Eh, there aren't *nearly* enough leads in the Detroit area, so I learned to lead...thank God! Now I get to dance quite a bit more—but not enough.



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                     Man I'd love to go to a place where all you girls where dancing, would help me get out there more. I love to dance but yea I have that 'amature on the floor' fear. I don't mind taking the classes before dance nights, its kind of fun no presure settings. I want to take weekly classes but most of the ones I check out have couples signing up, no single girls. And I have no steady girl or even a female friend to convince to go with me. But I'm learning and I am going to take a class cause I know I love to dance and I know its a fact girls love guys that dance.
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You THINK you know, but you can't fully appreciate just how much we (well, I'm speaking for myself here) LOVE men who can dance. You don't even have to be able to dance. Just able to look like you're trying, and having fun, and LOOK LIKE you don't care if people think you're a 'great leggetty lump' (my new descriptive phrase. I think it sums up how not-very-good dancers feel when surrounded by people doing all sorts of frightening things on several axes(that was meant to be plural of axis, is that right?).).                     

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On 2002-04-19 15:55, Salt n' Swing wrote:

Maybe we can start recruiting???

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What did you have in mind?

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                     i've been doin this a long time, for fellas and ladies.  the fellas need a lot of encouragement, but they stick with it as long as they don't loes their cool.  once a fella feels like what he's doin isn't cool, it's over.  no matter how many pretty ladies there are.  i try to keep things fun, make jokes, and make everyone feel good.  dancing isn't supposed to be hard.                   

                     As for me, although I haven't done much swing dancing, I never had a choice about learning to dance. I think how you're raised has a great deal to do with a guy's attitude about dancing.  My family, as a group (parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents) would all go out dancing at the local dance hall on weekends.  When I became old enough to go along (I think I was 13) my grandmother just grabbed me and took me out on the floor and made me learn to waltz.



As dancing was a common activity in my family, its no big deal for me to dance.  Other guys I know, however, whose family didn't go dancing often, are much more hung up about getting out there on the floor.
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                     A good way to recruit is for those of us who are pretty good (impressive to those who don't know how) is to offer affordable private lessons.  My boyfriend and I do that and the men love it.  They feel much more comfortable that way and they get good personal instruction.  Also find men who do other types of danicng, some guys in my Ballet class are really excited about learning swing because it is a much more masculine dance.



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                     I know how they feel.                   

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On 2002-05-05 22:59, Two-Tone-Jones wrote:

ahhhhhhhhh ye-ah.  Smooth operator baby! *grin*

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*jealous* How come I can't get away with saying things like that?                   

                     how's this then?                   

                     ahhhhhhhhh ye-ah. Smooth operator baby! *grin*



How'd I do?                   

                     Okay... how's this:



hey darlin' *wink*, gonna be swingin' down to London for the 100 club this weekend, I got my shoes shined up and a one way ticket,  ahhhhhhhhh ye-ah. Smooth operator baby! *grin*