Goals for this Tango year:
- Continue to improve leading
- Get deeper into the movements and music
- Starting again with foundations (feet placement, weight, balance, transfers)
Always and forever a noob. Training for the first ASEAN Tango Championships, more about process than outcome really but have always been a competitive spirit so part of me really wants to make an impact. We definitely are not at the stage of winning but if improvement continues then it'll at least make a dent in the social dancing.
Training.
Why is it that Tango doesn't inspire the same practice spirit that a lot of other activities require (tennis, swimming, basketball, piano..heck anything I've ever picked up, or been dragged into, in my life so far)?
Maybe it's the fact and core of what makes it so appealing, that we rest on our laurels because we depend so much on what the partner is giving (50-50) hence...we think that if we give 50 and the other person gives 25 then we might as well not continue, or care anyway. Perhaps? Given these odds, its easy to just see it as "the leads fault", rather than seeing what he really wants you to do.
Or falling into the trap of complacency, of knowing a little thus thinking you know "everything". Such in life, such in work.
And then sometimes, having the most marvelous, perfect, ON POINT dancing, where you BECAME the music. God. That hit, is really why we are tangodrug addicts.
Who likes working hard, really, we do so to get the outcomes, but more so is the recognition in the process. If you grew, if you learnt, if you changed, that's really the goal innit? Forget whether or not you win the gold medal, the whole growth process that improves yourself is already a win.
Breaking these mental barriers. That's really the goal for 2019.
- Continue to improve leading
- Get deeper into the movements and music
- Starting again with foundations (feet placement, weight, balance, transfers)
Always and forever a noob. Training for the first ASEAN Tango Championships, more about process than outcome really but have always been a competitive spirit so part of me really wants to make an impact. We definitely are not at the stage of winning but if improvement continues then it'll at least make a dent in the social dancing.
Training.
Why is it that Tango doesn't inspire the same practice spirit that a lot of other activities require (tennis, swimming, basketball, piano..heck anything I've ever picked up, or been dragged into, in my life so far)?
Maybe it's the fact and core of what makes it so appealing, that we rest on our laurels because we depend so much on what the partner is giving (50-50) hence...we think that if we give 50 and the other person gives 25 then we might as well not continue, or care anyway. Perhaps? Given these odds, its easy to just see it as "the leads fault", rather than seeing what he really wants you to do.
Or falling into the trap of complacency, of knowing a little thus thinking you know "everything". Such in life, such in work.
And then sometimes, having the most marvelous, perfect, ON POINT dancing, where you BECAME the music. God. That hit, is really why we are tangodrug addicts.
Who likes working hard, really, we do so to get the outcomes, but more so is the recognition in the process. If you grew, if you learnt, if you changed, that's really the goal innit? Forget whether or not you win the gold medal, the whole growth process that improves yourself is already a win.
Breaking these mental barriers. That's really the goal for 2019.
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