: Amateur followers often faced difficulties when transitioning from dancing with professionals to other amateurs. Without the "manhandling" or "backleading" common in professional-student pairs, amateur couples had to rely more on mutual trust and authentic connection [1, 3].
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: Amateur couples were (and are) typically judged on three pillars [12]: 3]. In January 2006