Its Tuesday, and I have sufficiently gotten over the excitement to post on it.
Yes! I have finally taken part in my very first standard ballroom competition!
So overwhelmed by various emotions and thoughts that i scarcely know where to begin.
Firstly, I must say the great sense of accomplishment is stunning. So this is how it feels like to work for something, achieve it, and feel proud that the glory was earned. Not just a mere trick or accident of nature.
(I must really bill myself for rambling to myself - lawyers a la mode)
Having started working on this goal to compete in ballroom a long way back, two years come this September, from starting with salsa, progressing to latin, before finding love in standard, its been a long route.
Rehearsal at 7 in the morning - i was a total bundle of nerves to the extent that my partner commented i was literally trembling.
The first dance of the day was the Quarter-finals for Beginner Waltz. Quietly confident that we will do alright, I blanked out after the first couple of lengths of floor. Something I would have never ever believed of myself before it happened.
Our next event was the Semi-finals for Quickstep. As it was our weakest dance, we felt little pressure as we did not expect to perform. Yet it will turn out to be the only dance that we managed to enter the finals for. Lesson learned - dance to dance well and not to win.
Tango was a personal disappointment to me. As the floor was the most crowded then (as compared to Waltz and Quickstep), our lack of experience in floorcraft resulted in our inability to even dance at our normal standard. On a positive note, the experience has instilled in me an even stronger motivation to perform and do well at the next competition.
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