Both of those sound like very good ideas!

Perhaps what I'd like to know is something like what kind of general drills would you do each session. You know, to keep the muscle memory.

IE, in martial arts, we have the warm up then proceed to the more specialized techniques. To give an analogy.

It's probably more dependent on the style you're practicing though, but it's kind of related to the first suggestion.

Yes, there are some I do, actually I do some parts of them in the videos I made but they aren't explained, exactly. But of course it depends on what you want to do: there's a lot of exercises for popping, for waving, for gliding, isolations, etc. Some days, my practice consists ONLY of those basic drills for each sub-style.

Hehe thank you for the compliments!

I actually do ALWAYS warm up before practice. But I do it out of suit and I don't even know what would happen if I tried to do it in suit! XD Stretching is critical to avoid injury and increase flexibility though. As for acrobatic tricks, I really only do the jazz splits. I'm not a very acrobatic person because I've never spent time doing those kinds of things. If you can work them into a dance musically, they ARE good crowd "wow" tricks though.

The most important thing to me WHEN dancing is musicality. It's all for nothing if you aren't using your body to show the music itself, physically. But the most important thing ABOUT dance for me is creative expression--I do it because it's a passion and a need to express myself whether someone is watching or not. My fav thing about it has changed over time, but right now it's the joy of sharing it with people and maybe giving them something to be happy about in the moment.

BUT, I'd say for a beginner it HAS to be fun, otherwise one won't want to put in the effort it takes to improve! It never stops being fun, either--it only gets MORE fun, the better you get. ^.V.^

That's not a bad idea. I had a thought on doing one on what I do to prepare myself for a competition, which does involve endurance training, and even things like meditative and breathing techniques.

Not only are these very helpful, but you doing them in suit makes them very fun to watch xD I normally get bored of any type of tutorial really fast, but it's much more enjoyable and easy to remember when I'm watching you do it in your fursuit. I smile every time I see the finger-wag part of 'how not to do chest isolations' :P

At first I was watching them just for fun but then I found myself trying out the chest isolation when I was waiting in line for something today ... xD I'll have to keep up with these and improve my dancing so I can try to (seriously) enter a competition sometime!

Hah, I'm glad they work for you and I hope to see you on-stage sometime!