Apols for quoting my own post here and copying in another from another thread but I'm not sure how to cross-thread post!
Debbie H - just trying to explain why I thought as I did:
Originally Posted by tangoqueen:
“
Brian as a pro should have been able to avoid this situation - everyone else seemed to - I thought his behaviour appalling.
Thankfully Ricky was a gentleman - its a shame Brian could not be the same.”
Originally Posted by
DebbieH:
“As has already been said Brain clearly went straight over to Ricky to apologise and they had a hug. Then backstage when Ricky was teasing him about it, Brian lent over and shook his hand.
I really don’t see how that can possibly described as appalling or ungentlemanly.
There was clearly no bad feeling there afterward, just teasing banter which is fairly typical of any series.
It’s not like Brian purposefully sent himself and Ali crashing into Ricky and Natalie in order to sabotage them, that would’ve been appalling, but imo it was clearly an accident. Perhaps Brian should’ve been able to avoid the collision but even pros can make mistakes.
As for Natalie I thought she directed the ‘good floor craft’ comment at Brian, I didn’t think she meant it as anything other than teasing him though.”
I was making the comment in a dancing sense, best explained by Erinfan on the Karen Hardy thread this morning:
"
You NEVER cross the floor in a Vienesse Waltz. You stay in a continuous circle with the only break being going into the centre for the fleckerl.
Crossing the whole way across is just asking for collisions and it's bad dancing etiquette. It's a small floor, so difficult to do a group VW, however Brian should have been aware of this and perhaps slowed down. Especially when he saw a cluster ahead. If he couldn't slow or overtake to avoid bumping into a couple, he should have steered Ali into the middle with a fleckerl.
It's not picking on him - hes utterly fabulous - but he was wrong on Saturday night during the VW. I think he was trying to show off a bit and went around too quickly and narrowly, but then failed to follow the line of the dance and got in the way of other couples. "
That is why I thought his (dancing) behaviour was ungentlemanly and appalling - good floorcraft is a very basic part of dancing when lots of couples are on the floor and as a more experienced pro I felt he should have been able to avoid it.
The point I was making was not that they "kissed and made up afterwards" - that's not what I meant by my comment on his behaviour - I was referring to what happened on the dance floor. I felt he could have and should have avoided it.
Not personal - but I thought it poor dancing etiquette.