It'll be pretty epic if in another Alternate Universe...
Ms. Spink and Forcible and Mr. Bobinsky were the trainors/Managers of Wybie and Coraline of they ever gotten themselves in Dancesport AU... they probably gonna be like undefeated if that's the case.🤔🤣
ok for those of you who AREN'T into ballroom dancing, there are usually two people, one person who's responsible for leading, and another who's responsible for following that lead. USUALLY, the members of our club just use lead and follow as opposed to men and women (since some ppl are nonbinary and some ppl switch lead and follow p often. like my ass, a ballroom clownfish). yesterday, the club's coaches (new to the club but old in general) were like "lead and follow or man and woman are outdated!!! some people use initiator and responder but that doesn't always make sense. so for today, we're gonna use alpha and omega" bro the way im crying they would literally say "alphas find your omegas" Help Me
I got a surprise lesson today! It was supposed to be Thursday but they asked if I wanted to move it up to tonight. Made my night honestly
Since I'm not prepping for any particular event currently, my instructor went for some oddball choices - we did lindy hop, peabody, quickstep, and a little bit of paso doble. Out of that list peabody, was the only one I had worked on in a private lesson before, so it was a ton of fun to try some new things.
Having never done quickstep I sort of assimilated it to foxtrot on fast-forward in my head... that's not correct. There are lots of lock steps, even in the basic! It's a real challenge at such a fast pace.
I really enjoyed paso doble, even though we only played with it for a couple minutes. I wish it had been longer. For how harsh and dramatic the music is, it has a surprising amount of flow.
Lindy hop is one I've tried socially and really struggled with, but it clicked once I got weight distribution explained. (It's not actually about jumping and is a lot more grounded than it looks.)
After the lesson I voiced to my instructor how frustrating it is to see people who started at the studio after me leveling up way ahead, and constantly have to remind myself that it's only because I can't afford as frequent lessons and not because I'm just plain worse than they are. He validated that I'm not worse and predicted that I'm going to have a very fast rise once I hit the point where my resources allow for it. So that's cool.