Country Line Dancing is a Unique Phenomenon
Prologue: I went to this bar last night: The Banque.
Every song has its own dance, and everyone knows the dances. It's amazing how the first few seconds of a song plays, and if people know the dance to it they rush to the dance floor.
Another crazy thing is the people that don't line dance, they dance circles around the line dancers (literally). They are like the Alpha dancers, they all have a partner and they practice a more traditional looking country dance style, it looks highly structured with lots of crazy hand grips and what not. (These "grips" are the origin of the submission holds in professional wrestling) What's wild is that the Alpha dancers have a unique dance fore every song too! They also move in unison. The result is something that looks like it took months of practice and careful preparation by an expert choreographer.
So I asked the waitress about where these dances come from. Was there a sacred book that holds the steps to all country songs such as Honky Tonk Badonkadonk?
Unfortunately this was not the case. She simply said that there are certain dance moves that go with certain beats of a song. Basically what she was saying is that there is a secret dance-language that lays out the foundation of country line dancing. This language was thought to have been invented around the time of the Mexican-American War in 1845.


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