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climbhigh2005
Dec 24, 2003, 11:12 PM
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Anyone else dance too?? I've taken jazz, ballet, and modern for 12 years.. and am captain of the dance team... I really think dance comes in handy for climbing... good balance, flexibility, etc...
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elliemae
Dec 29, 2003, 2:26 PM
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I've taken ballet, jazz, and tap for 12 years. I also did pointe ballet for 7 years. I agree that dance helps you with balance and flexablitiy. I also think that wearing pointe shoes for a hour and a half while dancing on your toes helps make climbing shoes seem more comfy haha.
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Dec 29, 2003, 3:51 PM
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I'm a dancer too...been dancing since I was 3. You're right, after suffering through pointe shoes, climbing shoes are a breeze - much easier to take them on and off and they haven't made my feet bleed yet! :)
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elliemae
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Ya climbing shoes haven't made my feet bleed yet and they sure don't pull my skin off when I take them off. I laugh at the guys when they whine about how much there feet hurt in there shoes.
~Steph~
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as soon as i get out of the debt-hole of the century, i plan to learn how to belly dance and the salsa. though, there are several 'ethnic dances' (i hate that phrase) that i'd like to learn over the next year or so - hell, i might even learn to jitterbug just for kicks. ;)
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In reply to: there are several 'ethnic dances' (i hate that phrase) that i'd like to learn over the next year or so - hell, i might even learn to jitterbug just for kicks. ;)
I never knew the jitterbug was an ethnic dance!! :lol:
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In reply to: In reply to: there are several 'ethnic dances' (i hate that phrase) that i'd like to learn over the next year or so - hell, i might even learn to jitterbug just for kicks. ;) I never knew the jitterbug was an ethnic dance!! :lol:
that's because you come from a culture and widespread belief that assumes it to be appropriate to label other cultures while assuming that your's is the norm. define ethnic dance for me and then tell me about the jitterbug.
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: there are several 'ethnic dances' (i hate that phrase) that i'd like to learn over the next year or so - hell, i might even learn to jitterbug just for kicks. ;) I never knew the jitterbug was an ethnic dance!! :lol: that's because you come from a culture and widespread belief that assumes it to be appropriate to label other cultures while assuming that your's is the norm. define ethnic dance for me and then tell me about the jitterbug.
The term ethnic is typically used to describe a large group of people with common heritage (be it racial, religious, national, etc) that differs from your own. An ethnic dance would be one that is unique to a culture other than your own. I know little about dance, but I thought the jitterbug began in the U.S. during the jazz era. That is my heritage, so therefore it would not be ethnic (to me) and I would never refer to it as so. I also made the assumption that you too fall into this category of U.S. nationality. If you're either from another nation or have strong ties to your non-U.S. ancestry, I concede. If I'm wrong, so be it. Either way, you're far too hostile and really need to chill out. IT WAS A JOKE!!
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calamity_chk
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i'm not being hostile, i just didnt see humor in your joke - perhaps the fact that i explicitly stated that i hated the phrase 'ethnic dance' wasnt clear enough for you.
anyways, off the deadhorse and back to the topic.
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though it's been a while, west african dance and salsa.
I'm usually in my left brain but I feel dance/music and climbing in the flow is right brained activity. something about instinct over intellect (not recommending stupidity here) seems to pay off in climbing. it could be related to a zen meditation thing too.
when walking on the ground, (like in a straight line or on a plank) my balance is pretty bad but something about the focus required on rock, my balance gets alot better on face climbs. I have not figured this out.
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I've taken some ballet too.
It definitely helps with balance, and focus, I think.
Ballet is kind of like climbing for me, when it comes to focus. when I dance, pray, or climb, my focus rests entirely on one thing, the rest of the world just fades in to the back of my mind.
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I've never heard jitterbug described as an ethnic dance. It is often described as having african influence, but influence is a different concept, than 'ethnic dance'
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I've been dancing all my life. One of my favorite fantasies is that once I've paid off all of my bills here, I'll move to Vegas and dance for my money and climb at red rocks in my spare time. I studied ballet until I was 19 and quit after about 6 months of professional dancing (for school). I did african/dunham in college, and took up ballroom when I moved out west, although I haven't done much for a while. My ultimate fantasy dancing gig would be Project Bandaloop though! If you've never seen them, I highly recommend checking out their web site. Incredible!
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I too have taken years of ballet and a few [years] of modern dance and jazz. I must agree with the majority here...it is very beneficial for climbing to have some dance background. Although I have never taken gymnastics, I would also think that it too would be an attribute for balance, strength and agility.
At one time in my life (early to late teens) I too wanted to be either a Rockette or a Las Vegas Showgirl. Since then I redirected my focus to one of the "Fly Girls" from IN LIVING COLOR (remember them?) and now, the Bandaloop team looks awful inviting. But I settle (to where my love is) for the weekend climbing trip with the family and my dearest "Crackaddict"! :D
IAMTHEWALLRESS: what is the website for "Project Bandaloop"? My dh has a video of them...thet I have watched often...and he saw them at a job site he was working on one time in Scottsdale, AZ.
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[indigo]Yup, me too - my mum put me in Ballet classes as a child as I was somewhat gangly and accident prone! It worked - I kept up the dancing and have even made a living from it back in my student days. :oops: )It definitely uses the same principles as climbing, as it requires all the muscles to work together in harmony, rather than focussing on targeted areas of the body. Which is nice, cos I like to bump and windy grind! (And as I don't get to climb very often these days I like to think boogieing helps keep everything ticking over.)
xxx Jasminx :P xxx[/indigo]
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i choose [i:77f5835f52]dignity[/i:77f5835f52] over dancing.
now, ladies, don't fly off the handle thinking i'm calling you undignified. quite the opposite, actually.
you see, i am a plain-vanilla white boy with a serious birth defect: my rhythm gene is missing. completely and utterly absent. nada. zip.
oh, you really can't tell anything is wrong just by [i:77f5835f52]looking[/i:77f5835f52] at me. but get me on a dance floor and people start calling 9-1-1 and trying to shove a spoon in my mouth so's i don't swallow my tongue.
it's pretty sad, really. but there [i:77f5835f52]is[/i:77f5835f52] hope. and [i:77f5835f52]you[/i:77f5835f52] can help.
please give generously to the dance aphasia foundation. thank you.
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Ex-ballerina. Off and on for 12 years. And some ballroom just for fun.
Then I dislocated my knee. I can do barre, but I can't do a lot of the centre stuff any more. Pointe's right out.
Took me a while to learn to toepoint climbing, since my natural inclination was to turn out.
I size my climbing shoes 3 - 3-1/2 sizes down from street, to fit my narrow heels. The climbing shop people tend to reel their jaws back in after I tell them I used to do ballet. :twisted:
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Speaking of dancing, I have always been in an intermediate class at my studio and adv, but I liked performing in the intermediate class because I was always front center... LOL not being conceded, but you know what I mean, well this year I am in the advanced class, and I am more well lets just say not front center... it made me think about climbing, and how no where in climbing is anyone ever front center.. ya ya.. tell me to shut up now!
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i never took any dance classes, but i did take gymnastics for a while. i think that both could help with climbing if you need to increase your flexability and balance.
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despite my board name, I've never taken intensive dance classes, just some here and there: jazz, west coast swing, modern and social (clubbing etc). I definitely think all dance training would be an asset though.
And gymnastics, yeah that's probably the best background to have to take into climbing.
The biggest help to my climbing came from my fencing training. I've got strong flexible legs because of that, especially my hamstrings. Fencing helped arm strength a little too but not really the same muscles that we use as climbers. Finger strength on my weapon hand was probably improved as well. It's hard to tell because I was a competitve fencer before I got into climbing.
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I was a professional Ballet dancer from the age of 8 till about 16. It help climbing tremendously! The discipline and ability to tell your body what to do is invaluable!
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+ It really helps with the pain thing too... Shoes don't feel soooooo bad :wink:
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yeah, climbing shoes are nothing compared to pointe shoes! :P Plus, being able to stand on pointe in climbing shoes is a very valuable technique when you are not a tall climber :wink:
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climbhigh2005
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In reply to: I was a professional Ballet dancer from the age of 8 till about 16. It help climbing tremendously! The discipline and ability to tell your body what to do is invaluable! :D + It really helps with the pain thing too... Shoes don't feel soooooo bad :wink:
wow! professional at only 8? where at?
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I danced almost my whole childhood from about 3 till I was 16, then I quit. I quit dance because my teachers were horrible for my self-esteem. They encouraged us to be as skinny as possible and weighed us every week. I was 93 pounds (5.1) until I quit and trained so hard that I would pass out from malnutrition and exhaustion. I didn't get my period until I was 17 as a result. My team won National Champs three years in a row, but I don't think it was worth it at all. I still cringe when I see pictures of myself back then. I don't think this is true of all dancers but a majority of those I know have serious weight and eating disorders, drug problems, and relationship problems even after they stopped dancing. So the moral of this story...do it cause you love and do it in balance.
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In reply to: I danced almost my whole childhood from about 3 till I was 16, then I quit. I quit dance because my teachers were horrible for my self-esteem. They encouraged us to be as skinny as possible and weighed us every week. I was 93 pounds (5.1) until I quit and trained so hard that I would pass out from malnutrition and exhaustion. I didn't get my period until I was 17 as a result. My team won National Champs three years in a row, but I don't think it was worth it at all. I still cringe when I see pictures of myself back then. I don't think this is true of all dancers but a majority of those I know have serious weight and eating disorders, drug problems, and relationship problems even after they stopped dancing. So the moral of this story...do it cause you love and do it in balance.
I totally understand where you are coming from... Thats how ballet always was for me.. so this year I am just taking modern and jazz and am captain of dance team... I love dance, but when it gets to that point, its not fun anymore...
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I've been dancing all my life and I find that the strangth and flexability I gained from that definatley helped my climbing...and climbing shoes are nothing compared to pointe shoes.
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In reply to: I danced almost my whole childhood from about 3 till I was 16, then I quit. I quit dance because my teachers were horrible for my self-esteem. They encouraged us to be as skinny as possible and weighed us every week. I was 93 pounds (5.1) until I quit and trained so hard that I would pass out from malnutrition and exhaustion. I didn't get my period until I was 17 as a result. My team won National Champs three years in a row, but I don't think it was worth it at all. I still cringe when I see pictures of myself back then. I don't think this is true of all dancers but a majority of those I know have serious weight and eating disorders, drug problems, and relationship problems even after they stopped dancing. So the moral of this story...do it cause you love and do it in balance.
...I mourned the sight of bloody tights
An omen of swelling hips and breasts and thighs
And the fleeting passage of bloody toes.
I don't remember the rest of it.
My teacher always told us that if we wanted to be pros, we'd learn that our body was our commodity. Sadly, she was correct. She was classical ballet all the way though.
One of the things that I loved about Dunham/African was that an ample booty actually made the moves look better.
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In reply to: Ya climbing shoes haven't made my feet bleed yet and they sure don't pull my skin off when I take them off. I laugh at the guys when they whine about how much there feet hurt in there shoes. ~Steph~
My old boss was in a professional ballet company in NYC. We had a little show and tell day at work and she brought in her old slippers and we put them beside my rock shoes. They looked like cardboard sleeves almost - no support what so ever. Uggh.
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In reply to: My old boss was in a professional ballet company in NYC. We had a little show and tell day at work and she brought in her old slippers and we put them beside my rock shoes. They looked like cardboard sleeves almost - no support what so ever. Uggh.
She must have brought her soft slippers. Pointe (toe) shoes have wooden (or similar) soles and hardened canvas (might as well be wood) toe boxes. (Or were you talking about your climbing shoes lacking support?)
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In reply to: In reply to: My old boss was in a professional ballet company in NYC. We had a little show and tell day at work and she brought in her old slippers and we put them beside my rock shoes. They looked like cardboard sleeves almost - no support what so ever. Uggh. She must have brought her soft slippers. Pointe (toe) shoes have wooden (or similar) soles and hardened canvas (might as well be wood) toe boxes. (Or were you talking about your climbing shoes lacking support?)
They probably were the soft slippers. And they looked like they needed a resole bad. I'm told those shoes are very expensive and wear out in no time flat. Talk about expensive hobbies.
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I've climbed in my ballet slippers. They don't have as much arch support, but they do allow you to get a better feel of placements. I think they've improved my footwork.
And, for the record, womyn aren't the only ones that take ballet. it takes a real man to dance ballet or modern (at least that what I say), turns out i wasn't tough enough to endure more than 3 years.
coylec
ps- don't construe comments to insult other forms, i just have no experience with them.
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In reply to: I've climbed in my ballet slippers. They don't have as much arch support, but they do allow you to get a better feel of placements. I think they've improved my footwork. And, for the record, womyn aren't the only ones that take ballet. it takes a real man to dance ballet or modern (at least that what I say), turns out i wasn't tough enough to endure more than 3 years. coylec ps- don't construe comments to insult other forms, i just have no experience with them.
Our best dancers at my studio are guys... for modern and ballet...
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I feel compelled to weigh in here since I have a dance-related username. I actually don't dance. Except at bars when really drunk, and then- badly. When I was very young I took all the girly lessons- gymnastics, ballet, jazz, tap, etc. They thought I would be a great ballerina because I was so skinny, but they failed to note my lack of grace and coordination. :wink: So "rockdancer" is more what I aspire to- the grace of someone moving across the rock like a dancer.
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We got 3rd in competitions today!! yay!
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ClimbHigh's post might be having somebody thinking I can actually dance. The reason I quit was that I, like rockdancer, lack grace and coordination. Lack might actually be a nice way of saying. I'm clumsy: I've walked into doorways and walls SOBER. And coordination? nah. plus, i don't really have an ear for rhythm.
i wish i could dance.
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ps - i wish i could dance and people wouldn't laugh.
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In reply to: ClimbHigh's post might be having somebody thinking I can actually dance. The reason I quit was that I, like rockdancer, lack grace and coordination. Lack might actually be a nice way of saying. I'm clumsy: I've walked into doorways and walls SOBER. And coordination? nah. plus, i don't really have an ear for rhythm. i wish i could dance. coylec ps - i wish i could dance and people wouldn't laugh.
LOL :lol:
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I used to dance (pre-professional ballet), but quit before actually auditioning for companies when I was 17. It stopped being fun... it really hit me that I WAS a commodity.. I was disposable.. I was just a body to be tested to its limits. Realized I'd be happier with a 'real' job and college education.
Have been looking for something as intense as that level of ballet for years, and haven't found it yet - climbing might be it, though. :) I'm very excited about climbing - you get the mental AND physical aspect, never-ending challenge, infinte room for improvement, need for strength, determination, and grit... and there's the endorphin rush from doing something really HARD. Plus, the element of danger.. heh. It's like that professional level of ballet: very dangerous if you're not careful, strong, and awake.
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I´ve been called in Climbing Mag the best dancer in america.No brag just facts.
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Dancing is my second love.... african dance- contact improv - trapeze dancing in tucson with the orts company classes-- i love taking classes - did a belly dance class yesterday in bisbee-- 1st one-- i don't like following routines-- it's like having beta being told to you on a sport climb- dancing like climbing comes more instinctually for me -- in and out of the right brain-- so i'd rather do my dancing in my space or hip and hop and move with the spirit on any ole dance floor-- the dancing at the pbc a few years back was one of the best dancing out-- it was like gentle moshing and the center where we were all spinning and making contact had a beautiful force------ i hope there will be good dancing there this year -
peace----vicky
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In reply to: I size my climbing shoes 3 - 3-1/2 sizes down from street, to fit my narrow heels. .
3-3.5 sizes down from your street shoes! Wow... I thought a size was good! But more power to ya!
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**I´ve been called in Climbing Mag the best dancer in america.No brag just facts.**
that was 20 years ago, babe, back when you still had a chance with jocelyn.
can you still bust those moves, or has arthritis set in yet? me, i'm still fully limber and gettin' down and funky at the monte v.
http://www.geocities.com/...de/disco/difever.jpg
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Hey- I've been dancing since I was 5- tap, ballet and jazz. Helps a LOT with flexibility...if only we could convince the men...ha.
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In reply to: Hey- I've been dancing since I was 5- tap, ballet and jazz. Helps a LOT with flexibility...if only we could convince the men...ha.
thats awesome! I actually have guys at my studio that climb with me.. great climbers!
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I can do the "drunk white guy at a wedding" dance. :)
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In reply to: I can do the "drunk white guy at a wedding" dance. :)
haha thats the best kind :lol:
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I used to dance almost every day while growing up. Ballet mostly. When I hit 5'10" I realized I did it just for fun. I took modern and ballroom classes at college. Now I just do yoga to keep in shape and stay limber. I can see how being thin and tall helps with climbing.
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ballet from 3-16 and discouraged from professional dance due to a funky knee issue.
cheerleading (yeah. I admit it! I loved it at the time!!)
tumbling and gymnastics
yoga too.
most handy if you ask me!
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Jun 16, 2004, 11:34 PM
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ballet from 3-16 and discouraged from professional dance due to a funky knee issue.
cheerleading (yeah. I admit it! I loved it at the time!!)
tumbling and gymnastics
yoga too.
and track if you want the whole thing.
and volleyball
and cycling.
oh wait.... waaaaay off topic! tee hee. sorry. I was just on a roll there.
most handy if you ask me! :lol:
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climbhigh2005
Jun 17, 2004, 1:40 PM
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In reply to: ballet from 3-16 and discouraged from professional dance due to a funky knee issue. cheerleading (yeah. I admit it! I loved it at the time!!) tumbling and gymnastics yoga too. most handy if you ask me!
Ya, I admit I was a cheerleader for 3 years too :roll:
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