Are there any downsides to spending so many hours on salsa?

n00bdancer

n00bdancer

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I’m 2 months in to salsa and last week I literally clocked in 30 hours of salsa. I took 20 hours of classes throughout the week and went to two socials this weekend for about 10 hours.

The reason I take so many classes is because my membership is expensive, and I’m trying to get as many classes as I can until my work wellness benefit stops covering it (which is in about 3-4 months).

Are there a lot of other people spending this many hours on salsa?
 
rheemixed said:
what do you do for work that you have that much time to spend?
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Unless you are working 12 hours a day, everyone would have enough time to spend 30 hours over 7 days. Whether you have inclination, endurance, and willingness to do so is different matter. I seen video gamers spend that much time infront of the monitors.

It is excessive and outlier. But if strictly talking about about time, 30 hours over 7 days is very plausible.
 
n00bdancer said:
I’m 2 months in to salsa and last week I literally clocked in 30 hours of salsa. I took 20 hours of classes throughout the week and went to two socials this weekend for about 10 hours.

The reason I take so many classes is because my membership is expensive, and I’m trying to get as many classes as I can until my work wellness benefit stops covering it (which is in about 3-4 months).

Are there a lot of other people spending this many hours on salsa?
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It's excessive. You'll forget most of it.
 
Governor Moonbeam said:
It's excessive. You'll forget most of it.
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I’m generally able to get most or all the steps down in footwork classes and I’m able to generally apply 80+ percent of the moves I learn in partnerwork classes in social.

I don’t really feel overwhelmed? I just am trying to make the most out of membership.
 
Offbeat said:
It is excessive and outlier. But if strictly talking about about time, 30 hours over 7 days is very plausible.
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If travel time is factored in, it is a lot more than 30 hours.

The only thing that sounds plausible is 10 hours of social dancing a week since it's a lot more down time than taking classes.

Even though spending 5 hours at a venue is excessive. Most socials don't even last 3 hours, let alone 5 hours.

All signs point towards a burnout.

All is fine and good is this is what OP wants. Though I'm not sure if I've ever seen the word fun in any of their posts.
 
Chris_Yannick said:
If travel time is factored in, it is a lot more than 30 hours.

The only thing that sounds plausible is 10 hours of social dancing a week since it's a lot more down time than taking classes.

Even though spending 5 hours at a venue is excessive. Most socials don't even last 3 hours, let alone 5 hours.

All signs point towards a burnout.

All is fine and good is this is what OP wants. Though I'm not sure if I've ever seen the word fun in any of their posts.
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I mostly agree and assumed a travel time of 90 minutes each day.

If OP is using class time as practice time and repetition of same elements, I can see an advantage. But as you said it will lead to burn out. I believe we are repeating discussions from the other thread the OP had posted whether monthly fees with all you can eat is reasonable. It does seem the OP is eating all he can :D May be studio will start demanding he pay 2x :P

Locally I have noticed that the studio socials are 3 hours. The club socials are generally 4 to 5 hours. These days the best dancing is found in studio socials. Almost all these started in last 10-12 years. They start early and end by 10.30pm or 11.00pm. The club socials are still 4 to 5 hours. In my beginning days and a good 3-4 years after that the club socials were where you found best dancers. Social dancers would typically roll in around 9.30pm to 10pm. By then crowd that had taken free classes before the dancing would be leaving. The dancing would go on till 2am to 2.15am. Most people you wanted to dance with would stay till around 1.45am to 2.00am.

The older socials also have 4-5 hours of dancing. Recently @alvinthethird DJ’d at our local social. It went from 9.30pm to almost 2.30am.

In beginner days if I went out dancing 3 times a week I would be easily averaging about 10 hours of social dancing.
 
n00bdancer said:
The reason I take so many classes is because my membership is expensive, and I’m trying to get as many classes as I can until my work wellness benefit stops covering it (which is in about 3-4 months).
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That right there is reason enough to do it even if you don't remember any of it in 6 months or more.

I assume your employer wellness benefit is intended to improve health which 30 hours of dancing per week definitely does.

Maybe you could report back to HR that you need an extension of this benefit to maintain the healthy outcome.
 
Offbeat said:
Unless you are working 12 hours a day, everyone would have enough time to spend 30 hours over 7 days. Whether you have inclination, endurance, and willingness to do so is different matter. I seen video gamers spend that much time infront of the monitors.

It is excessive and outlier. But if strictly talking about about time, 30 hours over 7 days is very plausible.
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I work 10 to 11 jpurs a day lol. Maybe that's why I'm stil mediocre. Yeah... that's why....
 
n00bdancer said:
Is this being sarcastic or you actually serious?
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I am never sarcastic about money matters. If I was in your place I would push for it.

Fwiw, I am on Medicare. I have a Medicare Advantage Plan. It comes with an all expenses paid gym membership which I only use for badminton. I could use the membership for anything the gym offers if I wanted to.
 
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