My wife got me into Ballroom and Latin dancing when we got married 14 yrs ago and I've competed as an amateur for a few years. I now compete with my wife in what's called the Pro/Am category. I find competetive dancing to be more technically demanding than the various martial arts I've done for the past 30 years, including American and Thai style kickboxing, Issinryu karate, and ground fightning and combat grappling (which I recently realised is to punishing for my 49 yr old body). But, of course, the dancing is not as physically punishing as properly practiced martial arts. I have to give kudos to my teacher, Shihan George Gaffke. But at the end of each day I spend 30-60 all alone in front of my bi-amped OTL/SET system and heal myself in the best way I can think of.
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