DWTS Week 5 Karina Smirnoff Writes On Antonio Brown And Doug Flutie

Karina Smirnoff has written a new Dancing With The Stars blog at People. She writes of her new dance with Antonio Brown. She enjoyed working with him, but, she’s excited to dance next week with her original partner Doug Flutie. Here is more…

ETA: To see Antonio and Karina in rehearsals, see WTAE.

It’s Switch-Up Week, so no one will be going home tonight, but that doesn’t mean it’s a week to take things easy.

I’m partnered with Antonio Brown this week, and things could not be going better. We’re doing a cha-cha-cha, which is Antonio’s first Latin dance of the season. Teaching him the technical aspects hasn’t been easy, but we work together really well.

Antonio is used to working with different coaches. That’s a very useful attribute during Switch-Up Week because we basically only had four days to get this routine down. That didn’t allow for any time to get to know each other. We had to dive right in, and luckily we worked so well together right from the start.

But that doesn’t mean I’m looking to switch partners permanently.

Doug and I have been in contact every day. He’s enjoying working with Peta, but when you’ve worked with someone as much as we have with each other, you develop a shorthand that makes teaching go faster.

To read Karina’s full blog, see People.