Dancing Poles Reviews

About

We are women who love the pole and pole dancing. After going through multiple bad poles we decided to get together and create a pole review site. So many poles aren’t returnable and that means you want to do your research first. We pick the top poles in the business and review them for you. Don’t bother with anything else other than the poles on this site. We can promise you that the $99 poles are a complete waste of your money, they will break. Please don’t make that mistake, a great pole is a onetime investment that will last you a lifetime.

Our in house expert is Debra (Deb) Arana.

Deb Arana on the dance pole

Deb began pole dancing with S Factor in 2004. She became a popular instructor in their San Francisco studio, as well as their teacher mentor.

In addition to being a caring, knowledgable instructor she is also and avid student. She attends as many classes as possible whether it’s yoga, ballet, ethnic dance or pole dancing. Most recently she has added the Xpert pole dance instructor certification to her dance bag. She started dancing at 3 years old and hasn’t stopped since! She has danced professionally with numerous companies over her 30 year career as a dancer. She is trained in classical ballet, jazz, modern, afro contemporary,and is a brazillian dance fanatic. She holds a brown belt in brazillian jiu jitsu, and is the reigning World Pillow fight champion.

Deb has been a certified fitness instructor for over 25 years, and is also a certified personal trainer. She is one of the founding members of the high flying, and sexy aerial burlesque group Cirque Noir, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A performance group known as much for their highly skilled performances on the stationary dance poles as their abilities to thrill spectators as they soar and spin on other aerial apparatus as well. All  the while pushing the boundries of what is considered to be burlesque.
In her teaching, Debra has a way of bringing her knowledge and love of movement to her students with enthusiasm and care. She challenges her students individual needs, and can read her students with intuition gained with her experience as a teacher. Along with learning to love their bodies without judgement, her students say they find the confidence to try new things in her class.
“Getting healthy and strong while having fun working out should be your main goal. If you aren’t enjoying yourself you probably won’t do it! Playing on a dance pole is a great way to work out for women regardless of age, shape, or size. Providing they are working out within their own fitness levels. Safety is key to be able to keep coming back for more. Stay injury free!!”