My early years of high school I had an afro-american girlfriend who realized I had no rythm, and took it upon herself to teach me how to find the beat, and move to the rythm. I must thank her for that, cause although I'm self-conscious about my dancing and generally don't do it I do have that 2nd ability out of the two types of bad dancers.
When by myself I do find myself moving to the beat, and if I have the whole house to myself I will get into it, and probably only my neighbors really see what my dancing ability is.
I did take some swing lessons from a friend a long time ago, and it is fun, but my partner at the time got clocked in the face with a shoe at a club one night and I haven't really swing danced since then??
As for at the club, I LOVE it when a girl wants to grind!!
If you know someone patient enough and you lack the ability to find rythm spend an evening with them listening to various songs and simply spend the evening trying to at first lift one foot then the other to the beat. Then lift your whole leg, then the other to the beat, then move your whole body with the beat, once you get every part of your body in tune with the music then watch peoples moves and mimic those if you like them.
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