SOS Red carpet party review

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dcnewbee

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i thought the sos red carpet party wasnt good at all!!! first it was $25 to get in, there was no band, what am i paying for??? the floor was awful!! wheres the wooden dance floor?? the party was held in a cafeteria, whats up with that?

also whats up with advanced leaders not asking intermediate followers to dance?? i saw so many girls just sitting there if no one to dance with. its not stuck on salsa, its stuck up on salsa.
 
dcnewbee said:
i thought the sos red carpet party wasnt good at all!!! first it was $25 to get in, there was no band, what am i paying for??? the floor was awful!! wheres the wooden dance floor?? the party was held in a cafeteria, whats up with that?

also whats up with advanced leaders not asking intermediate followers to dance?? i saw so many girls just sitting there if no one to dance with. its not stuck on salsa, its stuck up on salsa.
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did the followers ask the said advanced leaders and get turned down, or was it simply a matter of not being asked and not havning the initiative to ask either? if it was the latter, i have no sympathies...
 
dcnewbee said:
i thought the sos red carpet party wasnt good at all!!! first it was $25 to get in, there was no band, what am i paying for??? the floor was awful!! wheres the wooden dance floor?? the party was held in a cafeteria, whats up with that?

also whats up with advanced leaders not asking intermediate followers to dance?? i saw so many girls just sitting there if no one to dance with. its not stuck on salsa, its stuck up on salsa.
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Sorry to hear you had a bad time.
 
dcnewbee said:
i thought the sos red carpet party wasnt good at all!!! first it was $25 to get in, there was no band, what am i paying for??? the floor was awful!! wheres the wooden dance floor?? the party was held in a cafeteria, whats up with that?

also whats up with advanced leaders not asking intermediate followers to dance?? i saw so many girls just sitting there if no one to dance with. its not stuck on salsa, its stuck up on salsa.
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Some of us were thinking of going up this weekend, but things got really busy. Sorry to hear you didn't have a good time--I used to have a blast at the SOS parties (but I've never been to the Stuckie Awards myself). I did hear that other people were unhappy about the floor as well, but that the music was good!
 
The DC scene takes a while to get used to. It can be really great, or really crappy depending on various factors.

I went to the Stuckies 2 years ago and had a blast. Granted some events are extremely skewed in favor of leads that dance on2.

As far as people not dancing with you, as much as that sucks, believe me I know, I am in a situation where I couldn't buy a partner. It is not the fault of the organizers. In fact there are many great leads in DC that will dance with anyone that asks.
 
dcnewbee said:
i thought the sos red carpet party wasnt good at all!!! first it was $25 to get in, there was no band, what am i paying for??? the floor was awful!! wheres the wooden dance floor?? the party was held in a cafeteria, whats up with that?
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The event was $15 if you were a member of salsa meetup (http://salsa.meetup.com/162). Regarding the floor, I hear you. Wasn't what I expected given how good the SOS anniversary venues have been in years past. I'm going to talk to the promoter about that and see what I can find out.

dcnewbee said:
also whats up with advanced leaders not asking intermediate followers to dance?? i saw so many girls just sitting there if no one to dance with. its not stuck on salsa, its stuck up on salsa.
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Like Vin and tj, I'm sorry to hear that you had a bad time. Regarding not being asked to dance, have you ever given thought to asking some of those advanced dancers to dance? 9 times out of 10, they will say yes when asked.
 
i am actually a guy, i was complaining about not being asked to dance for some girlfriends that came with me to the party. they are intermediate followers and it sucks that the advanced leads wouldnt ask them to dance.

do some community service guys!!! it only helps the scene.

it works out for me being a leader with lots of girls just sittin around praying that someone will ask them to dance. but i wanted my friends to have fun too!

i have one friend that is a solid intermediate dancer, but lately its been very difficult for her to go out and have one or two solid dances. she's thinkin about quittin salsa because of soby dancers. i cant think of a good reason to tell her not to quit. who needs this elists attitude anyway. remember you just dance salsa, the rest of the world could care less!

but i do give a shout out to all the advanced folllowers that are willing to dance with intermediate leaders.
 
My bad. I sit corrected.

Well the thing is, women who are of the mentality that guys should do all the asking? They better get used to sitting there with their arms crossed. Women who do some of the asking are usually the ones who make the most of their time and get a good night of dancing out of it. It isn't a guy's responsibility to do all of the asking. Takes two to tango, yadda yadda.
 
dcnewbee, I'd have to agree with Beto. Although I am a girl and don't like having to ask...the guys shouldn't have to do all the asking. 99% of all the really advanced guys that I know, will always say yes to a girl, even if she is a beginner. Often, if she asks one of them...she may start getting asked simply because the other guys see her (and I'm not saying that now they've seen her dance and she's "proved" herself, but that now they have physically seen her. If she's not even sitting in the same area as them...are they really going to go hunt down a girl they don't know on the opposite side of the room? No.) Ugh, I don't mean to sound rude. Really, I'm a girl so I know how this can seem frustrating. BUT I hate to see people put the blame on someone else when they haven't even tried to fix it. Like Beto said...TWO to tango.
 
Guys that dance in DC have it good, even moreso if they dance on2 and/or are advanced leads. That is fact and I don't think anyone will dispute that(we'll see). Yes there are attitudes all over the DC scene, but whatever.

When I was in DC I could easily fill up my evening by dancing with the girls that I already knew. Does that make me a snob? I would gladly dance with anyone that asked, at least once a night. Believe me, there were plenty of girls I did not want to dance with, but I would put my best fake smile and try to have a good dance.

The point is, those "elite dancers" as you call them are just like anybody else. For a long time in DC alot of girls would just turn me down for no other reason than they didn't know who I was, my response was to become "somebody".

I used to get a kick out of having a woman ask me to dance who didn't remember how absolutely rude she had been to me just a few weeks earlier. This was not an isolated incident.
 
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