Originally Posted by
David Bailey
The problem with social dancing, in terms of your own improvement, is that you can never tell whether you're improving or simply dancing with a better partner. Especially as a follower, a good dancer can "lift" you up, or help you raise your game - but typically, this is artificial, and you don't retain that improvement.
Which is one reason* why people think they dance better at weekenders - they're not, they're simply dancing with better dancers. And that also explains why people think they dance "worse" after weekenders. They're not, they're dancing at their normal level.
So I'm not completely convinced social dancing helps that much in terms of learning - mainly it teaches you how to adapt to different partners and that's about it. Of course, it's fun, it's the entire point of learning, and you need it, but I've become less convinced of it as a learning aid. It reminds me of people who think they don't need to exercise because they dance.
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