Strengths and Weaknesses (Jazz Technique) - 21/09/15

Strengths and Weaknesses in Jazz:

In today's lesson of Jazz, I found that I overcame one of my weaknesses, however I also found that I became weaker in one of my strengths from my previous lessons. I also did not have the best lesson as I injured my shoulder during rehearsals and so consequently found it difficult to do all the moves full out. In this blog post, I will compare what went well in this lesson and what didn't go so well in class.

Strengths:

• In my dance lesson this week, I found that I continued to pick up the choreography easily. I managed to pick these routines up in a professional and quick manner, which meant I was able to start cleaning the moves and transition between each moves while some people were still picking up the choreography. For example, I was out of the lesson for 10 minutes today and when I came back I managed to stand at the back of the class and learn it without any help from anyone. I feel this is a strength of mine as I can easily and quickly pick up routines, clean them quickly and then possibly help others with the choreography. 

Weaknesses:

• Something I have found very challenging to do in my Jazz lessons is getting to my place in time. This has been a weakness as I have to run behind a couple of girls to get to my place, however I never get there in time because there is not enough room to run past them to get to my place. I am currently trying to resolve this issue by finding another way to get past the girls and also I am starting to run a little earlier then everyone else. This is something I know I definatly need to improve on by next lessons.
• Another weakness I have found is my agility, which was also an issue in last weeks blog post. Although I have improved and got a bit better, I still feel there will always be room for improvement. However, saying that I know I can and WILL improve it. I can improve this by practicing going from the floor to standing quickly so that my agility improves. This means my moves will become cleaner as I will be able to get down to the floor or back to standing without feeling like I am rushing the movement.
• My final weakness - which was also a weakness of last weeks lesson, is my strength. This is because I have found that some of the moves which involve using upper or lower body strength have been a little challenging and to some extent look messy. Now that I know this, I will continuously improve my strength by doing daily exercises which will over time improve it. 

Even though two of my weaknesses from last weeks lessons are still weaknesses, I am not disappointed. This is because although they are still on there, I know that it takes hard work, dedication and time to improve them. I also know that over night they are not going to become brilliant, which means that it will take more weeks and possibly months before I see any substational difference.