Sunday, January 8, 2012

"I'm Melting..."

Linda has been practicing and practicing her new routines.  She is confident she knows two of them, and she just has one more to go.  Honestly, she's only watched 3 of the tracks and has not even looked at the the other 9 of her WIM release.  Her brain is melting and she has the songs stuck in her head playing on repeat.  In order for her to teach them with total confidence, she needs to be able to hear 4-8 beats of any given song and know exactly what she is supposed to be doing right at that moment.  Some instructors starts memorizing their routines a week before launch, she starts the afternoon they come in the mail.  If she is in line at the store, eating lunch or waiting for her next class to start, she is listening to the songs or studying her notes.  This morning, she almost instinctively grabbed her music bag from the seat when she was getting out of the car to go into church!  She stopped herself immediately and gave herself a mental slap in the head (or a "kick in the teeth" as the Combat song goes....)