Ty Murray Blogs:
‘I like everything about the Pasodoble’I feel like Chelsie and I are in better shape on this dance than any of other dances, simply for the fact that Chelsie is done with the choreography and we already have it set. We have the routine down and now it's just a matter of learning all the technique.
Most of the time we set the choreography and then we tweak it and then we change it some more. We've had weeks where we didn't even have the choreography completely done on Friday. Today's only Wednesday and we pretty much already have it set in stone.
I think Chelsie really likes the choreography and we were able to go through it enough today that I pretty much know the steps. Now it's about figuring out the count and the timing and the technique, but I feel like we're ahead of where we've been in past weeks.
I'm new to all of this and she's new to the show, but I think she's buckled down and figured out ways we can start to get ahead of the game. And it feels like we are.
Now that gives us Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to work on all the technique because there's a lot of it involved with this dance and some of the timing and counts are a little tricky for me.
But I like everything about the Pasodoble.
I like how it's very masculine. I'll be honest, I don't know if this is the right description, but it's very dramatic in a real bullfighter way.
We didn't get the song we wanted, but the song we got was "Barracuda" by Heart. They gave us some options and out of those Chelsie liked this one the best.
She likes the count that goes with this song and there are no gimmicks with this routine. Our dance routine is a traditional Pasodoble. Hopefully the judges will like it because of that and because of the way that it is I think the audience will like it too--if I can do it right.
So don't get me wrong, yes, I am feeling really good about the dance and I was getting the steps, but then when you put in all the technique and it gets really hard and the ball starts rolling downhill on you really fast.
That's when you start to get stiff and mechanical.
Chelsie has a good feel for me now and she knows what makes me better as well as what makes me worse. She also has a feel for what it takes to make a dancer out of me--we have four days, not a lifetime.
It's like it would be with anything. If you have four days to get someone to do this one thing decent you're probably going to teach them differently than if they were trying to make a career out of it and that's strictly because of time restraints.
I think we're a good team and we're getting a feel for working with one another.
In the past every single thing we did she had to teach me how to do it.
For instance, if said that we were going to do pivots then she would have to explain what pivots are and how you do them. Then we'd have to practice pivots over and over.
Now we're getting to the point that there are still new things I have to learn each week, but we might come to a point in the routine where she wants me to do a pivot. Well, we've already done pivots in the foxtrot and the quickstep so that's something we've already spent a lot of time learning.
So when she wants to put in something I've already learned that's when you can really start to see that we're getting better at a faster pace.
We still have a lot of work ahead of us between now and Monday, but I just feel like we're ahead of the game.
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