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Still feeling the lack of fitness. Wonder if I have been battling a cold or something as I still feel a bit flat. Boo. In other news, the knees are rockhardawesome and I continue with the sixtyfivezillion strengthening exercises. I can safely say that I owe any mobility at all to the millions of exercises I do every day for my foot and knees.
Category Archives: lindy hop and other dances
fitness: social dancing
duration: 02:00, feeling: great
Really felt the lack of exercise during the week. :(
fitness: social dancing
duration: 2:00, feeling: great
Lots of fun, lots of intense dancing. Sore knees the next day, but not in a major way. We’ll see how thing shape up on Monday.
fitness: social dancing
duration: 02:00, effort: 4/5, feeling: great
Dancing! Adrenaline! YEAH!
I am still really enjoying the increased control running gives me when I dance. And the energy!
balboa DJing
So this past weekend we had the Sydney Balboa Weekend, and my recent flush of dance-love (as prompted by MSF) helped me decide that I might like to do workshops. I’ve very glad I did. I’ve done some balboa DJing in the past, but not a whole lot, and I’m not hugely confident about it. The problem, really, is that I don’t dance the dance, so I can’t read the crowd terribly well, and I can’t translate musical figures to dancing figures – I’m not entirely sure what will work and what won’t.
fitness: workshops
duration: 5 hours, effort: 2/5, feeling: good
Balboa again – not the biggest aerobic challenge, but good for the posture, etc etc.
Left me feeling a bit achey in the joints, though.
the highest joy
fitness: social dancing
duration: 2 hours, feeling: good, effort: 2/5
More balboa. The achiness isn’t too bad, but I chose not to do the workshops the next day, just in case.
Went to podiatrist and got exercises for my knees. Nothing dire and knee problems will be fixed by hardcore strength training. No running for 4 weeks, or until my knees are stronger.
We’ll see.
8track: songs that might work for balboa
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Image stoled from Shorpy.
I’m trying to get my brain around some balboa music. Buggered if I know what I’m doing. All this stuff is songs that I love, but which don’t really always work for flatout badass lindy hop. What the hey – maybe they’d be good for bal? Who can say.
title artist album bpm year length
Chris And His Gang The Cairo Club Orchestra Sunday 180 2004 2:40
Swingin’ On The Campus Cootie Williams and his Rug Cutters The Duke’s Men: Small Groups Vol. 2 (Disc 2) 196 1939 2:42
Stompy Jones Duke Ellington The Very Best Of Duke Ellington 199 3:04
Stealin’ Smack’s Apples Glenn Miller’s G.I.s (Peanuts Hucko, Mel Powell, Bernie Priven, Joe Schulman, Ray McKinley, Django Reinhardt) Glenn Miller’s G.I.s in Paris 1945 175 1945 2:36
Boo-Woo Harry James and his Boogie Woogie Trio (Pete Johnson) Pete Johnson 1938-1939 209 1939 2:59
Zonky McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (Don Redman) Zonky 226 1930 3:03
Sugar (That Sugar Baby O’ Mine) Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra (Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, Cozy Cole) Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944) (Disc 05) 170 1939 2:48
I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby (05-20-38) Una Mae Carlisle with Dave Wilkins, Bertie King, Alan Ferguson, Len Harrison, Hymie Schneider Una Mae Carlisle: Complete Jazz Series 1938 – 1941 201 1938 2:41
fitness: social dancing
Thursday 10th June: 8-midnight
Friday 11th June: midnight-3am
Saturday 12th June: 8-4am (minus 2 hours)
Sunday 13th June: 8-4am
Monday 14th June: 8-midnight
Obviously not dancing every single one of those hours, but plenty of dancing. Ended up with really sore knees. The following Friday I was still feeling pretty fatigued. I’m pretty fit these days, but this much dancing and so little sleep left a mark.