{"id":7803,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rj6-live.local\/my-technical-evolution-with-dax-hock\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:43:20","slug":"my-technical-evolution-with-dax-hock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v1.rhythmjuice.com\/my-technical-evolution-with-dax-hock\/","title":{"rendered":"My (Technical) Evolution with Dax Hock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Every year it is something different! You change so much we can barely keep up!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n

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I want to show my students, no matter how much you improve you never stop growing. When I look at the past 8 years of my partnership with Dax, one thing has never changed, and that is our core focus: the pursuit of better dancing. Our priorities switch as we research and explore ways to improve to grow and expand. With every new focus, we dive deeper, thus adding more layers of awareness and information to our ideas. We are not different than we were 8 years ago. We are <\/span>more<\/span><\/i> than we were 8 years ago. <\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Beginning With Dax<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Me trying to pretend I knew what I was doing > Lonestar 2010 (shot by David Holmes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first started training with Dax, he had been finishing his last teaching cycle with <\/span>Alice Mei<\/b>.<\/a> Together, they had built an empire of teaching methods and ideologies. At the time, I had been swing dancing for many years but didn’t train much seriously*. I lived blissfully in the world of a social dancer, not knowing much technically but having fun with my natural talents (Here is a <\/span>video example <\/a>of me at this time rockin it with Shesha (Atomic Ballroom, California). After spending two weeks in “boot camp” with Dax in Montreal, I was utterly floored at how much I didn’t know. Shortly after this (and after agreeing to be Dax’s dance partner), I went home where I had one month to catch up on his and Alice’s ideas before returning to Montreal. I had two months until my first international teaching gig. I felt an immense rush to learn all that Alice had helped to build so I could pull my weight and prove myself as a new teacher (impossible, but a goal nonetheless). I studied every video here on <\/span>Rhythmjuice<\/b>, learned every routine, to be as best prepared as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Ideas<\/b><\/h2>\n

During this time, I was introduced to a basic idea about body movement <\/strong><\/span><\/b>and body leading vs arm leading <\/b><\/b>(see example below or lollies done in these two different schools of thought)
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