What to expect from teachers at comps

I personally wait on my student hand and foot. As a newish instructor, comps are the one place we actually can make halfway decent money and for the amount of it the student dishes out to compete, I think they deserve our constant attention. Granted, I've only done one comp so far, and only had a single student doing about 40 heats total with me, so I had the time to devote all my energy twords her. I can't imagine having 3 or more students doing hundreds of heats each. I'd probably kill myself trying to accomodate them all.. :(
All in all we are working and getting paid to be and dance there with them so I believe they should get 110% from us the entire time we are there. :)
 
Wow. So far, I don't recall my pros ever warming me up--they don't have time. They're dancing heats before and after mine.
 
Laura said:
Totally. I just had a conversation with an amateur couple whom I've known for a long time, talking about how they just don't get Pro/Am because of the various bad stories they've seen or heard about. One of their coaches is one of the teachers I've done Pro/Am with, and we were talking about the difference between how he handles his students and the bad situations they've heard about. It's the bad apples -- both overly demanding students, and teachers who don't show professionalism -- that give Pro/Am the bad vibe that it sometimes carries.

Sometimes I think if there was just more respect within Pro/Am, then there would be more respect of Pro/Am.
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exactly which is why my pro is so precious to me...we may occasionally (okay, often) want to throttle one another but we have a deep mutual respect for one another and I think that carries over into our dancing
 
danceronice said:
Wow. So far, I don't recall my pros ever warming me up--they don't have time. They're dancing heats before and after mine.
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well, here is another thing to my pro's credit...I am not talking about just before I dance...I am talking abut before all of the dancing begins....or a half hour before his first dancer begins...unless, as I said, it's 5 minutes instead b/c he is running late;)...and again, I simply warm myself up and when he arrives, he joins me
 
JoeCZilla said:
I personally wait on my student hand and foot. As a newish instructor, comps are the one place we actually can make halfway decent money and for the amount of it the student dishes out to compete, I think they deserve our constant attention. Granted, I've only done one comp so far, and only had a single student doing about 40 heats total with me, so I had the time to devote all my energy twords her. I can't imagine having 3 or more students doing hundreds of heats each. I'd probably kill myself trying to accomodate them all.. :(
All in all we are working and getting paid to be and dance there with them so I believe they should get 110% from us the entire time we are there. :)
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Joe even went so far as to do one of the most hated steps in the syllabus not once, but at least twice with his student (step looks good, but guys part is horrible). :)
 
JoeCZilla said:
I personally wait on my student hand and foot. As a newish instructor, comps are the one place we actually can make halfway decent money and for the amount of it the student dishes out to compete, I think they deserve our constant attention. Granted, I've only done one comp so far, and only had a single student doing about 40 heats total with me, so I had the time to devote all my energy twords her. I can't imagine having 3 or more students doing hundreds of heats each. I'd probably kill myself trying to accomodate them all.. :(
All in all we are working and getting paid to be and dance there with them so I believe they should get 110% from us the entire time we are there. :)
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well that IS nice if you have one student...but when you have a few, it becomes a bit more difficult ...at least it appears that way
 
pnoisette said:
those who are so busy socializing and flirting with people other than their students they can't keep track of when they need to go on.
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This one (and the responses to it), still makes me laugh. I absolutely agree that pro should not be doing this. Makes me laugh though because my pro actually had to track me down because I was doing this. :D I actually know more people at the comps than she does, and at that particular comp were a lot of people that I hadn't seen recently (in large part because of all the extra time I was spending at studio preparing). So was over talking to some friends who are pros at other studio, and my pro had to track me down so we could go on for rhythm heats. :)
 
danceronice said:
Wow. So far, I don't recall my pros ever warming me up--they don't have time. They're dancing heats before and after mine.
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My pro generally insists I get there before the session begins so we can warm up on the floor during the practice/general dancing period (if it's first thing in the morning).
 
waltzgirl said:
My pro generally insists I get there before the session begins so we can warm up on the floor during the practice/general dancing period (if it's first thing in the morning).
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HA! :) Pro #3 is generally not even awake when the session begins (sometimes I'm not, either).

I'll tell you one thing, those guys get off easy in the "morning-of preparations" department what with not having to spend three hours on hair and makeup. Oy vey.
 
As meow already said, we don't have pro-am here, but my teacher is very supportive. At the one comp that I've done so far, she came along to suport all of her students (only four of us that day), helped us out - with make up, hair, warm up, making sure we were mentally 'ok', telling everyone which couples to have their eyes on and so forth, pretty much everything she could do. And even though she had to leave just before presentations of awards and stuff, she had us all call her to let her know exactly how it all panned out.
 
I usually have my hair done because I'm so inept (hope to change that soon to save myself some $$). Make-up takes me an hour if I want to do it right.
 
yah, working with hair is challenging. i seem to be learning, slowly... i'm finding that with each comp i'm getting better with everything, with what i can cram into that hour. i started out so basic, and this last time things were sleeker and more "ballroomy". i don't wanna start allowing myself longer time.
 
hair feedback is one area i can depend on for pro... he definitely likes it sleek, sleek, sleek. my hair isn't the smooth type, it's "fluffy" (as he describes it), and once when i didn't put enuf product & spray in it, he remarked that my hair was "too hairy".:rolleyes:
 
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