Room transfer (for room reserved at an event rate)
WCS convention in SF Bay Area - https://boogiebythebay.com
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
Amenities:
Microwave: there is one on the atrium floor
Fridges: rooms have "drink coolers" by default (which don't go as cold as normal fridges). You can request an actual fridge, but there is a limited supply of those
Intermediate and above get Spotlight Finals
In Novice you get semi-spotlight (3 couples at a time)
I collected stats on how long it takes for dancers to move between WSDC divisions in their primary role.
The shortest time between someone's first novice point and first all-star point is 8 months (Jesse Vos). The next fastest is 12 months (Melissa Rutz, Samir Zutshi, JT Anderson). (There's actually someone with 5 months, but it looks like a clerical error—before and after their supposed all-star points, they compete in several novice competitions.)
Below is a plot of the distribution of times between first novice point and first all-star point. The dashed line is the median time, and the dotted lines are the 5th, 25th, 75th, and 95th percentile times.
Below is a table of summary statistics for the plot, where "25%" means "25th percentile".
Stat | Mean | Std. dev. | 1% | 5% | 10% | 25% | 50% | 75% | 90% | 95% | 99% |
Time (years) | 5.16 | 2.64 | 1.33 | 1.93 | 2.42 | 3.25 | 4.67 | 6.44 | 8.50 | 10.25 | 14.03 |
Though the median time between first novice point and...
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List of (non-obvious) things that we generally don't do in West Coast Swing. In particular, things that other dances do, but we don't.
Also sometimes referred to as "critical timing".
The idea behind the rolling count is that between the beats (1-2-3-4...) we can imagine smaller "subcounts" that are typically called "and" and "ah", and associate certain actions with them (see below).
ThisThe counting then becomes 1-and-ah-2-and-ah-3-and-ah-4...
The exact timing of "and" and "ah" depends on the music and the personal style.
Typically, the actions associated with counts (1, 2...), "and" and "ah" are:
Rarely an additional "eh" moment is identified, making the count 1-eh-and-ah-2-eh-and-ah-3... The function assigned to this additional moment varies.
I come from a background with a strong culture of "thinking in public". This means openly sharing learning experiences and insights - working with the garage door up.
I believe this practice is crucial for promoting growth and making knowledge more accessible to newcomers.
In contrast, the West Coast Swing community largely lacks this culture of collaborative inquiry. I believe that adopting aspects of “Thinking in Public” would greatly benefit our community.
The aspect of thinking in public that I believe would be most immediately relevant for the majority of readers is "Learning in Public". You can think of it as tracing the trail of learning.
After you've learned or understood something - share your understanding - in a format that your past self would have found the most helpful. Use media...
gonna remove that section for now! (you can recover actual text from the history of edits of the page fyi)