Eric worked in my studio's in Southport for the last 11 years of his life. He was as good at teaching beginners as he was at compertition work. Always willing to share is vast knowlege, he would spend time when I was teaching and he was waiting for his pupils to arrive (usually from Scotland in the later years) making notes which he would present to me after my couple had left with idears on how to improve them in the next lesson.
When studing with him for my Fellow in Ballroom and Latin American I became awere of his vast technical knowledge he could recite pages of Guy Howards Balroom technique and compare them with Alex Moores Ballroom Dancing and even earier revised techniques such as Carl Bryant always adding their wrong you know and giving you great swathes of his own tecnique. Usually defacing my books with crossing outs and idears of his own. Sadly he never did see me become a Fellow in Latin American as I took the exam shortly after he died and became an examiner later that year.
As many know in his later years his leg were not what they used to be so I often drove him to compertitions (Sue not realy being intrested in dancing) and we would spend the drive back to Southport analising the couples. I wish I had his great memory as he would discus not only the finalist but numerous couples in the event whre they had gone wrong and what figures they had used.
