What To Eat Before And During A Ballroom Dance Competition
Your food before and during a Ballroom Dance Competition
We need energy, maximal blood flow to the muscles and sharp focus during a competition. Digestion...
One Essential Thing that Can Make You a Ballroom Dance Champion
Physical ability, technical skill, musicality, poise, all come to mind when thinking of what it takes to become a ballroom dance champion. Commitment, practice,...
BREATHING In Ballroom Dancing
When you concentrate very hard, you get tense, and your ‘automatic’ system of breathing stops working! Holding your breath is so common! But breathing...
Why Dance Women are BETTER than Dance Men
Did I say better? You heard me right! Dance women are so much BETTER than dance men! Even though this statement comes across as pretty...
5 Essential Points On Mental Focus For Ballroom Competitors
As with almost everything in life, your mental focus and attitude have a lot to do with your success. This is especially true for...
Go Bananas for Your Next DanceSport Competition
A fruit (or a barry) that will give you an amazing boost of energy for your next dance practice or dancesport competition.
Next time you...
5 Reasons to Leave Teaching for the Teachers
You’re not pushing me hard enough.’ ‘You need to make your frame stronger.’ ‘That’s not where you step.’ Sound familiar? The urge to teach...
Why NOW is the Best Time to Start Dancing
One of the most common things I hear from my students is ‘if only I had started dancing sooner.’ It got me wondering, why...
The Smell Of Dancers
You guys, we have to talk. While ballroom dancers are really really really ridiculously good looking, we can smell like a high school boys' locker room....
Challenges of Dance Grief and Moving On
A few months ago I went to my private lesson as if it were just another day. I was mentally preparing myself for all...