Basic Ballroom Dancing Moves
Ballroom dancing is a great hobby, pastime and for some competitive activity. Getting started however can at times seem daunting so what’s the best way forward? Well it depends on several things such as what you want to achieve and the facilities available in your area
Before hitting the dance floor it is important to learn basic ballroom dancing moves and familiarize yourself with commonly used dance terms.
Rock Step is a slow sequence of two steps where the weight is transferred from one foot to another and then back. Rock back and rock forward are two basic versions.
Ball Change is also a sequence of two steps involving a partial weight transfer from the ball of one foot to another.
Kick Ball Change is a popular swing dance step that consists of a kick followed by the ball change. The timing is usually a split beat count of 1&2 or 1a2. Kick ball change has three distinct moves: a kick with the left foot, a slight push off the floor by the ball of the left foot behind the right foot, and a step with the right foot.
Triple step is also popular in swing dances. Three steps are performed on two beats of music, with the first step taken on count 1, the second step on the half beat between counts 1&2, and the final step on count 2. Also called a shuffle step, triple step is done in quick-quick-slow sequences, often counted as one-and-two or three-and-four.
Often a follower’s step in West Coast Swing, Coaster Step is a back-together-forward or forward-together-back triple step danced to the timing of quick-quick-slow.
Anchor Step is the concluding triple step pattern of nearly all main West Coast Swing dance moves. An anchor step ends with partners settling their weights on the back foot, hands held L-to-R, awaiting the leader’s next move.
Lock Step involves locking the moving foot as it approaches the standing foot. In this triple step pattern, the lower part of the moving leg crosses in front of or behind the lower part of the standing leg in the direction of the approach. Lock step is often used in quickstep and cha-cha moves.
One of the more popular basic ballroom dancing moves, grapevine includes side steps and steps across the support foot. It is a continuous traveling step pattern to the side with alternating crosses behind and in front of the supporting foot.
Ballroom Dancing Help Man More Attractive to Women
According to researchers social dancing provides the body with many health benefits. It may help reduce stress, increase energy, and improve strength, muscle tone, and co-ordination. One of dancing’s kinds is Ballroom Dancing.
Ballroom dancing is a partner dance and in most situations involves a man dancing with a woman. This isn’t always the case but this article concerns itself with the simple question of whether ballroom dancing makes a man more attractive to women.
First off it has to be said that dancing suffers from a shortage of willing male participants. This alone will make a man more attractive to a woman if the woman is either a dancer or wants to learn to dance. Indeed the author and his good lady met through dancing and romance blossomed although romance need not always be in the air! So for practical reasons alone a man will become more attractive or at least will make himself into a commodity in demand should he decide to become a ballroom dancer.
Secondly, it is often noted that women are attracted to confident men. Ballroom dancing demands that a man be confident and in control after all it’s a man’s job to lead the dance and ensure he makes his lady look nothing less than fabulous on the dance floor. Again this act will indeed make a man who ballroom dances more attractive to women.
Another reason why a man may well become more attractive to a women if he ballroom dances is the ‘look’ of ballroom dancing. Admittedly not all woman prefer their men to be groomed and polished but even the more rough and ready man, not unlike the author, can ‘scrub up’ when the occasion demands and this can often have a remarkable effect on the fairer sex. Indeed looking smart may well be one of the main reasons why ballroom dancing makes a man more attractive to women.
A quick scan of dance partner websites or a conversation with companies who run dance holidays will confirm that in the dance world men are in demand. In my mind there is no doubt ballroom dancing does make a man more attractive to women. Happy dancing.