Sports & Adventure: Competition

Why do you want to do this?

I've been ballroom dancing for over 8 years. I started in college and as captain of my ballroom team, I devoted all my time and energy into growing the team and teaching the newer dancers, so I never got a chance to further my competition goals. After college I was able to focus on my own dance development but I moved around so much that it was hard to maintain a steady dance partnership. Now, I have a dance partner that I've been dancing with for over a year, and we have progressed together rapidly. I feel that it is possible to achieve great results with this dance partner, but the limit is that our partnership has an expiration date - he is finishing up grad school and will be moving on to another job in a far away location at the end of this year. We have to work harder in a shorter amount of time to accomplish what others have done in far greater years of dancing, and years dancing with the same steady partner.

What three things will you need to make this happen?

dance partner - check

great coaching - check

the best routines and best execution of the routines in the judges eyes

What is the biggest barrier to your achieving this?

Dance partner's time, confidence, memory, and physical ability to work out bad habits. My time, energy, and endurance, and physical ability to move and stretch my body beyond it's current limits.