African Dance - Exercise or pure joy?
October 1, 2009 | Frascati, Italy | Vetting explained
I think it is both. Walking on a treadmill is so boring! When you dance, you don't even think about the fact that you are exercising and that's why I love it.
This is my teacher with her advanced group at a show in Frascati, Italy. (I'm just a beginner and our steps are less complicated but equally energetic.)
Currently, my job is sadly interfering with my social life/exercise, so I am not part of the group at the moment. As soon as I can, I hope to go back. I have never had so much fun exercising in my life! I recommend it for anyone who loves life. It is a real anti-depressant, too!
I think that schools should offer it. I hated PE as a child - It was humiliating on several levels, starting with gymsuits--thankfully long forgotten, other than by those of us who actually had to wear them. I got the only F in my entire academic career because I refused to wear a gymsuit for the first semester.
And who ever thought up tetherball (cracked a tooth), dodgeball (what were they thinking?), or "picking sides" for team sports (as if adolescence weren't full of unavoidable humiliations as it is).
Despite my own dreadful PE experience, I think it should be mandatory in all levels of school, but it should be fun so that kids grow up with a positive attitude about excercise.
I vote for African Dance as an option!
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