Westie Tokyo Summber Training Camp👙

On July 26–27, we held our 2-day, 1-night Westie Summer Retreat at Kujukuri Beach in Sanmu City, Chiba!

Along with over 8 hours of dance lessons and practice time, we fully enjoyed a true “grown-up summer vacation” together — eating meals, shopping, doing fireworks, eating watermelon, swimming in the ocean, and spending lots of time as a group!

Here are some comments from our participants:

“I’m really glad I got to learn things I couldn’t have understood from closed-position dancing alone. I also appreciated learning skills that are essential for both competitions and social dancing. I felt like this might be the only place in Japan where I could learn these things.”

“Everything exceeded my expectations and hopes — I was completely satisfied. Before joining, I had a few small worries, or things I thought might happen, but none of those negative expectations came true at all.

For example, I had wondered if:

• The lesson content might be too advanced and I might feel bad for the leaders, like ‘Sorry I can’t do this.’

• The accommodation might not be very clean.

But the lessons were amazing ✨✨The accommodation and lesson space were both super clean ✨The location was great too — within walking distance of both the beach and a drugstore.

The schedule wasn’t too tight and had just the right amount of breathing room.And everyone who joined was so kind and wonderful ✨

It was truly an amazing retreat. Please do it again next year 😍”

“Actually, all the lessons were really satisfying. Most of the lessons needed a certain amount of time — like an hour or more — and we had that opportunity during this intensive lesson weekend. This was my second time experiencing West Coast Swing, and yes, it was really hard, but these lessons made me decide to continue with closed classes for sure.”

For those who couldn’t join us this year, we’d love to have you with us next year!

Please start keeping your schedule open from now 😉

So… have your full-body sunburn and muscle soreness finally healed by now?

See you again at the next lesson or party ✨

Let’s keep working hard together and keep aiming higher!