having a lot of fun in my first month at this studio...and as someone who has never been on a pole before I am learning a lot! if you want to progress I recommend trying to go more than once a week, practice, and if your schedule allows find an instructors teaching style you like and try to go to as many of their classes as possible since it is kind of a cumulative learning experience and not all the instructors teach the beginning courses the same...but so far every class that I have taken I have enjoyed. if your thinking about it try it! its a totally different type of exercise