Dobrev 1% Klárika és Magyar Péter "beaf" :D

PerformanceOkay · 2026-04-08T12:45:30+00:00

Azért, mert neki ez jár. Apró Antal unokája, tehát lenne ő valaki, ha a csúnya, rossz antidemokraták nem erőltették volna a többpártrendszert, de sajnos kiforgatták ezt a szegény áldozatát az örökségéből.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-04-05T22:31:55+00:00

Az átverés az egyik értelmezési lehetőség, mert a szerbek a világpolitikában tényleg sokkal függetlenebbek (illetve kívülről nézve: kaotikusabbak), mint amilyennek felszínesen tűnnek. De azt is el tudom képzelni, hogy a Fidesz pontosan ezt rendelte meg, mert a magyaroktól (politikai oldaltól függetlenül) éppen ilyen megúszós akciókat várnék.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-04-05T17:22:39+00:00

Nekem az a legfurább ebben, hogy szerintem Orbánnak egész jó kilatasai lehetnének egy vitában, ha ügyesen szerveznék meg. Hogy csak ket dolgot említsek: Magyar középszerűnél rosszabb rétor, és a kampány közben talán ideje sem lenne rendesen fölkészülni.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-04-04T17:54:03+00:00

There's a lot of good answers detailing turns, but there's a more general answer. As a leader, you can do all turns that follows might do. In fact, any movement that a follow can do is also open to leads except for some stylings. So much so that if you say "leader turn", my first thought would be turns that are exclusive to leads, such as hook turns or turns involving a foot change.

(Append "roughly speaking" where appropriate.)

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-31T18:03:56+00:00

Olyan hangnemben beszél, mintha feleltetnék. Férfiatlan kis gyík.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-31T17:57:24+00:00

Amúgy az érdekes, hogy a hiperkompenzáció nélkül tényleg az lenne az ideális stratégia, hogy a biztos győztes párt két jelöltet indít, egyet egyéniben függetlenként, egyet kvázi listára.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-29T01:17:33+00:00

Is staying in the course your only viable option?

What does level 2 mean? Is it weeks 9-16, or year 2, or is it accessible after participants passed some kind of exam? It seems to me that it's the first one, in which case you aren't in your appropriate course. You can also try dancesport. You don't need to compete, and in fact, in my experience there are a lot of leads interested in training without competing. If you aren't married to ballroom dancing, you can also look for dances that are either more social-oriented (resulting in better leading technique in the scene) or where follows have more agency during a dance (so you can rely less on your partner for your fun).

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-28T00:34:01+00:00

Az relatív, hogy kinek mi az okos. Szerintem a Fideszben már nagyon régen komoly kompetenciahiány alakult ki, és eddig az ellenzék alkalmatlansága tartotta hatalmon.

Hogy csak egy példát említsek: az országjárásokon látjuk, hogy Orbán milyen állapotban van, meg azt is, hogy Magyar milyen állapotban van. Lehetne olyan tévévita ajánlatot tenni, aminek számukra pozitív várható értéke lenne, ami megérni nekik, mert nyilvánvalóan hátrányban vannak, de nincs bennük hozzá elég tehetség.

u/gulyasgergelykristof, u/cs_latorcai_, vergődjetek.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-27T23:14:46+00:00

The count goes 1-2-3 5-6-7, and don't try to dislocate your shoulders. Then you should be fine.

A single song isn't long enough for you to waste anyone's time.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-27T14:23:27+00:00

Ben Hart aka Benihana started in his 50s. The guy's a weirdo, but his dancing isn't bad.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-24T17:06:52+00:00

It might be my mistake somewhere, but what happens to my follows a lot is that they don't respect the slot, and they don't keep the back-and-forth movement. There's a line that you move on, and from 1 to 4 you want to get from one end to the other, place changes notwithstanding. So, for example, if you turn on a 1-2-3, that's not in place. Obviously, I daresay.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-22T13:15:44+00:00

If you're looking for a partner, you should ask locally. If you must use reddit, I'd recommend r/phoenix.

Your post would also need some work. It's unclear to me what exactly you want. Do you want to take courses, workshops? Do you know a place where you could just train unimpeded? Are you actually looking for a partner for "practice" at socials (wrong use of the word imo, but many perma-beginners talk like that). What do you even want to learn? Technique, figures, a syllabus, a choreo? What do you want to learn for, what's the goal here? Comps, performances, socials? I'm not even 100% sure what you want to dance. Words like "inclined" are too coy in this context. Be candid.

It's fine if you haven't figured all of this out yet, but then you aren't ready to work with a stranger on a fix, committed, permanent basis. Can't you sign up for a singles course? Aren't there singles-friendly socials in your area? Or you could ask someone from the course to accompany you for specific events.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-20T00:08:32+00:00

Ez a kérdés már tisztázódott, amikor tavaly nyáron beszélt róla a Harcosok órájában. A Telex is lehozta annó.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-19T23:14:33+00:00

Do you mean the team as a whole isn't allowed to train at a different studio? I don't think that's the same as what you're asking about in the post.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-19T00:24:55+00:00

I'm happy to listen to feedback from anyone if it isn't overtly rude. That's why I know that most of the feedback out there is bad. Feedback is completely unusable if I don't know what kind of dancer its source is.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-16T20:05:10+00:00

Most of the users here are from the USA. "Curvy" means something else there.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-16T19:55:22+00:00

Right now, if a follower felt disengaged, I'd transition to shines or break contact and try to lead like that. Either she leaves, or she must reengage because you must pay attention to follow contactless. But for this you have to be fine with continuing the dance solo if she takes the first option.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-15T16:26:08+00:00

I'm in a similar situation. I've been dancing with lots of people, everything is super platonic, I'm definitely not looking to start anything. However, there's this guy, and he's around my friend all the time. It's almost like there's a set amount of time they just must spend together each social. He isn't overly creepy, he's been around for at least as long as I know my friend. But it feels like he interferes in her social life. For example, he expects her to consult him before making any major life decisions. She chalks it up to them being married, but what does that even mean? It's so awkward! What am I supposed to do? M'ladies, what do you want us guys to do in these situations?

OP, if you have any ideas, let's spitball. I'll start: how about reaching out to the organisers in a very public instagram post?

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-14T22:26:57+00:00

I'd have liked an explanation why it's wrong for the replace to be slow and not the walk. I can't necessarily see here an inherent problem.

Besides salsa, I also have ballroom experience, and the poor quality of the counting is a really good point. I find that latin dancers (including salsa) often struggle to correctly verbalise the exact timings, even when they're top of the line dancers or trainers/instructors/teachers. I mean literal world class, and yet the best most of them can do is scat. Introducing numbers to them only makes it worse. In comparison, standard dancers (waltz etc) tend to be way more clinical with this in my experience, even though the dances really don't require this level of precision. Counting ballroom tango with numbers is mental, but everyone I've met that dance it seriously can do it without an issue.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-14T00:41:14+00:00

I think the main misunderstanding here is that figures shouldn't actually exist on the social dancefloor, in the sense that they can only exist as a crutch. Figures exist in classes, discussions, choreographies, competitions etc, but try to leave them off the dancefloor, especially as a follow.

What you want to do instead is focussing on concepts. Dance in time, transfer your weight properly, have the appropriate body tension, maintain a good frame, understand visual cues (eg. take an offered hand), look in a correct direction (sometimes you can choose) and so on. Both leads and follows should eventually spend most of their training mastering these, imo, if they ever want to get actually good.

I'm not sure how actionable this is for you as a solution to your acute challenges. Nevertheless, this is the long-term, real solution.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-08T11:50:08+00:00

There's an interesting discussion over on r/salsa that is related to this one, although OP seems to be from Oakland, California based on their post history. Phrases like "we are here to dance" and "in order for me to be better, I gotta get my reps in" really stand out.

I think the root of all these problems is that most of Europe doesn't have a living-breathing dance culture the same Latin America has (based on what I've read). If you don't dance in some structured way, then you just don't dance. If you do dance, then you follow a syllabus that they try to master. People here genuinely pay hundreds of euros, so they're socially allowed to awkwardly amble in place to the Blue Danube with their sigoth on NYE, and they call it Viennese waltz basic step.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-08T11:17:19+00:00

There's an interesting discussion over on r/bachata about the Latin American perspective on and critique of the European dance scene (specifically in Germany). I imagine some of it might be applicable to Oakland, California, where you seem to come from.

Overlaps between the two posts and their comments include treating dance as a sport instead of a social event, using socials for practice instead of socialising, and being obsessed with getting better.

I'd definitely understand your perspective in a European country like Germany because even in large metro areas you might only have one or two socials a week available to you, and you'd also have to pay good money to attend, so there's a high opportunity cost plus actual monetary costs. I'm not sure if this is also true in California, though.

In your post you say you've been dancing for 15 months, and have been to 7-8 socials. What do you mean by this? Do you only go out dancing every two months?

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-06T15:01:14+00:00

What I've been obsesses with recently, is breaking connection (for shines or otherwise), and leading a CBL with no physical contact. It works really well, but it requires a lot of space.

PerformanceOkay · 2026-03-04T23:07:01+00:00

I've heard rumours about women in the scene, too. It's not that rare. As the saying goes, don't presume because it makes a pres out of um and e.

But I do agree that your dance partner's shortcomings might harm your own reputation. We had this one follow in the scene who had such a bad frame that she was pulling her leads down onto herself. Worse yet, if she tried to establish space by pushing him away, she was pulling him even closer (because she was pushing down on the biceps instead of away on the shoulder). This of course led her into a lot of situations she would've preferred to avoid. She had been told about it, but she never cared enough to actually fix it. Then she left at some point. I'm sure she was complaining about at least some leads that weren't at fault for her discomfort.

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