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[lederhosen]

Went to salsa class last night, with Rey. The footwork triggered vestigial and conflicting memories of long-ago SCA dancing, aikido, and fencing. (At least, I am assuming most people who do salsa don't find themselves thinking "hey, my partner has left her throat exposed". If I am wrong here, please don't enlighten me.)

Did not actually injure anybody, so I'm counting this as a win :-)

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[nefaria.livejournal.com]

The last time I went to salsa class, the hot peppers caught fire.

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Oh, salsa dancing?

Well, there you go. Congrats on surviving the first lesson!

(This is me not enlightening you. *snerk*)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Well, Bastard has been known to do foot sweeps and hip throws and other similar techniques to put me into a dip... :P He tells me that all he has to do is remember to not follow through.

We participate in 'Combat Ceroc' on occasion, in the partner vs partner form, not the couple vs couple form XD

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of moments where they told us "don't do this, or you'll end up twisting your partner's arm/pulling them off balance/arm around their throat". Most of them looked a lot like aikido and judo moves.

(And now I'm reminded of Gomez Addams dancing with Morticia...)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Martial arts and dancing use the same principles of momentum and inertia to get a slightly different result. I do find that (at least in the style I do) martial artists have a significant advantage when learning, because:
a) they already know how to look at a demonstrated technique and boil it down to the essentials for them
b) they already know where their balance is
c) they already know how to affect other people's balance (and by extension can feel where the other person is with regards to that balance)
d) they know how easy it is to hurt people, and so they don't do hurty things due to negligence (unless you jump out at them in the dark)

There was one moment early on in Bastard's dancing where I explained the move we were learning in terms of an arm bar. According to the look on his face, it suddenly made sense.

I have a Pterry scene running through my head now, from 'Lords and Ladies' IIRC...

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

Stick and Bucket dance?

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Yup :P