This pretty much sums up my issues with the "Groove" folks. I had a guy show up to my gig the night. A really good Westie/Groove dancer, but once the music hit above 160 he flatly refused dances. He did give it a go once to a song at 180 and failed miserably. I didn't feel bad, though, since i do advertise my night as a Swing Night. My average tempo is 160 or more.yedancer wrote:Which, in turn, seems to be proof of the pro-originals' argument that groove music is bad for lindy hop, because one of the prime reasons the pro-groovers don't like the old stuff is because they can't dance well to anything over 150-160, which is pretty much the bottom of the chart when it comes to original stuff, and the top when it comes to groove stuff. (was that a run-on sentence?)
If you're going to call yourself a Lindy Hopper... you better be able to dance to Lindy Hop tempos.