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So I called ballroom a sport,
and people might laugh at that, but I've had dancers, like come
to our ballroom dance club and that we would dance with and would do something like a
quickstep,
or even a tango or you know, a waltz - a slow dance -
and they will be really tired halfway through the song already.
And they're like "wow you have amazing stamina." And be like, "ballroom is a sport!"
You just don't know, like, once you can dance correctly, it requires
a lot of muscles in your body in coordination and
to create this really beautiful form that I like...
like, one part of ballroom, its all about
perfection
in motion to create a perfection in appearance.
So, the concept, the ideal of all that, when you look at it
it looks effortless and fun. And the thing is
it requires so much effort to create this effortless
vision.
We competed at the National Collegiate
DanceSport Championships. This year, with my partner, Etta,
we placed in bronze international standard,
fifth place in waltz quickstep and sixth place in tango.
And here we have a local competition, It's called Star of the North.
And so this year, Etta and I placed first,
second or third across the board for both bronze and silver
waltz, tango, foxtrot, quickstep.
We actually placed first in silver quickstep.
Once you start you don't stop because you, you find the joy,
I mean, ballroom is the accumulation of so many things that make you happy.
You know, it's beautiful music, it has people
who know hopefully have good hygiene and it builds self-confidence
because you know you're growing something, learning something,
a useful skill that could be applied to a social situation.
I think it's really addictive.