Are You Wasting Your Private Dance Lessons?

<p>&quot;I know, I&#39;ve done this already.&quot; Every Brazilian Zouk teacher hears that in privates, and I ask the same thing back.</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;Okay, you&#39;ve done it. But do you know it?&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;Oh no, yeah, I know.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;Do you know? Because if you knew, we wouldn&#39;t be correcting this.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>Then Gui told me the one that stuck. Hours of privates on Lambada, learned so much, never practised any of it. &quot;Couple months went by, it&#39;s almost like I didn&#39;t do the private lesson at all. I forgot everything.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>What we get into:</p><p><br></p><p>→ Don&#39;t book me to buy a move. Someone points at a video and Gui usually just says, &quot;this is a Ioiô,&quot; you already know it.</p><p><br></p><p>→ Three missed classes at District Zouk is four and a half hours, warm-ups, rotations, everybody&#39;s input. Gui asks it straight, &quot;you wanna substitute that for one hour?&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>→ My students book me like a physio, &quot;Alisson, I need a health checkup.&quot; Once a month is my floor, and weekly only works if we&#39;re integrating.</p><p><br></p><p>→ &quot;I wanna get better.&quot; Better how? Gui asks that every time, and it turns a drifting hour into a working one.</p><p><br></p><p>→ A follower came to him losing her balance, told her ankles were weak. It was never her ankles, she was moving her weight forward too fast.</p><p><br></p><p>This one I keep chewing on, because I&#39;ve done it as a student. Gui says people ask for what they think you want to hear, not what they actually want. Nowhere to hide in there, you know?</p><p><br></p><p>The big takeaway: we know everything that we know, but we don&#39;t know what we don&#39;t know, and you are the one who can tell us.</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters:</p><p>00:00 Opening highlights</p><p>01:14 Intro: what a private lesson is actually for</p><p>03:44 When someone asks you to teach a move</p><p>10:11 The Q&amp;A before the first dance</p><p>12:54 Why the problem is rarely mechanical</p><p>15:09 I forgot everything I learned</p><p>20:34 How often to book: the health checkup</p><p>23:19 One hour can&#39;t replace three missed classes</p><p>26:40 &quot;In Salsa we do it like this&quot;</p><p>28:28 What to keep from your old dance style</p><p>31:19 Empty cup or full cup</p><p>36:05 &quot;Tell me what only you do&quot;</p><p>40:21 When a private goes wrong, say something</p><p>44:04 What does better mean to you?</p><p>47:14 It wasn&#39;t her weak ankles</p><p>50:04 Choosing the teacher who fits you</p><p><br></p><p>Co-host: Gui Prada</p><p><br></p><p>ZoukNerds: https://www.zouknerds.com/</p><p>Alisson Sandi: https://www.alissonsandi.com</p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zouk.nerds/</p><p><br></p><p>Episode: S06 Ep17 | ZoukNerds Podcast</p>