Whenever I try to practice I do random stuff without any focus. Which is alot better than nothing but tonight I'm going to find a CD and practice one move for each entire song.
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Re: Erica's Practice Journal
Tue, April 3, 2007 - 1:45 PMOooohhh that's a good one {nice to see you btw}.. Bo had a great suggestion of making flash cards... where each card holds a single move or fixed combination. Where you pull one out of the pile (or more) for your drill work.
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Re: Erica's Practice Journal
Tue, April 3, 2007 - 2:47 PMAnd then you pull out three, and they're all step patterns, and you try to do them anyway! And then you fall over!
No, seriously, I love my flashcards. They always get me going.
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Re: Erica's Practice Journal
Wed, April 11, 2007 - 2:37 PMBeen getting bits of practice in throughout my days. Never did get around to doing a move a song but have been going to the Fusion class and tonight I'm doing the Tribal. Other classes can count as practice, right? -
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 2:47 PMAll your classes count as practice. It doesn't matter if it is belly dance, tap, jazz, ballet, hula.... anything... dance related (except shopping and sewing, unless you learned how to layer dance stuff) counts as practice.
So does, sitting and standing in conscious dance posture. No slouching and all that. Since, it is one of the most important.. Bad posture will make even the best dancer look bad.
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Thu, April 26, 2007 - 8:23 AMLast night I did do some slow tribal in class but was very uncomfortable being the leader. I'm going to do it more though because I'd like to do more than the Into class piece in the June show.
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Thu, April 26, 2007 - 11:06 AMIf you come to tribal class every week before the show you'll be good to go. You only have to lead for like a min for a show, like two combos if that and your good. Just focus on what you need to feel better about the moves. You'll do great.
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Sat, April 28, 2007 - 7:29 PMDid some practice with Tascha, Leah and Limor yesterday and now Tribal seems a little easier and alot less intimidating.
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Fri, June 1, 2007 - 6:14 PMcopied a Solace cd and am doing the move a song finally. But it's even more basic than alot of DVDs but it helps.
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Tue, July 3, 2007 - 7:42 AMDid some actual yoga this morning. I keep hearing dancers rave about how it helps them dance better. I don't know if my awkward sun salutations help but what the hell, yoga never hurt anyone. -
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Thu, July 5, 2007 - 4:54 PMI find that it has really improved my posture and it is slooooowly increasing my flexibility. I also notice that when I do yoga in the morning, I'm simply in a better mood for the rest of the day. Enjoy.
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Sun, November 18, 2007 - 5:55 PMI did my Ariellah DVD tonight, well the drills anyway. It's the first DVD that felt like class, which helped. I'm going to do this one every night I don't have class.
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Re: Erica's Practice Journal
Thu, March 13, 2008 - 10:06 PMVideo is the most constructive criticism.
I seldom ask for criticism, because I can usually tell what I need to work on, I don't give criticism because dancing has to be painfully bad for me not to like it.
Today I watched the dvd of last years Summer Show.
I sucked and I HOPE my dancing has improved since then, waiting to watch this last spring show for a comparisan
Blood Moon didn't look too bad.
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Re: Erica's Practice Journal
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 10:15 AMTonight I'm giving the Intermediate Tribal a shot. Even if I'm not ready, if I stay in begiining I'll forget what I just learned because they're starting over and I won't have a chance to practice.
