We are sitting down to speak to our new instructors for PoleCon 2023! Learn extra about them after which click on right here to buy their workshops.
1. We’re so excited to have you ever educate at PoleCon this 12 months! Can you inform us slightly extra about what you’re educating?
Pancake Party will not be your odd stretch session. You can be empowered with the information of not solely the anatomy of the straddle and pancake, however the place you may make changes to fit your functionality, whether or not it’s leveling up or accommodating for weaknesses particularly areas. The specifically curated program contains mobility drills and energetic flexibility workouts in order that your spreadys aren’t solely broad and excessive, but additionally sturdy to allow them to fly towards gravity up the pole. The program is designed to strengthen their muscle tissues in finish vary so that they have a a lot decrease probability of damage. Towards the tip of the session you possibly can soften like butter on a flapjack and have a play with some enjoyable floorbased tips.
I’m tremendous keen about pancakes and I normally suggest them as the primary sort of flexibility a newbie ought to deal with. Pancakes and straddles are seen in Inverts, Hello Boys, Jamilla all the best way as much as Plus Sign and Spatchcock. The muscle tissues strengthened and stretched are additionally in entrance and center splits so it’s a approach to make progress in these with out getting too overwhelmed in any respect the completely different splits, making an attempt to unfold your focus too skinny whereas studying foundational stuff.
2. Is there one thing that defines your fashion of educating or your content material that’s distinctive to you?
What my college students would say first about me, is that I’m charismatic, perhaps slightly loopy however in a great way, and that’s as a result of I really like to show so it brings out the most effective in my character. I’ve acquired bizarre analogies, usually speaking about the place your butthole is pointing, and I can not depend (don’t fear I take advantage of a timer) so be ready for that.
My educating fashion, whether or not it’s flexibility or pole tips, at all times features a clear breakdown of the steps, and the how and why as I imagine the extra you perceive this, the extra linked together with your physique you’ll be, due to this fact having the ability to execute higher and stronger and in flip preserve coming again to be taught increasingly! It’s just like the proverb of giving the person a fish vs educating them how you can fish.
I distinctly bear in mind as a newbie sitting in my straddle with a rounded again, might barely lean ahead and even articulate my pelvis forwards and again. I began pole dancing in my mid 30s with no pure flexibility and I would like college students to know that something is feasible, you simply have to search out the best coaching program for you and follow it, as a result of the enjoyment of feeling your cookie on the ground in a flat pancake is fairly particular.
3. What is the one factor you need your college students to go away with after taking your workshop?
Confidence that they know how you can safely, effectively and successfully practice their pancake and that their dream spreadys, it doesn’t matter what stage, are inside attain.
4. What are you most enthusiastic about for PoleCon 2023?
To meet up with college students I’ve been educating on-line to and to take workshops from a few of my favorite pole dancers, Ashley Fox, Carly Jane and Natasha Wang.
I’m additionally tremendous excited to see all the range within the pole world. Australia, the place I dwell, has unimaginable pole dancers and quite a lot of types among the many signature Showgirl fashion, however nothing like what PoleCon and the USA presents, so I’ll catch as many showcases as I can to load up on inspiration.
5. Anything else you wish to share with PoleCon attendees?
Anyone who attends Pancake Party and offers their contact particulars will get free dwell entry to the Badass on Brass and Kitty Jane July 2023 schedule of digital courses and workshops, so remember to hit me up!
Colleen Jolly is an entrepreneur and a pole dance fanatic. She has been poling for 12 years, is the CEO of PoleCon and the Executive Director of the IPIA. She teaches pole, lyra, floorwork, and mobility on-line and in-person within the DC metro space. She has been energetic in management roles in a number of worldwide companies over the previous twenty years and can be an award-winning pole dancer, artist, author, and speaker. She is licensed in a number of motion modalities and wrote the e book “Mobility for Pole” to assist pole dancers transfer higher.