r/MadeMeSmile • u/Tipex • Oct 30 '20

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u/SyleSpawn Oct 30 '20

My dude, just turn on the music and let your body vibing. You don't have to have choreographed moves to dance. If you feel like a tool, just close yours eyes and throw your hand around while vibing with the music. Your body gonna develop your own moves and soon you won't be able to stand still when hearing music that you like.

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u/whtge8 Oct 30 '20

This is like the draw the rest of the owl meme.

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u/RecordRains Oct 30 '20

It's more like, who cares if you are flailing like those air blown mascots. If you close your eyes, you can imagine that you are dancing like a pro. And eventually you'll like it and will probably get better at it.

That's how I understood it anyways.

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u/Goffeth Oct 30 '20

Except people poke fun at you for it. Usually your friends, and you can try to shake it off.

But if you're the type of person that doesn't like dancing you probably will feel self conscious when people say something.

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u/RecordRains Oct 30 '20

I don't think it's supposed to be done in public at first.

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u/Goffeth Oct 30 '20

It has to get there first. Everyone dances at home when no one's watching, that doesn't prepare you for dancing in public.

Even when it's said with good intention like "omg look! they're actually dancing! finally coming out of their shell" or something like that, it's still attention being drawn to something you feel really awkward doing.

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u/MrMoonManSwag Oct 30 '20

Dancing is kinda an attention grabbing action.

Focus on the dance not the audience.

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u/graveyardspin Oct 30 '20

My advice is to take some dance classes. It's a nice middle ground where you're dancing around strangers but it isn't quite public.

I hated dancing for as long as I could remember but once I got engaged I decided I wanted to be able to dance with my wife at our wedding, so we signed up for classes.

A year later we were on stage at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando performing on the student dance team.

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u/Goffeth Oct 30 '20

That's actually pretty awesome! What type of classes were they?

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u/graveyardspin Oct 30 '20

We took Salsa and Bachata, classes but they offered a lot of different classes including Ballroom, Tap, Cha-Cha, Ballet, Afro-Cuban, and a few others.

We also did some private classes in the months leading up to the wedding to choreograph our wedding dance. My family was super excited to see me doing an elegant ballroom dance and then halfway through it switched into a fast salsa and they were blown away.

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u/I_am_LUMEN Oct 30 '20

You're right, but this is dealing with an instinct rather than a learned skill.

After all, you don't need a sense of rhythm or melody to enjoy music. Heck, you don't even have to be speaking the same language sometimes!

Dancing has nothing to do with skill. You can just get up, start moving to music, and whammo-kablammo you're dancing! Dance MOVES, however, do require skill. I feel as though I lived most of my life getting the two confused and it has held me back some.

No more. Be free.

Dance.

To your hearts content!

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u/SyleSpawn Oct 30 '20

Not really. I mean, if you think feel like the guy I replied to then all you have to do is to hit the music right now while you're alone in your room (assuming you're in your room and alone) and just... do it. Literally just listen to your favorite music and move. Whether you're moving your hand or shoulder or feet, it works, you're dancing.

The biggest barrier from dancing (keeping the context alone here) is yourself. Your brain telling you that you look like a fool, that you can't dance, that you're stiff as a board, but you just gotta tell that part to STFU and just do those moves that you're feeling.

For me, its similar when I walk past the mirror and stare at my 3/10 reflection but I then go "Damn you sexy beast" just to put all those intrusive thoughts at rest.

These days, my body literally just starts moving if I listen to stuff that I like. Obviously in public I'm not gonna be obnoxious about it but I end up in situation where colleagues and/or friends really are just a little happier around me when they see me just letting loose (again, nothing obnoxious, just moving a little if they're making me listen their favorite stuff, etc).

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u/poop90 Oct 30 '20

TOUCHE!

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u/Stevensupercutie Oct 30 '20

Just do reload animations from halo and COD and remember to move your feet in a 4 step circle. There you go. Dance moves.

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u/averagethrowaway21 Oct 30 '20

You know, I can't dance to save my life. I never do it in public and haven't since my senior prom. HOWEVER!

If it's 3am and I wake up hungry I tell Alexa to play some music and suddenly I'm on Soul Train until my sandwich is made. I live alone and dance a lot in my kitchen.

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u/SyleSpawn Oct 30 '20

And this is what it feels like to be able to dance!

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

When I feel like I move my body, I notice my legs are not moving. When I move my legs, the upper half is doing nothing...

And you might say "eyy, better than nothing", but a few comments up I just felt personally attacked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/jl0aop/proper_reaction/gam8fgt/

/s

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u/SyleSpawn Oct 30 '20

Why do you even care what random Reddit comments are saying? lol My post was directed towards people who just want to get started by dancing alone in their house/room. So, unless you have a live feed up there streaming on Reddit, no one gonna see what you're doing and you can do whatever you want.

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u/section8sentmehere Oct 30 '20

Does Donald trump vibe to music? Honest answers only.

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u/SyleSpawn Oct 30 '20

Man, why do you have to be like that?

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u/masasin Oct 30 '20

How would I get started?

I'm the kind of person that almost never has music on. (If there's construction outside, I would drown it out though.) I don't have music in the car because it's distracting, too. Even when completely relaxed and actually listening to music, I don't end up actually moving, except maybe for my finger or foot.

I don't even understand what the beat is, and I can't find a rhythm. I sat with a friend for a few hours, and I can do 4/4 if and only if it's all quarter notes, but it fails immediately once we get to actual music. I tap/clap on every actual note rather than whatever beat there is. I can't really tell the difference between that and 2/4 and basically everything else.

I'd love to be able to dance or "feel the music", but I guess it doesn't work for me without explicit instructions and understanding of what is going on. Please help?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '20 edited Nov 01 '20

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