So, I’ve probably been on the dancefloor in a club less than ten times in my life.
More than once, the girl I was dancing with went KA-BAM to the floor. Dancing don’t mix well with alcohol. (To my defense, all times the girls asked me to dance)
And for no particular reason I decided to be more of a dancer. I guess there were a couple of reasons I didn’t like the dance floor;
- You’ll get sweaty
- You’ll look chody if you don’t dance
- You have to dance with someone to be on the dancefloor
- You have to know how to dance
- There’s a miniscule chance of hooking up with girls on the dancefloor
As I found out, however, none of the above is true. Except pherhaps the last point
. And just standing on the dancefloor or close by looking uncomfortable, that looks awkward, so don’t.
I decided to just walk onto the dancefloor and move in sync with the music. Nodding my head, and twisting my torso. Nothing special, just getting comfortable, and smiling. Smiling is important, just have a good time, enjoy the music.
Dancing is easy, this is how I do it:
First, you need to know what rythm is. I love music, especially house, dance and trance, and most music is based on rythm. Listen for the bass, the “booom, booom“, that is the beat. Move along with the beat, if you’re dancing, do one movement with each beat. You could probably try something more advanced, but that’s what I do.
Right now, I got two dance moves. In all their glory:
The first one consists of simply moving my head with the beat, kind of nodding, and moving my shoulders from side to side, like the movement you get when you turn around, but don’t move your feet.
The second one is a bit more advanced
Not really, I move my left shoulder forward, then the right, and then the left two times. Then the right, the left, and then the right two times. Repeat.
I keep my hands by the bottom of my rib cage, and sometimes down by my sides. Also, be relaxed, have a bend in your knees, and don’t be stiff.
You don’t have to dance with anyone to be on the dancefloor. The first times, I just stood on the dancefloor, relaxed and enjoying the music by myself. Found a spot in the middle of the dancefloor that wasn’t cramped, with no girls (since most girls was surrounded by chumps), mostly guys with their back toward me. There I stood, dancing, having a good time and enjoying myself, and soon enough, chicks would be drawn towards the non-chode vibe. They would get closer, often with their back towards me, sometimes trying to grind. But then, what always happened was that some guy would squeeze himself between me and the girl. Since my goal was to just get comfortable dancing, I just made a mental note of how things go down on the dancefloor, and continued dancing.
Some observations from my last field trip: The last 30 minutes, the girl:guy ratio is terrible. The floor is packed with obnoxious chodes who have slammed enough liquid courage to stagger out on the dancefloor, only to find that most girls have left. The few chick left are not the best looking. Anyway, this girl is walking by me, I take her arm, smile, and we dance. She start grinding her crotch on my thigh (freakdancing, I think it is called). Since it’s closing time, she start fidgeting with her phone. It’s the kind with a flip, so I just shut it, she smiles. The music stops, and I lead her towards the exit. She is losing interest quickly. There’s a crowd by the door, and she let go of my arm and dissapears into it. I don’t chase, so I leave for the wardrobe.
I enjoy dancing, it’s fun.
The thing is, I think, is that when you meet someone on the dancefloor, she already assumes you’re a chode. That’s a bad place to start.
