It can be REALLY hard to keep to, I agree. We once did a lindy hop class where everyone had to start an 8-beat routine on beat 7 instead of beat 1. A real challenge to lead but made everyone listen to the music.Originally posted by Divissima
would hate to cause offence - I don't think it's worse than any of those things!! it was more a comment on my deficient following - it wasn't so much that I couldn't hear the off-beat, I just couldn't keep to it. He was regularly on the off-beat, not out of time, I just struggled with it.
As DavidB, Frodo, plus others have said, dancing off-beat should not be confused with dancing out of time! Lindy hop has even further complexities at advanced levels with jazz steps etc. You constantly switch between patterns on-beat, off-beat, syncopted beat, pauses, and not necessarly returning consistently to the start of a move on beat 1.
But BO is definitely worse than one dance out of time....
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