Pole Studios with 20+ Poles (Whats Your Opinion?)

polekitcat · 2012-03-11T13:15:24+00:00

Do you think pole studios that have lots of poles are safe and effective? What has been your experince with studios that have lots of poles? Do you prefer smaller class sizes where you get more bang for your buck or larger? What's is a good number of students for one instructor to handle?

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Sair · 3/20/2012
Ditto what Piglet said. Love the Brass Vixens team! The instructors are fantastic when it comes to making sure that everyone has the amount of personal instruction they need. They also make sure that everyone is working at their level regardless of beg/inter/adv status. I've been taking classes there for 1 1/2 years and have never had to share a pole. Nor have I seen anyone complain about lack of attention from instructors. as PIglet said, the class is pretty tight and always willing to help eachother out :)
HyperHorsegirl · 3/20/2012
My studio has two "classrooms", one with 8 poles, one with 9. The poles are all 50mm brass with the exception of the 9th pole in one, which is a "skinny b****" (what they call it) or a 45 mm chrome pole. No one uses that 9th pole unless they are really impatient. That being said, the actual lesson series require a minimum of 6 (which I think is too high, as I've had to put progress on hold to wait for classes to fill up when we had 5 girls signed up) and a maximum of 14. If there are 11 or more they're supposed to have two instructors, but I've only seen them do that on some beginners classes. My class (level 3 and the first level to start inverts) has the max number and one instructor. Normally about 11 girls show up. I think it's very hard for my instructor to keep up with that many girls trying to learn the basic invert at the same time. The studio has only two crash mats. The classes are 1.5 hours and yes, we share poles. We normally split the class in half and do everything in turns, which lets us catch our breath too. Still, girls are impatient and will take double turns, leaving one group full and the other with only a few people. Once I was the ONLY person in the second group because there were 9 people there that day. Talk about odd. Of course, everyone but me (and the person who gave up their pole for me) got double the turns. I suppose that's one down side to not having a pole for every student. I've had instructors much better than this one at managing the split groups, numbering people off and making sure they stay with their number.