Lynnbin, I'm with you. Though I have given up to a large degree on group classes, I do still attend the occasional group coachings, and we will be taught great material. I get frustrated when the women I lead can't remember any portion of what they just paid to learn. But, on the flip side, I appreciate those ladies, my wife being one of them, who ask on occasion if I remember steps taught at one time past. I do my best to recall what it is they would like to work on. So do ask some of the men you dance with if they will help you out in that area. I keep notes as a part of my review process, and as Belle mentioned, every new thing you learn can become relavant. I enjoy those moments when I understand the relation of what I have learned to something new I encounter or recognizing that part of one figure is just like that other one I was taught some time back. And do have your teacher illustrate for you how to incorporate all that you learn, as Terence mentioned.