four years of dancing lessons and college competitions already sound quite professional to me!
:) Like you, I've been a bit irregular in my attendance. I can just give off an aura of knowing what I'm doing. ;)
Three out of four nights a week? Wow, that's very disciplined -- no wonder that you seem to know a lot about ballroom dancing.
Ahem. Not that I attended all of those nights... *sheepish grin* My attendance got more and more lax as I went through school, generally because of schoolwork.
But for obvious reasons, we can't do this more often than once a week because they sacrifice their leisure time in order to teach us something for free.
That is very nice of them. And you can learn quite a bit even just once a week.
But I've already thought about taking additional lessons by a proper coach. However, the dancing clubs I've checked out so far are all suffering from a lack of gentleman and wanted me to bring along a regular partner. Which I don't have, sadly enough.
We have that problem too! We've always had more girls than guys. Except, of course, for the year I was abroad, in which we had more guys than girls for the first and only time. *facepalm*
The group classes at our coaches's studio apparently dealt with that the same way we do, by having each guy have multiple partners. (Or just having successive waves of girls grab a guy until everyone's danced the particular step we're learning.)
IMHO, the nice thing about dancing is that you can try to refine it all the time, just like you said, but that you don't have to do that. As it's more of a social activity than of a sport, it never gets dull and you can already have lots of fun at beginners' level.
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Date: 2006-08-21 07:54 pm (UTC):) Like you, I've been a bit irregular in my attendance. I can just give off an aura of knowing what I'm doing. ;)
Three out of four nights a week? Wow, that's very disciplined -- no wonder that you seem to know a lot about ballroom dancing.
Ahem. Not that I attended all of those nights... *sheepish grin* My attendance got more and more lax as I went through school, generally because of schoolwork.
But for obvious reasons, we can't do this more often than once a week because they sacrifice their leisure time in order to teach us something for free.
That is very nice of them. And you can learn quite a bit even just once a week.
But I've already thought about taking additional lessons by a proper coach. However, the dancing clubs I've checked out so far are all suffering from a lack of gentleman and wanted me to bring along a regular partner. Which I don't have, sadly enough.
We have that problem too! We've always had more girls than guys. Except, of course, for the year I was abroad, in which we had more guys than girls for the first and only time. *facepalm*
The group classes at our coaches's studio apparently dealt with that the same way we do, by having each guy have multiple partners. (Or just having successive waves of girls grab a guy until everyone's danced the particular step we're learning.)
IMHO, the nice thing about dancing is that you can try to refine it all the time, just like you said, but that you don't have to do that. As it's more of a social activity than of a sport, it never gets dull and you can already have lots of fun at beginners' level.
That too! It's good fun. :)