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Cyd
Posted by Cyd
4/30/2009  1:42:00 AM
I read this newspaper article from a New Zealand newspaper with my own eyes. The countries champion has been banned and stripped of his title because in the Studio he belongs to (in which he is allowed to teach Social Couples ). To help the Studio he taught a competition couple. That was enough to get him banned by his association. How ridiculace is that Here where i live, a visiting competing top German couple were allowed to teach and it was advertsed on the net.
This is how unfair this can become. If the banned person took the Dance Society to court the costs would come from his own pocket. The Society would defend the action with his own money. He being a paid up member.
Re: Cyd
Posted by anymouse
4/30/2009  4:29:00 PM
"The countries champion has been banned and stripped of his title because in the Studio he belongs to (in which he is allowed to teach Social Couples ). To help the Studio he taught a competition couple."

If the rules in your country prohibit this, you had better follow them or expect the consequences. Perhaps it's time for a discussion of what the rules in your country should be, but as long as they are what they are, there should be consequences for violating them.

All the better that it happened to the champion and not to some "nobody" as it shows that the rules are evenly applied to all, regardless of stature. That's a concept called the "rule of law" and is a basic foundation of organized society.

Typically the best career move for the dancer is to turn professional at this point.
Re: Cyd
Posted by Cyd
4/30/2009  8:22:00 PM
How can a competitor travel abroad to compete at Blackpool for instance, and then off to other parts of the world, and be dancing full time as an amatuer unless they are allowed, as they are in most other countries, to earn money by teaching. By teaching just Social couples that would not be enough. You know what Social Couples are like. Here today and gone tomorrow.
Where i live an amatuer can teach proving thay have passed a Level O. The only other stipulation is that there has to be a professional on the premises. Which brings us to the word shamateurism. It's in the dictionary.
Re: Cyd
Posted by Telemark
5/2/2009  1:19:00 AM
By teaching just Social couples that would not be enough. You know what Social Couples are like. Here today and gone tomorrow.


Perhaps they get made into pies, Sweeney Todd style.
Re: Cyd
Posted by Cyd
5/2/2009  1:51:00 AM
Telemark. Maybe i didn't explain very well. A Social Couple are very seldom reliable long term if we compare them to a competition couple.
Actually Mrs Lovett made the pies. Sweeney Todd supplied the material. I thought the film was brilliant especially the performances by Johny Depp and Helena Bonhem Carter.

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