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Originally Posted by
ducasi
I know a few dancers who pay little attention to the size of my steps and the amount of movement I'd like them to take. Perhaps you can help me?
I can't resist flowers!
ducasi, it isn't the size of your steps that matters, it's the quality.
Don't let any girl tell you otherwise!
Originally Posted by
StuartM
And with some moves I really can't see how. How exactly can the lead prevent a follower from taking a large step over in a step across, for instance?
I agree. He probably can't.
So, on a crowded floor, with a large-stepping follower, don't do a step-across, do something more controllable like a shoulder-spin or a man-spin instead. And with a really large-stepping follower, do a man-spin but keep hold of her hand until much later than normal.
And if you have started a step-across … bear in mind you don't have to finish it!
A step-across propels the follower quite sharply away from you. It's a particularly hazardous move.
I've known followers who habitually take big steps - dancing with them is like a constant battle.
In a constant battle, there are only constant losers …
Would that be one of those cooperating battles, or one of those non-cooperating battles?
Anyway – the leader's chief humanitiarian responsibility is to avoid collateral damage!
Originally Posted by
Dreadful Scathe
But if they are driving dangerously , and something happens - its not an accident is it.
If I apply for job as a driver, and they ask me if I had any accidents in my previous job, and I say no, and then they find I did, can I say "But they were all entirely my fault, so they weren't" accidents"?
Part of the culture of denial of responsiblity, in both driving and dancing, is to say that anything that's not deliberate is, by definition, an accident, and anything that's an accident is, by definition, not dangerous, and therefore anything that's not deliberate is not dangerous!
And all you can come up with is "broken floor" and "slippy bits" as possible exceptions ...weirdo
No! I didn't say "broken floor" and "slippy bits", I said "slippery or broken bits" – there is a difference!
Dangerous flooring is about feeling, not looking. Dangerous people is about looking.
Floroing is not an exception so much as a completely different category.
For potentially dangerous people, the leader can judge for himself, because he can see – if he's bothering to look.
But for potentially dangerous flooring, the leader usually can't see – you usually don't know there's a problem until you feel it.
If the follower feels bad flooring, she knows the leader can't feel it! She has to tell him! But if she sees danger to herself from people, they should already be in the leader's field of vision, so she shouldn't have to tell the leader, or break her programming, unless he's irresponsible and/or an idiot!
Plus, of course, if he's doing a responsibililible job of steering, he's probably not going to be looking down at her feet!
You really don't try to spell responsibility do you
I do know how to spell responsibililility … I just don't know when to stop …
…call me irresponsibililible! …
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