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NO MORE SWEATY BALLS James Smart takes up ballroom dancing
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Ballroom dancing is sweatier than you think. It doesn’t feel like hard work - although your arms can start to ache at the end of a ses- sion — but there’s actually a hell of a lot of shifting going on. It makes you particularly careful about guid- ing your partners hands to your shoulders and back, not the dark patch under your arms.
It was mostly because of my friend Helen that I went. I mean boys don't do ballroom dancing, do we? We stand at the bar at formal weddings looking drunk and ever so slightly nervous, wondering why the gently rotating couples moving around the centre of the room aren’t crashing into each other. And while I’ve always enjoyed flinging my arms in the air to pop music, ballroom dancing's pre-ordained moves have always felt a little bit
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foolish hope that, when the time comes to sweep that swell girl off her feet, I‘ll be able to waft her around the dancefloor with effortless ease. I Wit/v.1(/(i.'2.:el;.'t:;i9.r:o.i/A
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