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    One to one tuition

    Has anyone tried this?

    We have had workshops around for years, you know the usual format 11 people 3 women over and I kind of mix match approach, with the pace set by the slowest learner

    One to one surely has to be better, it’s started at weekenders but this is the first time I've seen advertised workshops for it (via e-mail) ?

    With video analysis etc seems like a good idea?

    Anyone done it ?

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    Re: One to one tuition

    What's the difference between what you're describing and a private lesson?

    Can you post the email (redacted if you think it necessary)?

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    Re: One to one tuition

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    What's the difference between what you're describing and a private lesson?

    Can you post the email (redacted if you think it necessary)?
    It was a e-mail from Howard and Nicola

    The ‘flier’ is headed one to one tuition and goes from there

    If you look hard at their web site you can see the 1-1 stuff under ‘dance doctors’ but hardly eye catching

    I haven’t seen anything like this before (of course that’s not to say it hasn’t been going on for years) ie direct advertising for 1-1 . In the pass 1-1 seem to be a dirty word and recent threads suggest its hard 'to find'

    Well aware you can get private tution if you hunt and ask but I’ve never seen anyone advertised directly like this.

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    Re: One to one tuition

    I've seen several teachers offer one-to-one under their 'what else can we do'. To be honest, if you arn't looking for private lessons, I don't expect you're prepared to pay for them - hence there's not much point advertising them too much.

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    Re: One to one tuition

    Quote Originally Posted by tsh View Post
    I've seen several teachers offer one-to-one under their 'what else can we do'. To be honest, if you arn't looking for private lessons, I don't expect you're prepared to pay for them - hence there's not much point advertising them too much.
    The slightly odd thing is that no-one ever really wants to say what they cost, which perpetuates the feeling that "Private lessons are something you don't talk about".

    Just have some sympathy for the ballroom dancers, I see many of them having 2-3 privates a week! Now that's some serious $$$.

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    Re: One to one tuition

    My view on private lessons is that I'd prefer not to give them. However, I regularly get asked and I don't like to turn down the work or the opportunity to help one of our regulars to improve.

    My gut-feel about private lessons is that they make people really listen. No only are you one-to-one, they've also paid a lot of money and that seems to help them to pay attention. I think that the problem with learning to dance properly in the usual class situation is that the social interaction gets in the way of people hearing what the teacher says. Just about everything I say in private lessons I have already said, and everyting I show them has already been shown in weekly lessons, often many times, to those people who ask for private lessons. Somehow they have not heard what I've said - but they do hear and pay attention in the private lessons.

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    Re: One to one tuition

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    It was a e-mail from Howard and Nicola
    OK, I have it.

    I haven’t seen anything like this before (of course that’s not to say it hasn’t been going on for years) ie direct advertising for 1-1 . In the pass 1-1 seem to be a dirty word and recent threads suggest its hard 'to find'
    As it happens, I'm on Howard's newsletter because Ceroc Ealing is my local venue. And he's had a "For private lessons, contact me" line on that newsletter for at least a year now. I grant you the new email is a little more overt, however.

    As far as private lessons go, I'd say 95% of the experiences I hear about are positive. Obviously it makes sense to pick a teacher who specialises in whatever you want to learn.

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    Re: One to one tuition

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Has anyone tried this?

    We have had workshops around for years, you know the usual format 11 people 3 women over and I kind of mix match approach, with the pace set by the slowest learner

    One to one surely has to be better, it’s started at weekenders but this is the first time I've seen advertised workshops for it (via e-mail) ?

    With video analysis etc seems like a good idea?

    Anyone done it ?
    Yeah - I think I got the same email this morning - and I have thought about going to that couple already.

    Anyway, my first experience was this:
    Ceroc Mad Jive Lad: Search results for video

    (which quotes David F incidentally) - and it took me while to get over it....

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