Prompted by Ducasi's posts on the thread
First time impressions where he says
(Another brief aside - haven't had much feedback on my impressions of the moves themselves through the weeks. Anyone want to jump in with some discussion here?)...
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Originally Posted by ducasi This week was a bit difficult. Here are the moves...
1) Yoyo, this time without a push-spin, but with a spin anyway. I though the difference between a spin and a turn was that with a spin you let go? No? We were told to spin the lady, but not let go. Guess it doesn't make too much difference.
2) Catapult. Woah! This is v. tricky. It's hard to tell though if you're messing it up or it's your partner, as it's all really happening behind your back! I certainly messed it up quite a lot, but sometimes my partner at the time would be blaming herself. Maybe they were just being nice, though when I was dancing with known experienced dancers it usually seemed to go better.
3) Can't remember the name of this move - but it's dead easy... L-R hands, swap sides with guy doing 180º anticlockwise turn under his left arm, etc... What's this called?
4) That fed into the basket, with the usual botched efforts when trying to get the girl's other hand. I'm not good at baskets.
4a) During the return from the basket, swap hands to go into the yoyo... It's funny how much time the teacher and taxis spent on this as I found it dead easy. OK, maybe I'm not doing it in the most elegant fashion possible, but that'll come, I guess... |
1) Yo-Yo; the difference between the spin and the turn is that for the spin you change to a flat hand hold in preperation, then push down to send the lady into a free-spin. The turn raises above the lady's head in a small halo & step back to finish.
2) Cattapult; A couple of things - make sure that your right hand brushes past your thigh on the lead into it. After the lady has turned under yourr arm and you extend it behind you, mirror your other arm back as well. for the lady to catch.
- From the point when she is beside you, it is taught to draw a big (reversed) "C" at waist level to spin the lady out. I would recommend that instead of releasing the hand to your left, you actually continue the curve to start the lady turning and release the hand away from you.
3) probably the man's turn. Just be carefull that you don't raise the arm too early or the lady will try to turn under it instead of you.
4) a basket is fairly easy if you have the right preperation into it: from a return (lady turning anti-clockwise); when her back is to you, extend your right arm at a fraction above her elbow level and take the spare hand as she steps back. This hand remains where it is for the rest of the move - just leave it.
Continue the lady like another return, but step in beside her. As you lower and step back, if you step back on your Right foot rather than left, it feels much smoother & less distorted/stretched.
4a) If done well, the lady should not even notice that you've changed hands. (I use this
all the time during lessons because I
always catch with the wrong hand.
) When you can do it without her noticing and collect for a double handed move, then you will have it mastered.
