompanying my pole dancing was just amazing. I can’t wait for the next event!

Elsewhere

• Article in the Guardian
• Announcement on Jarvis Cocker’s site
• Flickr photos David Emery MrLomo pure evil bunny

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 and inverts to take your pole dancing to the next level. Each move is taught in the same clear, step-by-step manner as our first DVD, with close up and slow motion shots to help you perfect those graceful pole moves.

Flexibility is key to any truly impressive pole performance, and Pole Exercise 2 also packs in a comprehensive stretching section with 14 positions for you to master.

There are four dazzling routines from our expert instructors, showcasing moves taught on the DVD. Each also has a teaching view to let you learn the routine yourself and help you construct your own mesmerising pole showcase.

Buy Pole Exercise DVD 2 →

DVD teaser video

If you’d like to take a look at some of the teaching and routines on DVD, here’s a preview we put on YouTube a little while ago. (I know it says ‘coming soon’ at the end. It was at the time.) Or click through to watch in HD.

Behind the scenes: a look at making the DVD

Last December, I decided to film a second Pole Exercise DVD.

After weeks of castings in January, I managed to whittle down the applicants to a select few awesome instructors (Jen, Jenny and Owain) who would teach and perform with me on the new DVD.

I was also lucky enough to get bendy Sarah (she’s an ex-gymnast) on board to star in an intensive stretching section, something a lot of people have asked for in the past.

The filming took place in March over an intensive few days. I’ve been on set many times before, but this was the first time I’ve been in charge of a professional film crew, producing – and sometimes directing – the shoot. Once it was over (and after a few days to recuperate), the raw footage was collected and sent over to the Lucy Productions core for editing and post-production.

Some might think that what you see filmed is basically what appears on your TV, but this is far from the truth. I’m sure you know how photos in the media are heavily processed before being published, and the same is true for film.

Only it takes a lot longer. Even in Hollywood, directors almost always spend significantly longer working with their editor than they do on the entire production and filming.

First we edited the DVD, which took 10 long working days, even with our stellar editor on hand. We then exported the DVD, a process that, unless you have a computer like this – and I really don’t – also takes days.

Then Andrew took it to the depth of his computer genius and started to colour correct and enhance the footage. Clips where bad lighting made me look like I’d emptied several vats of fake tan over my body were replaced by natural-looking shots. It’s quite incredible what the software can do, and quite vital when you see how badly coloured some of the footage is.

As an actress I’ve been involved with many films and adverts, and I’ve learnt a huge amount about the editing process.

Our production company has gained a huge amount of experience during the post production stage of the DVD, and we can now offer a huge range of services from Photoshopping and grading to editing of both still and moving images… but that’s another story.

Finally, after weeks of finding and eradicating mistakes (and then going back to the re-exporting stage – tedious is an understatement), we were ready to go with the graphics. Andrew took complete control and, with helpful suggestions and input from me, really shone with his designs for the DVD front, back and booklet.

At the start of November we sent the artwork and a master copy of the DVD to the duplicators, and this Friday I took delivery of a huge pile of beautiful, pristine, individually wrapped DVDs.

Now ready to launch after a hard year of solid work, I proudly give you Pole Exercise DVD 2. A product of passion, dedication, hard work and commitment to a belief in a fabulous sport and contributed to by wonderful people.

I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I have making it.

With all my love

Lucy
xxxx