Bedford parking and getting to the Harpur Suite

*FREE parking* in The Riverside Car Park (opp Argos & TK Maxx – Tell your Sat-Nav to take you here:  MK40 1NY

Then once parked, just cross over onto the same side of the road as Argos and walk down Harpur Street (toward Marks & Spencer’s) and the Harpur Suite is the very grand building with the greek/roman style pillars out the front

Firstly, if you haven’t booked for the September weekender at Hemsby, pull your finger out – It’s going to get booked up FAST after last weekend. WOW! Congratulations to the whole Jive Addiction team for finding the venue, bringing the teachers, DJ’s and dancers together into the ‘heady dance melting pot’ which was Hemsby – Absolutely loved it!

Moving on to the milestone, and I did announce this at the start of my class on Saturday. I began developing smooother modern jive because 7 years ago, Modern Jive needed it! As I observed and experienced the social dancing over the weekend it was very noticable to me how modern jive has started to move on – smooth dancers are growing in number! With the growth in popularity of smooth jive, WCS and tango I’m very pleased to say we can all enjoy more pleasurable social dancing as a result!

But let’s not rest on our laurels – there’s still more to do! Support your local clubs who teach and promote good technique in modern jive… we all need these guys if we want to see (and feel) less violence on the social dance floor!

And on that note, I’d like to thank Jive Addiction for having the foresight and conviction to include me in their teaching team before ‘smooth jive’ became popular, and it is now very popular judging by the numbers attending the classes at Hemsby and the large number of lush dances that didn’t involve crushing fingers and yanking arms out! It’s easy to forget the people who make the difference and Jive Addiction have made a BIG difference!

I’d like to thank Nikki Rose from Burton-on-Trent’s Want2Dance club for helping me teach over the weekend – A lovely, stress-free partnership

Finally… Jive Addiction can do their best to put on a brilliant event, but it’s the people that make it buzz, so  a BIG thank you to all the great people there, especially my chalet mates and all the Hemsby singers and musicians – Great times Guys. See you all in September!

Join the Smooth Modern Jive Community on Facebook HERE

 Are you passionate about smooth modern jive?

My names’s Lazy Dave and I for one am, and have spent the last 7 years developing the dance style now known as ‘Funky Smoooth Jive’.  This style has exploded onto the modern jive scene in recent months with demand growing for that lush feeling you get when truly connected to your partner… but where can we learn it? Where can we dance it? Where can we get inspiration?

 This group has been set up for the growing number of enlightened modern jive dancers around the world. A place to come together as a community, share our experiences and promote smoother modern jive to the wider dance world.

We’ve all experienced ‘rough’ dancers in our time, but this group hasn’t been set up to focus on the negatives, lets promote the positive aspects of learning good simple technique, encourage other dancers and raise global awareness of our smoother style of modern jive for everyone’s benefit!

 Share Experiences

Have you got any questions or would like to share your dance experiences with the groups other members? Write a post on the group wall for feedback.

Inspirational Teachers

Do you attend a modern jive club that is teaching good technique? If so, please tell us about it.

Good venues

Been to a good venue with ‘like-minded’ dancers there? Tell us all about it. We want to know about the good venues.

Dance Promoters

Club promoters – let us know about your events and any special offers that may entice our group members along to your events. Please start each posting with the general area your event is in eg. North of England, SW England, S Wales, London etc…

Please note this group is focused solely on smoother modern jive – Keep it relevant!

 Invite your friends to join this group!

Let’s get all the world’s smooth social dancers in this group and let’s also invite any dancers who express an interest in learning, so they can be encouraged and inspired to learn.

This is a closed group – you have to be invited to join. This isn’t to make it exclusive, any like minded dancers are welcome to join us, but we want to keep focused on the prize – A better modern jive experience for everyone!

The ‘Smoooth Jive’ floodgates are bursting open all over the country! It may have taken Lazy Dave 7 years to develop this cool modern jive style and suffered knock back after knock back from dancers worried about change, but the nation’s progressive dancers are now breaking through and starting to make freestyle dancing a much smoother feeling.

It’s noticable how the popularity of this dance style has rocketed over the last 12 months – there are smooth dancers ‘in demand’ on most social modern jive dance floors today… DJ’s are happy to play a wider mix of music for the smoother dancers who can cope with the slower tempos… and dancers now have higher expectations from their local teachers and clubs, which is great for the modern jive world in general.

The buzz for ‘Smoooth Jive’ has been noticable recently at the country’s TOP independent dance weekenders and clubs where Lazy Dave’s classes have been a tremendous hit, blending good dance technique with hot moves and all delivered in an entertaining style which lifts the freestyle ‘after class’ with a unique BUZZ!

Is your local club offering regular ‘Smoooth Jive’ classes with Lazy Dave yet? If not, get in touch…. The country’s progressive dance clubs are getting involved…. It’s good to talk!

Watch out for news of more clubs and weekender organisers getting involved…. Lazy Dave is coming to a club near YOU!