Episode #004 of the Off The Pole Podcast is a Group Member Feature – I hope to do many more of these as we have such a talented bunch in there! I got to sit down to chat with Aisling Peberdy, who’s been Pole Dancing for 6 years. She’s an Osteopath, qualified in clinical nutrition as well as being a champion powerlifter. If you love getting geeky about anatomy, you’re going to love this!

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Sarah:                   Well, welcome Aisling, thank you very much for doing my podcast, it’s lovely to have you.

Aisling:                That’s okay, nice to be here.

Sarah:             So for the people who don’t know you, can you give us just a little bit of an introduction. Tell us about yourself, your background, how you came to pole?

Aisling:                Sure, so yeah I’m Aisling and I’m an osteopath and I’ve been in private practice since July 2016, after completing a four-year masters degree. I came to pole six years ago, yeah six years ago when my mum, there was a class at my mum’s gym and she said, “Do you want to try?” I said, “Yeah okay.” So yeah; …

Sarah:             Your mum got you into it? That’s awesome.

Aisling:                My mum, she’s only had a go like twice, but yeah she’s like, “Do you want to do this?” So I did, and yeah I did regular classes for my final year of A-levels and then it was more kind of an ad-hoc basis, and then properly got back into classes in December, with Dan.

Sarah:             Oh nice.

Aisling:                Lovely Dan, hi Dan.

Sarah:             Mr Rosen, yeah we love Mr Rosen, shout out to Dan.

Aisling:                And everyone at IFA who I miss ’cause I haven’t been for like a month now.

Sarah:             You’re going to get in trouble now, you’re going to get called out for representing pole and not going to pole class.

Aisling:                I’m going to be in trouble.

Sarah:             Sorry we won’t tell, it’s fine.

Aisling:                So yeah that’s it.

Sarah:             When we started chatting you sent me a message after I posted in Facebook group Off The Pole, so you’re obviously a member of that ’cause you saw it, hopefully…

Aisling:                I am.

Sarah:             You also said you’re into powerlifting as well, is that right?

Aisling:                Yeah, so I started powerlifting when I was at uni, and somebody in the year above me was powerlifting, a guy, ended up going to train with him a little bit. Originally I started lifting to help with pole actually and my PT at the time was like, “Oh you’re quite strong, you know let’s see how far we can push this.” Yeah, got chatting to this chap at uni, started training properly and entered my first competition, December 2014, and won, and then when onto … which is a cash competition and there aren’t very many of them, so that was also quite nice, ’cause being a student I needed to pay my rent. Then went to qualifiers, qualified for the British Nationals and in July 2015 I became British Champion, which is always quite nice.

Sarah:             Nice!

Aisling:                Then last year was my last, my most recent competition, and now that’s a lie, two years ago, oh God that’s bad isn’t it.