MODERATOR AT YOUR SERVICE
"If you're going to do something tonight, that you know you'll be sorry for in the morning, plan a lie in." Lorraine
Eh? Firstly, what friends? Secondly, what a load of b0llox!
You're a customer, Martin and you can go where you want, no one cares what weekender you go on, you're a 'nobody' like the rest of us and it's not like you can get sacked or anything as you're not employed by Ceroc....not that they would, even if you were.
i know so its purely my choice to be loyal to my FRIENDS and go where i want no one has ever told me or even asked me not to go to any venue or organisation and i wouldnt take any notice if they did even when i did work for a fanchisee. And my loyalty is why i have real friends and not people who want to just suck up to me
I disagree with that i am not a nobody to the people that really matter to me
Im certainly not worried about being sacked as you know i am one of the few people who doesnt just moan about people and djs behind their backs or hide behind a computer screen i will actually tell them to their face what i think when i am unhappy with what i am getting or how i am being treated.
I am one of the few people you know who will say what i think when i think it
Funnily enough i know you do that as well which is why i happen to like you
funny how zimbabwean gets involved and this suddenly ceases to be an adult discussion about music and becomes and attack on me isnt it
Good for you! Besides, I'm really not trying to persuade you to go to Hemsby, especially as Lory reckons it's awash with old farts already.
Of course you're not a nobody to the people that really matter to you, that's irrelevant. I meant you're a nobody to dance franchises, like the rest of us, so no one cares where you go. Fact!
I can feel the love Martin.
I was enjoying this thread up to the last few posts
People go to dance weekenders for lots of reasons. DJs are obviously only one part of a whole package.
Same point. But I think the JA DJs have less in common than the Ceroc DJs, hence you're less likely to know what is going to be played.
Last edited by frodo; 16th-June-2011 at 12:04 AM.
To set the record straight and clear up any confusion, the blues class i taught at Hemsby on Friday night had the primary intention of trying to give people confidence about dancing in the blues room over the weekend as i know some people can find the room a little intimidating when you are new to it. With this intention and bearing in mind the amount of people who had never set foot in a blues room (which was about half the class) and based on the feedback we got from people the class certainly achieved that.
The fact that i gave the class structure was vital as it was a musicality class so it needed a basic understanding of musical phrasing and that the main accents were on the '1' in relation to the song that we played. Lastly as my passion lies with WCS it seems understandable that most of my teaching style is going to lend itself to that style of dance.
The issue about how bluesy it was is a subjective thing as it seems to me Blues dancing as MJ seems to be a dance without any real set rules, guidelines, distinction, set footwork patterns or structure. The pertinent thing to me seems to be that blues room dancing is not aligned to any particular genre of music which to my mind opens it up to all manner of interpretation, styling and teachings.
It was very interesting that Myles Munroe (who taught the WCS classes with Tessa) who has with 22 years of trained dancing background said to me when we were watching the social dancing in the blues room that he couldn't see anything distinctive or anything that characterised blues social dancing at all, his last comment was 'it seemed that every couple seemed to be doing something totally unique and different from the next couple' which to me is spot on and is what makes blues room dancing amazing. So for anyone to say what is or what isn't blues dancing is in my mind going away from the very thing that makes Social Blues dancing at a MJ weekend what it is.
Lastly your frankly stupid reference about my explaining of eye contact and how it is overrated shows a complete lack of understanding of the principal of visual lead and follow along side the physical aspect of lead and follow, I'll clarify it again as it seems you didn't hear the the full explanation during the class.
The issue came about when i noticed how many people look at the floor when they dance socially which is primarily due to a lack confidence i would suggest. So firstly i simply showed how it could affect my posture when i looked to the ground against how my posture was improved when i looked up. I then said to the class to look at your partner directly in the eyes......and i noticed that after about 5/6 seconds some people started to get a bit uncomfortably with it to which i explained that constant eye contact is wayyyy over rated and that ladies would be served far better by looking at the man`s sternum rather than the floor after they have 'checked in with their partner' (look at each other occasionally) every now and then. Same thing for the men to whom i suggested to look past your partner rather than looking at the floor if again after making sure you have 'checked in with your partner'
The last point on this is if i am using CBM at any point during my dance and her eyes are locked on my eyes then she has less of a chance of knowing what i am trying to communicate to her with my body, so again she would be far better served watching my body alignment then staring into my eyes!
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