Witney Carson

I mean, it's nice when you can kind of see it firsthand before you step into that role.

And so I think it would just be helpful.

I don't know if it needs to be mandatory, but I think that it would help the pros.

It benefits the pros, honestly.

Like if I had to choose, I would say put me on Troop first before I get promoted to a pro.

But yeah, I think it was very helpful.

And then obviously each season that you do as a professional is still so much that you learn.

I mean, my first season to...

this season is dramatically different.

You know, you learn more and you get better at teaching, you get better at choreographing, you get better about how you plan everything.

And so now, like within the last even few years, I feel like I've gotten a grip on that where I feel like, you know, I've watched back some of the routines that I did with Von Miller and I'm like, oh my gosh, what was I thinking?

You know, which I think everybody does that in at some point in their work.

Correct.

But, you know, it definitely each season teaches you and makes you grow in ways that you didn't expect.

And as we talked about then in your second season, you were paired with the incomparable Alfonso Ribeiro and you take home the mirror ball trophy with him.

Did that partnership feel special just right from the start?

I, yes.

And I remember actually our first meeting and, um, I knew exactly who he was.

They didn't, they used to just surprise us and it, it got, um, it got hard.

Yeah.