Some people might not agree with this, but for me pole dancing and pole fitness is one and the same thing.
POLE dancing classes for children as young as five are being launched by a dance instructor in Headington.
Nicola Ghalmi runs the Dance Inspires studio off London Road and is launching classes for children aged five to nine, and aged ten to 15.
As she announced the classes Ms Ghalmi, 30, a former Oxford Brookes marketing student, insisted there would be no “sexual connotation”.
She said: “Some people might not agree with this, but for me pole dancing and pole fitness is one and the same thing.
“When I say ‘pole dance’ I think competition and that doesn’t mean there is a sexual connotation.
“None of the girls I have taught have ever ended up in a nightclub or a strip club – it’s a life choice.”
Ms Ghalmi, who lives in Wheatley with her partner Driss, 41, said the studio ran a variety of different classes but its “core product” was pole dancing and pole fitness.
She added: “The classes will start on Sunday and there has been quite a lot of interest online already.