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    To all those practicing for competitions...

    Can you please not do so on busy social dancefloors?

    It's irritating, it takes up a lot of room, and it's rude.

    Social dances are not the right place to practice.

    Thank you.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Can you please not do so on busy social dancefloors?
    You are getting in the way of everyone trying to do tango around the jivers

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidB View Post
    You are getting in the way of everyone trying to do tango around the jivers
    Exactly.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    And cabarets. You steal all the good dancers. And from what I've been hearing on some nights, you make the beginners feel uncomfortable.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Genie View Post
    And cabarets. You steal all the good dancers. And from what I've been hearing on some nights, you make the beginners feel uncomfortable.
    Try performing it in front of an audience, that's uncomfortable!

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Perhaps, hun, but those who do, sign up for it and therefore have only themselves to blame. Whereas those who pay to go to ceroc to have a social dance, who might not mind watching during one class, might mind when they have to put up with half their regular class practicing for over a month.

    I don't mind personally, as long as it doesn't go on, and on, and on, and on. But sometimes it does, and that's what I mind.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    I agree, if people are on the dance floor dancing taking up lots of space and doing moves that get in the way of others - I agree - irritating.

    If they want to pay to get into a venue and practice there team cabaret they should do it off the dance floor away from others who are socially dancing!

    However, if they WANT to practice and they are not harming anyone, or interrupting others dancing then that's ok (IMO)

    As for "stealing" the good dancers, well it is up to the dancers themselves what they do with their time!???

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidB View Post
    You are getting in the way of everyone trying to do tango around the jivers
    sorry DJ I did find this very funny


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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    I think you mean practising

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Can you please not do so on busy social dancefloors?

    It's irritating, it takes up a lot of room, and it's rude.

    Social dances are not the right place to practice.

    Thank you.
    I always thought that Ceroc week nights were places to go to learn new modern jive moves and practise them. To me it is a practise floor first, a social one second.

    I always thought that getting the best dancers to attend was a good thing. Perhaps I am fortunate in that I have never been prevented from dancing by people dancing. On a few ocassions I have voluntarily stopped in order to watch and be inspired.

    For me one of the joys of MJ is the spectrum it covers, and I would like it to stay that way. If the dancefloor is crowded I want them to open another venue.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Ahhhhhh ... the light dawns. The local floors have been taken over by couples doing drop after drop and stretching themselves into strange tango poses havng nthing to do with the music. If what has been on display is any indication of what we can expect at Blackpool it looks like we will once more be treated to the same cornucopia of flash drops instead of DANCING! I wonder if this year, for once, the dancers who actualy dance to the music will come out on top? We live in hope.

    [BAH HUMBUG MODE /OFF]

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Gus View Post
    I wonder if this year, for once, the dancers who actualy dance to the music will come out on top? We live in hope.
    Well, that's entirely in the hands of the judges (or, more accurately, those setting the judging criteria and those assessing the dancers by those criteria)

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    Well, that's entirely in the hands of the judges (or, more accurately, those setting the judging criteria and those assessing the dancers by those criteria)
    Can we start the perennial debate about judges and judging criteria again. Please, please etc.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Gus View Post
    [BAH HUMBUG MODE /OFF]
    You never turned the BAH HUMBUG MODE on?

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Sorry - just realised it is your default setting

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidB View Post
    Sorry - just realised it is your default setting
    That cuts deep, you cut me to the core .... (apologies to Shrek).

    So Messr Oracle ... you judging?

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Gus View Post
    it looks like we will once more be treated to the same cornucopia of flash drops instead of DANCING! I wonder if this year, for once, the dancers who actualy dance to the music will come out on top?
    stop winging and start dancing WCS.

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Caro View Post
    stop winging and start dancing WCS.
    Naw.. I've no desire to become a pretentious elitist



    *only kidding

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Caro View Post
    stop winging and start dancing WCS.
    What? Learn footwork and timing Too scary and too much like hard work

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    Re: To all those practicing for competitions...

    Ceroc must make a lot of money out of couples practicing on week nights and at weekends.

    I was told by a guy, that they need to practice 5 nights a week to be any good at winning.

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