Gamer

So those of you reading should know that I'm a gamer. While I dabble with board games, console games, and role playing games, I primarily fall under the category of PC gamer.

My primary games have been League of Legends (LoL), Hearthstone, and more recently Counter Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO).

I set myself some goals this season and its been a fun and frustrating journey.

So what are these goals?

• Gold in LoL
• Gold in CS:GO
• Legend in Hearthstone

Doesn't seem too crazy right?

Well here is a brief breakdown of each game.

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• League of Legends

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/League_system

There are 8 tiers in LoL; Unranked, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Challenger.

The game starts in Unranked with a summoner level of 0. You play games to gain experience and reach a level of 30. Once you reach level 30 you can start competitive matches. Each season you start by playing 10 games to get placed into a division. Once you get placed there are 5 Divisions within each tier. You generally start in division 5 and gain points from winning games in that division.

You can receive anywhere from 1 point to 23 points per win. While it is rare to gain less than 15 points the algorithm is complicated and it does happen. Once you receive 100 points you start your series to advance. In tiers five through two you need to win 2/3 games to advance to the next division. Once you reach division one you will need to win 3/5 games to advance to the next tier.

Currently 19.40% of active players are currently ranked Gold. 9.65% of players are ranked higher than Gold. I'm happy to have made it to Gold! I was placed into Silver 1 and played over 300 games moving frequently between the divisions to rank up. Each game can last from 20 to 60+ minutes. One of the hardest parts of the game is consistency. If you have good team communication and team synergy things go very well. In the lower tiers of Silver and Gold there are less mechanics and more anger to deal with. If you can make your teammates feel good you have a better chance of winning, even if you are behind.

This was a challenging and mentally straining adventure. I had a lot of support from my friend Dave, he talked with me about the current meta, game changes, and helped me to develop my skills in the game.

In my ranked journey I got really good at demoting from Silver 1 into Silver 2 and then winning a bunch of games to advance back into Silver 1. I got my series from Silver 1 to Gold 5 eight times. The way the ranking system is structured players in Gold 5 have a skill range from low Silver to low Gold. This makes constancy non-existent and frustrations amplify more than ever. The last game of my series was a combination of good plays and begging and pleading with my team to complete objectives and finish the game. We were very much ahead but my team was more interested in griefing the enemy than they were in finishing.

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•  Counter Strike:Global Offensive

While competitive game play has been a part of the Counter Strike series for many years it was tracked by third party websites and you had to join a league in order to get any sort of ranking or collaborative game play. I remember playing in a team in the Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL) in the open division. We didn't advance at all, but it was a fun experience.

With the development of Steam and more interest in casual competitive game play a new ranking system was created for CS:GO.

A competitive match of CS has 10 players and two possible teams T and CT. You play as each team for 15 rounds. Each round is two minutes with the objective of eliminating the enemy team or destroying or defending a location specified on the map.


There are 18 rankings broken up into three main tiers: Silver, Gold Nova, Elite. The actual naming convention can get a little strange, but they display like badges.

You start the game at level 0, in order to play competitively you need to reach level 3. In order to get placed into a division you need to win 10 ranked games. This means you can play any number of games, but you need to win 10 in order to receive a placement. While this in itself seems reasonable, there is a limit of two ranked wins while you are in this Unranked limbo. Once you get two wins a 23 hour cooldown begins. So best case it will take 5 days of games before you are ranked.

I was happy to play with my brother Noah and his friends. He has a current ranking of Gold Nova Master. So while I played with him I was against other players in that tier of play. While it was challenging, as I became more familiar with the maps and the habits of other players my confidence in the game increased.

After getting my 10 ranked wins I was placed into Silver Elite. At the time of placement I was no longer able to play with Noah's friends because they was too much of a gap in ranking for the game restrictions. If we had a full team of 5 players it would allow us to play, but we did not always have 5 players. So I played several games alone or with my brother as a duo. After 6 wins I advanced to Gold Nova 1! The movement was much quicker than I expected, but CS is not a new game for me, so I had past experience and the guidance of my bro to get me ranked quickly! I intend to play some more games with my bro and see how far I can rank.

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• Hearthstone

Here is my current adventure! Hearthstone is a virtual trading card game (TCG) developed by Blizzard. There are 25 possible ranks in Hearthstone. Once you receive 6 wins in rank 1 you reach the "Legend" rank which give you your exact ranking in the region. this game has quite a bit to do with reading your opponent, and playing a tremendous amount of games and having, even if every so slightly, a win rate of over 50%.

There are several websites which provide a optimized set of cards (each deck has 30) which synergies well with each other and counters the most commonly played decks. The issue with this is that everyone uses these websites and copies the cards that professional players use. The best way to counter this is to be aware of what deck your opponent is using and to play knowing the potential next move.

If you are able to read your opponent and make a fewer number of mistakes you have a pretty good chance of winning!

Once you reach rank 5 you need to win 25 games in order to reach Legend status. This can be very frustrating and overwhelming. My current rank is 4 but I expect this to fluctuate greatly until I reach the top. This season is set to end on June 30th, once that happens I'll start from the bottom again!

A post from September last year a Blizzard shared some stats which showed that only 2% of players reached ranks 1-5. So that is an achievement at least!

Once again I must give props to my friend Dave. He has been keeping me up to date with the current meta and has helped me to craft decks and see options in the game play that I might miss or forget about. He has been a great support for me!

Well I'll continue to climb to reach my goal ... and after that? Well maybe I'll go outside or something.

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* Update *

So I don't think I'm going to make it to legend this season, while I intend to try, I'll see what I can do next month.

I did however reach 500 wins on my hunter today :D

For that you get a "Golden Hunter Portrait"
Which looks cool at least! You get a moving portrait and some glowy graphics ... you could say that was a golden achievement *rim-shot*

The climb to Legend has been challenging though, much of the same going on in the ladder. The same optimal decks on popular deck building websites run amok between 5 and the top ranking. There is a good quantity of luck and just knowing what the other player has to work with. Every once in a while I see a deck that makes me scratch my head, 80% of the time they lose because of the non-optimal cost of varying from the meta unfortunately. But I'm happy with another win closer to Legend.

In other Hearthstone news, there has been the announcement of the Hearthstone Grand Tournament!

This is a release of another expansion of the game. This means a 132 new cards to collect, find synergy with, and become angry about. At least they keep things interesting! I intend to save up my in-game currency and spend minimal amount of real dollars on the expansion, but we will see how things go. I have about 1000 gold saved up, which will buy me 10 packs when it gets released.

DJ Awesomeness

I just got back from an amazing weekend at Steel City Blues 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA. There was awesome dancing, DJs, artists, workshops, and so many cuddles and awesome connections made.

I was fortunate enough to make it to a DJ workshop taught by Daniel Repsch who is not only an awesome DJ but an amazing dancer and instructor. He motivated me to step my DJ game and adventure up.

So last night I spent several hours looking for a DJ program that I could use and be happy with for my future DJ adventures. I looked at MusicBee, AudioMulch, AIMP, MediaMonkey, Foobar2000, and Mixxx. I read reviews on forums, lifehacker, and wherever else I could find them. I was ready to drop some bank on a program, an external sound card, and even a new laptop if necessary!

With all that in mind, I want to express how excited I am for a free DJ program!

I have been using Mixxx 1.10 for a few months now, and while the experience has been "good" it was leaving me disappointed.

I'm super happy to see that they have released v1.11.0 and it has everything I was wanting and more!

Here are some of the features that make it awesome:

Cool design:

It has all the switches, bells, and whistles that you could want making it look like you have a million things going on! I like the default black option, it won't kill your eyes or kill the mood when the lights are turned down low :)

Multiple volume and balance dials, sync options, a fade control, individual volume, headphone listening switch, BPM identifier, lets you know if a song was played, read and sort the comments of your songs!

And that is just on the main screen!

There are lots of other great additions!

Auto DJ:
It was alright before, but it didn't work for social dancing ... now they added a fade delay option! So I can set a transition time before a song ends (positive numbers) or after a song has finished (negative numbers). This is one of the features I was most excited for! The songs that you have played automatically leave the "auto dj" section (don't worry they are marked as "played" and are saved in history!

Here are some other awesome tools that are much needed!

Music Crates: 
Crates are great for organizing music to DJ, avoid, or play more of!

History:
Don't worry about trying to remember what you played for a set, each time you open the program a new history item is started!

Easy Audio Output Options:
I found this to be awesome for setting my computer for multiple outputs without an external sound card!

Song Preview:
Just click a little play button and music is automatically sent to your secondary output! (make sure you have a secondary output before you click it!)

I use the UCA 222 (less than $20!)

https://a.co/d/1MPople

Another way to preview a loaded track is to move the fader to the other side while playing with the headphone option selected ... CAUTION ... if the fader isn't all the way over the other song will play through the speakers!

Where it falls short: (this list will grow as I figure out what doesn't work :p)

• No massive update options for comments or album or other bulk things you might want to do. 
• Comments do not save to the music file itself (they are worried about corrupting the file if they do) so if you make comments and then reload meta-data your comments can (and probably will clear out)
• I might play around with MusicBee to update comments
• I have been happily using MusicBee, this is a great program for categorizing and general listening to music.
• BPM Detection, it doesn't work super well, but I'm happy to see it when it does work.
• Window size; the available sizes are big or bigger. Not a big deal when I'm spinning, I won't be opening other programs.

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I'm looking forward to more DJ adventures and finding out more about Mixxx and it's features. If you have any questions, great features, or major failure, please let me know!

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Updates Below!

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4/27/2014:

So as I've been tinkering with Mixxx I've had an "oh crap" moment.

Do NOT set the "Master" output as "Primary Sound Driver"

It is best to assign the device for each output rather than letting the system decide for you :) 

 I had the issue of plugging in my USB headset and the laptop identifying it as the Primary ... which means no music though the speakers! It took me a few seconds to figure out what happened, but when people are expecting music to start and you are fiddling around with the controls it makes for bad times :(

There has also been one instance of my music history not saving ... that was during one of my fights with the machine at a house party :/ so while I wasn't too upset over loosing the set list, it was still a crappy feeling.

While this isn't exactly a program limitation, it is fairly important to know!

If I do figure out what causes the history to trip out I will update it here!

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9/26/2015:

Worried about system sounds?

If you set your usb device as the primary sound device to what you aren't using to play your music (the USB Headset for me) it will force the system to play system sounds through that device :D

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11/07/2018:

More updates have come through! The interface has been redesigned and scales better. There have also been improvements made to the BPM & Key Detection feature.

Wrecked

So yesterday was not so much a fun day, but I was lucky if you believe in that stuff!

Helm

When I was heading home from work yesterday on my motorcycle I collided with the bumper of a car. As I was going around a blind turn I was speeding up and merging into another lane. When the turn completed traffic was dead stopped and I was heading quickly to the back of the car in the far left lane.

Broken Tail light and Saddle Bags

Bent Handle Bars

I applied both brakes and had put too much pressure on the back brake. I felt the back tire start to slide and took a look at the back of the car I was heading for. I slowed as much as I could and my front tire hit the bumper on the passenger side of the car, I probably hit at about 20 mph. My bike fell to the left and I rolled to the right. I slid along the pavement and rolled to the left out of traffic, I  jumped up to my feet before the momentum stopped me from moving so I could be sure to avoid any traffic behind me.

Broken Whatever Its Called

Missing Foot Rest

My bike was on its side facing away from the direction of traffic, cars were already slowing but a lady pulled behind me to make sure no-one hit me and asked if I was ok. Another person got out of their car and helped me lift the bike up so I could move it out of the road, I was struggling with the weight of the bike and my strained muscles from the impact.

Broken Clutch Leaver

I collected my left mirror and foot rest from the street and put them in my saddle bag. The vehicle I hit was a hundred feet ahead of me or so with a black tire mark on the bumper. The well dressed man was concerned with my condition and was very kind. Turns out he is an Attorney from the city. He was unhurt and only the bumper of his car received any damage. So I imagine he would want to get that fixed up.We exchanged business cards and phone numbers.

He called me today to check on how I was doing and was very happy to hear that I'm well.

Scratched Tank

The police came out to check the scene and file a report. The cop asked if I was ok and then said "it's your fault" before asking about what had happened, just so it was clear to me before I said anything about the incident if I had wanted to argue. The only response I had to that was "ok". He later said that he wasn't going to give me a ticket because I admitted fault, which saves me at least $200 in fines, which sounds good to me. The medical team and fire department came to check me out as well. They were very friendly and helpful. The fire department helped me to roll my bike down the road closer to the cop car and the exit, they were even willing to help me pull the bike over the curb and into the grass to get it off the street. We left it on the road at the time though.

I several phone calls to see if I could find someone to help me transport my bike back home. Fortunately Nancy has a van and a ramp that was able to move my bike! She was awesome and drove over from Akron to help get my bike home. The cops said they could call for a tow but if they did the bike would be impounded and that would be a high cost for me. So I'm grateful for how that worked out.

Right Shoulder

Pants

Jacket, Right Shoulder

I have a bit of skin missing from my hands and knees but not much damage otherwise. My neck is sore and muscles ache, but I'm happy with the outcome overall.

I took photos of all my gear and broken sections of my bike as you can see throughout this post. I have full coverage on my bike with $3 K in accessory coverage. It should help to replace my safety gear (helmet, jacket, boots, gloves) and well as my bike. They are going to come out tomorrow to evaluate and see if they need to total it out and just cut me a check. It might be better if I just look for a new one, but once they check it out and total the damages I'll report back.

Here are some pictures of the damage to my body. Scratched hands and knees. Nothing major!

Right Hand

Left Hand

Knees

-- Update! --

So the representative from my insurance company came today to evaluate the damage to the bike. Turned out to be about 3k worth of damages (well over the value of the bike). They gave me money for the bike minus my deductible (500) and gave a check for accessories and safety gear.

It was going to be too much work and money to get it repaired myself, and I don't know that it would ever ride the same with the handle bars bent like they are.

So I purchased the bike at the end of July with 6,800 miles on it. It is going to get towed away with 8,600 miles on it three months later. I had a lot of fun riding ... I don't anticipate riding again until next season. I will be on the lookout for a good deal online, but I'm not in a hurry by any means.

Broken

Well there are so many cliches I could use to lead into this ... I'll just throw it out there: I broke my right arm. Right next to the wrist, I was snowboarding with my brother Jonas and at the end of the night we decided to hit a jump. It seemed like a bad idea but I wanted to do it. My last words to my brother before attempt the jump were "Lets Do This!" as quoted from Frisky Dingo.

Hard to see, but I think that's the jump

There was a fairly steep drop leading to the area where the ramp was so I got a considerable amount of speed, the jump itself didn't look bad, a smaller ramp with a gap of maybe 3 feet and then the landing area. I figured I would need a bit of speed to clear it. Well I misjudged it and launched over the gap and the landing area, I found myself off-balance and coming to the ground fast with my board sideways and my ass and my hands going first into the ground. I haven't done a lot of jumps so my landing and my falls are terrible.

I landed on my tailbone and my wrists, i felt a jolt of pain in my butt as the wind was knocked out of me and a tremendous pain in my wrists. The pain in my left wrist went away but my right hand felt unusable, I was wearing a metal watch during my ride, I didn't think much of it because we weren't doing any crazy jumps earlier and I hadn't planned on it. Anyways the last thing I was thinking about falling on was my wrists.

I took a couple minutes to catch my breath as the spectators in the lifts groaned as I flew and cheered for me as crumpled on the ground and crawled to the edge of the jump to sit and collect myself. I hear "he made it!" and I throw my arms up in the air triumphantly knowing that I would enjoy some asshole hurting himself on a jump as much as they enjoyed me doing the same.

My brother launched behind me and fell rather hard himself, denting his helmet and banging up his arm. He may have had a concussion but he was much more worried about his bro.

We rode down the rest of the hill and walked to the medical center on site. I babied my swollen wrist and explained my fall as they shook their heads and started to fill out paperwork.

Got general questions about my age, experience, how many times I've been riding this year, if I read the posted warnings or not (course I didn't). They had a collection of cardboard and bandages to make a sling for my arm, then they grabbed some snow from outside and bagged it up to ice the injury. Worked out pretty well, they just wanted to go home at that point though.

Well I made it home and had a hell of a time sleeping. Was in a tremendous amount of pain for the whole night. I actually woke up at 4am from the pain and decided to grab an ice pack from the freezer downstairs. I took a half a oxy and headed down to the freezer. I managed to fall down the last four stairs and re-injured my arm ... was a really shitty thing to do in the morning. Oh well, I grabbed and ice pack and attempted to sleep again.

In the morning I called my primary care doctor (who was out of the office) and was told to go to Urgent care because most of the doctors were out and they were only taking people with colds. So I went to the Urgent Care down the road, I wanted to avoid the emergency room because of the ridiculous bills I would receive.

I got x rays of my arm/wrist to find out if it was broken, the x ray tech told me that in her opinion it was broken. Turns out she was right! They took four shots of my wrist and explained to me how I could get my results off the Internet. The doctor prescribed me Ultram for pain (a shitty pain medication) and recommend that I see an Orthopaedic Doctor for the break. I called the Cleveland Clinic later that morning and they set and appointment for me on Monday February 25th. I was rather frustrated at the wait but was told that its best to wait for the swelling to go down first.



Here is the report that goes along with the x rays:
Date of Service: 02/22/2013 09:56 Adm #: 1305300405 PROCEDURE: WRIST RT MIN 3 VIEW - AXR 0054 REASON FOR EXAM: snowboard injury RESULT: There is an impacted fracture of the distal right radius extending to the articular surface of the radiocarpal joint. There is also a fracture at the tip of the ulnar styloid. The intercarpal alignment appears satisfactory on four views. IMPRESSION: Impacted fracture of the distal right radius extending to the articular surface of the radiocarpal joint and also a fracture at the tip of the ulnar styloid of the right wrist.



The appointment Monday came and I had received a CD of the images from the Urgent Care Clinic. I attempted to load it up at home and the CD did not read. I was concerned that it would fail for the doctor and burned a DVD with jpegs that I downloaded from the medical website. It was a good thing I did because I would have had to get more x rays and pay out more money!

I had a good talk with the doctors regarding the severity of the break and what I needed to do. They need to put metal plates in the arm and it would take maybe two months before I could use my arm to lift anything again. No smoking but drinking was ok, as long as I don't get drunk and fall on my arm anyways. The metal plates could be removed eventually if they cause irritation with my tendons but is seen as an extra surgery otherwise and can stay in.

I'm not looking forward to the procedure on Friday, but at the same time I just want to get it over with because of the amount of pain I've been experiencing with the break. I guess I'm cleared to go on my dancing trips next month but they aren't sure about the Triathlon I signed up for in June. I guess I could do it but I would have no time to train! My boss is convinced that I am physically fit enough to at least finish the race with little to no training. It makes me nervous but I'll have a better idea of what my body can handle after the procedure.

This photo shows the break the best,
the bone is jutted out on the right.

Well I guess all I can do at this point is wait. I will have the surgery on Friday (3/1) and I will leave to Oregon for the Blues Recess on Thursday (3/7). I should be back in town on Monday (3/11) just in time to have my cast removed. From there I will be in a splint and ready to go to Steel City Blues on Friday ( 3/15). Yeah I really don't slow down do I? This will be a big challenge for me and my dancing ability. I don't know how much I'll be able to get out of the workshops since they are designed for people that have use of both of their arms! I will need to adapt and modify. I hope this helps me to develop a better connection and style to work with! I still intend on becoming a blues teacher someday. I won't let this stop me! :)

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Update:
The procedure that will be performed on me is: Right distal radius ORIF
And thanks to my friend Leslie I was able to find the full procedure I will be undertaking on YouTube! I was not however able to watch it ... not that I can't stand the sight of someone getting dissected .. but that's going to be me in less than 24 hours! It just doesn't settle well in my stomach. Maybe I'll take a look after the procedure to see what was done rather than was is going to be done.

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Alright, the break was worse than the doctor thought! I have a lot of hardware in me now and wow does it hurt :(

I guess this needs to come out in 6 months.

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Update! 3/11/2013

Looks like things are healing nicely. I got some more x-rays to share and things are looking good. (They will be coming soon)

The doctor drew a picture for me of what my bones did and how they are holding together. I wasn't able to get the orientation quite right when I added the numbers and some colored lines to help explain. :p

Orange lines represent parts where the bone split off.

Blue lines outline the hardware they put in.

Some of the black horizontal lines are screws, there are a bunch and not all were drawn.

1: This section of bone came off completely and was disconnected from the rest of the bone. They moved it back and there is a long plate on the side of the bone to hold it in place.

2: This piece split off and rotated 90 degrees around. Must have had enough force not only to snap it but to send it spinning inside my hand! There is another plate on that one with a bunch of screws to keep it connected.

3: One last section of bone that was broken as well. I'm not sure that this one was completely severed but there is another plate put on to keep it together. Once again with several screws.

I'm told that things are healing nicely and that there is still a nice curve to the bone which should allow me to move my wrist without much issue. This is very promising.

I listed a few pictures of my hand with and without stitches. They took off the splint I was wearing (had it on for about a week) and put me in a cast yesterday, I'll be in it for about 3 weeks and then I'll be starting physical therapy.

I guess the incisions are healing up nicely and the stitches came out without much trouble. There was a bit of pain but they all came out in one piece. I was happy to see and feel that happen. I don't want to imagine what kind of action would have been needed if one of the stitches snapped or got stuck!

Well, after getting x-rays and getting the stitches out, it was time for a cast! There was a bit of a wait (they had a queue of people getting casts put on), but I think they did a great job.

The color selection was rather extensive! I've included a picture, we have pink, grey, red, purple, black, blue, orange, green, powder blue, yellow, white. There were also some patterns (not all pictured), fatigue, some multi-color one, and one more I can't quite remember.

The actual casting was an interesting experience;
First they put a thin cloth on my hand to protect my skin.
Then they put a white fiberglass wrapping on my hand and wrist. It got pretty warm as the chemicals set.
Next he cut some parts of the cloth that was on my hand and sticking out the bottom and top of the cast so far and covered the white cast they had put on.
Lastly the red fiberglass wrapping was put on the top.

He mad it fit rather snugly and let me know that it would loosen up as the swelling went down more. Also if I held my hand down for too long blood would rush to it and i would get some throbbing pain.

Either way it was an alright experience. Now I have a bright red cast to show off and get signed at the next dance event I go to! That will be this coming weekend at Steel City Blues. I'll get a picture with signatures before they cut it off three weeks from now.

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Looking for more information? Check out the update here: http://sonicmna.blogspot.com/2013/04/broken-2-mending-edition.html

Blues: What is it?

So I keep talking about blues dancing and I find that many people know of the style of music but not the dance. I did a little hunting on YouTube to better show what it is.

I grabbed videos from Ruby Red, Ruth Hoffman (some awesome blues instructors) and events/tutorials to show blues in action as well as some moves if people are interested in the breakdown :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7moOd7Or9Gg&list=PLE069AC801587937F&feature=plpp_play_all

I'll edit the playlist if I find a good addition as well as update this post later with more background on the ^___^

If you ever want to try dancing hit me up!

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A excerpt from : https://bluesdancenewyork.com/what-is-blues/

Blues dance is strongly tied to Blues music, and many aspects of Blues dancing (for example, call and response, emotional intensity, and tension and release) are directly related to the music to which it is danced. There are many types of Blues music (rural, urban, up-tempo, slow, electric, delta, modern), and also many types of Blues dance, all with very different nuances and emotions.

Blues is also an emotion that you bring to your dancing. Blues dance, like most Black vernacular dances, enables intense individuality in expressing the music, emphasizing that the music, not the dancer, leads the dance; the dancer is simply the interpreter. Blues dance demonstrates the passion of the entire range of human emotions - from sadness to joy - not just sensuality. If you don't have a visceral reaction to the music, your partner, and the environment, then you are missing the true beauty of Blues dance.

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A more academic version of blues dancing as offered by Blues Dance New York:

Blues Dancing is an umbrella term for a family of dances done to blues music and blues structures. It is an improvisational dance form primarily danced with a partner, but also solo or in a group.

Parallel to blues music, blues dance is based on social dance styles created from African and European roots in America between the 1800’s and mid 1900’s, although it has experienced significant evolution within the last 10-15 years.

Rooted in African movement, blues dance places a high value on rhythm and individual movement. Today there is a strong emphasis on connection with your partner, the music, and the community.

While there are now a wide range of Blues dances, each with unique dynamics, aesthetics, rhythms, attitudes, and step patterns; they share numerous characteristics that allow individuals to stylistically and creatively express the music. These include:

• Asymmetry
• A balanced, flexible posture
• Dancing behind the beat
• Everyday found movement
• Pulse
• Polyrhythm
• Bent limbs & torso
• Movement radiating through all parts of the body
• Grounded & earth focused
• Call/Response and Lead/Follow
• Emotion