Ten things I learnt from MJ...

[David Bailey]

In no particular order:

1. Once you are used to partner-dancing, going to a nightclub is a weird and pointless experience.
2. And whoever invented disco has a lot to answer for.
3. There's a good dancer hidden in most people.
4. And people are generally nicer than you may think in a big city.
5. You can have a great night out, meeting lots of people, without either drinking or spending lots of money.
6. There'll always be another dance event coming up, but you only get issued with 1 back / set of knees / shoulders / other body parts, so put them first.
7. If you either take your partner dancing, or meet your partner through dancing, it saves a lot of explanations in the long run.
8. Chemistry is real, inexplicable, and wonderful.
9. But dancing is not sex.
10. Well, most of the time...

Anyone else want to contribute?

[Tiggerbabe]

Anyone else want to contribute?

Well, I'm still learning..........but so far I've learned that

1. A dancer can never have too many shoes (oh! Hang on, maybe us girls knew about that already )
2. "Floors" appear at the top of the description of a venue.
3. If you can't dance in it - you're unlikely to buy it!
4. Travelling for hours/miles to go to a dance is perfectly sensible
5.No matter how tired you think you are, when you hear "that" song you'll always want to dance
6. Blues is not a bad/sad thing.
7. There are not enough hours in a night/days in a week/weekends in a year
8. And finally, there is a place in this world for shiny, green, snakeskin lycra

[philsmove]

Chat forums are addictive
Dancing in fields, the office, railway stations, mountain tops, in fact anywhere, is to be considered as, normal behavior

[David Bailey]

6. Blues is not a bad/sad thing.

Actually, I only learnt that myself a few weeks back
OK, that's 11 things...

[Lory]

to all the above

plus...

Ugly people can turn into extremely attractive people if they REALLY know how to dance with you!

It becomes harder and harder to find the time to see friends who don't dance.

Calendars start looking like a dance event listings

[Bryman]

10 things? Hmmmm....

1- 9 Life HAS meaning.
10 I think I might be a little obsessed!

(and this forum makes for compulsive reading )

Salutations tya all
Bry

[Gadget]

• 1) you can have a "connection" with someone without being lovers, married, close friends or related.
  
• 2) some people don't dance, and have no interest in it
  
• 3) listening to music is even more entertaining/stimulating than watching TV
  
• 4) dancing on your own is 'two-dimensional' in comparison to dancing with a partner
  
• 5) Non-dancing partners, children, nor bank managers understand the desire to spend every weekend dancing or going to things to improve your dancing.
  
• 6) no matter how bad anything gets, I have a remote place isolated from it all that I can enjoy mysef; the dance floor,
  
• 7) there is a strong community of helpfull and warm individuals throught the world that share in a passion and friendship
  
• 8) Every question answered and every goal attained generates at least three new ones to aim for: the more I know and the better I get, the more I realise how little I know and how much better I could try and be.
  
• 9) Some people as just as anal, nitt-picking, argumentative, bloodyminded, obsessive and addicted as I am.
  
• 10) Lastly, MJ has taught me how to dance.

[Whitebeard]

To sad, bereaved, and lonely people, MJ opens a whole new world where the basic sincerity and decency of ordinary people flourishes ..... and brings fresh hope and joy.

[ChrisA]

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[Julie G]

1) It is possible that when a guy asks you to dance, it's because he wants to dance with you, and not because he wants you to go home with him at the end of the night
2) It is dangerously easy to forget that guys outside of modern jive circles don't always think like the guys in point 1)

[philsmove]

• 6) no matter how bad anything gets, I have a remote place isolated from it all that I can enjoy mysef; the dance floor,
  
• 7) there is a strong community of helpfull and warm individuals throught the world that share in a passion and friendship
  
  :

sums it all up

[Feelingpink]

1) It is possible that when a guy asks you to dance, it's because he wants to dance with you, and not because he wants you to go home with him at the end of the night
2) It is dangerously easy to forget that guys outside of modern jive circles don't always think like the guys in point 1)

, especially number 2, so I have discovered that I should not try to explain to a muggle why I might want more than one dance partner in a night - it just doesn't make for a great date ... much less that I might have "just 15" ... and after seeing the betrayed "you are a complete hussey" look on his face, I definitely didn't think I could mention enjoying more partners than I could count on my fingers and toes

[David Bailey]

, especially number 2, so I have discovered that I should not try to explain to a muggle why I might want more than one dance partner in a night - it just doesn't make for a great date ... much less that I might have "just 15" ... and after seeing the betrayed "you are a complete hussey" look on his face, I definitely didn't think I could mention enjoying more partners than I could count on my fingers and toes

Hmmm, it does sound bad when you put it that way

[robd]

[fletch]

Well, I'm still learning..........but so far I've learned that

1. A dancer can never have too many shoes (oh! Hang on, maybe us girls knew about that already )

3. If you can't dance in it - you're unlikely to buy it!

4. Travelling for hours/miles to go to a dance is perfectly sensible

5.No matter how tired you think you are, when you hear "that" song you'll always want to dance

7. There are not enough hours in a night/days in a week/weekends in a year
8. And finally, there is a place in this world for shiny, green, snakeskin lycra

3. unless your names 'Fletch' see this Fridays 'out fit'

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7.

8. share

To sad, bereaved, and lonely people, MJ opens a whole new world where the basic sincerity and decency of ordinary people flourishes ..... and brings fresh hope and joy.

It does bring fresh hope

[jive_me]

I apologise if this is terribly cheesy but...

MJ has taught me that age is just a number. When I started I was 17 and the majority of dancers were a lot older than me...there's been only a few rare moments when I've felt my age played against me.

xXx

[Vegetable]

Im hope that! I can become less shy and more confedent!, im hopein 2 learn this from MJ

[bigdjiver]

Im hope that! I can become less shy and more confedent!, im hopein 2 learn this from MJ

One of the reasons I love the MJ scene is watching some very nervous beginners grow in ability and confidence through time. I watched some formerly very shy beginners teaching a beginner revision class the other week, with an average age of pupil at least twice theirs. It was the first such experience they had of such presentation skills.

[Tiggerbabe]

8. share

I could always bring it with me this weekend, but then you do realise I wrote that 2 and a half years ago?

[fletch]

I could always bring it with me this weekend, but then you do realise I wrote that 2 and a half years ago?

do you have boots and a hat to match

'stuff' like that never goes out of fasion.....famous last words