What do you WANT? Part 4: Community

This is the last article in a 4-part series. If you have read  Part 1: Social, Part 2: Skills, and Part 3: Competition, skip down to the Part 3: COMMUNITY section by clicking here. Otherwise, keep reading. It’s the new year – typically a popular time to reassess and take stock, but this year we’re a little wiser…Have you actually taken

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What do you WANT? Part 4: Community

What do you WANT? Part 3: Competition

This is Part 3 in a 4-part series. If you have read  Part 1: Social, and Part 2: Skills, skip down to the Part 3: Competition section by clicking here. Otherwise, keep reading. It’s the new year – typically a popular time to reassess and take stock, but this year we’re a lot wiser than we have ever been.Have you actually

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What do you WANT? Part 3: Competition

What do you WANT? Part 2: Skills

This is Part 2 in a 4-part series. If you have already read Part 1: Social, skip to the Part 2 section by clicking here.It’s the new year – typically a popular time to reassess and take stock, but this year we’re a little wiser…Since the pandemic, we’ve all learned a lot about what really hasn’t

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What do you WANT? Part 2: Skills

What do you WANT? Part 1: Social

It’s the new year – Have you taken stock of what you really want out of your West Coast Swing lately? Because now’s a REALLY good time to do that!Consider this your opportunity to do a philosophical audit of your WCS, and “clean your closet” so you can dump some dead weight in your dance

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What do you WANT? Part 1: Social

How to sustain that post-event glow

Did you have an amazing time at the event this weekend? Feeling blissfully “swungover” and basking in the afterglow of soul-filling social dancing, thrilling shows & contests, and brain-nourishing workshops?It is inevitable that this afterglow will wear off after a while, just as any vacation effect wears off after coming back home.But wouldn’t it be

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How to sustain that post-event glow

Competing for the first time?

So you’ve decided it’s time to try competing and you are getting ready to to compete for the first time?  The advice you will often hear is “just have fun!”. But while encouraging, this is not actually that helpful. You don’t need to try to have fun – you will have fun organically if you

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Competing for the first time?

The Ultimate WCS Etiquette Checklist

Etiquette is a part of the culture of social dancing that is often taken for granted.   We all assume that since we feel like we are doing fine, that others will perceive us the same. Everyone assumes the advice applies to everyone but themselves.   …but are you SURE?   You may have heard

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The Ultimate WCS Etiquette Checklist

How to build creativity in your WCS

So you’ve been learning WCS for several months now and you’re curious: the other dancers you admire seem to be doing a lot of exploring and playing outside the box of basic patterns – how can you get some of that creativity in your dance?   We use this graphic to guide dancers in their

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How to build creativity in your WCS

How your brain might be sabotaging your dance

How is your brain sabotaging your dance progress.?   There are many aspects to The Mental Game of dancing – here’s just one: cognitive biases.     A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information.   A learning bias is a pre-determined assumption or mindset

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How your brain might be sabotaging your dance

Feeling stuck in your dance journey?

Feel like you’re working hard but not reaching your goals yet? Enjoy this little “photo story”.   I created this because it provides perspective and answers a ton of questions and concerns that students have, that actually have nothing to do with dance itself, but rather the mastery journey. I found that when I first

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Feeling stuck in your dance journey?