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What Brazilian Zouk Actually Costs You (S06 Ep06) · ZoukNerds • Learn | Build | Belong

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  Every time I teach a class, the students pretty much tell me how
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  to teach. Teaching is not me lecturing,
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  but me work, shopping and playing with everyone's who's in
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  the class. And that makes the teaching of
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  the class. For me the best benefits of
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  dancing Brazilian Zook is the fact that with this dance I am
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  put in touch with people that I don't think I would ever ever
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  ever ever otherwise catching up. For me the main disadvantage of
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  dancing Brazilian Zook I would say the resting part, because
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  majority of social dancing of Brazilian zoo happen in late
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  hours. Yes, I can try to sleep by
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  midnight at the earliest, but then on the weekend I have a
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  festival or maybe a weekend or even just one social on Friday
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  that finishes by 1:30 or two. And then I get home and I'm
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  going to sleep by 3:30 or 4:00. And then it snowball just rolls
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  into next week and it's a whole thing.
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  Yeah, because maybe we can say the other day that the
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  disadvantage is that this dance will put like a a mirror in
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  front of you for your own frailties to your own fragility.
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  So we prepared, like when we said before this day is not
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  therapy, but it's highly therapeutical in the sense that
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  we will expose you to certain aspects of your being that you
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  were not aware of or it was hiding deep in science.
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  Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode.
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  My name is Alisson Sandi and we have deep brother here
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  everybody. Welcome back, my people.
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  And today, we're going to continue with our experiment
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  where we read one of the questions from our Facebook
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  group and we share our opinion here like one-on-one, just like
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  AQ and A in person. So, Gee, what is the question of
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  today? That is going to be a short one
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  because they asked for one thing.
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  One thing, one thing. But you know how we talk, right?
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  So we'll see. We'll.
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  Try We'll try, We'll try Veronique Dupaul as the benefits
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  of dancing Brazilian Zook What will be the best benefits of
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  dancing Brazilian Zook for you? What does the dance bring edge
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  to your life? One thing, and what would be the
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  principal disadvantage? There's always a downside in
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  everything in life, and indeed there is one thing only.
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  Well, I will start with the advantage.
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  For me, the advantage is mental and emotional exploration.
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  I don't know. I'm just going to put it out
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  there. I don't know if this actually is
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  something that would fit into the question, but to me it makes
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  the most sense. Brazilian Zook itself.
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  Brazilian Zook and like he had to dance other styles.
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  But this dance provides me in a place of research, of
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  experiment, of continuous learning every minute.
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  And I say that with full confidence because a lot of the
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  times the students do asks us, don't you get bored of teaching
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  the same class all the time? The beginner scores, the head
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  movements, class intro, whatever.
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  Never, because it's never the same class.
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  Every time I teach a class, the students pretty much tell me how
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  to teach. That's kind of how I see
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  teaching. Teaching is not me lecturing,
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  but me work, shopping and playing with everyone's who is
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  in the class. And that makes the teaching of
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  the class now the disadvantage. And this is one that I feel very
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  deeply, especially now and being here in Taiwan, I feel the
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  shift, which is sleep schedule. OK.
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  And here I'm saying this in a positive note because here I've
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  made my schedule in a way that I can have a better sleep
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  schedule. But usually travelling and being
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  out and about in the festivals and doing the touring life, no
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  sleep schedule, flying through many different time zones, going
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  through so many different weathers and seasons and
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  humidity and dryness and all of those things.
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  So definitely, definitely, I would say just the sleep and the
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  lack of routine. That's true.
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  What about for Yuki? For me, the main advantage, the
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  main benefit, the best benefits of Destiny Brazilianzo is the
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  fact that with this dance I am put in touch with people that I
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  don't think I would ever, ever, ever, ever otherwise catching
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  up. Yes, there are some out of
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  amazing people that I have met in this life because of this
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  dance. It's something that in my
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  morning gratitude routine, it's something that is constantly
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  there. It's something so amazing and so
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  mind boggling to think about when I think about myself when I
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  was like 15 years old, 16 years old, that I would not dream ever
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  that one day I would be in Taiwan here in front of the
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  camera with Alisson recording videos about, you know, about
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  Brazilian Zook stuff in a Zook Nerds podcast.
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  Our life, our experience. Ever, ever, ever, never, ever,
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  ever. So I think that's the greatest
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  benefit for me of this resident Zook, if I need to choose.
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  One the platform to share our experience basically is
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  something incredible, but yes, it's.
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  Crazy. It's crazy.
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  Like it's just weird to think about.
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  When I put into comparison with how my life was back home in
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  Brazil, where my reality was basically he was Janiel and the
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  reality of living there and the people there, that's all I knew.
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  I didn't even know people from Sao Paulo, you know, imagine
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  knowing people from Sydney, from Japan, from Vietnam, from
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  Indonesia. Please.
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  What would be the principal disadvantage of dancing?
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  Right. So I'm thinking about dancing,
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  not necessarily teaching for me, the main disadvantage of
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  dancing. Brazilian Zook, I would say
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  similarly the resting part, the resting part, because majority
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  of events, majority of social dancing of Brazilian zoo happen
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  in late hours. Luckily in the US, at least, the
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  latest events that I have been by 1:00 AM, it's over, we can't
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  go home, but it's still late, it's still 1:00 AM.
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  And I remember that when I'm not in that schedule, if I can't go
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  to bed by 10 and before midnight, luxuries, luxuries.
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  The advantage of teaching is that we finish teaching around
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  10:30 until we close everything, until we break things down and
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  put everything back into the closet and everything 3011 we'll
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  get home, still want to eat, blah, blah blah, midnight and so
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  on and so forth. So I think that will be the
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  advantage. Like the resting, the sleep
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  schedule gets messed up unless we are really strict with it,
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  really disciplined with it. And it's hard to be disciplined
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  because yes, I can try to sleep by midnight every night at the
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  earliest. But then on the weekend I have a
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  festival or maybe a weekend there or even just one social on
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  Friday that finishes by 1:30 or two.
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  And then I get home and I'm going to sleep by 3:30 or 4:00.
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  And then it snowball just rolls into next week.
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  And it's a whole thing. So it's on us of course, as
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  teachers and as leaders of our life and decision makers to
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  change or to accept that. So that's why I try to do this
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  in chunks nowadays. I'll go like 3 or 4 weeks of
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  that and then I'll go two months of like this of the chill of
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  like look after myself, sleep well, eat well, workout,
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  mentally prepare myself for the next thing and physically
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  prepare myself for the next thing and then do a bunch of
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  travels. But then I do feel that I have
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  the time to recover and to recharge because guess what?
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  We are not the crazy 20 years old that started this, you know,
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  like we're not there anymore. So we do have to do things a
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  little bit different. But not to say that I mean, if
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  you're older, this is not for you.
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  We're talking about at the rate and at the level that we do
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  things. This is our full time life and
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  career and we do this at 1,000,000 mph in every moment
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  that we do. Yeah, it's how we.
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  How we operate. Yeah, it's basically perviates
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  almost every aspect of our lives.
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  Decisions are made based on where can I go that there is
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  dance, where can I go that there is work when there is a
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  possibility of this and the possibility of that.
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  So it's costing our minds for someone who dances once a week
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  in their class and then go to the social when it's available.
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  When I think about those days in my life, the advantages, I
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  already said, but even when I was in Rio, the advantage was
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  pretty similar. Being around people that I would
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  not otherwise be the disadvantage when I was in that
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  reality. I cannot think about any like
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  disadvantage other than sometimes the social dancing
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  environment can be a little bit challenging in certain aspects
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  of it. It can be challenging for
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  yourself, confidence, It can be challenging for your ego in a
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  way at times. You think that was one of the
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  biggest disadvantages of the scene, specifically Brazilian
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  Zook. I say this to people a lot, but
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  I was born and raised in Rio and the same thing was with my
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  dance. I started learning there and I
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  started social dancing there and for a long time I was there
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  almost entirely. First time I went out of Rio to
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  dance was in 2004 G and I started dancing 2006, you know,
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  and in Rio, for example, I had one of the greatest
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  disadvantages of this in Brazilian zoo for me in Rio was
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  going to the socials because it was a scene that was for me hard
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  to access. So that was the advantage of
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  dance Brazilian Zook was actually going out to dance
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  Brazilian Zook and had a social in my city because for someone
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  who was shy, for someone who had a harder time connecting with
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  people in this way, it was hard. Mostly because the environments
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  where with dance Brazilian Zook was more leaning towards like a
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  party where people drink and blah, blah, and less what I was
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  used to. That was more like a social that
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  they start earlier, they finish earlier as well.
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  There's all these things. So when I think of myself as a
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  partner, as a social dancer, not as a teacher, I think similar
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  advantage and slight different disadvantage.
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  Yeah, I think when you put it this way, I can also think how
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  learning Brazilian Zook, for me, it almost falls into the same
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  two sides, the advantage and advantage, the positive and
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  negative. The positive is that it
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  challenges myself all the time. And then the negative is that
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  I'm very, very perfectionist and hypercritical of myself.
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  So it has been a struggle for me to get to this point where I now
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  accept the learning, the time that it takes, and accept the
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  process fully embrace the process.
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  Not trying to rush it, not trying to always do excellent,
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  but being more gentle with myself and gentle with everybody
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  around me about what we're doing and how we're doing things.
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  So the learning of Brazilian Zook can be a little stressful
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  or can be a little bit lengthy for somebody like me.
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  So I agree that sometimes we can all see that as a advantage.
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  For me as a non natural dancer as we call it, for me, it just
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  takes 10/15 times more. I was talking to some students
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  this week about this, about how, you know, there is that type of
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  student that can just see something and really.
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  Get it, my brother? You know, for me, I need to feel
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  it and I need to test 15 different variations of that one
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  thing so then I can understand what comes before, what that is
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  and what that leads to. And I need to have this diagram
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  in my head of like, OK, this makes sense because of this and
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  because of this. And when I did that and it
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  didn't work, it was because of this and this and this and this.
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  So it's an advantage because I love this process, but it's also
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  a disadvantage when I didn't know how to accept and how to be
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  OK and how to respect this process.
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  So I'm sure that this can resonate to a lot of you guys in
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  the group because, well, we're here.
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  We're ZoukNerds as well as I talked to so many people in the
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  community exactly about this. So do understand and respect
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  this process and be gentle with yourself.
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  Yeah, because maybe we can say in the other day that the
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  disadvantage is that this dance will put like a mirror in front
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  of you for your own frailties to your own fragility.
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  So like, for me, my case is shyness.
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  For me, in my case, it's like having a really hard time to be
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  more outgoing and put myself out there and just like, hey, would
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  you like to dance? You know, super hard for me and
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  Alisson Amir, say the perfectionist, we need to know
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  this much this well, you know, kind of things.
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  So we prepared, like when we said before this day is not
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  therapy, but it's highly therapeutical in the sense that
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  we will expose you to certain aspects of your being that you
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  were not aware of or it was hiding deepening science.
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  That's right. And thanks, Veronique DuPont for
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  this beautiful question and conversation that's so many
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  people interacted with on Facebook and we read pretty much
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  all of them. And we just wanted to add our
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  two cents here. So if you haven't yet, please
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  put your comments and your questions on our Facebook group.
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  And this might be part of another episode.
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  Indeed. Thank you very much.
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  Business Bridges. Abbottaston's Ciao.
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  Bye.