do you forget saludas that a good pro has em lined around the block and can fill my space with plenty of others....sure he'd rather be on a tropical island with a bevvy of babes...and not dancing....but he picks and chooses as he sees fit....
you'll have to put poisin in my margarita otherwise, I'll be dancing with him with one of you hanging on each of my wrists like limp little floats:-D
Don't you think that he chooses people to teach based on how EASY =the coaching is? That he'd rather teach someone who is accepting and nonconfrontational, for example? I honestly think that the pro would rather not HAVE to teach at all but would CHOOSE to teach, but I really think that most pros would rather not have to teach and instead practice with THEIR partner, go golfing, etc. Would you RATHER go to work, or if you had a choice, do something else that was YOUR choice? Put yourself in your coache's danceshoes...
Definition of partner by Webster: Main Entry: 1part·ner Pronunciation: 'pärt-n&r also 'pärd- Function: noun Etymology: Middle English partener, alteration of parcener, from Anglo-French, coparcener -- more at PARCENER 1 archaic : one that shares : PARTAKER 2 a : one associated with another especially in an action : ASSOCIATE, COLLEAGUE b : either of two persons who dance together c : one of two or more persons who play together in a game against an opposing side d : either of two people living together; especially : SPOUSE 3 : a member of a partnership; also : such membership 4 : one of the heavy timbers that strengthen a ship's deck to support a mast -- usually used in plural - part·ner·less /-l&s/ adjective
Okay...I guess in cases where we're deemed a heavy timber... So, I don't really buy the "money changes everything" argument, although I don't really feel strongly about this either way. When I'm dancing with someone, regardless of the exchange of money, at that moment, he's my partner....at least according to dear ol' Webster.
NONCONFRONTATIONAL, sir have you fallen upon your head? rotflmao...me? anyhow, this is the difference btwn a job and a vocation...one has a vocation for themself that benefits others and gives them joy....while we all like recreation, those of us who have a vocation are very proud of our product...not merely putting in time....
Ya know, I thought for a moment you edited that and I had to go back and re-read it! Guess I found the perfect site. And in case you think I edited the definition myself: www.websters.com
I understand where you're coming from with this saludas, but there are pros out there who actually get the most satisfaction from being teachers. For this set competing is just part of what you need to do to set yourself up as a teacher and not vice versa. But as you say, here too the preference would, of course, be to do what one chooses and not what one must.
And that definitely describes my teacher. There are other things he could do...he would tell you himself, he does it because he loves it.
wait a minute there...I beleive she is claiming youth, not beauty...and if that's the case...I'll take beauty...(vain superficial chick that I am )
