I really enjoyed the message in today's video and watching you both dance together. I am going to see if I can find a dance partner to try this out. So far though, I would say I feel like I perform my best in a dance partnership when I am on top of my diet and training contralateral movements like crawling. I just feel the connection in my core when these two things align and I lead and adjust to my partner so much better when I can feel her subtleties of movement in my core. These two things have been all over the place the last few months for me but I am trying to improve both.
I hear you. My core is on and off throughout my dances. I think that's a result of me specifically training to engage my core in moments of certain moves. EG: Every dip I have my core engaged and when I am behind my follower in a cut off it's engaged so my follower can feel my movement and have awareness of where I am. Other movements I know it's engaged without me thinking about but I would like it to be permanently on whenever I dance. I remember Heejung Yung telling me she began to train her core right around the time she made it into Advanced level and it would be on and off. So, like me right now, she said she would actively think about it during her dances and realise it wasn't engaged, then engage it... rinse and repeat throughout a dance. She told me she only really achieved a permanent core while dancing when she made it to All Star level. Which was encouraging to me to hear - great technique takes time to develop.
I bow in gratitude to the TH-cam algorithm for bringing me to your page... I really, reeallly appreciate these videos. I'm a mere newbie in the WCS world - about 3 months in, and so I don't suspect *much* of what you're sharing to be attainable just yet (still in the mental mode of trying to make sure my feet are moving somewhat appropriately) but boy do I love what you're saying. Your perspective really inspires me. Looking forward to playing with these concepts, and to watching more of your content.
Welcome to the world of WCS - sounds like you caught the bug just like I did :) I appreciate your feedback too, my goal is to inspire others so it's really nice to hear your thoughts. Hopefully we'll bump into each other near a dance floor one day!
I have a stupid question. I hear two tempos in this song that you used, 67 BPM or 134 if you double time it. In your mind which are you dancing to? Watching you you seem to be using the 67 but maybe you accelerate certain sections bouble timing it. Am I reading this correctly? Thx.
Not a stupid question at all :) We're playing with tempo in this, so we do switch the tempo during the dance to highlight the music we hear. There are parts where the timing gets a little disconnected, which would be due to the freestyle nature of the dance where it's all improvised and we're using our connection to lead/follow and influence. I hope that makes sense :)
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I really enjoyed the message in today's video and watching you both dance together. I am going to see if I can find a dance partner to try this out. So far though, I would say I feel like I perform my best in a dance partnership when I am on top of my diet and training contralateral movements like crawling. I just feel the connection in my core when these two things align and I lead and adjust to my partner so much better when I can feel her subtleties of movement in my core. These two things have been all over the place the last few months for me but I am trying to improve both.
I hear you. My core is on and off throughout my dances. I think that's a result of me specifically training to engage my core in moments of certain moves. EG: Every dip I have my core engaged and when I am behind my follower in a cut off it's engaged so my follower can feel my movement and have awareness of where I am. Other movements I know it's engaged without me thinking about but I would like it to be permanently on whenever I dance. I remember Heejung Yung telling me she began to train her core right around the time she made it into Advanced level and it would be on and off. So, like me right now, she said she would actively think about it during her dances and realise it wasn't engaged, then engage it... rinse and repeat throughout a dance. She told me she only really achieved a permanent core while dancing when she made it to All Star level. Which was encouraging to me to hear - great technique takes time to develop.
So true. I definitely need to put in the work and remain focused on the process. Thank you for your reply sir =)
I bow in gratitude to the TH-cam algorithm for bringing me to your page...
I really, reeallly appreciate these videos. I'm a mere newbie in the WCS world - about 3 months in, and so I don't suspect *much* of what you're sharing to be attainable just yet (still in the mental mode of trying to make sure my feet are moving somewhat appropriately) but boy do I love what you're saying.
Your perspective really inspires me. Looking forward to playing with these concepts, and to watching more of your content.
Welcome to the world of WCS - sounds like you caught the bug just like I did :)
I appreciate your feedback too, my goal is to inspire others so it's really nice to hear your thoughts. Hopefully we'll bump into each other near a dance floor one day!
I have a stupid question. I hear two tempos in this song that you used, 67 BPM or 134 if you double time it. In your mind which are you dancing to? Watching you you seem to be using the 67 but maybe you accelerate certain sections bouble timing it. Am I reading this correctly? Thx.
Not a stupid question at all :) We're playing with tempo in this, so we do switch the tempo during the dance to highlight the music we hear. There are parts where the timing gets a little disconnected, which would be due to the freestyle nature of the dance where it's all improvised and we're using our connection to lead/follow and influence. I hope that makes sense :)
@@SteveFitz It does, thank you!