Pole fitness

[Mummysgogetter]

Hello everyone,
Was wondering if I could have some advice/encouragement from anyone that has tried this sport?

I started practicing pole once a week at the end of November. I have a background of yoga and some strength training but it didn't really prepare me for pole as this is another level hard!! Anyway, after the first couple of sessions I thought I was getting better at it - I even managed to do the 'teddy-bear' sit and flag pole etc. but after six weeks, I seem to have regressed backwards. Whenever the instructor shows me how to do the chorographic moves, I seem to become dyslexic and get it totally wrong. This is killing my confidence and making it even more likely that I get the moves wrong. The instructor is always reassuring me because she can tell by my face that I look "worried", and last night when I could not get a move that she showed me for the fourth time, I honestly felt like crying!

I feel like I'm bringing the group's morale down, even though I try to not let it show, as I'm very unconfident and find it hard to laugh at myself when something goes wrong. I worry that the instructor is inwardly sighing and thinking "oh no, not her again" when I come back to class at each session.

I really don't want to give up - I hate quitting things. But I was wondering if anyone had any pearls of wisdom that has done this kind of sport before?

I used to do pole fitness regularly and honestly it takes ages to learn the transitions. You've only been learning for a really short time, try and focus on the progress you have made. One of my favourite things about it was that it's a sport where everyone can learn at their own pace, so I could go to a training session with people who were much better than me and not hold them back because we were all just focusing on our own thing, so I really wouldn't worry about group morale!

You also don't have to learn the choreography, unless you want to compete - if you're doing this for your own fitness you can do trick pole, where you just focus on the holds and spins. Sometimes different instructors at the same studio are better at teaching different things depending on what they're personally into, so if there's more than one instructor you could ask if there's someone who's more about the tricks than the dance parts.

Also lol at one of the 'similar threads' being 'Ready made polenta ideas'

Thanks for your response psychomath.
I guess where I am struggling now is that the more I 'cock-up' a move, the more I go wrong on the next one as it seems to effect my confidence. My instructor also teaches different moves each week - one week we will do the teddy bear and the next week, we won't do that move. I would prefer to be taught say 5 moves and keep practicing and practicing those moves until I nail them, and then move onto the next ones. but currently we do about 10 moves each class (trying a couple of times and then moving on to the next move) and they vary week to week. Is this normal for a beginner pole class?

Sorry, meant to say, when I mentioned choreography, what I meant was which foot goes first and then which foot hooks when going into a monkey spin. It seems that as I lose confidence I hook the wrong foot and take a step forward with the incorrect foot, if that makes sense!