| I am starting to realise that a man spinning and a lady spinning might be more different than one thinks.
When a lady spins, she is lead by a man. She twists her body in the opposite way as has been described and then rebounds off then man's hand (without using her feet!) with a rigid arm. It has to be done this way, otherwise a man cannot lead a double spin rather than a single (in the same time that is!).
When I occasionally build up the courage to try a full man spin then I spin myself and that HAS to be with my feet because the lady cannot help me. Even when I do a man's catapult from a sway, the lady usually does not know what to do and I get no help being spun round 1.5 turns, so I have to do it myself.
I wonder whether it is about time to introduce a few standard moves where the lady leads the man to spin!
I am beginning to think that one of the important points with spinning (as a follower) is that it is done from the arms and not the feet. This of course fits perfectly well with the fact that when stepping in and out on normal jive moves, it is the arms that change the direction of motion and not braking with the feet. Turning therfore only differs from stepping in and out because it is about angular mometum change rather than lateral. Well that has now confused everything! |