It’s funny how I started pole partially because I wanted to improve my climbing, and totally got addicted to pole, such that my climbing now takes a back-seat compared to my pole training. And now I’m intending to take up ballet to improve my pole (improve grace, flexibility, stamina, core strength) – I hope I don’t end up relegating pole!

Although, having said that, it’s probably easier to continue ballet for a longer time, up to an older age, than pole, because it probably requires less brute strength and is probably less taxing on the joints. But I won’t know for sure until I try it out.

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Because I’m pole-obsessed, I’ve been: i) reading pole blogs, which have also led me to other dance-related blogs, including adultbeginner , which is hilarious, inspiring (despite starting ballet at the age of 32, she has managed to go en pointe!!), and has reawakened the unfulfilled ballerina in me (more on that some other post), ii) yearning to perform, perhaps in my school’s next showcase. And I’d like to have a stronger core to progress more in my moves, exercise more to gain overall strength (recognising that I can’t pole every day because my body needs a day of rest between each day of ‘resistance’ work), and I’d like to be more flexible and to achieve my splits… all of which ballet can help accomplish.

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