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We have been informed by our wonderful business partners that we will have to host our classes at another location of theirs. While we are honored to have been a part of such an amazing group of people and wonderful location. All good things must come to an end. As of today 9-1-2025, I am ending our public facing classes.

When I started these series of classes I wanted to prove that I could bring someone who had never heard of Lindy Hop, from off the street to swinging out, keeping rhythm, and learn the most common moves all within 12 weeks. Well, we were successful. The development of skills drills, administration methods, student participation methods, and most of the underlying educational principles I could not have come up with without my wife,

From this point on, we will no longer offer classes at our downtown Phoenix location. Or any location for the rest of the year. I will be going back to school and finally finishing up my degree. I will not have time to take classes, teach 2 levels of classes, DJ , host a weekly social dance and have a full time job. So I will take this opportunity to reenroll in a few credits. I will still offer privates and opportunities to social dance here and there when I have time. But, what we do will be more low-key and less dependent on regularity for success.

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Carol and I created a method of teaching Lindy that enabled people who had never danced before to move and cooperate with a person to music, without tripping and while keeping each other safe. And it put them on a path to continue learning about this core part of American history they had never heard of before. We did it without using silly unmoderated facebook groups or chats. We did it by harnessing good business relationships and living and being in community with others. We have been interviewed and published in the news 3 times, hired by Queen Creek, Gilbert, and Mesa to perform and teach for community events, we were recently listed on https://dtphx.org/. Over the years we were sent dozens of other offers and opportunities I was unable to follow-up on due to financial and time constraints. Though I made lots of "mistakes", I'm immensely proud of what we have accomplished. We changed our offerings, including our base curriculum dozens of times. We eventually figured it out. Not perfectly of course. We figured out what worked and we were successful with implementing it. The biggest problems we encountered was not having enough money. If I had interest free grant of a million dollars I could have done everything I knew worked at a much higher rate of execution than I was able. And then the ecosystem we built would have continued to grow on its own. It just never had enough umph to really get going past an initial interest. As the saying goes, to make money, you need to have money. Economically, this has never been more true than right now. Sure I could have taken out loans of all kinds. But, I do not think Lindy Hop instruction was a business worth going into debt for. No matter how much I love it.

Keep an eye out, subscribe to our email, more and different stuff is coming. Just less frequently. If you want to learn and you just heard about Lindy Hop. contact us, and if there is enough demand maybe we can work something out at a different location.