Comments | renatele: Uhm... just how did I end up trying to learn the preliminary dances?

renatele

Uhm... just how did I end up trying to learn the preliminary dances?

Nov 21, 2009 17:33

I'll tell you how ... I don't get enough time to practice intermediate MITF to really make progress, and I was feeling quite sick on Thursday (but did not dare to cancel my lesson! K* would have totally told me off if I did, especially since he is out of state next week). So after doing some power circles which nearly killed me, I said that I am ( Read more... )

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eskater November 23 2009, 23:47:38 UTC

Yay, dance! Prelims and Pre Bronze are fairly easy to pass. You have to fall AND forget the steps to get a retry on Prelims. Most every adult I know who dances took their Prelims and Pre Bronze at Standard Track, including me. Some partnered, I soloed from the very beginning. You can do it if you want to NO problem. You've got great edges, power and flow, R! :)

renatele December 4 2009, 15:57:13 UTC

It is interesting to note that even preliminary dances seem to require very good edges - I could definitely feel the benefit of working on those dances (as little as I've done it so far - about 4 practices). Testing all 3 on 8th ...

eskater December 4 2009, 22:22:51 UTC

Yes, they do. They are the basis for each successive dance, as you will find. The edges, clean feet, depth of lobe, and lean, become substantially more difficult as one progresses, in my opinion. A person can get away with "free styling" the dances in the beginning, but not later. There is a reason to the way the dance levels are structured. I sure you "get" that ( ... )