Beginners

[icebraker]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt !! who had a similar problem!!

[Gav]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt !! who had a similar problem!!

Nope, I went dancing.

You want the wrestling forum.

[StokeBloke]

Was this at the J11 Club? I got stiletto'd there

[Jhutch]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt !! who had a similar problem!!

I know that some people are slow to pick up things but i hardly think that some form of corporal punishment is the answer to the 'problem'

[icebraker]

Was this at the J11 Club? I got stiletto'd there

how did you no

[Lynn]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt !! who had a similar problem!!

Elbow in the head in the beginner class (from the guy dancing next to me in the line, not from my partner) and a very sore twisted back in freestyle from a dance with a beginner. Worst dancing injury I've had.

[Mythical]

I had an Elbow to the face from the guy I was dancing with once. I AM a beginner, and he'd been telling me all about how good he was, too!
And someone almost pulled my arm off when I didn't return fast enough, and they tried to yank my arm down my back.

Both on the same night, in the same venue. I'm not looking forwatd to going back home for the summer!

[ducasi]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt !! who had a similar problem!!

Beginners!

I really don't know why we put up with them!

[drathzel]

when venues are crowded or there are lots of new beginners in the class there will tend to be more injuries as people get to grips with the amount of space they can take up as well as where arms and legs go.

I have often bumped/stepped on/hit random people dancing near me, i always apologise and get back to dancing, its just one of those things that happen when you get a lot of people together.

One thing i can not abide though is people wearing stilleto heals to dancing especially when they first start and your feet arent always obeying you. I have been spiked, gouged and allsorts by stilletos and its not nice

[Lynn]

when venues are crowded or there are lots of new beginners in the class there will tend to be more injuries as people get to grips with the amount of space they can take up as well as where arms and legs go.

That was the problem last night with the elbow in the head in the class. Beginners are too busy concentrating on the move to be as aware of the people around them. In the final 'twice through and into freestyle I took my partner out of the line a bit, to give us more room so she wouldn't be bumped.

But its not exclusive to beginners - I've been bumped into more by intermediates at freestyles trying to do big, travelling moves, than beginners.

[Trousers]

. . . {snip}

Here's a question. . .

As a franchise manager - although a stretch of water away - do you get your teacher to suggest ettiquete at the end of the lessons?

I've only been to one venue in the UK where this was done. Brockham near Dorking when it was Steve Nash teaching (oooh so long ago it hurts).
They also had flyers out on the desk commenting on the stuff we take for granted - spare shirts, deodorant, towels etc.

Just wondered?. . .

[fletch]

Was this at the J11 Club? I got stiletto'd there

wow! funny I got stabbed in the back

[fletch]

he'd been telling me all about how good he was, too!


!

isn that for others to say

I wouldn't bother babe

[MartinHarper]

forearm smash to the eye last night it hurt!

I had a kiss to the cheek last night - does that count?
(it hurt because she's attractive and taken)

[Twirly]

One thing i can not abide though is people wearing stilleto heals to dancing especially when they first start and your feet arent always obeying you. I have been spiked, gouged and allsorts by stilletos and its not nice

Nearly had someone go through my foot once - their entire weight on a stilleto just above my toes. Was wearing my Blochs (unusually) and think that was the only thing that saved my foot from being speared. Never mind all the glancing blows and scratches...

[StokeBloke]

In the final 'twice through and into freestyle I took my partner out of the line a bit, to give us more room so she wouldn't be bumped.

I have started to do this too. It makes so much more sense to use the space that's there.

wow! funny I got stabbed in the back

Fletch you missed your vocation! You belong on the stage with wit as sharp as yours gal

[drathzel]

That was the problem last night with the elbow in the head in the class. Beginners are too busy concentrating on the move to be as aware of the people around them. In the final 'twice through and into freestyle I took my partner out of the line a bit, to give us more room so she wouldn't be bumped.

But its not exclusive to beginners - I've been bumped into more by intermediates at freestyles trying to do big, travelling moves, than beginners.

true! but as this is a beginners thread i aimed it to them

[drathzel]

Here's a question. . .

As a franchise manager - although a stretch of water away - do you get your teacher to suggest ettiquete at the end of the lessons?

I've only been to one venue in the UK where this was done. Brockham near Dorking when it was Steve Nash teaching (oooh so long ago it hurts).
They also had flyers out on the desk commenting on the stuff we take for granted - spare shirts, deodorant, towels etc.

Just wondered?. . .

ettiquette is approached in the dance with each other ie beginners with intermeds and vis versa.

I have spoken of these issues in workshops and most of the sweatier members of the class do bring a change/towel/deo with them.

[drathzel]

Nearly had someone go through my foot once - their entire weight on a stilleto just above my toes. Was wearing my Blochs (unusually) and think that was the only thing that saved my foot from being speared. Never mind all the glancing blows and scratches...

i have been told of a friend wearing dance shoes who was dancing, got spiked and when the person stepped away she did so without her shoe which was embedded in the dance shoe, the stilleto had pierced the leather and had landed between the persons big and 2nd toe. Lucky escape!

[Double Trouble]

I had a kiss to the cheek last night - does that count?
(it hurt because she's attractive and taken)

Poor Martin......always the bridesmaid, never the bride.