Re: Hustles Woes

On Apr 23, 9:04 am, swingandhustle <swingandhus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 12:48 pm, "Ron N." <rhnlo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 23, 5:33 am, swingandhustle <swingandhus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > Your "Correct Count" is the NY style adaptation.
> > ...
> > > When they came out with it in 95,
>
> > I first heard the "&1.2.3" count circa mid-1980's
> > in California.  I doubt that NY adapted it from CA.
>
> It was being taught &133 by Fred estair dance studios before that -
> but that has nothing to do with the point here.
>
> the NY styled hustle of today is danced WAY slower than it was in 1980
> - and has added figures impossible to execute outside of the AARP.

Your hypothesis makes no sense.  Even the slowest varieties
of Hustle music usually have a faster tempo than Waltz or
Foxtrot.  Yet that doesn't make it at all impossible for
a huge population of college students all over the world
to dance these slower and more popular ballroom dance figures.