Carolina shag.                   

                     My favorite style is dancing.   :wink:                   

                     BALBOA!!                     

                     I love 'Hollywood Style' lindy and Balboa-  and who doesn't love the Shim Sham?                   

                     Lindy hop (Savoy) & balboa!                   

                     Hi 'stan,  I've never met Erik and Sylvia, but have always admired their dancing, they're wonderful!  I was taught Hollywood style by two direct students of Erik and Sylvia- and these guys are amazing together!
TMBC:
Aaw, but the shim sham can be soo fun when done in a group, after a night of great, exhaustive dancing!  Something like the last hurrah for the evening.                   

                     I love just basic jitterbug.When I first started dancing,it was just side,side,rockstep.A little twirl,throw in a cute dip and then grab a drink,gab,and show off your duds.
I know how to lindyhop,but I haven't found my comfort zone with it and there isn't anyone to teach Hollywood style here.                   

                     to sfdoll -

I love to Shim Sham but noone seems to every do them in San Francisco!

I justr started learning the jive and I like that quite a lot.  I love to dance period.  I just wish I could somehow get hte hubby to enjoy it too!  The word 'dance' makes him run...

SwS                   

                     blah, i get confusededed by the shim sham, that said i can still do it (after a fashion)!

i prefer the balboa and bal-swing, purely because that's the one i learnt the most of, but i also love lindy hoppin and the jitterbug stroll.

and like TMBC i pogo.

oh and i skank to the infectious nature of syncopated ska.

oh and irish dancing works up a hell of a sweat, that's good excercise (although always do it on a sprung floor, i had to do lessons on a concrete floor once, and i had shin-splints for roughly 3 weeks. owey :cry: )

but still- dancing in general est trés fantastique!                    

                     My solution to a hard floor is to do the "Frankie Manning" version of lindy...not circa 1940, the old-man version where your feet never leave the ground!                   

                     one word.  Balboa!

I learned bal at the same time as I was learning lindy.  I injured my back about the same time, and for a year the only dance that I could do was bal, so I put all my effort into that dance.  It was kinda funny after awhile, someone new would ask me to bal, and we'd have a lovely dance.  Later they'd ask me to lindy, and I'm sure from the look on their face, they wondered if I was the same person they bal'd with earlier.

I like the Shim Sham, but prefer to do a variation that's different then what the masses dance.  I like either the Dean Collins Shim Sham or Al & Leon's Shim Sham that I'm working on now.