So how did you start competing?
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syncopationator
Active Member
by accident
lcdancesport
Active Member
Something you wanted to do from childhood?
Didn't take an interest in it until my friends told me to try it a couple of years ago with them.
Something you wanted to do after you started ballroom or Latin and saw others competing?
Yes! Still waiting to do my first comp though.
Something expected of you by your employer / spouse / whomever?
Expected of my employer, yes, but all in good time.
Something you got suckered into?
Definitely not, well I'm not a student, but at my previous studio I would have been!
Didn't take an interest in it until my friends told me to try it a couple of years ago with them.
Something you wanted to do after you started ballroom or Latin and saw others competing?
Yes! Still waiting to do my first comp though.
Something expected of you by your employer / spouse / whomever?
Expected of my employer, yes, but all in good time.
Something you got suckered into?
Definitely not, well I'm not a student, but at my previous studio I would have been!
lcdancesport
Active Member
That's great you became involved in the ballroom world Lorelei. I hope you're competing for yourself now and not to prove people wrong!
Welcome to DF
Lorelei
Member
That's great you became involved in the ballroom world Lorelei. I hope you're competing for yourself now and not to prove people wrong!
Welcome to DF
Thank you
Now yes, competing for myself ... What I said just prompted me to start competing, and I found out I quite enjoy it.
tanya_the_dancer
Well-Known Member
Same
Mandicraft
Active Member
I had been going to dance comps for a while and cheering on friends. I eventually became known "Team Mom" of the collegiate team. Then a couple of weeks before a comp, one of the girls backed out and the convinced me that I should take her place...that was 5 competitions ago....
danceronice
Forum Master
The pro I was taking lessons from at the time suggested it. I'm a competitive personality so of course I got hooked.
Sunshines Partner
Member
Long Story.
Happened almost 10 years ago.
I was going on a cruise and decided it would be a good idea to learn a few dance steps.
On Monday September 21st I had a free lesson at AM. Had a good time and told them I would let them know.
On September 22nd I had a free lesson at FADS. The was the first time I met Sunshine.
It didn’t take me very long to understand that Sunshine was much better the the AM teacher. I signed up to a 5 lesson package.
The next week after my third lesson, I attended a studio party.
During the party the Studio’s owner announced that there would be a Comp in the middle of November. He stated that it didn’t matter what your age. If you had 50 lessons or 25 lessons or 10 or 5 lessons. Out of the far part of the studio came a booming voice saying “OR EVEN 3”. I knew who it was and I signed up for my first Comp that night.
Even when I went on the Cruise, a week before the Comp, I was practicing all my steps.
The Comp was something I will never regret and always cherish.
That was the beginning of the story that contains thousands of lessons, many many comps and a lot of Fun with Sunshine and me on the dance floor.
Happened almost 10 years ago.
I was going on a cruise and decided it would be a good idea to learn a few dance steps.
On Monday September 21st I had a free lesson at AM. Had a good time and told them I would let them know.
On September 22nd I had a free lesson at FADS. The was the first time I met Sunshine.
It didn’t take me very long to understand that Sunshine was much better the the AM teacher. I signed up to a 5 lesson package.
The next week after my third lesson, I attended a studio party.
During the party the Studio’s owner announced that there would be a Comp in the middle of November. He stated that it didn’t matter what your age. If you had 50 lessons or 25 lessons or 10 or 5 lessons. Out of the far part of the studio came a booming voice saying “OR EVEN 3”. I knew who it was and I signed up for my first Comp that night.
Even when I went on the Cruise, a week before the Comp, I was practicing all my steps.
The Comp was something I will never regret and always cherish.
That was the beginning of the story that contains thousands of lessons, many many comps and a lot of Fun with Sunshine and me on the dance floor.
slinkiness
New Member
I kind of drifted into dance and kept doing it because I like learning different ways to move, and it's a more fun form of exercise than other things. I kind of drifted into competing because the instructor encouraged it, and I was tempted by the possibility of doing well. I did not do well, and I found out that I only like competing for winning. I also found out I don't really like working with a partner. Actually, I knew all along, but I didn't really think about it before deciding to compete.