Hyperreal

Hi Guys,

Need to thank you all for your encouragement over these past few weeks. And also a big cheers to the other new boys and girls.

Can I just say this web site and forum needs some serious plugging at the Wednesday night class - there’s so few people I’ve been able to find here who go to this class. (Hi there!) Either that or the lurkers need to de-cloak and identify themselves.

So, onto my weekly tale of a newbie at Ceroc.

This week was a bit difficult. Here are the moves…

1) Yoyo, this time without a push-spin, but with a spin anyway. I though the difference between a spin and a turn was that with a spin you let go? No? We were told to spin the lady, but not let go. Guess it doesn’t make too much difference.

(Another brief aside - haven’t had much feedback on my impressions of the moves themselves through the weeks. Anyone want to jump in with some discussion here?)

2) Catapult. Woah! This is v. tricky. It’s hard to tell though if you’re messing it up or it’s your partner, as it’s all really happening behind your back! I certainly messed it up quite a lot, but sometimes my partner at the time would be blaming herself. Maybe they were just being nice, though when I was dancing with known experienced dancers it usually seemed to go better.

3) Can’t remember the name of this move - but it’s dead easy… L-R hands, swap sides with guy doing 180º anticlockwise turn under his left arm, etc… What’s this called?

4) That fed into the basket, with the usual botched efforts when trying to get the girl’s other hand. I’m not good at baskets.

4a) During the return from the basket, swap hands to go into the yoyo… It’s funny how much time the teacher and taxis spent on this as I found it dead easy. OK, maybe I’m not doing it in the most elegant fashion possible, but that’ll come, I guess…

I’m beginning to get to know a few people there, which is both good and bad… Good, because you get to know them… Bad, cos they’re then more likely to ask you to dance!

So even though I had decided I wouldn’t, I had a few dances during the first freestyle bit. Actually, to tell the truth, it was probably me doing most of the asking!

So it was all fairly disastrous, but fun nevertheless. I’m having trouble remembering who I danced with before and after the revision class, but I’ll just thank everyone who put up with my crap dancing during this time.

The revision class again was very useful. Managed to improve my yoyo and catapult vastly during this time. It’s a shame we didn’t manage to find a good quiet area to practice in. It seems it’s the last week of term this week at Glasgow Uni and everyone is having a party.

We didn’t cover the basket in the revision, but that’s OK, cos I really should know it and I needed the practice more for the other moves. That said, it was total carnage on the dance-floor every time I tried it in the freestyle after. :?

During that time I danced with a couple of beginners, one of which didn’t seem to understand that it was me who’s supposed to be leading… Hope she get’s better, cos she keeps asking me to dance!

I also danced with the taxi dancer - now if only all dancers were as good, and sympathetic as the lady taxi dancers I’ve met at the GUU! :flower:

And I danced with a couple of intermediates (actually, one of them might have been in the first freestyle :? ) again of different standards, but both way better than me! :worthy: One was so much better than me it was embarrassing.

But it was fun! So I decided to run away before I was trapped by another beginner as crap as me.

And that’s it.

Watching the other freestylers still terrifies me, but then it you’re up dancing you don’t see them. It was fun watching the last five minutes or so of the intermediate class and seeing that you can be “intermediate”, but still be pretty clueless now and then.

Think I’ll try to sign up for the beginner’s workshop in Edinburgh at Easter, and then see if I then want to go to the Glasgow one in April.

Hmmm… Seems that the Edinburgh beginner’s is on the same day as the next Edinburgh party. Maybe I’ll also make it along to that.

Hope you’re enjoying reading my ramblings. Let me know what you think and tune in next week to see if I’ve got my baskets in order yet.

Thanks everyone. :flower:

And props to all my posse! :cheers: :hug: