Confidence and performing - dance compared to other sports
Dancing falls into a very narrow field of sports, with the dependance of other people, but not as in a team with maybe 5, 11 or 25 other team mates... instead it's just one person, if you compete in Sweden. Everything YOU do, is reflected to your partner and the audience, and even if you have a good day, it can feel very bad because your dance partner is in a worse mood. But, also, the advantage is that it can feel acceptable good also when one person is dancing bad, just because the partner is dancing good and evens out the mistakes from the other one.
In most individual sports, you can't blame anyone but yourself when you're performing and you're highly responsible for your own training and performances. In team sports, say soccer or ice hockey, it is such a big troop that it isn't just one person that makes the team winning or loosing.
But in dancing, being respectful but also strong and dancing well, in the same time as reflecting what your partner is doing - it's quite tricky.
Dancing with confidence, it takes time, for me at least it has. Being confirmed in different ways is SO important for one's confidence. The last time have I been told independantly from different people, a lot of positive things about my dancing but also being asked for dances in a way I wasn't before, and that totally makes me being a better dancer. I can dance more relaxed and I dare to test new things and fooling around with trust that it is still a valid try, nothing wrong with that. As a couple you're always judged as "the two", but if there is a feeling of individual differences there might arise some uncertainties. That's why it's so important for me, feeling that I'm accepted also as an individual from the bigger crowd of dancers I hang around with most of the time when I'm not dancing with "my" dance partner.
Muscle memory and moving your body - that isn't easy. Coordination and such a things have never been very important for cardio athletics but they (I) are still very strong in most muscle groups compared to their body weight. Maybe strong legs, highly trained abs and well used back, in combination with a good upper body when skiing for example... most athletics can still experience a slowness in the micro-movements that dancing tries to push your body into. I felt it even more obvious last year in Denver, how my dancing and "bouncing" was highly affected of my 5 hour bike ride the other day, or trying to do these body rolls involving all the sore muscles since the climbing practice....
I feel that I now, in combination with better muscle memory and wider dictionary of movements, have been stronger in my core and in better shape with my "smaller and quicker" muscles that handle these center-of-inertia movements of my body, that is supposed to happen in rythm to the music. I honestly think I wasn't strong enough before, to even be close to do the movements I'm doing now. And still - I have tons of things to work on and improve, but I at least see that everything can be learnt as long as you are ready to train and work hard for it.
Most very good shape athletics, like skiiers, bikers or runners, that doesn't feel "soft enough", that feel stiff like I 'did', are probably very good trained in their bigger muscle groups that are effective and awesome for the strong or endurance movements they are doing, but dancing and its quickness is something else. Or? What is your opinion?
Maybe there isn't a lot of people that has "converted" to dancing with such an extreme "other-side-background" like me?
I was doing some ballet exercises yesterday and some gymnastic complex weightlifting program... and it was awesome! I really has to practice it more.
Nothing more, klart slut, rena vargtjut.
In most individual sports, you can't blame anyone but yourself when you're performing and you're highly responsible for your own training and performances. In team sports, say soccer or ice hockey, it is such a big troop that it isn't just one person that makes the team winning or loosing.
But in dancing, being respectful but also strong and dancing well, in the same time as reflecting what your partner is doing - it's quite tricky.
Dancing with confidence, it takes time, for me at least it has. Being confirmed in different ways is SO important for one's confidence. The last time have I been told independantly from different people, a lot of positive things about my dancing but also being asked for dances in a way I wasn't before, and that totally makes me being a better dancer. I can dance more relaxed and I dare to test new things and fooling around with trust that it is still a valid try, nothing wrong with that. As a couple you're always judged as "the two", but if there is a feeling of individual differences there might arise some uncertainties. That's why it's so important for me, feeling that I'm accepted also as an individual from the bigger crowd of dancers I hang around with most of the time when I'm not dancing with "my" dance partner.
Muscle memory and moving your body - that isn't easy. Coordination and such a things have never been very important for cardio athletics but they (I) are still very strong in most muscle groups compared to their body weight. Maybe strong legs, highly trained abs and well used back, in combination with a good upper body when skiing for example... most athletics can still experience a slowness in the micro-movements that dancing tries to push your body into. I felt it even more obvious last year in Denver, how my dancing and "bouncing" was highly affected of my 5 hour bike ride the other day, or trying to do these body rolls involving all the sore muscles since the climbing practice....
I feel that I now, in combination with better muscle memory and wider dictionary of movements, have been stronger in my core and in better shape with my "smaller and quicker" muscles that handle these center-of-inertia movements of my body, that is supposed to happen in rythm to the music. I honestly think I wasn't strong enough before, to even be close to do the movements I'm doing now. And still - I have tons of things to work on and improve, but I at least see that everything can be learnt as long as you are ready to train and work hard for it.
Most very good shape athletics, like skiiers, bikers or runners, that doesn't feel "soft enough", that feel stiff like I 'did', are probably very good trained in their bigger muscle groups that are effective and awesome for the strong or endurance movements they are doing, but dancing and its quickness is something else. Or? What is your opinion?
Maybe there isn't a lot of people that has "converted" to dancing with such an extreme "other-side-background" like me?
I was doing some ballet exercises yesterday and some gymnastic complex weightlifting program... and it was awesome! I really has to practice it more.
Nothing more, klart slut, rena vargtjut.
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