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I'm not competing... and this morning I had a nightmare that I was at the comp with no hair and make up appointment. I was out of my...

OK this is hilarious because as a matter of fact I am watching wrestling right now (replay of an event from yesterday, after watching a...

You've totally got this! You've got your packing system down cold. You could probably pack in your sleep, or while watching wrestling...

How does this keep sneaking up on me... I literally told someone yesterday evening that we are going to a competition in 2.5 or 3 weeks...

So I lost my mind and went crazy heavily stoning my dress. I love it.

Went with a friend to a Sunday night social at a studio I hadn’t been to before that was pretty well-attended. For all the smooth...

So I have been trying to find a new dance community locally since I go out of town for lessons now. There are not many studios in town...

I'm not but my pro is one of the instructors there . . . so no lessons for me next week! Fun, very friendly group just choosing to...

I'd say the outside/inside position in slip pivot is mostly determined by the amount of turn. Once the amount of turn starts getting to...

Well, this explains the “boom” earlier. https://apnews.com/article/meteor-boom-massachusetts-explosion-2b79039c94af28e4b63aaeabf06c6844

I hear you about 3-day weekend holiday scheduling - I attended socials both Friday and Saturday of Memorial Day weekend and they were...

This is actually starting to be kind of fun. I've got lots of beautiful reports of the traffic coming through to this site and profiling...

I love this so much, re-sharing from a post in reddit's r/WestCoastSwing:

This was Saturday night at Blackpool, wasn't it? Special feature during the team match, iirc. Lovely to see her being her.

For your enjoyment, here are two of The Greats, dancing a breathtaking (even to my American-Smooth-inclined eye) Standard foxtrot.