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Bellydance is not for wimps
11/30/2006 10:29 pm Last Read: |
Gah, I've just stepped up my drills as of yesterday, and my arms are KILLING ME. It's no joke working your snake arms for ten minutes at a stretch. Bellydancing requires your arms to never fall below ribcage level, though there are some aspects of the dance which allow you to put your hands by your hips, so after a while if you're not used to it, your muscles are screaming for release. At least I'm managing to get more tummy isolations now, but it was jolly frustrating at first. I was just too bloodyminded to quit however, and I feel I'm starting to get the isolations down - I only used to be able to get the tummy rolls to go down one direction, I worked on doing both last night and it was a bitch, but I'm getting there. Zills. I've always hated zills - I mostly work with veils if I can. There's just too many body parts moving in bellydance and now I've got to make these cymbals move in time as well? I don't bloody think so. However that too is coming a bit easier though only through extreme bloodymindedness on my part - I took a friend's suggestion and just sat there working with the zills for a good three songs. Sprog showed so much interest in the zills I think I'll be buying myself a new pair and letting him keep my old ones. He's turning into a rhythm/dancing sprog - cool by me! I may even get him a drum for grins. I'm going into the gym today to start on my weightlifting routine and I already feel like I've been lifting weights. My trainer wants me to do more core-work, but I'm bringing in my tribal dance DvD and will tell her to watch it. Only after she's done the primary movements can she tell me if I really need any more core work! One shouldn't complain however - there's not a whole lot of core workouts and toning exercises out there which help shape you up AND make you look sensual at the same time. Gotta love it. ***** Now and again, I watch Rachel Brice's videos because she's an amazing dancer. But also, because this amazing dancer was inspired by a dancer who weighed in around 300 pounds or more (well skinny people always use the 300 pound mark like it's some monumental number, so who knows exactly). However, in LA, where Thin is In, the dancer shook it like she didn't care - because she didn't. Her makeup was perfect, her hair was perfect, she had amazing posture, and she could move. After watching her perform, Rachel said she was in tears and wanted desperately to be able to move that well, that beautifully. So many people forget this when seeing Rachel dance, lauding her for having a "proper" bellydancing body, toned and muscled, and deriding Egyptian bellydance for promoting "flabby" bodies - an attitude which is just completely appalling, but with bellydance gaining popularity as Yet Another Miracle workout, I'm not surprised if the very soul of dance isn't getting sucked out at the roots. Sod that. The best tribal bellydancer in the world was inspired by a FAT CHICK, people. Get over yo'selfs. |
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12/1/2006 3:43 am |
Some of us would rather have someone with the curves of a woman instead of an anorexic prom queen anyway. Plus, a little extra curvyness decreases the possibility of bruising the bone during a good caning. 
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12/2/2006 12:11 pm |
Wow... how cool is that... skinny girl or no... you make me wanna dance 
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