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Originally posted by Jon L
Finding a competition partner is a bit different to social dancing as you have to be happy with that persons rhythm etc. |
And if you're planning to take it at all seriously, and do stuff like practice together
and criticize each other, then you've also got to get on really well (obvious really?)
Like Andy has said, you should only be competing while it's fun, OK winning is bound to be fun, but few of us can expect that. I have all sorts of concerns about doing competitions and how it affects my social dancing (which is far more important to me), but have had wonderful comments from old
partners at how my social dancing has changed for the better over the last year, while I've been working at the improvements needed for competing.
I still have the "problem" that in the weeks leading up to a competition, I dance with far fewer partners than usual, but I'm dead lucky in having two competition partners who are both fantastic dancers, and it's going to take a long long time before I'd be dancing with them and not having fun.
So do competitors "look down" on other dancers? Well I suppose most of us look up to various dancers, including those that win competitions, so does the reverse apply? Most of the winners that I know are especially modest about their abilities (Rachel especially!!!) so by "looking down" do we mean that they consider people are not worthy of dancing with them? If so, we are back to the "hotshots" argument, and hopefully that label applies only to a very small minority.
If we mean that we consider ourselves better dances than others, surely all of us consider we are better than some, (and worse than most
). In my book that is not the same as "looking down" on someone.
Greg