About KT

KT Coates has been pole dancing for over 11 years. She has worked all over the world as a pole dancer, show girl and Vertical Dance™ Instructor. KT is Ranked one of the top pole dancers and instructors the world, teaching pole fitness instructors and students from the UK, USA, France, Iceland, Canada, Holland, Italy, Portugal and many more.
 

KT has been heavily involved in sports from a young age, representing the east of England in netball and the county in hockey and athletics. She gained a BTEC National Diploma in sports studies, a CYQ exercise to music qualification, NCFE in Vertical Dance, a First Aid Certificate, Pole Dancing Public liability Insurance and full membership to the Register of Exercise Professionals. More recently she has become a certified group exercise instructor with Americas top fitness governing body ACE.

She has worked tirelessly to achieve recognition for pole dance as a reputable form of group fitness and provide the industry with standards and guidelines, resulting in the world's first instructors qualification in Vertical Dance launched in association with Focus Training.
 

Leisure Industry Week saw the first of many presentations on Vertical Fitness from KT, she will also be presenting at Fit Camp in November 2007 and embarking on a workshop tour of the USA in July 2007.

KT is most proud of her series of Vertical Dance Workout DVDs that launched in September. She wrote and directed the DVDs along with her sister Stacey.
 

Katie has a close relationship with X-Pole, helping to test and improve the product to its full potential. She is currently the face of X-Pole and presents the Instructional DVD that accompanies the pole.
 

KT has just completed her first book titled the Vertical Dance Work-out which she hope to be published in the near future. She is especially proud of this achievement as she suffers from dyslexia. So watch out for updates on the news page.