Choose a Pole Dancing Studio

"I'm Meagan Burroughs, and we're talking about Pole Dancing today. Just of a couple of the basic things that you're going to want to know before you start taking a Pole Class at your local studio. One of the things you'll want to ask your instructors about is what safety precautions they take for you, if there's a warm-up, if there's a cool-down. If they have any special mats or equipment that they use. That's always a good sign that that's probably a good studio. Another thing is maybe ask if you could speak to former students who have taken it at that studio. It's always good if you can get a good referral that says that they started out slow, they were overweight, they lost a lot of weight. Talk to people that have similar goals from what they expect out of Pole Dancing. In your pole class, you'll want to start slow. Don't overexert yourself. If the instructor is making you go too fast, just tell them that you need a breather or a cool-down. Open Pole, or a practice hour, is just basically a time for you to go by yourself or with other students, to just practice what you learned in your instructional class. Sometimes there's an instructor there, sometimes there's not. But, it's just kind of a time for you to do what you want to do on the pole."