I have no idea how to dance :(

ugh. I feel like participating in this thread after my practice yesterday. Some practices are like that. You just feel like you're going backward, not forward
 
Hello everyone.

I stumbled upon this site (and more importantly, thread) a few days ago while desperately trying to figure out how not to look like a total fool at my dance yesterday. Fenix and suckee's problems were almost the same as mine, so I read the first 20 or so pages.. more than once. I practiced the basics in front of a mirror, and I felt a LOT more confident than when I went to the last dance, last spring (where I never danced once because I had no idea how.) This time around, I was dancing almost the entire time:raisebro:.

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!! Without your guidance, yesterday wouldn't have been one of the best days of my life:).
 
hey

hey everybody. I found this site while looking around on google. I wouldnt call myself an experienced grinder but ive done it many times and I guess im descent at it cause the girls keep coming. I was wondering if their is anything I can do besides the basics to make it a more sensual experience
 
Welcome to DF!

We probably aren't the crowd to ask for that kind of dancing, though. Maybe www.danceforums.net, which focuses on solo dancing?

Maybe someone will come along who has good pointers, but this site is focused on partner dances like ballroom, salsa, swing, tango, etc.
 
AGAIN, welcome>>>>>BUT...we have as extensive an explanation of as much of this as is neccessary in past threads...if you will kindly search there you will find alot of helapful info...beyond that, the above recommendation may prove more fruitful
 
alright, im 13 years old and in the 8th grade. everytime i have a school dance i feel like a complete idiot! :[

im actually a girl. i mean, common every girl knows how too dance! NOT ME! i feel like a jerk. all the girls around me are on top of guys grinding &everything and i just stand around watching wishing i could dance like them.

my next dance is coming up in february i think. and i really want to be an expert at grinding by then.

my last dance was at the end of october and i was just standing there while all my friends were grinding up on all these hot guys and they asked me to dance and i just said i wasnt feeling good because i dont want to make a fool of myself. you know what i mean?

and im to embaressed to ask my friends to teach me. i mean, all girls can grind. they'll think im a nerd.

i have quite a bit of time to learn, so i hope that somebody can help me out with this problem.

please write back as soon as possible.

thanks so much!
 
WHERE are you guys getting this "Everyone already knows how to dance by the time they're a certain age"? I say in exasperation.

Really- there used to be peer pressure to smoke, have sex, steal candy from the convenience store, or buy porn with a fake ID, so I have to say I'm REALLY happy to see that the standards of young folks are considerably more discriminating than mi- er, I mean- precedence. :oops:

This reminds me of those first awkward "more than smooching" encounters of trial and error. "WHAT are you DOING? EW, STOP, you freak!"

"But Jenna Jameson likes it..." Ok, if you're going by what you see in movies, books, tv, and other media- that's a VERY VERY unrealistic perspective. Of COURSE things "just happen naturally", be it dancing or anything else- in movies. People spend big bucks to make them happen for entertainment.

When we were growing up, it never occurred to us to know how to dance before prom or a sockhop or whatever. We just went, Charlie Brown-ed it (watch the Xmas special where they're dancing, you'll see what I mean), and some kids were better than others. It wasn't anything special.

When did this assumption start? Bring it on? You got Served? Which producer do I go and b!tchslap for poisoning and confusing an entire generation of already-insecure-thanks-to-media-teens?

Relax- you have plenty more things to worry about, like graduating, not getting knocked-up before getting out of your sophomore year, avoiding that first toke, acne on your shoulderblades, monstrous menstrual cramps, and public flatulence (although you can blame that on the Alabama Barking Spider).

Finally- grinding isn't dancing. Grinding is what you do to coffee beans. Not all girls can grind. The decent ones can't, or more accurately, they choose not to. Set higher standards for yourself. Then you'll be one up on them. And who doesn't like to be one up on someone? Come on- it completely rocks.
 
If you'll kindly use the search feature located on the bar near the top of every DF page, and enter "grind" or "club dance", you'll find all the information DF members have to offer on the subject. That being said, we aren't a very helpful bunch for that kind of - ahem - dance.
 
WHERE are you guys getting this "Everyone already knows how to dance by the time they're a certain age"? I say in exasperation.

Really- there used to be peer pressure to smoke, have sex, steal candy from the convenience store, or buy porn with a fake ID, so I have to say I'm REALLY happy to see that the standards of young folks are considerably more discriminating than mi- er, I mean- precedence. :oops:

This reminds me of those first awkward "more than smooching" encounters of trial and error. "WHAT are you DOING? EW, STOP, you freak!"

When did this assumption start? Bring it on? You got Served? Which producer do I go and b!tchslap for poisoning and confusing an entire generation of already-insecure-thanks-to-media-teens?

Relax- you have plenty more things to worry about, like graduating, not getting knocked-up before getting out of your sophomore year, avoiding that first toke, acne on your shoulderblades, monstrous menstrual cramps, and public flatulence (although you can blame that on the Alabama Barking Spider).

Finally- grinding isn't dancing. Grinding is what you do to coffee beans. Not all girls can grind. The decent ones can't, or more accurately, they choose not to. Set higher standards for yourself. Then you'll be one up on them. And who doesn't like to be one up on someone? Come on- it completely rocks.
applause....and let me echo this...grinding isn't dance it's pre-intercourse...and if I caught my 13 year old doing it I would ring her freaking neck....but she wouldn't because shoving her hindquarters into some guy's pelvis and gyrating around like a cat in heat isn't her definition of worthy to be admired....I empathize that at your age it seems like the way to dance but it's not and besides that, it is easy...all those folks are doing is grinding their hips around...anyone can do that, they just aren't as intimidated as you are, consider it a sign of intelligence and conscience that part of you is reluctant to do it
 
ok u guys... i have read this whole thread and practiced.... now... other than moving up and down... spinning the girl around.... and switchingform her facing u... or her facing away from u...
what are some variations i can make with my hips... arms to look cooler/sexier when i dance... without overdoing it or looking gay... no offense so homosexuals.
 

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