#six count

I am super excited to start the next round of classes!!!

I have to confess that I mostly want to stop etching you moves and focus on connection but I know that you'll ditch classes if we don't teach you new things so I'll save the ULTIMATE CONNECTION LECTURE for a time when you are so addicted to learning swing dance it doesn't matter what I'm teaching you.

Today I am sitting in Astronomy writing this post. I got a message on fb about finding something in the Calgary Herald and I don't know what I'm looking for so I can't find it online. I NEED to find out what my friend wants me to see. It may be totally uninteresting and yet because they haven't told me what I'm looking for, they have only given me the page number, I am being consumed by curiosity. I'm going to buy a paper after class and then go eat dinner with my family and then go dancing. Sadly after that I will not be going dancing again. It would be too late for me.

Just rambling. Only the first part there was really relevant to any of you.

I'm giving you all a heads up on what to expect - ish.

Tomorrow is lesson 5 and our final class for this first round!! The 30th marks the first class of round two for the Fall semester. Be prepared for this to make very little sense until we finish the class but know that it's going to be super fun and awesome!

Warm Up: Social Dance, End of the Monkey Routine

Review: We won't spend much time on review unless you have specific questions, we hope that during the warm up social dancing you will run through whatever you want to run through and ask questions then as well!

New Material: Washing Machine, Charleston, Frog Jump (Ooh! It's an Aerial!)

Hey!

So firstly I would like to send out a big welcome to some of my new followers and to my new STUDENTS! I love you all. Really.

The summary of what you learned tonight:

-Basic in closed

-Tuck turn

-Basic in open

-Pass-by

-Bring in

-Peckin' (Special bonus move!)

We are for the next four lessons (it's a five lesson series, including this one) going to be teaching six count, east coast, swing. Single steps. The next half of the semester (so second set of five lessons) will be the same thing with triple steps, we will also throw in different moves so it is still interesting to everyone who already took single steps and also easy for newcomers to jump right in.

We do not have a camera. We may or may not fix this. I am going to, however, find youtube videos and link them here:

Just up to 1:30, after that it's future things, Lesson 1

And there is no good video of Peckin' that I can find so I'm going to awkwardly describe it...I say awkward cause it will turn into a rambling thing, oh god it already has. So you're in closed position and you lead the beginning of a tuck turn, rock step, then on your first step you're going to lung and peck three (or more) times. To get out of it simply rock step and go back into your basic's. Follows, you can tell when to lung or rock step because of the pressure from his hand on your back. Remember, you are glued there unless otherwise stated!