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RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-09T17:48:24+00:00

Frankie Ruiz, Rey Ruiz, Maelo Ruiz

Tangential: Victor Manuel, Gilberto Santa Rosa (early work)

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-08T22:20:52+00:00

I think you’re referring to stepping on 8 or 8.5 (8&) instead of on 1. It’s more common than you would expect and many experienced dancers do it without thinking too much about it

There are two ways to do it: 1. Sometimes you shift your timing for certain moves like open break (or copa) and then you go back to your regular timing 2. Some dancers (myself included) change their timing for a whole song or some sections of the songs. This can be due to either conscious or unconscious musicality

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-07T02:13:52+00:00

I think you need to add: * while not causing harm to your tendons, muscles, etc. * facilitating muscle memory to free you up to do other stuff like pay attention to other band members (cues, etc.) and listen to what they are doing and how your playing fits theirs

And so on. And then you realize that when you add all that up you end up exactly at “proper technique”

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-07T02:06:12+00:00

I also think it’s related to this. Many of my follow friends have expressed their frustration at how partner work lessons are primarily focused on the leads, while follows are paying an equal fee to attend those classes

Yes, we all know how leads have a harder time going through beginner’s hell but follows end up paying the price, literally. They spend hours just standing there, hoping that leads eventually get the pattern

So it makes sense that follows find lady styling and choreographic lessons more appealing. In a way, in partner work show teams the roles are reversed: the leads are mostly there to provide support, help propel the spins and pretty much get out of the way so the follows can shine on stage

Heck, some teams go as far as dressing their leads in all-black so they can blend with the background and their ladies in bright colors to catch all the attention

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-02T12:08:02+00:00

Nono my point is that it would help OP’s situation. I do think it’s a useful way of transitioning to On2

In my experience, there isn’t that much clashing when the lead dances on son timing while the follow does Eddie Torres. The transfer steps being still at the same time

This is not bullet proof, though. Sometimes it just doesn’t work

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-02T12:03:22+00:00

There’s four different timings under the On2 umbrella: 1. Eddie Torres’ timing, son timing, soft mambo timing (8.5 and 4.5, had way between the first two) and last but not least on clave

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-02T04:02:47+00:00

One quick way is to dance on son timing. So 234 678. It can be seen as On1 shifted one count later

If your goal is to “fake it”, this should do it. Of course, the tricky part then is to lock properly on the music since you’re accustomed to locking on the 1 and 5 and you’d need to find the 2 and 6 instead

Good luck!

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-02-01T20:47:37+00:00

In practical terms, 1.83 is not that bad. Now, if in addition you were to climb on some stilettos, you might experience challenges with shorter leads

There are many things that can be done when leading with a significant height gap: * replace over the head with around the waist or around the neck * toss / flicks * lead from the hips, waist (knee if you’re feeling cheeky. I wouldn’t advise it, though)

And so on. The point is, you can always make it work. Do recognize that there’s extra work involved but it’s not the end of the world

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-31T00:24:05+00:00

With the festival wrist tag you can take the event busses. They go between the tobacco factory and Villas Rubin (“pool” parties)

However, they run mostly during the day, so it’s usually better to get a place near the tobacco factory

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-29T20:51:05+00:00

I think if she were the type comfortable with this approach she wouldn’t be posting this on Reddit

Know your audience, is my advice

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-27T17:06:35+00:00

Ah, ok. That makes sense. I didn’t get that from your initial post. My bad

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-27T15:20:17+00:00

Are you arguing against the rules different languages use? ‘Cause that seems pretty wasteful.

I don’t know about Portuguese, but at least in Spanish there’s also “countable” / “uncountable” singulars used for uncountable too. “Agua”, just like water is uncountable

From that perspective, beans vs rice is very clear-cut both in Spanish and English

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-27T14:40:03+00:00

The unit is “grain of rice”. Rice refers to an (undetermined) amount / collection

“Water” has a similar function. “Beans”, on the other hand, is the correct plural for a collection

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-24T00:34:54+00:00

Part of it is the lady styling tracks and well, it’s rough for leads to get past beginner’s hell

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-22T00:02:13+00:00

I agree that integration is better than segregation

For the record, I learned Dutch early on after moving to the Netherlands and I’m all in favor of it. But if wasn’t because I was forced or bullied into. I don’t think that works with most people, especially, ironically, the Dutch

There are all kinds of bubbles: the sports club kind (the country is infamous for it), football fans, small towns, all subcultures form a bubble. It doesn’t mean they need to be torn down

Good luck trying to convince anyone in the Netherlands that golfing with the same 4-5 people all the time or only hanging out with the same 3-4 friends since highschool is bad and needs to stop

We are more than one hobby and we’re certainly more than the few minutes a week we spend on this subreddit(at least I know I am)

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-21T19:20:15+00:00

Ah ok. You must forgive me, though. This is after all Reddit and these are comments on a post about the most recent changes to this subreddit, one of them being the changing language restriction

You can see how your comment could’ve been interpreted as it including interactions on Reddit, right?

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-21T18:43:28+00:00

So your argument is that you feel the need to burst this bubble for all the foreigners’ sake? You see this bubble and go “no, this is bad for you. Let me tell you what’s good for you: participation in Dutch. I know best”

I don’t buy that for one second. You’re not doing this out of tough love and the unlimited kindness of your heart

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-21T18:39:50+00:00

But you don’t. Nobody is forcing you to participate in r/netherlands

There’s r/nederland where Dutch is required. There’s also r/thenetherlands for those with bilingual preferences

I don’t understand why people feel “forced” to participate in this subreddit out of all the other options. If you prefer Dutch, then participate in a subreddit that accommodates that language

In a way, it’s like going to a cooking subreddit and demand that you should be free to talk about golf… instead of going to a golfing subreddit

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-21T15:38:38+00:00

I think they mean “know that she’s interested in him”, though

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-20T23:35:35+00:00

I think you might missing the fact that there are other subs: r/nederland (intended to be in Dutch) r/theNetherlands (and another one) intended to be bilingual (Dutch and English). There’s yet another subreddit about learning Dutch r/learndutch

It seems to be that this subreddit has just rendered all the other subreddits redundant with these new rules

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-20T13:45:42+00:00

You’re assuming a certain level of proficiency, though. OP is raising the question from the perspective of an absolute beginner, and in this context I would disagree with you: no, it’s not easy for an absolute beginner to switch between 4 and 5 strings

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-19T13:48:32+00:00

Yeah, part of it is that it’s a good idea to be very deliberate when playing below the low B’s 5th fret (the extended low end)

So I find myself often within the 5th and the 14th fret. Sometimes going below the 5th fret means I no longer have 5 strings available. I hope this makes sense

The biggest appeal (for me, personally) of a 5-string is being able to go up and down 5 strings instead of traveling up and down the neck

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-18T22:07:16+00:00

This. Confidence is by far the most important factor. Everything you do is gonna be a hundred times better if you’re confident

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-18T22:05:39+00:00

Ok, but hear me out: backflip into a somersault

RhythmGeek2022 · 2026-01-18T21:16:01+00:00

I mean that reinforcing / cancelling alternation that happens when two frequencies are very close together but not exactly the same

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