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Old 25th-February-2008, 08:05 AM   #61 (permalink)
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Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

I had a dance like this on Saturday night. She was one of those people who give a little extra "tug" on your arm at the end of every step-back. No reason for it, she just did it. She wasn't a beginner by any means - and she didn't seem excessively nervous either.

After 30 seconds of this, it was getting on my nerves (it doesn't take much), and so I decided to try to fix it, by leading a finger-tip hold.

Unfortunately, she responded to this by gripping the fingertip with her entire fist! - there wasn't much I could do about that, apart from gently prise my finger away and lead other things... A case where the cure was worse than the disease, in fact.
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Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

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I had a dance like this on Saturday night. She was one of those people who give a little extra "tug" on your arm at the end of every step-back. No reason for it, she just did it. She wasn't a beginner by any means - and she didn't seem excessively nervous either.

After 30 seconds of this, it was getting on my nerves (it doesn't take much), and so I decided to try to fix it, by leading a finger-tip hold.

Unfortunately, she responded to this by gripping the fingertip with her entire fist! - there wasn't much I could do about that, apart from gently prise my finger away and lead other things... A case where the cure was worse than the disease, in fact.
So why didn't you tell her? Courage?
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So why didn't you tell her? Courage?
More like apathy - I don't usually give out unsolicited advice.

He habit wasn't actually hurting me, it was just annoying me and throwing me a bit off-balance. And after all, I could be wrong (hey, anything's possible).
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