I’ve been watching the videos of Erik and I from Seacoast… I think we look pretty good in many of the dances!
Erik & Layla Videos – Seacoast 2010
This is what I thought about each of our videos from Seacoast:
m2u00235, this was our first dance, Tango, when we had just run onto the floor (I was *late*!). I still had one leg warmer on during this dance, and I’m not even in tango hold here! Talk about frazzled! But the main problem that I see is that we (I) appear to be moving very slowly, lifeless. Feeling lifeless at that hour of the morning might have had something to do with it! @_@ Shh!
m2u00236, the V.Waltz – I felt pretty good about this one.
m2u00237, the foxtrot, I think we did pretty well. Sometimes we could be smoother, but i’m still learning! I wonder if there was too much rise and fall though?
m2u00238, the quickstep. I need to hold my core together better here.
m2u00690, the Waltz, I was very happy with this dance. I made quite a few mistakes, like not turning my head out to promenade, but I think it looked very nice!
m2u00691, the 2nd tango.. I think we did much better. The twist turns looked nice, even though I was probably doing them all wrong at the time!… I was a bit slow with my head movements though.
m2u00692, 2nd v.waltz, I liked it.
m2u00693, 2nd foxtrot, I felt the same way as the first, I liked it, but I think maybe the steps after the heel turns could be longer. But all of this stuff is stuff I already know, I just need to practice practice to make it work! And I will!
m2u00694, 2nd quickstep.. biggest problem I see is still my wobbling core, and my short back steps (locksteps/chasses)… I think I learned something good tonight about how to be better on those steps… and I also realized how it can apply to the Chasse in Waltz too!
Erik & Layla - Waltz - Seacoast, 2010
Erik & Layla - Tango - Seacoast, 2010
May 9th, 2010 - 13:59
Wow! You were at the Seacoast Classic too?! How cool!! Are you doing any comps this summer? I am planning on doing Yankee Classic, just standard. We (Seacoast Ballroom) are also hoping/planning to go to the Supershag Invitational! 😀
May 9th, 2010 - 15:05
Yeah! Last night after the party I told Gil that when I danced with you, I KNEW that I knew your face from somewhere, and then when you told me your name, I realized you were the person I’d been emailing with about the dance camp, and then a little bit later, it clicked that the place I had seen you at was Seacoast! (I remember you, your instructor, and also that there was a younger, shorter girl that he danced standard with as well!)
I’m not sure if I’ll be doing any comps this summer. I am under a lot of pressure to do Manhattan as Pro/Am, but I feel that it is really too expensive for me… There is also the Boston Ballroom 1-day Pro-Am comp in September, which I will probably do because I won’t need to pay for transportation/hotel/food. I have to ask Gil if he is interested in doing Yankee or not. The SuperShag Invitational is the one that I’m almost guaranteed to be doing, so I hope that you can make it! 🙂
May 9th, 2010 - 15:06
Hey! Isn’t that you in the background of the first picture above!?!!