The most important thing to remember is to have fun and don't take things too seriously. Dance should be full of movment and joy. No one is perfect since it's impossible to achieve perfection. There are different parts of dance. First there are the steps and foot/leg placements. Next is the coordination between the man (lead) and woman (follow) which requires the man to lead. I have to know my steps before I learn to lead. This is because when I am screw up my steps, my attention goes onto my feet and not leading the woman. When I know both the dance steps and the lead, I can then concentrate on musicality. You can dance with perfect steps and a perfect lead at the wrong times and it will look and feel horrible! Knowing the music is important. The next phase is dance styling. This involves how you hold yourself, how you position yourselve with the woman, what you do with your hands, variations with your movements and much more. Learning to dance is a process. In alot of cases, it take several days, weeks, months or years before you fully understand all of the nuances of what you are doing.

         My entire life, my profession and who I am is based on knowing. Knowing how to dance often comes by developing the skill by doing the dance over and over and over. Rex Jones, a Texas Two Step world champion, expresses it well when he states "Do it over and over a thousand times until you are sick of it." This is how the pros train. At first you don't know that you don't know. As you study and practice, you come to know that you don't know. With time and effort, you begin to consciously know. With time, study, effort and experience, you become a master and subconsciously know. The key is that you must commit to the time, study and effort to gain the experience.

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