Dancing Without Ray Is Just Missing Out On Something

My mom's my role model in dance affairs. I have always known latin and ballroom dancing to be a past time for the old and retired folks or soft guys. One fine day, i placed down my ego and accompanied my mom to one of her lessons and i immediately understood the reason she is so passionate about dancing. There were some of my friends who were in the opinion that i am very gifted in dancing but every accomplishment i have shared, i owe it to my mom and my wonderful mentors including those other experienced uncles and aunties that were not stingy with tips and guidance.

Eversince being aquainted to the art of dancing i kept re-visiting her classes and soon developed interest in the multi variation past time. I started dancing as my mom's partner and months later though she had made friends and found herself other dance partners i stayed on to dancing for it was not just about accompanying my mom anymore, i have fallen in love with the art.

My first mentor was Mr Augustus. I was impressed by his agility and strength in leading the lady on the dance floor despite being 80 years of age and hunching all the way. Dancing just isn't as simple as it seem. A proper technique and amount of strength need to be applied to avoid injuring our partners. Male dancers need to get our grip and hand techniques accurate according to the music's tempo and partner's progress. Leading isn't easy but once a guy is able to lead his lady partner on the dance floor, a lot of mesmerizing effects will be portrayed.

Upon getting a hang of rock and roll from Augustus i begin training under Mr Philip,a former local dance champion and hence being exposed to latin variation. Eversince that day, i know there is no turning back, dancing transformed me. I trained under Philip for 6 months or so and managed to persuade my friend Ray in joining this beautiful art. We enrolled ourselves in a more concentrated latin basic under Mr Anthony a reknown dancer locally and internationally.

I find that this friend of mine is rather hardworking and he is the type that once he put his head unto something, he will give his very best and true enough he bag a trophy in an amateur close and created a name in the Malaysian Dancing Book Of Records. It started off by Ray being a newbie and i spent a lot of time practising with him and he improved a lot and started motivating me in return. We motivated each other to improvise our techniques from time to time.

There were times he got lazy and i forced him to practise and he did the same for me as well.I was amazed by his determination to attain perfection for every step and every movement and somehow his kiasu attitude inspired me to be as result oriented as he was for before that i was just dancing for social entertainment.

I recall Ray gave me his word that in 3 months he will be as good as our mentor the great Mr Anthony. Yet, i rebutted his over rated confidence by disagreeing with him that it is not possible to reach such standards in 3 months. However, come to think of it again, it was a crazy idea but his determination to succeed impressed me and i just tagged along with his ideas. Well, as i have expected, we cannot reach such standards in 3 months but i have gain improvement owing it to him for constantly inspiring me to perfection.

It is a waste that he stopped dancing and somehow affected my mood to continue with the classes as well. I guess apart from his attitude of continously questioning our mentor every 15 minutes and his effortless attempt to read my body language which i used to find annoying, he was a great classmate and a good motivation.

I have tried advising him back to the dance floor but due to some personal reasons which he refused to rectify, he had lost the passion to proceed.Dancing is just isn't the same without this friend of mine . My mom and her group of friends used to ensure i practise with them every week to avoid losing touch with my techniques but eversince we follow different mentors, i have not receive news from them for a long time. My mom and her gang of dance fanatics followed Helen Fam , mother and mentor to Leon, a wonderful dancer whom had passed away in a tragic road accident few years ago.