A.T medals

[newbie]

Do you have A.T. medals in your neck of the woods? If there was a poll I would have to select both "yes" and "no":

"yes" because competition dance schools have recently included A.T in their list of medal-approved dances and the A.T medal is increasingly popular among people who already have ballroom medals.

"no" because the core A.T community (people who can't dance anything except A.T and milonga) despise competition.

[blue]

Probably not. Ballroom is so small here, it hardly has much influence on other dance communities.

[Hamez]

No Medals or competition here.

[bordertangoman]

If there were medals they'd be made of chocolate - like Christmas tree decorations

[pygmalion]

You mean medals as in learn the syllabus, test out, and receive a medal? :shock: I thought that was the antithesis of everything AT is about. Seems like the same as offering salsa medals -- blech!

[SDsalsaguy]

Seems like the same as offering salsa medals -- blech!
Yup... and yet some people do both! :shock: :shock: :evil:

[MadamSamba]

Actually, here in Australia, for the few ballroom studios that do AT medals, it falls into the Street Latin category, which includes all the other dances ballroom people lump the non latin/standard dances such as salsa, rock 'n' roll and swing into.

I did my bronze street latin and it included rock 'n' roll, swing and salsa, but the bronze bar included rock 'n' roll, swing and salsa, as well as AT. As you move up the street latin syllabus, each dance gets progressively harder.