I need HELP!! More then anything in this world..I love to dance. But I am a tall girl and I can't find any quality studios. I have bounced around at one of the franchises. I am working with the instructor who teaches all of the other instructors in the valley, but I'm not getting the quality I want. I am willing to work hard, train hard, and I want to be a real competitor. Right now I just feel like all I am is a dollar sign to him. He forgets what we worked on, we have been doing steps I mastered and we have not been moving forward. Does anyone have any advice? Know a studio in the Phoenix area, or an instructor...I want to be great, and I just feel like I'm mired in a swamp of...mediocrity.

Understand your frustation and not being able to find an affordable way to do what you want to.

The irony though is that if you were receiving serious competition training, your lessons would on the whole be even more repetitive than they are now. Serious work is about doing fundamentals over and over and over again. By comparison, the "advanced" steps are often fairly easy compared to the transparent challenges of the basic ones; yes, the basic ones taught to beginners are actually amongst the hardest to get right.

Mastery? No one has that. Even world champs still spend a larger fraction of their time working to improve their basics.