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"I think (even after) that's the only direction you can take us", or even "I anticipate you'll lead us this way and l, look, I'm ready," are not the same as "I'm taking us this way." Hmmm, my own experience might amount to "speculative execution" by the follower...

Having a true partner in floor awareness seems very helpful, particularly for competition however. Probably an interesting exercise would be for the leader to wear a blindfold and find out which floorcraft decisions are available based solely upon cues from the follower. It's not something...

Social dancing is a pretty brittle social environment, particularly because dancing tends to cause emotions to run strong. Without a separate channel of communication, one wrong or untimely facial expression can easily break a relationship with a fellow dancer altogether -- unless, that is...

Re: cameras, maybe instead something like this could be worried into the dress code for some competition, in the name of science: https://www.rokoko.com/products/smartsuit-pro Let form follow function, right? :)

But, rise/fall effectively stores/releases potential energy, right? Even in a simplified model, it seems like a non-negligible factor, at least to me.

Why do we want the projection? It seems like the path followed in three dimensions by the center of mass of the couple, and the COM of each dancer, are relevant -- with rise/fall, sway, translation, and rotation.

How exactly do you measure "distance" here?

It would be a red flag, I think, if a teacher were to object to a student exploring the local social dance scene.

Prior discussion of this point: Female sweats too much

Rather, I think that you started out by setting that constraint; but then were not consistent in applying it to the discussion that followed. I don't have a strong opinion as to whether or not that constraint ought to be applied, but I do think that it ought to be applied consistently or else...

Bearing the above point in mind.... ...it seems important to be specific about the argument: *top* specialists in a style will do better in that style than *top* generalists. It seems to me that the use of generalizations, and of the word "good", are perhaps less-than-ideally cautious, in...

I had meant to reply to this (hopefully now correctly quoted) post.

Indeed, I mixed up the quoting! Apologies all around. I can no longer edit the post; would be grateful if a mod were to help me out there.

Ah, I see. I did try to stay within bounds, while pointing out how broad the bounds have been here, historically. I did not know about old nor recent complaints, however. Thank you for mentioning them; I will bear that in mind.

The thought only just now occurred to me that, if this catchphrase were on a ladies' AT t-shirt, then it ought to be printed on the *back* of the t-shirt, since otherwise it would not be visible while dancing. (There might be some objection to the notion, I realize, of dancing AT in a t-shirt...

Turning the question around: Can ladies (with some threshold of experience) not easily tell the difference between a gent who participates in physical contact in service of the dance, and a "gent" who participates in physical contact in service of prurient interest? From a gent's side, I can...

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(Oops, I meant 10/9-dancers. Or else I meant Standard-and-Smooth-and-Peabody, or something. But I think the "oops" doesn't change my gist.)

After being a way for a while, I poked my head back in and... "le plus ça change..." and also "oof". Perhaps the intended gist would have been conveyed effectively but less controversially, with by an argument that 5-dancers who compete in Standard are more likely to be judged winners of...

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