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Also some topics here (like video analysis) may work better as a forum post and others would work better as wiki entries, lean towards creating a forum post when in doubt!

  • lists and explanations of useful concepts and skills
    • for example - a relatively simple concept of Lead Projection has almost no information about it online
  • Drills
    • what do they help you develop
    • how many people find a particular drill useful?
    • what is a good order to do them in
  • Wiki pages for Pro dancers
  • Tips and lore for conventions:
  • Musicality
    • Counting music in 2 beat increments
    • Phrasing 
      • There is a bunch of good material for this out there, so just assembling a set of good pointers would work well.Call and response
    • Extending patterns
  • Personal Movement
  • Connection
    • "Law of inertia" for linear/rotational momentum
    • Lateral Connection
    • Resisted release
    • "Law of inertia" for linear/rotational momentumInvitational vs active leading
    • Posting
    • Shaping
  • Meta-learning
    • What does a reasonable skill progression look like?
    • Primer on analyzing your own videos
  •  Misc
    • Difference between delayed double and a hitch

Note: for some of these - there is already good material available online, in which case assembling a set of references (and maybe providing scaffolding around them) should work well. 

Also some topics here (like video analysis) may work better as a forum post and others would work better as wiki entries, lean forum post when in doubt!

Here are some things I'd like to cover/for other people to cover (in no particular order):

  • lists and explanations of useful concepts and skills
    • for example - a relatively simple concept of Lead Projection has almost no information about it online
  • Drills
    • what do they help you develop
    • how many people find a particular drill useful?
    • what is a good order to do them in
  • Wiki pages for Pro dancers

 Note that these are just examples and generally any information that you think would be helpful for or interesting to the Westie community, would be a good fit.

 

Check out “Thinking in public” for West Coast Swing for a general introduction to the forum. 

Here is some example information that this wiki looks to collect:

 

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