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The 8 month follow up to "My girlfriend loves to dance.." (self.AskWomen)

submitted ago by checkmarshall

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Well... it's been about 8 months since I came to /askwomen about my thoughts then promptly jumped in to the swing dance scene to become more aware of what 'going dancing' meant to someone I care about....

and I LOVE IT. (and apparently a pretty good lead too!)

Quick summary: My girlfriend was an avid swing dancer and I wasn't sure how to deal with it not knowing what the scene was like. So I said what the hell.. and took classes.

I just wanted to thank you all for your support, advice, and guidance when I started this journey.

While I will keep the relationships stuff to myself. I wanted to share with you a few pictures and a quick video of one of the follows and I warming up before practice one afternoon.

Small Albums:

http://imgur.com/a/GUGsw#0

http://imgur.com/a/gprtO#0

Short video of a friend and I warming up for the camera: http://youtu.be/VLDVjcmd4jU

Who would have thought I would have been the dancer type!

Thank you all again!

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[–]♀poesie[M] 15 points16 points ago

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Yay! Thanks for the update!

[–]♀Impudence 8 points9 points ago

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You look like you're having so much fun! Glad it worked out.

[–]♂attlas93 5 points6 points ago

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As a guy who loves swing dancing himself I applaud you. I honestly don't see why more guys don't go

[–]SheilaRachael 9 points10 points ago

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You look like you're having such a blast!

[–]♀Elkcan 3 points4 points ago

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Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I agree!

[–]SheilaRachael -1 points0 points ago

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Nothing to do with the OP. I made some enemies on another sub the other day. Sorry Checkmarshall, don't take the downvotes to my comment personally!

[–]checkmarshall[S] 5 points6 points ago

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I was wondering... hope my single upvote helps a little!

[–]♀Nitrogenica -1 points0 points ago

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do go on, we love a good story?

[–]thegooseman 2 points3 points ago

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Here is the SRD post about it, I think the thrust of it is that some guy gave a frank assessment in /r/amiugly (which the OP there actually accepted) and SheilaRachael got offended and raised a fuss in all sorts of other subs (including /r/fatosphere )

[–]♀Nitrogenica 0 points1 point ago

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cheers, just went and looked through it all. I don't see what was so bad about what Sheila did - I mean sure I understand disagreeing with it but dayum, the downvote army sure got together on this one...

[–]RedundantRepetition 1 point2 points ago

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Posts like these make me happy -^

[–]♂ReneG8 1 point2 points ago

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Swingdancing? Awesome, I'm an avid lead I do dance, Lindy, West Coast, Blues.

Nothing to add here except for, welcome to the family.

p.s.: You DO know that now you're in some kind of cultish club, where there are talks about frame, lead, improvisation, connection, what I did at Herräng and what have are on the menu. People from outside will look funny at you, and when you're in a mixed social circle, dancing will ALWAYS COME UP!

p.p.s.: And while were at it, relationships between dancers and non dancers can be pretty hard. Atm I choose to have dancing GFs, non dancing women seem to have a problem with it.

[–]♀ThePouk 1 point2 points ago

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Eek! Adorable!!!