Blackpool... without your partner?

Chris Stratton

Chris Stratton

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Question: would you attend blackpool without your competition partner?

I had been planning to go watch this year, because I always contemplate it but never do, but recently started training in a promising new partnership with someone who would not be in a position to go this year.

Con: feels weird to run off without partner, plus miss 11 days of practice

Pro: all the original reasons for going, a break could be good, plus most of the coaches being out of town has in the past meant that practice can get out of calibration anyway.
 
Gosh, for me Blackpool is an absolute must! Nothing but NOTHING could ever stop me from being there. It's the highlight of my life, every single year.
 
and you can always go for just part of blackpool to see the finals of main events. Don't have to go for the whole thing ;)
 
Good lord, go. Bring your partner back a little present though--a hair sparkly thing, or a poster or a book :)

I have a hard time counting Pro/Am as a "partnership," but I've gone two years in a row without my teachers also being there--missing 2 weeks worth of lessons, etc. I always come back totally jazzed about dancing, because I learn and absorb so much just by being there. It's good for me and it's been good for my teacher and my work together.
 
You should definitely go and like Kat said, you don't HAVE to go for 11 days. Can just go for a week.
 
There's a practice floor in the Winter Gardens. You can go there and practice - and it's possible that you could find someone to teach you. There's another practice floor up at the Imperial for North American competitors, but they probably wouldn't kick you off -I can't speak to that one, though - and some years, they have lectures up there. There's the Congress also, if you want to catch some spectacular lectures. There's also a dance floor in the Blackpool Tower where you could go do some social dancing. So you don't have to be over there not dancing for x number of days, just not dancing w/ your partner.
 
I'd go without a competition partner. I'm not sure I'd go without a partner at all - all that general dancing time would be wasted.

Be prepared for some dead time, especially if you haven't developed more of an interest in Latin recently.
 
Chris Stratton said:
I had been planning to go watch this year, because I always contemplate it but never do, but recently started training in a promising new partnership with someone who would not be in a position to go this year.
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Would they be in a position to go NEXT year? (Assuming it all works out.) You've waited this long... what's one more year, especially if it's between going this year w/o partner and potentially next year WITH partner.
 
Personally, I would want to go without DP - but I wouldn't end up doing it. To me Blackpool is the ballroom mecca and i would really want to share it with someone that appreciated what it was all about.

Thanks for the thought though. I'm going to see if I can talk him into planning to go for 2011. And why not aim to compete?

Is that also a possibility for you Chris? Could you think of competing in 2011?
 
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