Now that I've held one beginners dance class and am about to hold another, with at least 2 more tentatively in the future, I thought it was time to talk dance shoes
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Really good run-down of shoe information, including some stuff I hadn't known previously. Thanks!
I actually recently got a pair of leather-soled street shoes, without at all thinking of using them for dancing and as soon as I felt how much slip they had, all I could think about was testing them out on the dance floor.
Thanks! Yeah, after learning all this stuff about dance shoes, I actually can't buy shoes at all anymore without evaluating them for dance potential! The versatility of the leather-soled shoe really has me sold on them as my favorite for dancing in, even if sometimes they are a tad *too* slippery when brand new!
A lot of places are over-waxing their wood floors, or even using this new synthetic wood-looking linoleum in ballrooms nowadays, and they're a lot more sticky than the really old polished wood or marble floors, so the extra slip is, IMO, a good thing.
Trying to protect the floor from abuse & spillage (seriously, people at conventions have a shocking lack of concern for the mess they make in hotel ballrooms - it's why the carpets are all so eye-bleedingly hideous) and the venue from lawsuits from people slipping means extra wax or alternative materials that really need the slippery hard leather to do the full range of slides and spins.
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I actually recently got a pair of leather-soled street shoes, without at all thinking of using them for dancing and as soon as I felt how much slip they had, all I could think about was testing them out on the dance floor.
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A lot of places are over-waxing their wood floors, or even using this new synthetic wood-looking linoleum in ballrooms nowadays, and they're a lot more sticky than the really old polished wood or marble floors, so the extra slip is, IMO, a good thing.
Trying to protect the floor from abuse & spillage (seriously, people at conventions have a shocking lack of concern for the mess they make in hotel ballrooms - it's why the carpets are all so eye-bleedingly hideous) and the venue from lawsuits from people slipping means extra wax or alternative materials that really need the slippery hard leather to do the full range of slides and spins.
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