How serious should u be when it comes to competition?

[fallenangel]

Lately i realized that a few friends of mine, are taking competition too serious.
What happen to just having fun? exposure? experience?
No matter how good you are, you're bound to come across ppl that are better than u.
Being too competitive is not healthy. Same apply to the social scene.
I belive that practice makes perfect, and when u get to that level... u don't have to brag about it. Most of the better dancers are humble, why don't they just get it ?!

 

[Chris Stratton]

Lately i realized that a few friends of mine, are taking competition too serious.
What happen to just having fun? exposure? experience?
No matter how good you are, you're bound to come across ppl that are better than u.
Being too competitive is not healthy. Same apply to the social scene.
I belive that practice makes perfect, and when u get to that level... u don't have to brag about it. Most of the better dancers are humble, why don't they just get it ?!

Your friends are probably at the stage of tying to figure things out - what is important and what isn't. Also they are probably still at the stage where they can to some degree mix their training efforts with their social dancing. The more adavanced dancers you see may not be doing that - when they are at a social, they aren't training and so are completely unconcerned and free to simply have fun. Someone showing up at a social after a satisfactory practice may present very differently than someone showing up frustrated that they havne't gotten (enough) practice.

 

[sweavo]

Lately i realized that a few friends of mine, are taking competition too serious.
What happen to just having fun? exposure? experience?
No matter how good you are, you're bound to come across ppl that are better than u.
Being too competitive is not healthy. Same apply to the social scene.
I belive that practice makes perfect, and when u get to that level... u don't have to brag about it. Most of the better dancers are humble, why don't they just get it ?!

If you choose competition, then you have to be obsessive. Competition's not the same thing as performing, nor as social dancing. In some ways you have to choose and prioritize accordingly.

 

[tangotime]

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The bigger q may be why are you obsessed with their goals ?. Your likes ambitions and desires are all controlled by you .Learn in life , that what others do is of no great consequence ( unless physical harm involved ) to where you are going with your agenda .I do understand your point, having taught all these yrs, have come across the obsessive , impulsive and the laise' fare attitudes .Most prof,s go with the flow and suggest , as have others, you do the same. If you perfect your basic skills instead of the " flash and trash " brigade. you,re probably going to come out looking better anyway!!

 

[englezul]

Lately i realized that a few friends of mine, are taking competition too serious.
What happen to just having fun? exposure? experience?
No matter how good you are, you're bound to come across ppl that are better than u.
Being too competitive is not healthy. Same apply to the social scene.
I belive that practice makes perfect, and when u get to that level... u don't have to brag about it. Most of the better dancers are humble, why don't they just get it ?!

A competition is about winning. Hence the "competition". You can have fun without entering a competition, you can get exposure likewise. But if you enter you have give your heart and soul out. The outcome in itself is not relevant, by its nature a competition has winners and losers, but if your attitude throughout the competition is not about winning, despite grandious Hollywoodian takes, chances are you're not going to win unless your competition is not keen on winning either. In which case the competition will look like your average friday night out.

Competition is what drives the world forward. The "better" dancers are "humble" (in appearence) because they are the "better" dancers. Put them in a social situation with someone of the same level and you will see the game for establishing hierarchy starting to contour.

Practice makes perfect only when associated with the continous pushing of your boundaries. Which is again something competitive. Practice just for the sake of practicing doesn't get you anywhere.

 

[delamusica]

How serious should you be when it comes to competition?

A serious as you and your partner decide that you need to be to satisfy your internal drive and external goals.

If you as a partnership decide that competitions are about winning, then that's ok.

If you as a partnership decide that competitions are about enjoying being in front of an audience and about having fun, then that's ok.

If you as a partnership decide that competitions are about something else altogether, that's ok too.

There's no right or wrong way to approach dancing or competition. Each couple/individual simply has to decide what's going to work for them, and it will not, nor should it, be the same for all.

 

[fallenangel]

I'm not obsess with my friends goals or anything like that. It was just a simple question of sharing everyone's opinion. If you can't handle that maybe u should just keep your opinion to yourself rather than patronizing the whole issue.

Anyways... i agree with everyone else's comments, thanks!