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Originally Posted by Chef  ) I have spent two years, a lot of miles and money trying to get to grips with this dance and it just isn't fun for me yet. Every time I meet a new set of teachers there is a new way of dancing the basics. I try to learn what one set of teachers tell me and get it into my bones and then a new set of pros come over from america and I am supposed to unlearn everything and learn it over again in the new way. Having to learn and unlearn stuff 9 times over is getting me fed up. I really think it is time for me to accept defeat. |
I have every sympathy with you on this, as it is a similar predicament I find myself in. My approach has been to simplify the dance as five basics (sugarpush, tuck, left side, right side and whip) and keep the footwork as six and eight counts and concentrate on locking your footwork as taught by
one set of teachers, rather than a whole host. An interesting point Jordan and Tatiana made was that to take what they or others as examples and ideas,
not as concrete and build your own style and interpretation on these ideas.
Nicola Royston said something similar in Weston along the lines that
there is a mutual agreement between the pros on the basic principles of WCS, even if people teach it differently in different classes.
In a way, it is harking back to early jive lesson years when you learned those basic moves. I doubt that people advanced now like a decade veteran like me dance the way they started. Stick with it, it will pay dividends.
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johnnyman