Hurrah. With any luck you're not the only one fooled thenOriginally Posted by Sparkles
Chris
I'm a leader: I want to practice the lesson for a few tracks.
I'm a leader: I want to get on with some energetic freestyle.
I'm a leader: I want a drink.
I'm a leader: I don't do lessons.
I'm a leader: I don't care.
I'm A Follower: I want to practice the lesson for a few tracks.
I'm A Follower: I want to get on with some energetic freestyle.
I'm A Follower: I want a drink.
I'm A Follower: I don't do lessons.
I'm A Follower: I don't care.
Interesting the view from "the other side". I rarely like a move from the class enough to acquire it. If I do I will just practice that one, (or those) seeing how it, or they, fit into freestyle. It never occurred to me that this could be confusing. Not being able to remember the class moves seems to be the rule, rather than a little-brained exception.Originally Posted by Sparkles
Hurrah. With any luck you're not the only one fooled thenOriginally Posted by Sparkles
Chris
Don't - they should consider themselves lucky to get a dance with you!!Originally Posted by Sparkles
After the lesson, I just want to relax after all the concentration, and then by about 3 or 4 dances later I've usually forgotten what the lesson was anyway . Maybe I was a goldfish in a previous life??
Think I'm guilty of starting the lesson moves and then realising I can't remember them all and do something else instead, sorry Sparkles
Have taken to being very sad and writing down some of the moves afterwards (when I do remember them!) so I can go over them in my head. Then I try to use them the next night, usually at a different venue where there's some different people to dance with who won't know that class.
If I go away with one of the moves embedded in my brain, that's a good night for me.
[QUOTE=Eddie]Don't - they should consider themselves lucky to get a dance with you!!
Have taken to being very sad and writing down some of the moves afterwards (when I do remember them!) so I can go over them in my head. Then I try to use them the next night, usually at a different venue where there's some different people to dance with who won't know that class.
not in the slightest are you sad......unless I am too..... cos I write down move all the time to remind me.
Originally Posted by ChrisA
As a mere mortal who has danced with a number of ladies after you have, I am advised by them that (a) above is a figment of your over-active imagination mate!
I don't think this is sad at all - I do it too whenever there's a particularly good routine. I write them down when I get home... and now I have quite a few of Nigel's and Amir's written down.Originally Posted by Eddie
Sometimes I can even understand what I've written again afterwards...
Chris
[QUOTE=under par]
Have taken to being very sad and writing down some of the moves afterwards (when I do remember them!) so I can go over them in my head. Then I try to use them the next night, usually at a different venue where there's some different people to dance with who won't know that class.
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I did this when I first started, developing a sort of shorthand to do it, then stopped. I have recently started again and try to at least make the notes legible. It does work sometimes.
Ultimately though, you cannot remember all moves and most leaders will dance, regulalry, 10 - 15 moves from 'their repertoire'.
Mentally it isn't possible to remember every move and remember what you've danced so there will always be an element of repeat.
Just remember though guys - you get the same dance every time - that's the dance you lead...ladies get a different dance everytime....lucky eh...
Unless of course lads dance as ladies - not as awful as it sounds and if I do say so myself, I really enjoy having a dance with 'Big' Tim from CerocMetro.
Lovely lead and a real laugh - (we do it only for the praise and applause from onlookers....)...
What.....
Well, Andy McG knows what I mean...
Gordy
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On the rare occasion when there is a move I do not know that I want to acquire I also try it on people that have not done that class, to ensure that it can be led in freestyle, providing that there are no safety issues.Originally Posted by Banana Man
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