As a taxi dancer I welcome the idea of 3 moves in a beginners class. It gives you more time to review the moves in the revision sessoin and to go over them in the sequence more often - which from feedback received helps the beginners more as they then feel like they are "dancing" rather than doing 3 (or previously 4 or 5) solitary moves.
Also cutting it down to 3 moves I feel takes the pressure off rushing through the moves (as sometimes could happen in a complicated 5 move routine), hence taking the pressure off the teacher / taxi dancer to have to get through the moves no matter what and also the beginners as the revision session can be more relaxed and informal (which is what I personally feel it should be, as it is then more fun which people enjoy and will come back for
) as well as providing beginners with the relevant framework to build on.
I try to emphasise this when I take revision session. It is human nature to want to "learn the moves" so to speak but I always emphasise to the new beginner followers that there are umpteen number of moves in Ceroc so even tho we may be reviewing say 3 moves tonight, that in freestyle a leader may lead any of these umpteen moves (i.e. an armjive can lead into a armjive pushspin, swizzle or simple armjive as a beginners move so it is important not to assume that the leader is doing either one of these).
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