Ceroc matches any description I've heard of a sport that I can think of quite well. Of course, plenty of sports can be played with or without competition, and the difference lies in the reasons the individuals are doing it for.
TheTruth; if you're interested in Dancesport and want to use that as your competition benchmark then
Ceroc isn't the best place for you. Ceroc is at the other end of the sporting spectrum.
Competition does drive a sport to greater heights. There are other ways as well though. Competition is usually the fastest I agree but it isn't the be-all-and-end-all. What's the rush anyway?
There are plenty of people out there putting in the time to learn good technique and refining their own dancing not for the sake of competition, but for whatever other reasons they have. They're not as visible as competitors, but that's because they chose not to be. I do my best to keep improving but have no desire to compete.
That's not quite true. Competitions give people a reason to
think critically about what they're doing, and why (and of course, how to do it better....). Sometimes this leads to revelation, and sometimes that experience get's passed on to others. It's easier to think critically about something if you have a reason to improve they way it works.
Again, you don't
need competition to do this, but virtually the entire history of the human race suggests that it helps...... just think how many of our modern conviniences had roots in wartime R&D or the space race for instance.
A big, fat
to that.
There are a number of Swing dances that manage to successfully be both social and competition dances, especially in the USA. I do sometimes wonder how they've developed that balance and synergy. Many people seem to think that it's either one or the other, or that
Ceroc *should be* one exclusively. I see no reason why it can't be both in time.
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