Line Dancing Is Not The Easiest thing To Do?

Line Dancing Is Not  The Easiest thing To Do?

Country Roots has had a lot of new beginners starting this week and I reminded me of the time I started I went to a Line Dance venue called Fort San Antonio Great Birchwood,Country Park, Lytham Road. I thought it looked great So I came home went to Margaret Gough's class, and my god did I struggle I could believe how hard it was to get your feet and legs to do the steps in time to the music. But I worked at it at home and started going three times a week and you get better, you start to relax when dancing, take smaller steps all these things help and eventually you find you can do the dances and you learn new dances more easier than you could before.  

 Beginners Class

Well as I said new people started so we went back to basics for half the lesson so I have found so long walk-through's for the new people to try at home. But we also had a new dance for the improver's called Back and Forth (click all links for dance sheets) nice little dance just enough to stretch them see all dances below. | Smokey Places | Cowgirl Twist | Cowboy Charston | How Long | Ribbon of Highway |

    

The Advance Class

The class has had some Tricky dance the last few weeks and in class last night ( Monday) we had another not so easy dance called Morning Sun and Memories I Think  I think it will alright when we are comfortable with the steps (Click links for Dance Sheets) other recent dances are That's Just Me and Champagne these two dances are coming easier now as they always do. see dances below.

 
We also did some of the older dance | Come as you are | Young Blood | This Is Me | and many others which are in earlier blogs just scroll back through the 64 other blog pages there is lots to see.
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It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

I have been looking at the top  line dances doing the rounds this  year. Because it is important to choose the dances that are being played at social nights, they is nothing worse than going to an event and finding out you don't know the dances that are being played on the dances floor. I have made a list of some of the dances we done this year and  looking over the different chart from pop to country the dances we do are in the charts.

Down To The River  |Dixie Road  |Young Blood   

A little bit Gypsy | Ball And Chain  | Boat to Liverpool 

Bread On The Table  | Boys Of Summer  |Blueberry Chill   |Blue Blue Day    

Came Out Like A Rose |Come As you are  | Champagne  | Crazy Lady      

FlyHigh |High Cotton | Joyride | Mile Shy of Paradise

Mona Lisa  |My First Love  | No Honky Tonk |Oh Fiona       

One Shot | Piano Man  | Push For The Stride |Where The corn Don't Grow |

Places I've Been  |This is Me  | That's where I'll be  |Thats just me       

They Call Me The Breez  |Sea Cruise  | Shadowlands  |Salt and Lime        

Shoebox | Same Thing Happened to me  | Silver Linings     

Woman Trouble  |Waltz Till I Love You  |A Different kind a man 

All the dance that are in heavy type are in one chart or another, wheather pop or Country this has been proven out when the members go away to meeting all over the country, the dances they know are the main dances on the dance floor. So Margaret Gough must be doing something right.

Saying Good Bye To An Old  Friend

On Wednesday 12th of November we say our farewells to Vera Williams who pass away last week. Her kin asked us if we could hold the wake at the club and do some line dancing in her memory, so that what we did, and there was fun and laughter just what Vera would wanted.

 

Beginners Class

 The beginners are starting to learn the dances that they have done over the last few weeks but to different music  this will help them to understand  that a dance is to BPM tempo and not fix to just one song. the dance Black Coffee was done to a slow  Eric Burdon The Animals song it was a slow rock song that when really well. We also did Sea Cruise and for the first time Shadowland This put them out of their comfort zone but that's dancing.
  

The Advance Class

 One of the new dances we are doing is Champagne it's not the easiest dance I've every done but I think the members are now getting to grip with the dance, see links to all dances below. the other new dance is  |That's just me | easier than champagne which helps. another dance which is making a come back in our club is Salt & Lime at first people did like it but it's dance in all the events where ever the members go. the other dances we have done recently are  |They Call Me The Breeze|  Crazy Lady |Mile Shy of Paradise | Push For The Stride | Where The corn Don't Grow |Woman Trouble .See link for dance sheets

    

Country Roots Has new Members

Country Roots Facebook page  has to  new members and they are both Choreographers they are Matt Vasquez we do a dance called  |Waltz Till I Love You | and the other member is Roz chaplin we do her dance | Places I've Been | and they are most welcome.

Beginners Review Night

This is a really sad occasion 

Vera Williams a long time member of Country Roots has pass away and it is a real shame ,she was a lovely lady always had a smile even when she wasn't well.

 Beginners Review Night

Weather you are an old hand at Line-dancing or a beginner you need nights where you just over the dances you have done. And this is what we did in the beginners class. we  have had  4 new people started in the last two weeks. so a walk-though will help them get started because to start line-dancing without any prior knowledge is hard.  Hear are some of the dances they did.

   

The Advance Class

The class did two new dances last night  along with a lot of our recent dances, the new dances were That's just me, nice dance when you know the steps it will work well (see Bellow) the other dance is called champagne, I think it's fair to say most people struggled with this last night but it is like any dance that is a bit tricky the more time we do the dance the better it will be, again  see below for a video walk-through. Other recent dances are They Call Me The Breeze  Places I've Been they ist'n a demo of this dance. Salt & Lime

    

   

 Remember to have fun when dancing

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