starjazz
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2012
Yes, but as anyone who has ever seen this show knows well, it is made very clear to the participants that they are not supposed to engage however they want. They are taught specific moves, the moves are reinforced, and then they watch each other participant go up and do the same thing. The kid went up and just started swinging wildly, which makes it pretty clear he wasn't ready - in some way - to participate in the show.
I'm not clutching my pearls at your assertion that you might slip in a kid who just misses an age deadline. I think lots of people would do that, But I don't really get how you've also come to defend this kid's behavior. I have three boys, and they are like a roving gang of wild animals at times. I've learned to choose my battles and let "boys be boys" sometimes. But I would have wept in mortification if my kid ever went after the performers like that.
This video was taken at DL. As I've explained, they aren't taught there in the same way they apparently are at WDW. So I'm allowing for a little more leeway because of that.