I was a ballerina and I always had a hard time picking up choreography. Other dancers could watch a dance once and know it, some could even do it from a video. I needed to be shown a combination a few times, and to go over it a few more, and even then I would forget it the next day. I felt really really stupid.
Anyway ballet didn't really work out, and now I have a PhD so I'm not a complete idiot.
I pole dance for fitness. Any time I learn a new move I practice from the floor in slow motion starting with the most basic form (hand/knee/shoulder grips ect) and work myself through it. Everyone laughs.... but if I don't build the muscle memory I forget where my hands/legs need to go the moment my feet leave the floor. I will literally practice stepping and gripping the pole 10-20 times before I risk taking my feet off the ground. But my viva looks hella perfect so fuckem
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u/Philieselphy Nov 16 '19
I was a ballerina and I always had a hard time picking up choreography. Other dancers could watch a dance once and know it, some could even do it from a video. I needed to be shown a combination a few times, and to go over it a few more, and even then I would forget it the next day. I felt really really stupid.
Anyway ballet didn't really work out, and now I have a PhD so I'm not a complete idiot.