Tara Meyer

Some athletes win a title. A rare few redefine what a title means. Tara Meyer belongs to the second category.

Born in Alberta, Canada, Tara Meyer is an internationally recognised Elite Pole Champion — and the only competitor in history to have won both the OG Pole Fitness at Olympia and the PCS Arnold Classic, the two most prestigious international pole championships in the world. She has performed as pole soloist for Cirque du Soleil. She has judged the world's top competitions, coached champions, and built a studio and online platform that reaches athletes across the globe. And she does all of it with a pair of high arched feet that have made her a fixture on this site since day one.

From Ice to Pointe to Pole

Tara's relationship with movement began before most children have formed a coherent memory. She received her first Gold Medal in figure skating at the age of five — an achievement that would set the template for everything that followed: early mastery, relentless commitment, and results.

At nine, she discovered dance. By twelve, she had been accepted into L'École supérieure de ballet du Québec in Montreal — one of the most prestigious classical ballet academies in Canada. By sixteen, her talent had taken her to Europe, training at the Princess Grace Academy, École de Danse Classique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. Upon graduation, she was named Canadian Female Dancer of the Year.

She studied dance for twenty-three years. She trained in jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet. She danced en pointe as a prima ballerina. And along the way — through the daily discipline of ballet training, the years of relevés and extensions and floor work — she developed the feet that this community now celebrates.

The high arches are not incidental to Tara's story. They are a product of it.

A Champion's Record

Tara began competing in pole in 2011, winning her first title and People's Choice Award with just two months of training. What followed was a decade of dominance that has no parallel in the sport.

Her competitive record includes:

• 2018 — OG Ms. Pole Fitness Olympia Champion & People's Choice Award
• 2017 — Pole World News Female Performance Artist of the Year
• 2016 — 1st Place Champion, PCS Arnold Classic Championships
• 2014 — North American Pole Dance Elite Champion
• 2015 — 1st Runner Up, North American Pole Dance Championships
• 2015 — 1st Runner Up, US Aerial Championships
• 2012 — 1st Place, National Canadian Pole Fitness Championships
• 2011 — 1st Place, Miss Pole Dance Canada & People's Choice Award

She is, to date, the only athlete to have won both the Olympia and the Arnold Classic — the pole world's equivalent of holding two major world titles simultaneously. No one else has done it.

In 2019, she stepped back from competition by invitation — Cirque du Soleil had come calling. She performed as their pole soloist, bringing her artistry to one of the most recognised performance brands on the planet.

The Feet That Built a Career

Tara Meyer is the cover star of higharchedfeet.net — and that is not a coincidence. Her feet are, quite simply, exceptional.

Twenty-three years of formal dance training, beginning with figure skating at age five and progressing through classical ballet at two of the world's elite academies, have produced a pair of feet with a medial longitudinal arch that is immediately visible and genuinely extraordinary. The arch is high, clean, and structurally pronounced — the natural result of decades of pointed work, of training the intrinsic muscles of the foot to articulate with precision, of sleeping with legs in straddle position to increase flexibility (yes, she pushed her bed against the wall to make it possible).

These are not feet that happened. They are feet that were built — by commitment so complete it reshaped her physiology.

In performance, the arch is most visible during extension: the line from toe to heel is unbroken, the instep raised dramatically, the sole describing a curve that ballet training makes possible and years of pole work have only refined. In barefoot moments — whether on stage, in training, or in content — the negative space beneath her arch is significant even in a natural standing position.

Her feet are one of the reasons this community knows her name. They are also one of the reasons she ranks among the most naturally gifted performers in both the pole and foot modelling worlds.

Beyond the Stage

Tara Meyer is not a performer who rests on her titles. She is the founder and owner of VogueFit, an aerial and pole studio in Winnipeg, Canada. She is an X-POLE Athlete and Canadian XPERT Pole Fitness master trainer. She has judged competitions on four continents. She coaches competitors at every level, from first-time entrants to national-level athletes.

Her online platform at tarameyer.com offers specialised 30-day programmes including Pole-ates, Reduce Microbends, the Tara Meyer Arch Programme, and an Arm Programme — structured training built from a career's worth of accumulated expertise.

She is, in every sense, a builder — of arches, of athletes, and of a legacy in a sport she has helped define.