Name: Part 3 - Jazz & Lindy Hop Training - Lindy Hop & Airsteps in more detail
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Now, when it comes to Lindy Hop trainings, it's a lot more straightforward to be honest with you.

Um, first of all, we would drill like crazy also the classic routines, and there aren't that many.

and there's different versions of the California routine.

But we believe that repetition again is key, and you want to repeat that at very intense tempos.

210, 220, 230, 240, and maybe even 260 just for a bit of fun.

The idea is that every time you repeat it, and you're repeating, you're repeating, you're going to certainly perfect that movement.

You have to drill that foundation, and you will see you will reach a point where

after a few trainings, it starts to get really fun.

It's a lot of fun, and when you're doing that cohesively as a group, it's it's really a lot of fun.

Another part of the training would just be air steps.

Now that you're doing it all together, you can now bring people together to spot each other, to help them out, to coach each other.

Now, early on, we all had our own specialty as an in air steps.

And this was kind of a big deal, we call people out when they were copying somebody else's air step.

In Brussels, there were there was no culture around air steps.

There was not nobody that was really dedicated focused on that at all.

So we were all self-taught, and how we were watching old clips.

And we would pick out an air step from an old clip, and we would kind of break it down, figure it out for ourselves.

And when you start to get like a few of the mechanics of the air steps, the other air steps become easier.

Because it's always somewhat the same mechanic.

But it didn't make sense that one person's busting themselves to kind of break down what the air step is how it works and what it is to then just have somebody go, oh okay, you do it like that if you figure it out for us, then we take it.

Everybody has their own specialty as an air step because everybody needs to do their work to kind of contribute to this common part of knowledge.

And then two is that when we're going to do shows, it's way better to have different air steps, right?

It's way better that when one comes in, they do a a spotlight, they do a different type of air step, and then another spotlight, they do a different type of air step.

So when we're complete noobs at the beginning, and we don't have that much of a repertoire, it's good that everybody's doing something different.

Now, today, today, years after that, everybody's kind of got many different air steps, and some of those air steps are are just basically built from what others have figured out before.

And so we now have a generation of dancers that are

doing air steps and learning those air steps way faster than we had.

Simply because we'd figure it out before them.

And that's what it is and and it's a beautiful thing.

So try to establish that, it's a bit harsh at the beginning, you know, you're kind of calling out on people and saying, hey, we do that one, you know, but I think it was helpful to

build this uh knowledge, you know, this common pot uh together and then make everybody grow at the end of the day, so yeah. Now, the way we break those those air steps down, we would just be looking at frame by frame from the old clips, and that's you know, where are the hands, how does it work?

having some coaching from somebody else that's looking, it helps video is going to help as well, but you know, at the end of the day, just make sure that you're extra, extra, extra safe when you do that, you're warmed up, but you also have somebody who's going to help you and spot you or even better if you have um some mattresses that you can fall on, you know what I mean?

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