It Takes Two – Tuesday 9th October

A few days later than intended, here’s Tuesday’s update! On Tuesday’s show they featured Sid & Ola, Fern & Artem and Lisa & Robin along with the return of Karen Hardy’s Choreography Corner.

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Strictly Come Dancing Week 1 Day 2

So we had a pretty busy weekend of teaching and weren’t able to blog during the second show.  I’ve decided to analyse the second show all in one big entry rather than spamming everyone with 8 separate entries two days after the live show. Going forward I’ll probably just do a Monday analysis of the…

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Week 1 Leader Board – Day 1

So the leader board at the end of day 1 is above, how does it compare to my marks? 1: 7 Denise & James 2. 6 Michael & Natalie 2. 6 Nicky & Karen 4. 5 Colin & Kristina 4. 5 Fern & Artem 6. 3 Victoria & Brendan The judges and I aren’t quite…

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Denise Van Outen & James Jordan – Waltz

A nice elegant start, but they need to start Waltzing soon as this intro is going on quite a while. A nice head line from Denise, the fog makes it difficult to see her footwork at times.

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Michael Vaughan & Natalie Lowe – Waltz

Michael has some nice movement but his head position makes him look uncomfortable, and like Nicky he needs to improve his posture and stand up straighter. Also think he may have just been out of time at the start. Needs to work on his chasse footwork as he’s coming down too early and doing a…

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Nicky Byrne & Karen Hauer – Waltz

Personally I’m a fan of the tail suit for Ballroom dances but I suppose he has the body to pull off the Lycra shirt! Posture isn’t great during the opening intro, really needs to stand up more and keep himself from hunching over. Timing seems to go a bit iffy during the pivots and it’s…

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Strictly Training Video analysis

So Strictly starts in a little while and all the training videos have now been released. I’ve decided to analyse them all in one big post rather than 14 individual entries so that you can directly compare all of the pre-show training.

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Harry Judd & Aliona Vilani – Foxtrot

Hands are a little splayed (as Craig would put it) which is a shame.  Needs to keep his head up and really stretch out in his frame but there’s a great connection between them both…Emma wonders if they’re both single… A good performance let down by his frame – really work on stretching away from…

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Jason Donovan & Kristina Rihanoff – Foxtrot

Jason was top of the leader board last week, and the training midweek suggested he’ll still be there this week, let’s hope he lives up to it. Not sure on the solo spin and a few picked up feet in his first feather step.  Needs to watch his shoulder line and the pivots are a…

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