Advanced Class report
Jan. 12th, 2006 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscottTuesday night we went to the first ECR Advanced Class intro night. Dave Decot and Michael Levy did a good job trading off tips, with some APD Plus and a few new Advanced calls. It was nothing like Andy's sink-or-swim methods -- when I took the class about 7 years ago, we plunged right in to Chain Reaction, and I had to quit after contracting the flu about two weeks in. This time, we had 2 squares, about half students, which is not bad; some of my favorite people angeled, including Lou Ceci and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
allanh, who wrote about it here. We only attracted one student from outside the South Bay / Peninsula, but the rent on the school gym we used is apparently so cheap the class can be small and still break even. There were some breakdowns when Dave or Michael screwed up, but trying to make illegal calls work can be fun.
We already have the Big 5 and Callerlab definition books from my previous try at A, so we're set.
In unfortunate timing news, we'll have left for Ft. Lauderdale the day Andy/otterpop58 visits to call for ECR's dance.
allanh, who wrote about it here. We only attracted one student from outside the South Bay / Peninsula, but the rent on the school gym we used is apparently so cheap the class can be small and still break even. There were some breakdowns when Dave or Michael screwed up, but trying to make illegal calls work can be fun.We already have the Big 5 and Callerlab definition books from my previous try at A, so we're set.
In unfortunate timing news, we'll have left for Ft. Lauderdale the day Andy/
otterpop58 visits to call for ECR's dance.
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Date: 2006-01-12 10:09 pm (UTC)Ceder Chest is probably the best for explanations and diagrams.
Trying to get through Advanced before convention
with those instructorsis pretty ambitious. Hope it all goes well. I'm looking forward to seeing you Swap Around!no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 10:17 pm (UTC)Okay, I'll waste some trees. The relatively trivial calls they introduced so far haven't changed, but it'd be unwise to rely on old books. I do like the background material in the Big 5 book because it's unlikely to be presented clearly in class.
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Date: 2006-01-12 10:34 pm (UTC)LoveHatebad instructorschallenged squaredancers.