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Lindy Showdown - Quarterfinals - Soochan Lee & Hyun Jong Choi vs. Andrew Thigpen & Delilah Williams (2011)

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Anyway. Hey guys, here’s a fun video from Lindy Showdown. My outdoors, quarterfinals videos came in at a much better quality than my indoors, finals videos did, so I’ll just be posting those instead. 

Soochan & Hyun Jong are spectacular to watch, one of the couples that can make this dance look absolutely effortless. Going up against Andrew & Delilah, there’s a lot of contrast in technique and style, though both have a wonderful sense of comedic timing in the power moves they pull out.

From what I saw at Lindy Showdown, battles can go down in many different ways. Sometimes the competitors try to pull moves they know their opponents can’t match, or other times they’ll try to match their opponent’s move and do it better. It happens several times in this battle, turning it into a wonderful one-up kind of show. At 2:10-2:15 especially, Andrew & Delilah pull off a move that Soochan & Hyun Jong did in a previous battle, though it doesn’t go nearly as well as they probably hoped it would. There’s as much collaboration in this as there is competition as both couples feed off each other’s energy, then power through their swing-outs at the end. 

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