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The Twenty Most Watched Lindy Hop Videos

Next year will be the 10th anniversary of YouTube and lindy hop on the platform has certainly come a long way since this.* By my estimation lindy hop videos have been watched somewhere between 70 million and 200 million times on YouTube.** I thought I’d compile a list of the most watched swing dancing videos

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Who’s on first? Performance order and judging bias in Lindy Hop contests

Making decisions is hard. Judging in contests is a hard form of decision making – there’s so much to consider. What’s worse is that your own brain will try and prevent you from making the best decision. For example every time someone has to decide on information being presented to them, the order of the

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5 Ways to put the Äwesome in Your Herräng

So registrations are open and it’s crunch time (for HDC’s servers at least – depending on what you want to go there to do there’s still time to make a decision for yourself). In my last post I set out some of the reasons why you might want to reconsider going. I’m not going to

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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go To Herräng

The opening of registrations for the Herräng Dance Camp are just around the corner. Many people are getting ready to sign-up for their summer and plenty more are wondering if for the first time: “Should I go to Herräng?” There’s plenty of articles on the internet telling you why you should go to Herräng (especially

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An Open Letter to the Abbott Government

Now I normally don’t write letters to politicians, but occasionally some things get my goat so much that I feel obliged to break my own rules. If you feel as I do you’re welcome to use my text in your own letter. The Hon. Tony Abbott, MP Prime Minister of Australia Senator the Hon. George

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Herräng Resources

Well I’m officially feeling nostalgic about summertime craziness in a small town in Sweden. Registration for 2014 ain’t that far away so in the first of a few posts I may or may not write about Herräng I’ve put together this (incomplete) list of resources about the centre of the centre of the Lindy Hop

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Online News in Australia

With some recent announcements it appears that the number of online news providers in Australia is going up. So (more for my own benefit that anything else – as I want to be able to keep track of the haps back home) I’ve created a list of online news and current affairs sites in Oz.

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A Lindy Hop Pentathlon

So it seems my last post got quite the audience in Finland of all places so Tervetuloa! I spent this weekend watching the ESDC live feed (and getting drunk on Twitter) and it got me thinking about competitions. Specifically some sort of multi-division contest designed to really pick out the best of the best.What better

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Jazz Music Shops for Swing DJs

One of the things I’ve been working on of late is a crowd sourced map of jazz music stores. When I travel I like to visit music stores and check out their selection – hopefully I can snap up something that’s out of print or heavily discounted. The map is for those swing DJs who

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10 Lindy Hop Videos Everyone Should Watch

Well I’ve been slack with the postings as of late (I’ve been working on some other projects – and am starting my PhD – besides am I ever not slack with posting stuff here) – heck I’m always slack, but here’s 10 important videos about Lindy Hop. There’s no real criteria for inclusion – I’ve

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