Ballroom Dancing Lesson
Before you start your ballroom dancing lesson, you should always take time to warm up. Cold and tight muscles can result in injury if you do not take the time to properly stretch and warm up. Take at least 15 minutes to do some stretching exercises like rolling your head around, rotating your shoulders, circling ankles inwards and outwards, and rotating the hip and knee joints to loosen them. The swing basic dance steps consist of the triple step and the rock step. The man takes a left side step, then closes the right foot together with the left. He takes another side step to the left, but this time does not put the right foot beside the left foot. Instead, he rocks his weight to the right foot, then closes the left foot beside the right foot. After this he takes a right side step, a back step with the left foot, then rocks his weight to the right foot. The woman’s steps are the mirror opposite of the man. If the man takes a left step, she takes a right step; if he takes a forward step, she takes a back step; and so on and so forth. It’s important that the woman lets the man lead her and not decide where she wants to go before being led to go there. This is known as back leading and can mess up the over-all effect of the dance.