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Originally Posted by Sheena ... this is something that comes with experience and practice. Maybe the man Rougeforever danced with is one of the "look at all the complicated moves I know" merchants  but maybe he's just learning too  |
Absolutely. Totally agree. I'm not excluding this possibility at all.
And when I was in the "just learning" category (not that I'm not, now), knew lots of moves but didn't realise I wasn't leading them very well, it would have been great if someone had asked me to dance simpler ones.
I was very fortunate to realise that it was all my fault once when I had what I
thought was a mediocre dance with a mediocre dancer, and then saw her dancing with someone else, and she was absolutely awesome.
As the realisation that I was nowhere near as good as I thought started to dawn, it felt truly awful
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... but it was the single most important thing that has happened to get my dancing on to the right track.
I do think that without the right advice, it is a genuinely difficult thing for guys to realise that it's their lead, not the ladies' following, that needs to improve - and even the nice ones might be a little reluctant to believe it at first (guess how I know
).
The upside of all this is that once a guy starts to get his lead sorted out, it is amazing how all the girls improve too - all at the same time
Chris