I've done enough leading now to realise that some moves are lovely to follow, but a b*tch to lead - and vice versa. Intermediate class last night included the flamenco walk (
- been wanting to learn to lead that one for ages!). Said flamenco walk can be quite tricky to follow - there aren't many MJ moves which are led from the lady's left hand and fast weight changes are sometimes necessary. However, I found the move surprisingly easy to lead*.
Another one - shoulder drop: quite easy to follow IMO - but relatively hard to lead the first part of the move nicely - the lead's turn as the follow comes out of the return from the previous move.
Archiespin - a b*tch to lead and follow
- I ditched the horrible nasty potentially dangerous-to-follower's-shoulder crossover archiespin even before the freestyle - I told the follower in the last class rotation ("twice through and...") that I was so losing that move, like right now, so if she liked it, sorry, but tough.
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apologies to all the lovely followers who got way too many flamenco walks last night, I wanna "fix" that one in my repertoire, and hope that they weren't all too strangely led!
So out of curiosity - which moves do you find particularly easy to lead / follow and which are difficult? I'd obviously be *really* interested to hear from people who can lead AND follow, as they have both points of view, but it would still be good to see if there's a "commonality"...