This lesson already starts bad. For change, we now start on our heavy shoes instead of our soft shoes. She mentioned that at the beginning, but as there are so many things that are spoken about that do not have my interest or just aren't for me, I don't really listen and just change, to find out that I missed what she just said.

That's why I practice my hard-shoe stuff partially on my sneakers, but I soon know why I dislike that so much. The friction between the shoes and the floor is tough. I wrote about this before, if you've mastered your heavies shoes to quite some extent, it's probably no big deal to work with the friction of sneakers, but for inexperienced dancers like me, the rubber-on-rubber isn't ideal to practice heavy-shoe stuff with.

But I fail and keep failing at the steps I need to do. At some point I even do steps from the Slip Jig in the Treble Jig: a soft shoe and hard-shoe dance respectively.

After that, I practice a step from the Treble Jig apart from the rest. The order and steps themselves are right but I pause just a little too long at a certain move, which isn't supposed to happen. Annoying to find out about that now, because I'm already doing this step wrong for quite some time.

Practicing the Slip Jig after that is a disaster as well. I have to be fair: I didn't practice at all. Partially, that was down to my sore muscles, but also perseverance: I just didn't practice.

• Lesson 34. August 22, 2014. A new season
• Lesson 36, September 5, 2016. Ouch!

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