Talking while dancing???

[bigdjiver]

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I am not sure of the physics either, but my experience showed a marked difference...

The physics basis of the gyroscope effect is inertia. Thiings to keep on moving in the same direction unless a force acts upon them.

The effect does not just depend on the weight, but also on the speed of rotation. A bicycle wheel is not very heavy, but the gyroscope effect is sufficient to allow you to ride "no hands".

Speculation: It is likely that the spinning skirt acts as a point of reference. People not used to spinning tend to lose some sense of where exactly they are. The skirt would immediately allow the wearer to feel when they were going off off vertical. I doubt that this woud be a concious feeling. The wearer would feel one way doing it right, and another doing it wrong, and automatically adapt. It would not take long for someone new to spinning to adapt to using visual clues only.

[Swinging bee]

Do you generally talk to your partner while dancing?

I think I should, to be polite and because I am there for social reasons as well as dancing. However, the moment I start talking about anything that requires the slightest bit of thinking, my dancing rduces to beat-bashing simpler moves. The more I talk, the simpler and more repeating they get.

I am starting to think that my urge to talk (and appear polite?) may be preventing me from leading better dances.

Do follows find it strange to be asked to dance by an almost silent lead?

Interestingly it's a bit like asking someone if they talk when having sex!

[Franck]

Why would the colour make a difference? (or is it a joke I'm not getting?)

Not a joke, what happens is that if I wear white trousers or Black & White shoes, I somehow notice my feet more when dancing and any footwork (Rondes, Lapiz, kicks, etc.) is somehow amplified, so I do more.

When I wear a kilt, my feet disappear from my peripheral vision and I use them less. When I wear black trousers and black shoes, the type of footwork I use is influenced more by how it feels than how it looks.

[Wuzzle]

I talk when i dance, sometimes its the only time i get to speak to my friends. What can i say they are always in demand

Yeah i'd say my focus shifts so I'll shutup so I can concentrate a little bit more if am tired. It started off as a i guess being nervious when i started to dance. Still am... took me a few drinks to ask one lass to dance at my first weekender.

Depends who am with if its someone I know I'll chat away quite happily, i'll sing if its a great tune i like like i say its down to nerves.

I'd like to say am less nervious around my local dance floor but that just not true. Been dancing more than two years I still find it hard to ask the inspiring titans of dance.

On a different note I think everyone dances differently in a kilt

[Double Trouble]

I talk when i dance, sometimes its the only time i get to speak to my friends.

Ahhhh, my mate Wuzzle. You do always talk when we dance, but your accent is so broad, that and the loud music, I hardly ever understand a word you are saying.

[Princess Fi]

The physics basis of the gyroscope effect is inertia. Thiings to keep on moving in the same direction unless a force acts upon them.

The effect does not just depend on the weight, but also on the speed of rotation. A bicycle wheel is not very heavy, but the gyroscope effect is sufficient to allow you to ride "no hands".

Speculation: It is likely that the spinning skirt acts as a point of reference. People not used to spinning tend to lose some sense of where exactly they are. The skirt would immediately allow the wearer to feel when they were going off off vertical. I doubt that this woud be a concious feeling. The wearer would feel one way doing it right, and another doing it wrong, and automatically adapt. It would not take long for someone new to spinning to adapt to using visual clues only.

I'm glad this isn't one of the conversations that someone has tried to have with me on the dance floor

(:flower

Back on the thread subject, most of the conversations I've had recently on the dance flor is when either me or my partner is having a joke or a laugh - generally no more than a sentenace or two, but can be enough to ruin the dance completely by turning me into a pile of giggles unable to follow for love nor money.

Blues on the otherhand IMO is something where all conversation should be done with the eyes

[bigdjiver]

... Back on the thread subject, most of the conversations I've had recently on the dance flor is when either me or my partner is having a joke or a laugh - generally no more than a sentenace or two, but can be enough to ruin the dance completely by turning me into a pile of giggles unable to follow for love nor money. ...

I gave up telling jokes on the dance floor the second time I had to abandon a dance because my partner was too giggled up to continue.

... Blues on the otherhand IMO is something where all conversation should be done with the eyes

not all ...

I feel your hips a-swaying, I hear what they're saying
why are we dancing when the moon is bright above.

[Princess Fi]

I feel your hips a-swaying, I hear what they're saying
why are we dancing when the moon is bright above.

Fair point, I type corrected

[Wuzzle]

Ahhhh, my mate Wuzzle. You do always talk when we dance, but your accent is so broad, that and the loud music, I hardly ever understand a word you are saying.

Did think my accent is that thick. Though i have heard myself on an answerphone before (Do i really sound like that?)

Anyway I'll blame it on the loud music.. besides half the point is to distract the follower so i catch her unware so the side to side looks really complicated...

[whitetiger1518]

It depends on the time, place, music, mood and partner....

At one end of the scale I can end up in heap of giggles after a very talkative dance with a good friend .... at the other I will happily dissolve into a pool of quiet remembrance after a perfectly silent (except for the crackle of electricilty :blush blues dance...


Whitetiger

[Haylz]

Talking can never be a bad thing whilst dancing...however, I have had the pleasure of some very nice dances with no conversation at all...depending on the type of dance and who you are dancing with, sometimes no conversation is a very good thing...it intensifies the experience, makes it a much more sensual, sexy dance I think (esp. when coupled with lots of eye contact) =0)