How my fear of Ballroom Dancing turned into a Happy Addiction!
Hi !!! My name is Mike and I am a Ballroom Dancing addict….
It wasn’t always that way though!
Nobody in my family danced and some even considered it sacrilegious.
When I would go to a club, I was good at dancing by myself, and girls would come up and ask me to dance. After a few times of them back-leading me, they stopped asking. While dancing, my responsibility as a man, is to lead. But, I had no idea how to lead, and I was ashamed. I remember drinking myself into a stupor to avoid failure. It put quite a damper on my social life, in general. Not to mention that it was quite dangerous.
Finally, at the end of a 3-week stay-cation, where I watched multiple dancing movies each day - Danny Kay, Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly - I decided I need to put aside my fear and take dancing lessons.
Mike & Gabriella at a Competition in Puerto Rico