[Squaredancing] regarding classes

[Cynde Sadler]

I usually dance in Hamburg, Germany, and there I was told that dancers often 
will stay in Mainstream for many years before 'going on' to Plus. The 
callers I've danced to call a mean Mainstream giving the dancers a lot of 
challenge yet staying within the MS boundries. They have different clubs set 
up for other levels and dancers can go to a Mainstream on Wednesday and a 
plus group on Thursday. Often it's the same dancers so they know their 
stuff.
IMHO I feel it's too bad when dancers rush off to 'higher levels' and then 
mess up the square because they can't remember a turn through..
Cynde

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From: "Heinz D. Trost" <htrost at gmx.de>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:23 PM
To: "This list for discussing all aspect of MWSD" <squaredancing at rbnsn.com>
Subject: Re: [Squaredancing] regarding classes

> Larry et al,
>
> I'm sorry, but there are a lot of plus graduated dancers who can't dance 
> Mainstream without breaking the squares.
>
> E.g. my first stay in the USA as a graduated mainstream dancer (graduated 
> at July 1st, 1999, just to be permitted to attend the 3-day "Happy 
> Birthday" special dance with Jerry Story, Tony Oxendine, Paul Bristow and 
> Juergen Weresch  a weekend later)
> at Dec. 27th I attendend a dance in Houston, TX. The caller was the famous 
> Johnnie Wykoff. I introduced myself to Johnnie as a mainstream only dancer 
> from Germany. And Johnnie agreed to make several tips in pure mainstream 
> between the plus tips.
>
> Then before one tip he gave me a sign and so I went on the floor into a 
> square. Johnnie started the tip and it was real pure Mainstream, he just 
> dissolved the plus calls in mainstream and I had absolutely no problems to 
> dance it without any mistakes. And the square I was in also had no 
> problems, too.
> But most of the other 15 or so squares had big problems and/or broke. And 
> so after this tip Johnnie told me: "Sorry Heinz, but my dancers can't 
> dance Mainstream!" and the following tips were the regular soft plus they 
> were used to dance in that area,- and I stayed out.
>
> So there are plus dancers who can't dance regular Mainstream without 
> mistakes.
>
> Heinz
>
>
>
> ljknews schrieb:
>> At 11:02 AM -0700 10/26/08, martin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone any experience with a class that qualifies as 'mainstream 
>>> for plus dancers'? If so, what was the response, and would it be 
>>> worthwhile to repeat ?  If not, do you have any thoughts re the value 
>>> of a class with that purpose ?
>>>
>>
>> I don't understand the purpose.  No caller around here can
>> call Plus without using Mainstream calls.  Once the dancers
>> are in a column, of course, the caller can alternate between
>> Coordinate and Crossfire ad nauseum, but that is really what
>> it would be - ad nauseum.
>>
>
>
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