I definitely recommend getting Veena's lessons and following them from the very beginning if you are a brand new dancer. Inverting takes good core and upper body strength, and if you are lacking in that, then you're using momentum to get yourself upright, and that is neither pretty nor safe. If you have sloppy technique on a basic invert and don't correct it now before moving on, you're going to keep whatever bad habits you may have formed and use those in more advanced inverts and you run the risk of hurting yourself. I had a friend who I invited over a couple of times to pole with me, and she was a disaster waiting to happen; she was a complete beginner, so I just taught her a basic fireman spin and some floorwork and movement around the pole. She'd been sedentary pretty much her whole life aside from some gym classes when she was in high school, which was years ago, so she had lousy upper body and ab strength. She wanted to go upside down and I repeatedly told her she was not strong enough and that she needed to learn the beginner stuff first (walk before you run and all that,) but in spite of that, she tried inverting three different times as soon as I'd turn away for a second. Basically, she just threw herself into the invert as hard as she could and hoped for the best; twice she could only get halfway, and once she finally, out of pure dumb luck, managed to hook her ankles. She thought this was pretty good, and, even when I informed her that no, it wasn't, that she was being very unsafe and that it didn't look good, she tried to invert again. If she finds another place to pole, I forsee a nasty injury in her very near future.
Bottom line: don't be like her. Wait until you're ready, and in the meantime, work on building up your strength so that you can get into it properly and safely. It'll look much better, and you won't have to worry about injuring yourself because you jumped into something you weren't ready for.
