No, don't apologize! I have barely made it beyond the advanced level in ballroom dancing, and you sound very professional, so all the information is very interesting!
Hey, I sound professional! Awesome. *g* I'm so not, though; I did it for four years at university, more nad more lackadaisically as the years went on. Did a few college-level competitions the first two years, and stopped placing the moment I had to move out of the protected "newcomer" category and into Bronze with everyone else. *g*
Hm, perhaps I should try that, even though I would be nice to actually have any ab muscles to begin with. (Dancing is the only sport I'm vaguely into, and that only during term time; which is why my physical condition is not the fittest and best).
Sounds exactly like me. ;) Yeah, I have a lack of musculature there as well, but it still sort of works...
I always get the impression that I must look like a clumsy, ungainly sack of potatoes desperately bouncing up and down on the dancefloor. Which doesn't make it any easier to concentrate on the proper movements if you feel so awkward and uncomfortable...
Definitely.
I'm now not even sure whether our teachers might not have shown us a mish-mash of the two styles with the easiest steps/options...
Well, if you're not competing, that works! When we were just dancing around for fun (which was most of the time), my friends and I did that a lot.
My club sounds a bit like yours. We were mostly there because it was fun and we were friends; three of the four nights a week was one of the older, more experienced students volunteer-teaching. Once a week we had one of our coaches come in; they were professional dancers who owned their own dance studio in the city nearby, a tiny little Russian couple (and by tiny I mean Igor was no more than 5'3", and his wife wasn't over five feet tall...but damn, they could move!). They made us actually work. ;) You could compete if you wanted, and take extra lessons at the studio if you really wanted to get better. Most of us didn't, because it was really just for fun.
I like learning more about the theory and history of ballroom dancing, though.
It's fascinating. I really like it because while it's physical, it's also a skill you're always working on as you learn new steps and better technique...whereas running on a treadmill or whatever is so boring in comparison.
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Date: 2006-08-20 09:36 pm (UTC)Hey, I sound professional! Awesome. *g* I'm so not, though; I did it for four years at university, more nad more lackadaisically as the years went on. Did a few college-level competitions the first two years, and stopped placing the moment I had to move out of the protected "newcomer" category and into Bronze with everyone else. *g*
Hm, perhaps I should try that, even though I would be nice to actually have any ab muscles to begin with. (Dancing is the only sport I'm vaguely into, and that only during term time; which is why my physical condition is not the fittest and best).
Sounds exactly like me. ;) Yeah, I have a lack of musculature there as well, but it still sort of works...
I always get the impression that I must look like a clumsy, ungainly sack of potatoes desperately bouncing up and down on the dancefloor. Which doesn't make it any easier to concentrate on the proper movements if you feel so awkward and uncomfortable...
Definitely.
I'm now not even sure whether our teachers might not have shown us a mish-mash of the two styles with the easiest steps/options...
Well, if you're not competing, that works! When we were just dancing around for fun (which was most of the time), my friends and I did that a lot.
My club sounds a bit like yours. We were mostly there because it was fun and we were friends; three of the four nights a week was one of the older, more experienced students volunteer-teaching. Once a week we had one of our coaches come in; they were professional dancers who owned their own dance studio in the city nearby, a tiny little Russian couple (and by tiny I mean Igor was no more than 5'3", and his wife wasn't over five feet tall...but damn, they could move!). They made us actually work. ;) You could compete if you wanted, and take extra lessons at the studio if you really wanted to get better. Most of us didn't, because it was really just for fun.
I like learning more about the theory and history of ballroom dancing, though.
It's fascinating. I really like it because while it's physical, it's also a skill you're always working on as you learn new steps and better technique...whereas running on a treadmill or whatever is so boring in comparison.