It's been said above but having a default routine helped me greatly.
At about the 6 week mark I practiced this routine until I knew it by instinct: Arm Jive, Manspin, Cerocspin, First Move, In & Out, Octopus.
Once I got relaxed with that routine then I'd vary it slightly to stop myself from getting bored, maybe do a YoYo then Backpass instead of the Cerocspin.
If you learn a single routine like that and perform the moves smoothly then followers will never get bored of dancing with you.
Followers get bored not due to lack of moves but they get bored of constant mistakes and being yanked all over the place.
I tried following at about the 8 month mark and it made me realise that the moves happen that quickly that you don't even know half the time what the move is being lead on you, your too busy just following your hand and it's like a weird dream/trance.
As long as nothing breaks that trance then the follower is happy dancing away putting in there own styling here and there if they get the chance.
Even now coming up to the 1 year at ceroc I still stick to beginner moves and only add in an intermediate moves here and there for my sake and not for the follower benefit. More for my male ego, it's like am say I can do intermediate moves if I want to but I choose just to do these cool beginner moves instead. They are the best so learn them well and don't worry about learning any of the fancy stuff too soon.
Enjoy your dancing.
DD.
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