funniest thing a coach has ever said about your dancing
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"No...he is a Honda."
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Context:
Coach made some kind of throwaway analogy about how a follower experiences a lead like driving a car. Power, responsiveness, smoothness, and so on. Me being me, and my wife being my wife, we immediately seized the opportunity to dive down an irrelevant rabbit hole to figure out what kind of car I would be.
Wife: "Well, you're certainly not a Ferarri."
Coach: "DEFINTELY not. Not even a Mercedes yet."
Fiesta: (anxious to arrest the downward trajectory of the conversation) "Hey, at least I'm not a Volga. Not anymore, at least."
W: "Or a Zaporozhets!"
C: "Oh, please. You were never THAT bad, Fiesta."
Volga and Zaporozhets are famously, meme-tastically terrible Soviet cars. You can read about them on this list of the 19 Worst Cars the Russians Ever Made. Coach sometimes tells horror stories about the secondhand Zaporozhets that was the first car she ever owned
F: "So...am I maybe a Subaru? Those are pretty good."
Wife and I used to drive Subarus. Satisfied customers throughout. No illusions that they were anything more than utilitarian vehicles, though
C: "Hmm...no, you were a Subaru last year I think you're a bit better now."
W: (hopefully) "How about a BMW? Like, a cheap one? Those are high-performance, but not super luxurious.
C: "He's got some work yet before he can be a BMW. No...he is a Honda! Dependable, nice, but unexciting."
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Given that Honda is coach's brand of choice, I actually take this as a compliment.
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Context:
Coach made some kind of throwaway analogy about how a follower experiences a lead like driving a car. Power, responsiveness, smoothness, and so on. Me being me, and my wife being my wife, we immediately seized the opportunity to dive down an irrelevant rabbit hole to figure out what kind of car I would be.
Wife: "Well, you're certainly not a Ferarri."
Coach: "DEFINTELY not. Not even a Mercedes yet."
Fiesta: (anxious to arrest the downward trajectory of the conversation) "Hey, at least I'm not a Volga. Not anymore, at least."
W: "Or a Zaporozhets!"
C: "Oh, please. You were never THAT bad, Fiesta."
Volga and Zaporozhets are famously, meme-tastically terrible Soviet cars. You can read about them on this list of the 19 Worst Cars the Russians Ever Made. Coach sometimes tells horror stories about the secondhand Zaporozhets that was the first car she ever owned
F: "So...am I maybe a Subaru? Those are pretty good."
Wife and I used to drive Subarus. Satisfied customers throughout. No illusions that they were anything more than utilitarian vehicles, though
C: "Hmm...no, you were a Subaru last year I think you're a bit better now."
W: (hopefully) "How about a BMW? Like, a cheap one? Those are high-performance, but not super luxurious.
C: "He's got some work yet before he can be a BMW. No...he is a Honda! Dependable, nice, but unexciting."
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Given that Honda is coach's brand of choice, I actually take this as a compliment.
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opendoor
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Confused: And what has your alias got to do with that Ford model?
Pure happenstance. My alias is a middle-school nickname, courtesy of a tongue-tied, overexcited soccer coach who butchered my name at the top of his lungs during a game.
I don't think I am a Ford, but that's because I associate Ford with trucks. Anyone who has seen me would immediately agree that I am not, have never been, and will never be a truck.
I guess the visiting coach we worked with the other day very quickly felt comfortable around us. Because despite being a conspicuously kind and polite fellow, he responded to our initial round of Foxtrot with this:
We got him back for that comment, though. Whenever he used the word "nice" in the next 90 minutes, we became loudly offended at the "insult."
That made him smile. Good times all round
We got him back for that comment, though. Whenever he used the word "nice" in the next 90 minutes, we became loudly offended at the "insult."
That made him smile. Good times all round
anntennis
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One club Tennis Pro made exactly the same comparison, saying that my tennis racket is "Chevrolet "and I should be buying "Ferrari" or Bentley of tennis rackets , he was trying to sell me much more expensive racket, but I'm very happy with my "Chevrolet " up to this day, medium weight Danlop.
ProgressNotPerfection
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Pro: “Here’s how it feels to me: when we take hold and start dancing, I think you can follow anything I lead.”
Me: “Umm…I’d love for that to be true, but I don’t think it is.”
Pro: “No, it’s definitely not true! But nevertheless, it’s what I think when we start. And then reality kicks in.”
Me: “Umm…I’d love for that to be true, but I don’t think it is.”
Pro: “No, it’s definitely not true! But nevertheless, it’s what I think when we start. And then reality kicks in.”
That actually says a lot of great things about your frame and connection. When leads first gets in hold with follows, we try to assess immediately how much we'll be able to lead. I imagine something similar goes on in the other direction, too.
ProgressNotPerfection
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(wrt my frame in Smooth)
“Your arms: it’s like they are balloons, nicely filled with air. But as we dance, the air starts to leak out, pssssssss….so they droop. Then you suddenly remember what you’re supposed to do, and zzzzoooop! They get more air pumped in and go back in place. But they should not be going up and down like this [flaps elbows like chicken wings] all the time.”
“Your arms: it’s like they are balloons, nicely filled with air. But as we dance, the air starts to leak out, pssssssss….so they droop. Then you suddenly remember what you’re supposed to do, and zzzzoooop! They get more air pumped in and go back in place. But they should not be going up and down like this [flaps elbows like chicken wings] all the time.”
ProgressNotPerfection
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After dancing a rocky tango:
Pro: “That looked good!”
Me: “Really?! Which part of that looked good?”
Pro: “My part.”
Pro: “That looked good!”
Me: “Really?! Which part of that looked good?”
Pro: “My part.”
ProgressNotPerfection
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In case the link doesn’t work for any of you, or for DF visitors in future for whom the original site might no longer be active (that has happened to me many times in some of the older threads here), I’m pasting the content below because it’s too funny not to share. I mean, literally laugh-out-loud-funny.
What makes a Yugo go faster? A tow truck. Why do Yugos have a rear window defroster? So you can keep your hands warm while you're pushing it. A man goes into an auto parts store and asks, "Can you give me a cigarette lighter for my Yugo?" "Sure, sounds like a fair trade to me." What do you call a Yugo with a flat tire? A write-off. What do you call a Yugo at the top of a hill? A miracle. What do you call the Yugo owner's manual? The bus timetable. How can you double the worth of a Yugo? By filling its gasoline tank. What is the smallest part of a Yugo? The owner’s brain. What do you call someone who buys a secondhand Yugo? A scrap dealer. What does a Yugo buyer do to look sophisticated? Wears dark glasses. How do you tell the Yugo buyer from all the other people with dark glasses? They’re the ones with the white sticks. Why do they give away free TVs with Yugos? So you've got something to do while waiting for the mechanic to come and fix it. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? A wheelbarrow. What is the difference between a Yugo and a golf ball? You can drive a golf ball 360.