3rd lesson last week.
Recapping all the previous lessons and building on them again.
I have to say that I think this is where Joseph & Trisha's teaching is making it quite easy to pick up so far. Each week builds on the previous week instead of just learning some new moves.
Anyway, this week we built up to Lindy turns and Lindy circles. Simple enough to the slow music in the beginners lesson, but easy to get mixed up during the faster music in freestyle
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I'm re-discovering all the things I'd forgotten since learning MJ
. That there are some experienced followers that are easy to dance with and some that aren't. The biggest one is that I'm finding myself a little intimidated by the really good followers. Everything works fine when I'm dancing with other beginners and good, experienced followers, then one of the 'really good' followers asks me to dance and I go to pieces and forget everything. I hate feeling like a 6 year-old being patronised by an older kid.
A little observation of note, on this forum we moan from time to time about bouncing and hand-bouncing being taught (or at least teachers/demos doing it on stage and beginners learning by copying) at certain venues. There are a few people totally new to dancing at my Lindy lessons and some of them have been bouncing and hand-bouncing naturally! Obviously the staff are trying to stamp it out, but I thought it was interesting that some people just do it instinctively.