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Originally Posted by Magic Hans ...(half turn under, half turn back, half turn under, half turn back again). It really is not a complicated move, however, many of my partners go into return mode as soon as I lift their right hand (with my left). |
Are you leading them to stop on a half turn, then reverse? or just interupting the lead of a turn and reversing it?
The lead is all about giving the follower clear signals (in advance) of what you want them to do. Personally I would only lead this sort of thing using the off-hand to re-inforce the first block because I would expect the follower not to expect me to stop at that point (and since you want to block/reverse with a high hand, distanced from the follower's "core", in a direction other than simply latteral, there is very little to 'push' against to give the lead.)
If I were to lead this with a good follower, I would also need to differentiate between wanting them to complete a turn and re-position the hand or stopping the turn: I often use timeing and the follower's natural stepping/weight distrubution to time moving my lead hand without them following it. (eg a lady's comb from a hand-shake hold)
To seperate the two, I would have to apply pressure down the arm (towards their "core") as the follower is beginning the turn - this should indicate a stop. The I would lead the folower to come back to where they started.
Possible, but I suspect that a 'normal' follower would just collapse at the elbow* when the pressure was applied and continue turning (realising something went wrong, but not knowing what, when they finish the turn).
{*With excelent leading skills, I'm sure that this also could be overcome}