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Just thought I'd share a recent experience I had with a particular dance school which is a lot cheaper and less "formal" than the franchised dance schools. They specialize in latin dance which I do less of in my regular dance school where I'm focusing more on the smooth dances, swing, etc. I...

So this doesn't include time spent at lessons or with your dance partner practicing or at social dance events. This is just you practicing on your own either at home or at the studio or wherever you practice outside of your home. Just wondering because as I'm progressing in dance, I find its...

I work in the consulting industry so I know all about sales and marketing tactics to get clients to spend more money. And that includes hiring pretty women to work in client-facing roles to upgrade the status of the company and image. But being shy and having had no background in dancing, it...

I guess those dancers learn more naturally? I've always had problems breaking down the specific moves. Even with private lessons, it's easy to forget. So I can't imagine learning at social events. I'd feel like I'm boring whoever I'm dancing with by asking them to teach me the steps. Most people...

Yah I've been to those social dancing environments outside of the studio but I notice that the regulars there and the ones that really have fun are the really good dancers. When I become that good, I'm definitely gonna attend more of those. I only been dancing 6 months so I'm still relatively...

Sorry if this has been repeated to death. I'm relatively new to this forum. I just renewed another semester at my dance school. I really like my school and the instructors and the students in it. Very professional and courteous and supportive environment to learn. The only downside is the...

I'm doing line dancing routine and I saw a video of myself rehearsing. I don't like the way my body looks. The more I watch myself dance, the more I wonder why I'm doing this. Why can't I have the great body types like the instructors at my dance school? Even though I'm in the best shape of my...

Turns out I've been doing the cuban motion all wrong. Dancing is so counter-intuitive. What you see and what you're actually doing are two different things.

Starting to get positive feedback from fellow students. Obviously, the instructors are always encouraging but I am now noticing positive feedback from the students, both female and male ones.

So I guess teachers don't like their students...it's like any other business...it's all about the money.

Lately I've been doing more smooth dances like waltz and foxtrot where frame is more important than fancy footwork. When I was focusing more on hustle and swing and cha cha which are faster, I noticed my caloric intake wasn't that high. These dances felt more like cardio workouts. Lately I've...

I sometimes feel like a big green dollar sign for my dance school. I'm not trying to be egoistic. The reason is that the dance scene in my city isn't so big. I live in a mid-sized city that is a somewhat conservative gov't town. A lot of the folks at my dance school are older married couples...

Yah it's all about attractiveness. Back in my pubbing days, my guy friends didn't really have to do anything. They didn't need to know how to dance or really dress well or even to be a great conversationalist. Somehow they managed to hook up with women. It never happened to me. I was like the...

Yah so I didn't mean it's some sorta protocol that guys have to buy girls drinks. I'd love for girls to buy me drink hahaha but I guess I was never attractive enough for them to do so. When you're in a pub/club environment, the girls are more hostile and so average looking guys buy them drinks...

So in my late 20s, I was easily spending $600 a month on going out which includes eating, drinking, etc. Now I go out maybe like once a month and two pints is enough for me.

lol I'm assuming you're a lady? Ladies don't need to buy gentlemen drinks at the pub whereas a man who wants to meet girls at the pub needs to buy a girl a drink as an "in" and sometimes throughout the night he needs to do that multiple times. That adds up. Especially if the guy himself is a big...

I wish I had discovered ballroom dance earlier in my life. In my late 20s and early 30s, I spent a great deal of time with my guy friends drinking and going to bars and occasionally clubs. Back when they were all single, they basically used me in order to have someone to go to bars with so...

I like to pick my own songs to dance to for recitals at my school. Being a music fiend, I'm not a fan of the top 40 or mainstream stuff. I like to pick songs I like to listen to which also fit the type of dance I'm gonna be doing. I'm a fan of alternative music and a lot of my tastes are in that...

I'm not switching instructors. The instructor that I take my private lessons and is my main teacher is gonna be the same. 3 times a year we have these performance routines though and so we're encouraged to perform with different instructors because it just gives everyone a more even work load...

The repression doesn't start until around the teen years. Asian society isn't that cruel. It's not gonna repress little kids. They're gonna let kids be kids. The repression starts around junior high and high school. That's when things get serious so to speak. In Asia, it's different cause high...