Video your dance lesson and post it pleeeease! Keen for a good laugh! :P

oh no! Your very brave for giong at all, I cant even do aerobics classes due to my lack of co-ordination/timing.

Tried to horse riding, went as well as you can imagine for an unco person, not awful (no multiple falls) just no flair for it either.

Oh and good look with the house!!!

I can't dance.. I look like a marionette being operated by someone hallucinating on meth.

My only experience of this is when I breifly took up pottery.. nothing ever turns out how it looks in your head, I am also way too impatient to work on the same bit of clay for three or four weeks like some people in the class and ended up with all sorts of bits and pieces which while were ok are hardly artistic visions I was imagining.. even my mother made something nicer than me and my mother is about as artistic as a twig. (she would agree)

I feel your pain Jane. I got made to do jazz ballet when I was younger (one of the nastiest things about being born female, along with being given stationary sets and such for Christmas), and just like you I sucked at it. I was, in fact, so mind-numbingly bad at it that the teacher told my mother there was no point in trying to teach me and kicked me out. Hooray! Perhaps you too can get yourself expelled? Or just tell your sister you're not coming back.

Your sister is lying: it will not get easier each week. All that will happen is that your self esteem will go down the toilet.

On a happier note, good luck with that house!

Not exactly on the same humiliating-experience level as yours Jane, but i cannot for the life of me play guitar hero/rock band etc. I can sing, and played the flute at school (nothing flash, but competently) and have a reasonable sense of rhythm but my hand-eye coordination really sucks. I can't hit the right keys at the right time no matter what, and am constantly getting us booed off stage! Shame. On the upside, i'm pretty good at singstar, so i guess it all evens out eventually. I bet there's plenty of things you're super at and your sister isn't?

I tried aquajogging for the first time the other week at the J'ville pool.

Damned if I know how, but there kept being sections where everyone else would be doing the same move and ended up treading water in the same place. Meantime Leon was travelling at speed in reverse direction.

Another move involved pushing the floating tube thing down with one let. That was the theory anyway. The reality in fact was that I would then rotate around that leg and start heading underwater.

Still, I didn't drown (all that much), so can't have been all bad.

@ Jessicapea... you need coordination to ride a horse? I'm pretty unco and I could manage it.. granted it took a while for me to get any good at it. The main thing you need is balance, find your centre of gravity in a saddle and your set (if in doubt hold on for dear life to the mane it won't hurt the horse)

I don't know jazz dancing, but I teach Latin and Ballroom, and I'm pretty sure you're going to be fine. (I've decided to preface with the explantion so that people who don't that's I do that can see that I'm not just making things up).

When I started dancing it was different and weird and I'm shy and a little bit unco. But I tried. And after a couple of weeks I was getting the hang of it.

And I've seen with people I've taught to. It does get easier. You keep doing it, and it doesn't make any sense, and then all of a sudden one day things just click and it's easier.

Then you learn something new and the same thing happens again. It's tricky, then it gets better.

It's like any other skill, you have to invest the time to learn it.

And a lot of dancing is about illusion anyway. It's about giving the impression that you are doing more than you are actually doing. Turning through your body, not turning your whole body and things like that.

Keep at it Jane! Perseverance will reap rewards!

(I think I might have actually managed to something more clearly in a comment than a tweet for a change! Yay me)

When I was at school I wasn't too bad at tennis, when we played in PE class I was near the top. I played a game against my brother who isn't particularly good either and we spent most of the time struggling to get serves in.

@ Thalia #3 Quote of the day: "I can't dance.. I look like a marionette being operated by someone hallucinating on meth. "

I seem to be able to do most things averagely, so I don't suck but I don't excel either. Other than public speaking which I really really suck at.

Leon's comment reminded me about swimming training years ago. I'm a pretty good swimmer but for the life of me I could not get any decent speed with kicking only. Everyone else in my group would just power past, including both my little sisters.