RE: plus and minus rankings for squares. I still think rankings are appropriate here, because there is a wide range of competency at each level.
So.. how about use the parentheses to indicate the highest level you have learned, or the one you regularly dance at, and then use plus and minus to indicate if you are merely an average dancer at that level or a really good one, or you're not so great. so for me, I'd have mwsd(A1) because I can dance A1 and I consider myself an average dancer at that level. Or I could do mwsd(P)+.
More thoughts:
Use Ba or Bal for ballet, then you won't have overlap with blues.
what about traditional square dancing? Lots of contra dancers have experience with that, but maybe not modern western. How about Sq/sq, and your key would indicate that sq is Modern Western.
Drat - you were using ! for teach, now I have to think of another symbol for teaching.. maybe ^ (caret)? or @ for teaching and ^ for snobbery (raised nose?)
(Next step: find someone to make/program a Dance Geek Code Block generator.. and decoder :)
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I still think rankings are appropriate here, because there is a wide range of competency at each level.
So.. how about use the parentheses to indicate the highest level you have learned, or the one you regularly dance at, and then use plus and minus to indicate if you are merely an average dancer at that level or a really good one, or you're not so great.
so for me, I'd have mwsd(A1) because I can dance A1 and I consider myself an average dancer at that level. Or I could do mwsd(P)+.
More thoughts:
Use Ba or Bal for ballet, then you won't have overlap with blues.
what about traditional square dancing? Lots of contra dancers have experience with that, but maybe not modern western.
How about Sq/sq, and your key would indicate that sq is Modern Western.
Drat - you were using ! for teach, now I have to think of another symbol for teaching.. maybe ^ (caret)? or @ for teaching and ^ for snobbery (raised nose?)
(Next step: find someone to make/program a Dance Geek Code Block generator.. and decoder :)