balboa and bal-swing

[luh]

Hi
I'm getting this over and over again. When i go out dancing, and dance balboa, people come up to me and say - nice where did you learn bal-swing. I usually tell them it was balboa, and they'll start argueing.

When I dance Balboa, i dance balboa, and when i do bal-swing i do bal-swing.

Why do so many people think they have to know it better, and say everything that was called balboa is balswing, even though it isn't? I mean - it's not like Jitterbug, where there is no definition of.

luh

 

[It's Wonderful]

Well, it's a pretty obvious definition - stay in closed (no turns, no loss of chest contact), or open out and do all the turns and all the other moves. If you're staying in closed and they call it bal swing, I would guess they just have a limited knowledge the dance and don't understand the difference. Do the people giving these compliments dance balboa or bal-swing themselves? Because if they do, I have no idea why they would call balboa bal-swing.

 

[luh]

i think so too, - it's very obvious.

usually they don't dance balboa. but i've seen it on swing websites as well.

"it's not balboa - it's bal-swing" this was a direct quote. i don't want to put the site because it is known very widely.

luh