The lost art of floorcraft
The other day I noticed a driver next to me completely oblivious to the fact that his lane was blocked ahead. Even though I had given him chances to move over, it wasn't until he came right up to the obstruction that it dawned on him his way was blocked. I thought about how often I've been seeing this kind of thing on the dance floor.
Floorcraft is as much a technical skill as the footwork, frame and dynamics of weight transfer or swing and sway. Yet it seems that a large number of guys are so busy worrying about the basic technical details that they are completely forgetting about managing their space on the floor. As Luca Baricchi famously puts it, "You have a beautiful woman in your arms, and you're thinking?!"
Not long ago I watched incredulously as a gentleman, while looking right at me the entire time, proceeded to ram his poor partner's head into my lady's back despite the fact that I had stopped several seconds earlier to give him opportunity to move around us. I couldn't understand what would possess him to use his partner as a battering ram, except that he must have been so busy thinking that he wasn't.
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Floorcraft is as much a technical skill as the footwork, frame and dynamics of weight transfer or swing and sway. Yet it seems that a large number of guys are so busy worrying about the basic technical details that they are completely forgetting about managing their space on the floor. As Luca Baricchi famously puts it, "You have a beautiful woman in your arms, and you're thinking?!"
Not long ago I watched incredulously as a gentleman, while looking right at me the entire time, proceeded to ram his poor partner's head into my lady's back despite the fact that I had stopped several seconds earlier to give him opportunity to move around us. I couldn't understand what would possess him to use his partner as a battering ram, except that he must have been so busy thinking that he wasn't.
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