Lesson 3

Another fun noon hour. This time I forgot my shirt, so went and bought a new one. Except I didn't pay too much attention to the size, so it was a little tight. But I was lookin' buff! All that running has made a difference.

We added to the Shim-Sham Shimmy, but with a different break after the second part. And like the first lesson, I cannot remember a thing about it. But I finally have the break figured out. Turns out that the backwards hops are on alternate feet instead of the same foot, which was completely screwing me up.

Then there was another little bit added to the vines thing, and it was a quick little move, where you cross in front once, reverse, cross in front again, reverse and so on for eight counts. It's really tricky, because you have to jump into it immediately from half vines. The tricky part is that the vines are all stepping across behind the other foot, and suddenly you're in this quick little bit having to step across in front.

And then there was this weird little sideways moonwalk thing that was added to the warmup. Move both toes to the side, then both heels, then both toes and so on. That part isn't too bad, but then you start pigeon-toed, and move one heel and one toe, then the other heel and the other toe. Repeat until you're brain melts. But it comes together really quick when you learn not to think about it. Cool!

The Harry Connick number we did once more, and didn't add to it. In order to keep roughly parallel with the evening classes, we're going to drop it next week and do something different. Too bad, as I just about have it figured out.

There are spring classes coming, running twice a week for five weeks, and summer classes too, all in the evening. The schedule comes out in a couple of weeks so I'll see how it looks. Might just do it all over again.