I know of a couple of bouncy leads, one of whom is REALLY bouncy (might even be the same guy you're talking about!) and to begin with I also found him really difficult to dance with; like you I felt the bounce was getting in the way of the connection and it was really difficult to see beyond it... however, he kept asking me to dance and after a while I realised that if I went with the bounce instead of trying to fight it (I don't mean literally fight it... more fight through it to get to the lead underneath?) and bounced along with him, then dancing with him suddenly became much more fun! It's kinda like my novelty dance of the evening now!
I think it totally depends on the song and the moves that you are being led into. I am a naturally bouncy person (probably something to do with the trampolining!) so if there is a bouncy beat I bounce! That is half the reason I gave up Salsa - I couldn't be slinky enough. Now I am going to be paranoid about my Ceroc too
i believe so.
Awww hun you know I meant that I wished I could be as graceful as you on the dance floor!
Ever switched one on and left it on the table?...
If you had come out to play tonight I would have glady 'smoothed' or 'bounced' with you
Some people will always be bouncy,its just their way of dancing
Given the discussions in other threads, I don't think that there's inherently anything wrong with bouncy - or, for that matter, right about smooth.
Yes, there's a classic lifecycle evolution of a dancer going on, where first they mark time mechanically, then bounce their hands etc., then start to learn to lead more continuously. But that doesn't mean smooth is better than bouncy as a style, IMO.
I will go on record as believing that smooth is best.
(I'll leave the fence for Mr James and those others who find it comfortable.)
That is not necessarilly so. Some bounce from the very beginning. Others don't.
Oh yes it does. And it isn't a style. That bouncing hand is a blatant attempt, conscious or unconscious, to dictate the tempo of a dance.
Last edited by Whitebeard; 26th-October-2006 at 11:23 PM.
There's a difference between "bouncing hand" and "bouncing style".
"Bouncing hand", yes, if it's something used to mark time rather than stylistically, that's probably a bad habit.
"Bouncing style" - no, I don't think so, that's just a style. And it depends on the music.
I'm a smooth-preference myself, but that's because I like it, and it suits me. But sometimes I think it'd be nice to dance to the more bop-bop stuff; my style doesn't really adjust too well to those tracks.
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