Nothing too interesting for now. Just moving back to my original thinking that for the guy (the "leader," the guy who generally has his left hand out) going to milongas a whole bunch when you don't have much repetoire is for idiots. It seems like it doesn't hurt but that's only assuming that you have an infinite amount of time and energy and will keep doing both classes and milongas. But that's not the case. You will ultimately substitute milongas for classes, and that means that you will then be retardizing: getting really good at the moves your comfortable with and locking your repertoire at a low level.
It happens with languages and it happened to me with salsa. I'd write more but I have to get to class.
So I went to DNI and then Copello 2 on Friday night and Saturday night, and suddenly stuff starts overlapping (it's happened other weeks too: I know it seems unlikely given such a large number of possibilities, but suddenly they're all demonstrating a clockwise turn starting with the guy entering to the woman's left in 4-track). Anyway, the down-up-down stuff they show in DNI is right on, José and Vicky do it naturally and they don't know so they don't explain it, and more classes are more classes and that's it. And you also get to know more good-looking women, and even more importantly, available dancers and their phone numbers.
Loving not being at the milongas just yet, though I might happen by the Viruta tonight.
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