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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    whilst keeping all the action below waist level?
    Those were the days

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    Yeah its a bit like... two cars travelling down the same bumpy road but ones a morris minor, with shoddy shock absorbers and the other is a Rolls Royce, they both achieve the same end result, just one of them looks and feels smoother!

    It's like a Bruce Lee thing - the art of bouncing without bouncing.

    (for Martin's sake, I might've said 'pulsing without bouncing' - but it just doesn't sound right. Anyway - it really is far more like a bounce than a pulse)

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nessiemonster View Post
    ...In the last couple of weeks I've come across my first Really bouncy person. As beginners I think we all start out that way as it helps to keep the rhythm, but I know this person is not a total beginner from some of the moves he does.

    The thing is I find him SO hard to dance with - I can't tell what's lead and what's bounce!
    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!

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genie View Post
    I have the opposite problem apparently. According to a friend of mine, I do actually glide. Unfortunately she said it like it was a bad thing. Like I was too graceful and not... how'd she put it? Funky enough?
    wasn't me was it?

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    i believe so.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Awww hun you know I meant that I wished I could be as graceful as you on the dance floor!

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Genie View Post
    so I don't need to bounce up and down like a rampant rabbit.
    I never knew Rampant Rabbits bounced.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Ever switched one on and left it on the table?...

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Genie View Post
    Ever switched one on and left it on the table?...
    As a decoration for your house? Can't say I have.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Freya View Post
    Awww hun you know I meant that I wished I could be as graceful as you on the dance floor!
    You did? Aww. Ok, I took it as a criticism. Sorry. I've had a few comments about how I dance this way and the way it's said I thought perhaps it was not good for Ceroc It's been bothering me.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    If you had come out to play tonight I would have glady 'smoothed' or 'bounced' with you

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Some people will always be bouncy,its just their way of dancing

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    If you had come out to play tonight I would have glady 'smoothed' or 'bounced' with you
    Awww Next week. I will look forward to it.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by tiger View Post
    Some people will always be bouncy,its just their way of dancing
    I don't agree. I think people can learn smooth if they want to. Often the music played at a venue just doesn't promote that though.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    I don't agree. I think people can learn smooth if they want to. Often the music played at a venue just doesn't promote that though.
    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.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post

    I don't agree. I think people can learn smooth if they want to. Often the music played at a venue just doesn't promote that though.
    Exactly. The operative words being 'want to'. The way a person chooses to dance reveals something quite fundamental about that person.

    (Making due allowance for experience levels, age, physique, etc.)

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post

    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.
    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.)

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post

    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.
    That is not necessarilly so. Some bounce from the very beginning. Others don't.

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post

    But that doesn't mean smooth is better than bouncy as a style, IMO.
    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.

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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Whitebeard View Post
    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.
    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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    Re: Glide, Glide....not Bounce, Bounce!

    Quote Originally Posted by Whitebeard View Post
    I will go on record as believing that smooth is best.
    Watching some Swing stuff you tend to see there is bounce in that but it looks great.

    I love the smooth approach of WCS too (and I prefer dancing this way as well) but visually it is quite subtle and probably looks less impressive (certainly to a non-dancer).

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