Exciting Prospects...

Yesterday I officially completed my Zumba Instructor training to be able to teach Zumba and also a speciality programme of Zumba Gold....
What I took away from the day was great! As most people have heard of zumba the fast paced latin dance fitness class I won't explain it all but specialising in the Gold Programme aswell was a highlight for me purely because I work with the older generation of people at my current job with Warner Leisure Hotels and essentially I gained two licenses.... one for active fit young people, the other a class of less impact for those people of an older stage, those people who are beginners and those people who may have any disabilities- mentally or physically.

One other plus to the completion of the course is I can now go and take a course to teach zumba kids.... helping me push my teaching career to get into schools even further.

The reason I'm writing this blog is to talk about the learning experience for how we compared teaching a normal fast paced zumba to a slower paced zumba built for people of an older age.
- COMMUNICATION: In zumba Gold verbal and non verbal cues are used for the choreography, things are broken down slower.. whereas in the other zumba there are no verbal cues and no breaking down of choreo.
- MOTIVATION: the motivation for zumba gold seemed to be at a higher level
- SOCIAL: we were explained that most zumba gold participants are there for the social, dedicating your time to them is of a big importance, whereas the other class are mainly here for one reason - to get fit and they have places to go and things to do after.
- USE OF SONGS: older guests are more experienced through life... their favourite songs arent played as much anymore.... zumba gold relives their youth all over again whereas current zumba we use a lot more current material.
- STYLE: most of zumba gold guests are baby boomers: they want to relive the rock n roll days, the swing days, we do that through zumba gold. #

There were plenty of other things I took from the day but I wanted to be able to use this as experience as one for my inquiry, I am now going to experience teaching a mature adult vs a younger adult... it will be interesting to see the differences and use the differences as evidence perhaps for my inquiry.

I became a member of the ZIN network and I can't wait to wear this funky top I got! ;) I might even think about making a small career on the side with it when I leave my job in entertainment.