The Green Bay Packers tale. Most likely you’ve heard this story before. It has become legendary and can be applied to many areas of life. The Packer franchise had been losing for almost ten straight years. They were at the bottom of the standings, and morale was sagging.
Enter Vince Lombardi as the new coach. He is charged with the challenge of turning this franchise around, and he’s all pumped up about it. He began leading practices, inspiring, training, motivating. But at one point in a practice, he just got so frustrated with what was going on with the players that he blew the whistle.
“Everybody stop and gather around,” he said. Then he knelt down, picked up the pigskin, and said, “Let’s start at the beginning. This is a football” He went on, in the most elementary of ways, to explain the basics of football.
Sometimes it’s good to get back to basics.
Moving on to the next level in salsa before becoming comfortable with the proceeding level is like erecting a building on a bed of sand. If the foundations aren’t in place the whole thing will collapse.
Even advanced dancers continually practice the basic steps as they aim to improve their timing, body movement and styling.
That’s all folks, I’m off now to practice my back step….
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