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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Yes, I've gone right off fingertip leading over the past few years - and especially after starting Tango.

    More contact is nicer
    Interesting comment. If you were going to have fingertip lead somewhere in your dancing life, would you consider it more beneficial at the start or as a later development?

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    Re: Fingertip or fuller grip?

    Quote Originally Posted by StokeBloke View Post
    Interesting comment. If you were going to have fingertip lead somewhere in your dancing life, would you consider it more beneficial at the start or as a later development?
    If you're going to have a bad habit (of any kind), surely it's better to have it early on, so you have more time to change it?

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    Re: Fingertip or fuller grip?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    If you're going to have a bad habit (of any kind), surely it's better to have it early on, so you have more time to change it?
    Well - the longer you have the bad habit for, the harder it becomes to change it...

    Contrary to popular belief, practice doesn't necessarily make perfect. It makes permanent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Well - the longer you have the bad habit for, the harder it becomes to change it...

    Contrary to popular belief, practice doesn't necessarily make perfect. It makes permanent.
    Fair point - I certainly shouldn't have said "any bad habit".

    In this particular case, I think the standard progression is:

    (1) Lead by brute force.
    (2) Realise this is a bad idea, try to cut down the force using less fingers.
    (3) Realise the problem isn't how many fingers you use, but how much force you apply, and you have more control using more contact area.

    In which case if you're going to pass through stage (2) at all, you might as well start it sooner rather than later. In my experience it's pretty easy to move from (2) to (3), even if you've been doing (2) for years and years.

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    Re: Fingertip or fuller grip?

    Quote Originally Posted by StokeBloke View Post
    Interesting comment. If you were going to have fingertip lead somewhere in your dancing life, would you consider it more beneficial at the start or as a later development?
    To me fingertip-leading is a useful learning exercise, it's not really something I like doing in social dancing.

    I still use fingertip-leading when practising, it's a good technique. Although no-hand leading is a better practise technique - and again that's not something I'd use outside of practicas.

    So it's useful at all times, basically. But yes, introducing it as a technique early on can't hurt.

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    I use as many fingers as necessary. I've found that one finger can be enough to move a girl, but sometimes you just have to use more.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Fingertip or fuller grip?

    Quote Originally Posted by timbp View Post
    This thread seems to confuse the two, as many posters have been writing about single finger connections, which are not necessarily fingertip connections.
    Nice point & for reference, I wasn't talking about fingertip connections before.

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