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    Re: Pretzels - lead & follow or signalled?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steven666 View Post
    Last night a reverse pretzel was taught go straight from a normal one, but is there an easy way to lead a reverse preztel on it's own, without the follow thinking it's just a sort of double handed yoyo thingy?
    Start like a Wurlitzer, preparing with your right hand to the left, but instead of spinning her , 'signal' with your left hand passed nelson-wise around your back to the right. Then reverse pretzel should follow. Or is that a 'left-handed' pretzel rather than 'reverse' ?

    At first I thought you were describing a double-pretzel, because it was started with the normal pretzel. That can be started (in the middle) from any double-handed position, as described by Andy McG in post #3, I think.

    I like pretzels and find them perfectly leadable even with beginners. Well, beginners that follow, anyway. Obviously signals won't work here unless they have been taught.

    One thing that definitely helps is to gently rotate the lady's wrist clockwise (anti-clockwise for reverse pretzel (or is it the other way round ?)) to prevent her turning it the other way into a nelson or armlock !

    Another natural place to start a pretzel without signalling is in the nelson position of an armjive swizzle. Instead of returning her, just raise your left hand and step forwards beneath the arch behind her. Pretzel follows.

    There is also a nice crossed-hand pretzelly thing where you pass back-to-front and front-to-back instead of back-to-back and front-to-front. Called ?
    Last edited by EricD; 9th-January-2008 at 11:52 PM. Reason: added "and front-to-back "

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