back from the boston tea party.
Mar. 26th, 2007 06:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickieit was a good weekend. not the typical wacky-karaoke-partying, dance until 4am every night weekend, but nice all the same. i got to dance with the people i wanted to dance with, and see a number of old friends, and just get away for the weekend... that alone was worth it.
it seems like everyone is having babies these days (you know you've been away for a while when a couple has a baby and you didn't even know they'd been pregnant to begin with). very odd. national dance champions walking around with strollers and baby bags is just so freaky, it wasn't until a few years ago that you'd even see a baby at one of these weekends. the shame of it is that many of those amazing dancers didn't compete this time around... is it because they don't have the time to practice? they've lost the desire? who knows. all i know is it bummed me out in a way.
i didn't make the finals of my division, which doesn't surprise me. my own dancing has suffered from neglect in the last year, and i really felt it out there. any little bit of creativity, styling, whatever has flown out of my head, and i found myself just following during every dance (instead of throwing some fun stuff in there myself). also didn't help that my arm got ripped out of its socket my a very rough leader that i drew... literally, i've been pain ever since. i wasn't devastated that i didn't make it through, because 1. i expected it and 2. i got to drive home early the next morning instead of staying for the finals, which meant i was home mid-afternoon and could run errands and relax a bit and get ready for this nutty work week.
i came out of the experience pretty inspired, on a few levels. first, that i do need to lose weight. not just for my stamina on the dance floor, because that wasn't really a problem... but because you really do disappear out there when you don't appear your best. (not that this is my only reason to lose weight, but it's a motivator.) i found that when i watched the other competitions, my eyes gravitated towards the competitors who were slender and dressed well, even though there were several women out there who were good dancers but heavy. i guess it's human nature. so i can see how/why i get overlooked by leaders on the social dance floor, and perhaps by judges in competitions, because i'm just not at my "fighting best".
second, i really need to stop blowing off my dance classes, as well as the limited opportunities for social WCS dancing here in philly. i just need to go. this week, i'm going to try a thursday night advanced WCS class and see if i like it... as well as go out dancing on wednesday. i'm also going to look into hip-hop classes at my dance studio... i think working on body isolations in another style of dance could really help me (along witht he fact that hip-hop is a much better dance workout than WCS).
so, again, good weekend. and now i'm going to look forward to this fall -- "swingin' new england", baby! yeah!
it seems like everyone is having babies these days (you know you've been away for a while when a couple has a baby and you didn't even know they'd been pregnant to begin with). very odd. national dance champions walking around with strollers and baby bags is just so freaky, it wasn't until a few years ago that you'd even see a baby at one of these weekends. the shame of it is that many of those amazing dancers didn't compete this time around... is it because they don't have the time to practice? they've lost the desire? who knows. all i know is it bummed me out in a way.
i didn't make the finals of my division, which doesn't surprise me. my own dancing has suffered from neglect in the last year, and i really felt it out there. any little bit of creativity, styling, whatever has flown out of my head, and i found myself just following during every dance (instead of throwing some fun stuff in there myself). also didn't help that my arm got ripped out of its socket my a very rough leader that i drew... literally, i've been pain ever since. i wasn't devastated that i didn't make it through, because 1. i expected it and 2. i got to drive home early the next morning instead of staying for the finals, which meant i was home mid-afternoon and could run errands and relax a bit and get ready for this nutty work week.
i came out of the experience pretty inspired, on a few levels. first, that i do need to lose weight. not just for my stamina on the dance floor, because that wasn't really a problem... but because you really do disappear out there when you don't appear your best. (not that this is my only reason to lose weight, but it's a motivator.) i found that when i watched the other competitions, my eyes gravitated towards the competitors who were slender and dressed well, even though there were several women out there who were good dancers but heavy. i guess it's human nature. so i can see how/why i get overlooked by leaders on the social dance floor, and perhaps by judges in competitions, because i'm just not at my "fighting best".
second, i really need to stop blowing off my dance classes, as well as the limited opportunities for social WCS dancing here in philly. i just need to go. this week, i'm going to try a thursday night advanced WCS class and see if i like it... as well as go out dancing on wednesday. i'm also going to look into hip-hop classes at my dance studio... i think working on body isolations in another style of dance could really help me (along witht he fact that hip-hop is a much better dance workout than WCS).
so, again, good weekend. and now i'm going to look forward to this fall -- "swingin' new england", baby! yeah!
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Date: 2007-03-26 11:25 am (UTC)glad you had fun!
Date: 2007-03-26 01:01 pm (UTC)(BTW, H&L adopted, so you didn't mess a pregnancy there, if that's one you were thinking of.)
Re: glad you had fun!
Date: 2007-03-26 01:52 pm (UTC)Re: glad you had fun!
Date: 2007-03-26 05:51 pm (UTC)And, um, I did mean "miss a pregnancy." Not that pregnancy isn't a mess, too, but I don't think you were responsible.
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Date: 2007-03-26 07:03 pm (UTC)