Hyperreal

Hi Guys,

Just back from third week. Thought I’d share the highs and lows.

Moves tonight were…

1) Ceroc spin - could never get this right, always forgot to bring my left hand up to block the lady and so used the wrong hand. :?

2) First move - hey, I’ve already done that! Still tricky to get feet where they belong.

3) Arm jive - it’s looks so easy, until the teacher wanted us to do things with our feet too!!!

4) Man spin - hey, done that too! This went straight into the ceroc spin which I always missed cos I was wanting to do a return or something.

I also had big problems getting (or remembering to get) the lady’s other hand for the arm jive.

I never got adopted by my favourite taxi dancer this week. I guess she didn’t find me that cute after all.

After the class I went to talk to the teacher about the beginner’s workshop - seems to have been cancelled. Met Ceroc Jock. Hi! Liked the music, btw - especially Boogie Pimps at the start of the night. :worthy:

While I was hanging around there I watched the freestylers strut their funky stuff. They’re still scary.

Quick, onto the revision class!

These help so much!

Only problem is it’s even more likely you’ll be dancing with beginners who have problems following, or just aren’t very good.

Let me be clear here - this isn’t a criticism of them. In their eyes I’m probably equally crap at leading and just a bit hopeless.

What I’m saying is that in the main class there’s a better chance you’ll be dancing with someone with a more experience than you, so they’ll be better at following, will know the moves better, and things will go smoother. Once you leave these people to their intermediate class I’m stuck with people who are just as bad as me!

(An aside… I met a girl in the beginner’s class who was there for only her second week. She seemed to be doing OK, but she seemed to need a little persuasion to come to the revision class. She left half way through it, but at least I wasn’t to blame as I never got the chance to dance with her! I hope she comes back.)

After the revision, back down to the main hall… I had hoped to hide for a bit but one of the other beginners asked me to dance and I figured it would be impolite to say no. I tried to stick to the routine we’d just been taught, but my memory was on strike and I ended up improvising a bit!

So that’s how you do it! You just need a crap memory!

Unfortunately, my lead maybe wasn’t so good, and my partner was trying to stick rigidly to the moves we’d just learnt, and so it didn’t go so great.

So I ditched her (in a nice way I hope) at the end of the song and went and found the courage to ask the taxi dancer. I knew she could dance!

It must be an occupational hazard for female taxi dancers - because they’ll have learnt all the guy’s parts, have been trying to help teach a particular sequence of moves, and must also be used to back-leading where necessary - that they sometimes miss the lead when a beginner does something different.

Once we’d got over that, and miss taxi dancer allowed me to lead what I wanted to do, I really think I did amazingly well. (Of course, miss taxi was so much better than me!) I did all the moves from this week - even one or two ceroc spins. Then I threw in some side-to-sides from last week. We had to do a quick revision of the yo-yo and the basket before I was able to try including them. Still need to work of them some more. Totally forgot about the shoulder drop and slide.

I decided to leave at that point - on a high note.

This actually was a bit of a turn-around. When I was watching the freestyle earlier, and knowing that the beginner’s workshop had been cancelled, I wondered if I’d ever be good enough to take part, and was very close to deciding this would be my last time at ceroc.

It’s all down to the two taxi dancers that I’ll be back next week. (Are they ever on here?) First for the the revision class, second for encouraging and being sympathetic during our dancing. :flower:

Nevertheless, I still wonder how I’ll do with someone less skilled in the moves, in following a beginner’s lead, and a little less sympathetic.

We’re not out of the woods just yet…

So, big thanks to the teacher, Graham the demo, Ceroc Jock and the fantastic taxis! :clap:

Big “Hi!” and thanks to all my partners through the night, though most of them don’t seem to hang out here. :confused:

And sorry to Graham and anyone else I didn’t get a chance to say “Hi!” to.

And so to bed, to sleep, perchance to dream…

:cheers: