Dancing Teeth
24th-February-2006, 11:47 AM
All this stuff about foot work over the last few weeks got me thinking.
This is how I do it.
I push off with the Left foot, this is a silent count.
I step back on my Right foot, which becomes the “And” count, (the is the pre count before the one)
Now here is the catch, were the left foot ends up depends on the move I’m doing.
I’ll generally have my left foot remaining forward (with a small tap) on the “one” when I’m about to do an unti clock-wise turn, that’s a turn to the left. At times I find myself doing this on the first move too but usually when I’m teaching the move slowly.
When I’m in flight, the left foot will in 95% of the time go back. This becomes the same “one” count as above.
So, from someone that’s watching, it becomes tricky to understand if I’m going back on the left or the right.
Was dancing with someone I usually dance with every week in oxford last night and realized that she has always stepped back on her Left, however, this didn’t affect my leading in anyway because she somehow managed to get on the right foot when I need her to. So horses for courses.
This is how I do it.
I push off with the Left foot, this is a silent count.
I step back on my Right foot, which becomes the “And” count, (the is the pre count before the one)
Now here is the catch, were the left foot ends up depends on the move I’m doing.
I’ll generally have my left foot remaining forward (with a small tap) on the “one” when I’m about to do an unti clock-wise turn, that’s a turn to the left. At times I find myself doing this on the first move too but usually when I’m teaching the move slowly.
When I’m in flight, the left foot will in 95% of the time go back. This becomes the same “one” count as above.
So, from someone that’s watching, it becomes tricky to understand if I’m going back on the left or the right.
Was dancing with someone I usually dance with every week in oxford last night and realized that she has always stepped back on her Left, however, this didn’t affect my leading in anyway because she somehow managed to get on the right foot when I need her to. So horses for courses.