On2 on track

June 25, 2007

Gym shorts were fine. I'm less sure about football jersey though. We are now up to eight - with one person being away - thanks in part to someone taking a facebook plunge.

The format was similar to last week - isolations, footwork and partner work taking up about a third of the time each - if anything partner work as usual gets the least amount of coverage. Intensity of each of the sessions was higher than last week - especially footwork. Footwork and partner work portions are still review for me - some of the spins are getting pretty close to the level of intensity reached near the end of the spring sessions. Some of the footwork exercises were new, but they were more of an exercise rather than a shine and probably not worth recording.

Sergio was worried about people "still" struggling with timing - I found his concern amusing because most people there tonight were either there for the first time or had only gone through one session. It's a problem that will be solved only with a lot of repetition - practices outside the official sessions will help a lot.

Some of the group headed for Club Salsa afterwards. Good times. I managed a pretty good On2 dance and even finished with a pretty good Bachata practice - I don't really get much of those - thanks to a request made by Rajiv. It seems dancing Salsa On2 has gone from more-than-two-disruptive-timing-mistakes-per-minute difficult and nerve-wrecking to "Hey! This is getting alright!" mostly mistake-free phase; it has taken over dozen dances over course of few months.

I picked up a copy of Latin Nation and perused through it after the social. The magazine now has listing of heat winners for the Latinfest dance competition. So one now can see Cyrille and Stephanie's name on print as the Cambridge heat winner now. In addition, I saw two other familiar names on the list of winners - Domenic (he won the heat at Bar Salsa) and Sasha (she won the heat at Guildford). It's a small world.