It began on a scorching hot Friday afternoon…Tracy, Heather and Katie set off to Milton Keynes full of excitement and anticipation, knowing that they were all about to experience something new and marvellous!
After a 5 hour drive we finally arrived at our hostesses house. Emma, instructor at MK Pole Fitness had kindly offered to put us up, and she made us feel welcome and at ease immediately. We enjoyed a lovely evening with her and Leanne (also instructor at MK Pole Fitness) and rested up ready for our busy pole and circus sessions.
The following morning began with an awesome shopping trip around Milton Keynes central and the nicest jacket potato mankind has ever experienced! We then proceeded to the MK Pole Fitness Studio where we jammed with old friends Luke, Leanne and Emma, and met new friends…most impressive of all being a 13 year old young lady, Megan, who could really pole….AMAZING!!!! We were also introduced to Hannah, head instructor and owner of MK Pole Fitness. Hannah was soon demonstrating her abilities on the pole, and left us in awe with her grace and strength….yet another AMAZING!!!!
After a 2 hour pole session we headed to the circus studio…and were astounded with how beautiful and relaxed the whole place was. Hannah was a patient and marvellous teacher, explaining and demonstrating everything with such ease. We began with basic MSE on the hoop and soon found our hands in tatters!! We followed this with some Hoop tricks and poses, all of which were highly enjoyable but worked us hard!
After hoop we began on the silks. Again we started with some basic MSE and followed with tricks and poses. We soon discovered that silk work is extremely tiring and hard on the body, despite this it truly was a fantastic and fun workout. The last piece of equipment was the trapeze, probably the easier of the 3. We were able to experiment on the trapeze and even managed some doubles work, which was fabulous!
After all that exercise we were only able to chill in front of Britain’s Got Talent that night and allow our bodies some recovery time. The following day we said goodbye to our fantastic new friends and headed off to the Polenastics studio for a workshop with the one and only Deb Riley. At this point we were all aching real bad from the day before, yet we worked hard and our spinning handsprings, and flag to brass monkeys were pretty good! Deb is such fun to be around that we couldn’t help smile the whole way through despite our aching limbs!
The journey home was filled with many ‘ouch’ sounds, but we were all in great spirit. Our weekend had been fantastic and we thank everyone who helped to make it so special.
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