| Judging ballroom dancing is difficult business and you | | | | This is why couples practice so much so they can be |
| need experience to be able to do it well. True, there | | | | sure of getting the timing right in their sleep. You just |
| are a few set parameters on which the couples are | | | | have to be in perfect time to the music. |
| rated but in any competition, the relativity factor is | | | | Posture is equally important. That grace, that |
| very important. Every couple has to also be judged in | | | | elegance just will not be present without perfect |
| comparison to the others and this is the tough part. | | | | posture. If you maintain perfect posture throughout |
| Let's look at the rateable factors. These are Timing, | | | | you can also be sure of perfect balance and |
| Posture, Hold, Line, Poise, Presentation, Togetherness | | | | confidence, both so essential to dancing. Posture |
| and Power and each competition could just have a | | | | requires a lot of practice but what you have in the |
| few more on the list. | | | | end is perfection. So you can see just how vital it is |
| Timing is so important. You blow that and you're out. | | | | to ballroom dancing. |