Two Left Feet

Well, it appears, much to my disappointment, that I have two left feet. My exercise DVD finally arrived on Saturday. It was the end of a long week – which I am using as part of my excuse. After working Saturday morning and several late nights during the week, I was good for nothing on Saturday evening.

Having looked down earlier in the week to discover my feet were nowhere to be seen, out came the brand-spanking-new exercise DVD. They utterly lull you into a false sense of security. They start with the Salsasize, yep, I can tap my feet and wiggle my hips from side to side. No problems so far (apart from the turn – the turn is hard – and surely unnecessary?).

Next up, Cha Cha Burn, I’ve had one Cha Cha lesson before, so I’m thinking I might manage this… Ohhhhh no, not a chance love. She’s incorporated all sorts of twists and turns which are frankly too complicated for the ordinary two-left-footer. As the DVD unfolds, she keeps chucking in extra moves when telling you to “speed it up now” – stuff that there was no reference to when you were just having a little practice lesson. And she uses odd words – which sound highly suspicious – chassis – I thought that was a bit of a car? And whisk – which old fool me thought was a kitchen utensil. It appears not.

Frankly, my big idea of getting a little exercise very quickly descended into side stepping across the room over, and over, and over, and over… yeah – you get the picture.