Watch: ‘Pole dancing archer’ gets almost 9m likes on TikTok

We meet Leeds Lab Technician David Balcer-Whittle who has accumulated over 400,000 followers and almost 9 million likes on TikTok by sharing his love of pole fitness combined with fantasy archery. He can shoot targets whilst spinning, jumping onto the pole from a distance and shooting while upside-down, and also mimicking animals like a frog and a flamingo. David, who has been an avid archer since the age 15, got into pole dancing in his 20s, but had never thought to combine them. Three years ago, he was working on some speed archery techniques - learning how to shoot whilst running, jumping and even upside down - when he had the idea to combine the two.