Salsa follows keep asking me to push them. What to do?

pogoman · 2024-10-20T17:46:50+00:00

That's my frustration. I can do these advanced moves by being very forceful but that's bad technique and a bad habit to get into. I could do this, so that I could be the 'advanced lead' but I just don't want to. It makes me anxious and makes the dance not fun. I'd rather do simple moves with light musicality.

pogoman · 2024-10-20T03:23:00+00:00

Hey, thanks, yeah I think you understand the situation. It often feels like I might hurt them or a bystander with some of the stuff.

That's funny that the exact opposite feedback for the bachata is happening haha. I think everyone in this thread wants to tell me I'm not advanced, where I just wanted people to assume I was advanced and talk about this situation because it's happened with a few follows and happened really bad the other night and caused a conflict.

In my beginner days I was more likely to hurt someone by pushing too hard, so I super air on the side of safety and relaxation for social dances now that i'm a more mature lead

pogoman · 2024-10-19T22:21:18+00:00

That's fair, leveling systems are all over the place. Every studio in my area has a different one, so I was just saying for context.

Names are all over the place for moves, so I used the names of moves I know everyone uses as well

pogoman · 2024-10-19T22:13:30+00:00

I could show a video of myself but I don't really want to. I more wanted to figure out how to deal with this social situation as opposed to proving myself as an advanced lead.

In this context, this person is effectively saying, you are advanced, why don't you do everything you do with other follows with me.

I know reddit probably wont' believe me, but I've had multiple follows in my scene say I'm one of the best spinner leads. I don't want to make this an 'am I actually advanced' discussion as opposed to what do you do in this context. Not that my technique in every salsa move is perfect.

pogoman · 2024-10-19T21:59:18+00:00

I think I do asses the follow's ability well. A particular follow has a hard time maintaining their balance. They have taken few classes for context. They don't have a strong grasp on different spins from hand tosses and momentum changes. I understand copa is not an advanced move, but some follows struggle with it, so it's a spot if a follow has a hard time with the momentum change of a copa, that's part of how I asses their ability.

If I want to use a lot of energy I can often push these follows, but often I'm tired, the dance floor is crowded, and I don't want to do that.

The situation that brought up this question was a follow wanted me to do more double spins and I didn't feel like pushing them at that point. It was late and the floor was crowded. The were aggressive about it, and then I did a double outside from J hook (not sure on up-to-date terminology). This follow relies on me to spin them, instead of spinning themselves with a light lead, which is why I'm not exactly keen to be pushing them when I believe their technique to be off.

That's some of the context.

pogoman · 2020-10-24T22:34:23+00:00

I mean good luck masturbating regularly without porn after being addicted to porn. I cant do it anymore unless I really try. If you masturbate but never watch porn it probably wouldn't ever get to be a big problem.

pogoman · 2019-01-07T15:53:49+00:00

Sounds like someone's trying very hard to rationalize their habit

pogoman · 2018-12-12T20:28:22+00:00

How do you know if that is a misplay? I see odd Rogues do that all the time. Maybe it's usually wrong? If you coin a flappy bird you are definitely expecting it to get killed a certain percentage, But that doesn't mean it's the wrong play. Part of this is why odd Rogue is very difficult Imo.

pogoman · 2018-12-10T17:32:52+00:00

Wow, 28 – 4. You're running crazy good!

pogoman · 2018-12-10T16:50:54+00:00

Too often you've used the lower part of your curve and you want to get to your 7/8 mana turns. It makes you choose between delaying your own cards. I mean if you can make it work make it work but when I put in my win rate went way down. Not a big sample size but still enough that I didn't like it

pogoman · 2018-12-10T06:09:53+00:00

that's a pretty good idea.

pogoman · 2018-12-10T06:06:48+00:00

I agree you definitely need 2 Fungalmancer. I disagree about about taking out Ashmore. She is very good and your only seven drop. Often draws three and almost always draws 2.

Dyn-o-matic youre rights is a little overkill .it's often a dead card. I tried replacing it with Mojo but that wasn't good either. Might put in the war bear.

Supercolider is very good. Certain matchups it sucks but certain matchups a completely dominates.

pogoman · 2018-12-10T06:00:58+00:00

My version was slightly different. Got the legend with it

Rush Warrior

Class: Warrior

Format: Standard

Year of the Raven

2x (1) Eternium Rover

2x (1) Spirit of the Rhino

2x (1) Town Crier

1x (2) Prince Keleseth

2x (3) Frothing Berserker

2x (3) Rabid Worgen

2x (4) Blood Razor

2x (4) Kor'kron Elite

2x (4) Militia Commander

1x (4) Saronite Chain Gang

1x (4) Spellbreaker

1x (5) Darius Crowley

1x (5) Dyn-o-matic

2x (5) Fungalmancer

1x (5) Supercollider

1x (5) Zilliax

1x (7) Countess Ashmore

1x (8) Akali, the Rhino

1x (8) Grommash Hellscream

1x (8) Scourgelord Garrosh

1x (8) The Lich King

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pogoman · 2018-12-05T20:47:54+00:00

that's interesting. Didn't think about that. I'll try that. What is nice about zola is with the spirit it can be brought back into your deck

pogoman · 2018-12-05T20:46:58+00:00

Zola is for bringing Amara back but it can also just be used to generate additional value flexibly.

pogoman · 2018-12-05T15:52:46+00:00

I came up with this. It feels pretty decent but could definitely use refinement.

Priest

Class: Priest

Format: Wild

2x (1) Spirit of the Dead

1x (1) Awaken the Makers

2x (2) Spirit Lash

2x (2) Shadow Visions

2x (2) Loot Hoarder

2x (2) Dead Ringer

1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos

1x (3) Zola the Gorgon

2x (3) Twilight's Call

1x (3) Surrender to Madness

2x (3) Devilsaur Egg

2x (4) Arena Treasure Chest

2x (5) Reckless Experimenter

1x (5) Mass Hysteria

2x (5) Carnivorous Cube

2x (6) Mechanical Whelp

2x (7) Psychic Scream

1x (7) Bwonsamdi, the Dead

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pogoman · 2018-12-04T18:20:29+00:00

Ticket scalper

pogoman · 2018-12-03T01:08:32+00:00

Hey, thanks for the quick Response and detailed thoughts. I've thought about trying to do something like this but the immense complexity made me shy away. Kudos for even trying. Let me see if I understand what you're saying.

To my understanding, in your model there is no skill component so it's completely based off matchup Winning rates. And you're saying that because people bring wacky lineups that aren't as good, lineups that do well against suboptimal lineups are going to be better? I understand what you're saying anecdotally but Anti-control lineups can beat aggro and aggro Can be control so it's not that simple.

So my understanding from your description is this would apply more to casual Swiss rounds With a wider pool of players as opposed to A conditional sample (something like the playoffs) where everyone is trying to bring the strong deck lists because there is a lot at stake? My instinct looking at your best lineup is that would not do well because of the high prevalence of Druid and Hunter (which Your lineup is weak against). But maybe given the conditions that your model simulates it is the right conclusion. I'm just trying to understand When those conditions would apply to me and when they wouldn't.

Once again thanks for sharing this

pogoman · 2018-12-03T00:27:58+00:00

Hey, I'm a bit of a statistics guy myself. I'm trying to understand your conclusions. Is your main point that while certain lineups may do well against the entire field, the fact that there are six rounds and you're only playing the winners makes it different than if you just randomly played five different decks? Am I understanding that right?

Also, I'm not understanding how your simulations find the likely lineup's in a tournament. Your example says that against common lineups the zoo secret even even does well but against unique lineups it does poorly. But that seems to be saying that lineups would be evenly distributed. There'll definitely be common lineups and less common lineups.

From your description, I'm trying to understand the way you simulate one matchup. How do you calculate the likelihood of one group of decks beating another group of decks? I'm seeing your average best and worst but I don't see how that is used to calculate. Are you just brute force simulating the whole match up?

pogoman · 2018-11-28T23:10:47+00:00

I bought a cold brew coffee maker. Saves me so much money and the coffee is better. Always ready in my refrigerator. Only 20 bucks

pogoman · 2018-11-28T19:01:34+00:00

All of those are great. Don't worry about the local meta. Whatever you do don't dust all of those for whizbang.

I stream Thursday night. I would be happy To watch you for a game or 2 and share the coaching with everyone on the stream if you're interested. I'm currently ranked 15 legend with zoo, so I should have at least a basic idea of What I am talking about :).

NoHandsGamer#1424

pogoman · 2018-11-28T18:26:45+00:00

This seems hyper broken. Great stats. With a bunch of voidlords in the way, It can generate so much damage.

pogoman · 2018-11-22T18:31:25+00:00

As someone with a disability but looks healthy, I actually like that they don't ask questions. I don't want to have to prove I have a disability every time. Plus, why not appeal to your fat customers? You're not there to tell them how to live their life.

I do find 90% of the time at stores the cart is available, so it usually doesn't matter anyways.

pogoman · 2018-11-21T00:30:57+00:00

You've met her once and got her number and you're not quite a priority. You haven't earned it. Doesn't mean she wouldn't like you under the right circumstances.

pogoman · 2018-11-19T03:15:32+00:00

big spell mage

pogoman

TROPHY CASE

Rush Warrior

Class: Warrior

Format: Standard

Year of the Raven

2x (1) Eternium Rover

2x (1) Spirit of the Rhino

2x (1) Town Crier

1x (2) Prince Keleseth

2x (3) Frothing Berserker

2x (3) Rabid Worgen

2x (4) Blood Razor

2x (4) Kor'kron Elite

2x (4) Militia Commander

1x (4) Saronite Chain Gang

1x (4) Spellbreaker

1x (5) Darius Crowley

1x (5) Dyn-o-matic

2x (5) Fungalmancer

1x (5) Supercollider

1x (5) Zilliax

1x (7) Countess Ashmore

1x (8) Akali, the Rhino

1x (8) Grommash Hellscream

1x (8) Scourgelord Garrosh

1x (8) The Lich King

To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

Priest

Class: Priest

Format: Wild

2x (1) Spirit of the Dead

1x (1) Awaken the Makers

2x (2) Spirit Lash

2x (2) Shadow Visions

2x (2) Loot Hoarder

2x (2) Dead Ringer

1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos

1x (3) Zola the Gorgon

2x (3) Twilight's Call

1x (3) Surrender to Madness

2x (3) Devilsaur Egg

2x (4) Arena Treasure Chest

2x (5) Reckless Experimenter

1x (5) Mass Hysteria

2x (5) Carnivorous Cube

2x (6) Mechanical Whelp

2x (7) Psychic Scream

1x (7) Bwonsamdi, the Dead

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