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littlewiggle
18th-June-2006, 09:57 PM
Well I have had more than my fair share this week!

1) Skidded across the dance floor with arms flailing wildly in an attempt to remain upright

2) Man trod on my skirt in a lean and promptly pulled it down...revealing my ass! Twice this has happened to me :blush: The second time he didn't even realise he had done it and was wondering why I hadn't got up.....! I'm there shouting, "ermmm excuse me, EXCUSE ME, YOU'RE STANDING ON MY SKIRT!"
(Still at least the huge bruise on my backside, sustained at Southport, had faded - only took 2 weeks!!....you see - it could have been worse!) :rofl:

PS I can spell embarrassing but don't seem able to edit the title!

ducasi
18th-June-2006, 11:01 PM
I guess you'd done enough showing off your ass that you didn't want any more embarrassment. Can anyone spell freudian slap?

Dear moderator, please fix the title of this thread to save littlewiggle any more blushes. :flower:

I'm trying to think about embarrassing moments while dancing for me... Funnily enough, most of them involve my partner ending up sitting on the floor... :blush:

How about having a move I invented (discovered?) taught to the intermediate class last week (http://ducasi.org/blog/2006/06/14/im-now-famous/) – with me being singled out, and then unable to do the move as taught? :blush:

stewart38
18th-June-2006, 11:02 PM
Shorts starting to fall down on a barbeque double trouble dance this saturday :blush: :sad:

MartinHarper
18th-June-2006, 11:25 PM
Man trod on my skirt in a lean and promptly pulled it down...revealing my ass!

May I recommend underwear?

under par
19th-June-2006, 02:46 AM
May I recommend underwear?

very small underwear PLEASE! would like to see ss!

Piglet
19th-June-2006, 07:10 AM
I'm trying to think about embarrassing moments while dancing for me... Funnily enough, most of them involve my partner ending up sitting on the floor... :blush:
So how come I ended up on my back? :rofl:

Actually it wasn't really embarrassing cos we weren't in the middle of a group of folks we didn't know.... :whistle:

Graham
19th-June-2006, 08:58 AM
(Still at least the huge bruise on my backside, sustained at Southport, had faded - only took 2 weeks!!....you see - it could have been worse!) :rofl:
Of recent embarrassing moments, I am compelled to confess that the worst one involved (I imagine) my partner sustaining a huge bruise to her backside on the Friday night at Southport. To whomever it was (since it was someone I don't know) I must again offer my sincere apologies. :blush: I misjudged her balance and instead of throwing her into a spin managed to throw her to the floor. In five years of dancing I don't think I've ever managed that one before. :blush:

Juju
19th-June-2006, 10:58 AM
Elbowed in the eye, elbowed in the nose, knocked someone's glasses off, trod on another woman's feet when she was in dainty peep-toe shoes and I was in Doc Martens.... Frequently reducing partners to hysterical giggles in the middle of the dancefloor to the extent that they'd refuse to dance with me because I was such a liability. That was when I started, of course. I'm much more sensible now.

straycat
19th-June-2006, 11:39 AM
In the dim and distant past (over ten years ago) during my first ever dance with the beautiful, talented, and incredibly forgiving Elaine Rees (South Coast Ceroc that was) I did a spin with my elbow stuck out, whacked her HARD in the nose, resulting in a massive nose-bleed, just before she was supposed to go teach the intermediate class.

At least it taught me to keep my elbows to myself...

Donna
19th-June-2006, 12:07 PM
I've had a few:

The last one being on Saturday night actually. Me and Steve were preparing to do another demonstration in Llandudno, and just after I looked through a tracklist I walked across the floor to get a drink, and ups-a-daisy :D I slipped - both legs flying up in the air. The amazing thing was, I don't know how I managed to land back on my feet again!! :eek: :rofl: I hardly know anybody there, so of course it's even more embarrassing!! Nobody laughed though (as far as I could see!!! hey first thing you do when you slip - is looked around to see who's watching!! :rofl:) and everybody was really nice and asked if I was ok. Was a bit nervous before the demo as the floor was incredibly slippy. Piece of advice, put castor oil in an empty roll-on bottle and rub it under your shoes! Does the trick!!




Another experience I had was when I was trying out some aerials with someone (really good dancer!) and after getting the flip over the back right the last few times, I ended up not flicking my legs over hard enough and next minute, saw the floor coming towards my head at full speed. In order to avoid a broken neck, I twisted by body around, placed my hands on the floor (so now in hand stand position) and went over backwards so fast, I couldn't land on my feet. Suffered massive bruises to feet, knees and thighs. The thud just turned loads of heads - veeeery embarrassing. :blush:



I've elbowed Steve in the face a couple of times too.. funnily enough during the same couple of moves. :blush:



One guy I was dancing with in Chester didn't move his feet (hey what's new there then?! :rofl: ) out of the way, lead me across him, and I ended up tripping over his feet. Good job he caught me!



I've also headbutted my x-boyfriend when he brought me up too fast from a drop. :rofl:

Donna
19th-June-2006, 03:46 PM
Forgot to add this one. This guy spun me out and back in towards him again, (facing him) so damn fast we ended up mouth to mouth!!! :sick: :rofl: THAT was an accident!!!

Sheepman
19th-June-2006, 04:01 PM
Funny, I've never been too embarrassed about lying prone on the floor, just try to make it look intentional!

But I think the most embarrassing for me must have been when this woman I'd never met before, during our first (& only) dance, led both my hands onto her breasts. :blush:
Ladies, if you want to do that, please at least introduce yourself first! :whistle:

Greg

Donna
19th-June-2006, 04:11 PM
Ladies, if you want to do that, please at least introduce yourself first! :whistle:

There you go ladies... how can you resist such an offer! :D

Gadget
19th-June-2006, 07:47 PM
Assides from the occasional bumps, knocks and glasses flying, I've managed to end up on my ass a couple of times (generally with my feet not stopping where I would like them to and the rest of me having nothing left to support it's self with.)

I've managed to lead someone into what they thought was a layback type move, and I didn't. My usual 'hand hold' is purposefully brittle, so they just threw themselves back and I couldn't react in time to catch them :blush:

I've also managed to dissrobe a lady of her skirt during a spin. :what:Twice. In the same dance.

Andreas
19th-June-2006, 08:31 PM
I think I ended up on my bum a couple of times due to sheer over-enthusiasm. And once I conveniently untied the top of a friend of mine with some fast moves, don't ask me which, I didn't realise at the time I was that good! :rofl: Anyway, worst of all: I didn't even look/notice when it all came down. All this hard work for what? :innocent: :whistle:

littlewiggle
19th-June-2006, 08:35 PM
I've also managed to dissrobe a lady of her skirt during a spin. :what:Twice. In the same dance.


Oh so it was you, was it?!!:rofl: :whistle:

Yogi_Bear
19th-June-2006, 08:47 PM
One guy I was dancing with in Chester didn't move his feet (hey what's new there then?! :rofl: ) out of the way, lead me across him, and I ended up tripping over his feet. Good job he caught me!

That must have been the Cross-led Trip, latest move to make it into the MJ move book. Needs a careful lead and follow to work, though....and hard to dance socially.

Lynn
19th-June-2006, 08:53 PM
Aside from the usual top falling apart, underwear unfastening itself type scenarios :rolleyes:, my most embarrasing was, like several others in this thread, ending up on the floor.

The guy slipped, he was in the process of pulling me in close so of course I went with him. He mostly broke my fall (which would have been very gallant but I don't think it was intentional) but my leg made contact with the floor (which was marble) and normally I would pick myself up and carry on dancing but I just couldn't. I had to go and sit down. So I was embarrassed for him as well as he was so apologetic. We did have a nice dance the following evening.

Andreas
19th-June-2006, 08:56 PM
One guy I was dancing with in Chester didn't move his feet (hey what's new there then?! :rofl: ) out of the way, lead me across him, and I ended up tripping over his feet. Good job he caught me!
DavidB calls that (baby-)aerials. It is why he does so many of them. :na: :whistle:

foxylady
19th-June-2006, 09:24 PM
I wasn't really embarrassed by this (so I guess I shouldn't post it), but last Jan at Funky Lush I was dancing with CJ and he almost dropped me, but didn't. As he righted me and apologised, the pause which was contained by the apology led me to start falling the other way and there was no way then he was going to be able to hold me (the momentum was so great :tongue in cheek:), so I thought to myself if I'm going down then so are you !!!

As he was wearing a kilt I believe there was quite a display on show - but as I was underneath I missed it all !

Foxy

Cruella
20th-June-2006, 07:57 AM
Apart from a couple of times where inappropriate clothing loosens itself on the dancefloor, i can only think of one embarrassing moment. I was dancing with S 'n' E to Fire, he led a move that had as walking towards each other with our hands at crotch level. He inadvertantly forgot to lead our hands out of the way :whistle: On contact, we both jumped back with blushing cheeks.:blush:
Dancing to 'Fire' has never been the same since.:rolleyes:

He swears it was an accident!!! :innocent:

Donna
20th-June-2006, 03:17 PM
DavidB calls that (baby-)aerials. It is why he does so many of them. :na: :whistle:

:rofl: :rofl: I like that! :rofl:


I totally forgot about this one too:

You know these guys from Oz are just far too energetic when it comes to MJ! Well, as most of them happen to be experts in Aerials, I trusted this guy who was travelling the UK and showed up at the Wrexham venue. (trusted him too much me thinks)

Anyway, we started dancing together and he gave me a step by step instruction on what he was going to do to me. :blush: :grin: After getting it right a couple of times, again he led me into it - jumped up from first move position, swung me up the left hand side of his waist, then, legs up into the air so now upside down, then he swung me up and over his right hand side. Again, back up, down ready to go up his left hand si......oops - BANG! :mad: :tears: The prat didn't quite get me there and ended up kneeing him in the crown jules, and even more embarrassing, whilst I was lying on my back gasping for air, he.. fell on top of me. :blush: What that looked like from a distance but have been hysterical.:rolleyes: There's us both, lying in the middle of dance floor gasping for air! :rofl:

My advice - avoid dancing with Australians! :what: They think they know it all! :wink: :grin:

Cruella
20th-June-2006, 04:13 PM
My advice - avoid dancing with Australians! :what: They think they know it all! :wink: :grin:
I think you should do teach workshops, titled
How to put both feet in your mouth!
Digging really deep holes!

Donna
20th-June-2006, 04:36 PM
I think you should do teach workshops, titled
How to put both feet in your mouth!
Digging really deep holes!


Ahem. I was joking! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: hence the :wink: and the :grin: should have really added a :rofl: to make that clearer. :o

Twirly
20th-June-2006, 05:51 PM
May I recommend underwear?

Should we add undies to the list of things that Ceroc venues could sell? Any volunteers select said undies for sale? :devil:

onkar
20th-June-2006, 06:03 PM
Well I have had more than my fair share this week!

1) Skidded across the dance floor with arms flailing wildly in an attempt to remain upright

2) Man trod on my skirt in a lean and promptly pulled it down...revealing my ass! Twice this has happened to me :blush: The second time he didn't even realise he had done it and was wondering why I hadn't got up.....! I'm there shouting, "ermmm excuse me, EXCUSE ME, YOU'RE STANDING ON MY SKIRT!"
(Still at least the huge bruise on my backside, sustained at Southport, had faded - only took 2 weeks!!....you see - it could have been worse!) :rofl:

PS I can spell embarrassing but don't seem able to edit the title!


Other than the occassionally having my specs go flying (usually due to a ladies chest rather than her arms), my most embarassing dance moment involved a lady at Southport. Asked her if she knew the half moon, to wqhich she said she could follow any lead. So we did it to perfection ending in a dramatic half moon pose at the end of a track. Got loads of applause (I thought hey that was good but not that good), only to realise it was because she was not wearing any underwear. However, the spectators were very appreciative of the display. For some reason she avoided me for the rest of the weekend!


Onkar

Beowulf
20th-June-2006, 09:24 PM
the very very first time I went dancing (1st time round not this time) I put a lady into a spin, stepped too close and when she spun round she punched me on the nose sending my specs flying.

I think she was pretty embarrassed too .. but I was the one with the bright red nose !!

Andreas
20th-June-2006, 09:54 PM
Along the lines of knock-out I remembered one, too. There was a night at the Auckland Casino when my former dance partner and I appeared to have only one goal, knock the other person out. First she caught my elbow, then I got hers on my chin but took it like a man. A little later I she landed another one on me, from below at the nose. Again, staunch as a man has to be I just shook my head and said all I need is cold water. So I walked off to the bathroom. But it appeared as though I didn't make it. Just before the door I had to support myself at a pole. One of the security staff noticed it and when I slowly sank down because my knees decided it was time for a rest, she called for help and I was taken to a resting room and they called the casino doctor. It took a while to convince him that I had just been knocked out but was actually fine. Needless to say my friends were not only relieved when they were called out to pick me up but also did not let a chance pass to tease me. :D :rofl: On hindsight, I'd have been a lot more embarrassed if I had knocked out her instead. :whistle:

Minnie M
20th-June-2006, 10:04 PM
Hey Minnie
Thanks for my dances and it was nice to see you again. Sorry about knocking you over I did feel guilty about that

I received the above PM after falling flat on my back on the decking at Southport recently. I pride myself in the way I fell though :rofl: even though I did feel extremely embarrassed :blush: Shame no one had a video camera handy, I could have made some money on that program on the TV :rofl:

BTW I did not hurt myself (thank goodness for all my padding):whistle:

Sheepman
21st-June-2006, 12:54 AM
And once I conveniently untied the top of a friend of mine - snip - Anyway, worst of all: I didn't even look/notice when it all came down. Oh yes, reminds me of a similar incident at Beach Boogie a few years ago, though it was blues, 4 in the morning, so no fast moves, but I reckon I was most embarrassed, because I just didn't notice anything! :sad:

Greg

under par
21st-June-2006, 02:44 AM
Two incidents spring to mind;

1. I lead a lady ito a lean move and felt the seam of my trousers split under my groin area. I managed to dance the second half of the track with my back to the stage to protect my dignity but lacking a spare pair of trousers it ended my night dancing.

2. At a pre-comp dance (Blackpool) I was leading a lovely forumite in a dance when quite by chance I managed to pop her bra fastening.:eek: i was able to walk her off of the dance floor quietly to allow her to recover her dignity:hug: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

Dizzy
21st-June-2006, 10:15 AM
Reading UP's post reminded me of my most embarrassing dance moment:

It was the first time that I went to Hammersmith freestyle and I decided to wear a stick-on bra under my top. During a dance with a lovely dancer halfway through the night, I felt the bra start to peel away but carried on dancing hoping it would stay put for now. :what: As the dance continued, it came completely off and drop to my waist :eek: and just as the dance finished and I was lead into a lean - the chicken fillets dropped onto the floor!! :blush:

foxylady
21st-June-2006, 10:17 AM
Two incidents spring to mind;

1. I lead a lady ito a lean move and felt the seam of my trousers split under my groin area. I managed to dance the second half of the track with my back to the stage to protect my dignity but lacking a spare pair of trousers it ended my night dancing.



I thought I sewed them up for you ?? But perhaps you split your trousers often ???

under par
21st-June-2006, 12:47 PM
I thought I sewed them up for you ?? But perhaps you split your trousers often ???

Yes I do that was another occasion you witnessed.

On the other occasion the split/rip was huge though!:really: not sewable :whistle: