Dublin lady Katherine White’s pole performance seen her win The All Ireland pole dance competition, hosted by Polercise, in Precious Odyssey Pavilion, on 3rd June 2011.
Doors opened at 7pm to the usual crowd of friends, family and supporters alike. The evening kicked off with an opening act from 4 Polercise Instructors, leading straight into the 1st half of the competition with the doubles section. This seen friends Yasmin and Leona scoop the winning title. Each performed a 5 minute routine choreographed by them demonstrating the sheer skill, strength and technical ability required to compete in and earn a final place in competitive pole dancing today.
This year saw for the 1st time male entries and was won by Co.Down man Nicky Walsh. Nickys desire to compete at international level will now be a reality when he will be the 1st male to represent Ireland in the Worlds preliminary heats later in the year along side Katherine, Yasmin and Leona.
Organiser of the Competition El Fegan from Hilltown, founder of Polercise Ltd, works continuously to promote pole as a form of exercise that requires strength and stamina.
“The competition is a great opportunity to celebrate some of the talent that has been created over the past few years in Ireland and not only change the public’s opinions of pole dancing, but also get more people involved so they know that fitness can be fun as well as good for their health. Competition within the ‘Pole Dance’ world is really heating up and standards are extremely high now, with a lot of girls coming through with different backgrounds in dance and gymnastics. Competitions not only seek out the best ‘poler’ but are a great way to promote pole to spectators at the events and hopefully inspire many more people to take the plunge and find out what the fascination is.”
Katherine will also represent in the Europeans this year to be held in The Netherlands on Sunday 23rd October 2011.
Proceeds form the competition mounted to £2,395 and will go towards the The Pole Sport Benevolent Fund through El’s participation in the pole to peak challenge.