First, the shameless plug:
CONGRATULATIONS to all the members of the GW Competition Ballroom Dance Team for their performance(s) in DCDI (DC Dance Inferno, a DC college dance competition) this weekend! {thunderous applause}

In honor of DCDI, which lasted this entire weekend, this week’s practices are devoted to fun things {read: illegal for competition}. Tonight’s open practice was for dips and drops, along with a random lift that the couple who were teaching (who dance at the highest level in college competition) made up on the spot.

Dips and drops. With a whole bunch of novices {myself included}. I thought I was going to die.

Behold, I am not dead! My knees, however, may decide to run away during the night, they’re about to give out on me, hence I am sitting down. Dips and drops are not easy on the female knees.

Lesson from the night: I can do lifts, dips, and drops. In fact, I can do them fairly well, for this reason: I am rather small. Guys like doing lifts, dips, and drops with small girls. They feel strong. Holding me with one arm is a lot easier than holding some other girls with one arm. Hence one relatively big (in the tall and muscular sense) guy was enjoying lifting and dipping and dropping me, and making up his own lifts and dips and drops with me, after being put with larger girls the rest of the night (pairing was somewhat done by matching body types).

So I learned how to do sexy things tonight. I’m still scared for my life doing them most of the time, but I can do them. Must do them in moderation, though, to avoid killing my knees again.