i have to agree with everybody who have replied. finding a male partner is difficult. i lucked into a great partner on my college team. one thing that hasnt really been streesed here too much is that your personalities are compadable. before my current partner, i had a partner who didnt rally mesh well with me and we wanted different things out of danceing. He wasnt nearly as deticaded as me and once even arrived so late at a competiton that we missed our smooth events. aside from the problems of dedication our personalites didnt mesh well. its nice to be able to talk to about something in between dancing. i moved on to a new partner after 2 competitons with him. my new partner is great. we both want the same things out of danceing and have the same dedication and we get alon wonderfully. hes also musical which is abig help as sme one said earlier. good partnerships are hard to find, so dont count any body out untill you have danced withthem for a while, and of course dont hold on to a bad one just for the sake of haveing a partner. thats a waste of money and time.