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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    I don't like triple steps. )

    You'd hate dancing with me then. I litter the floor with them.

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Daisy Chain View Post
    You'd hate dancing with me then. I litter the floor with them.
    Always willing to be proven wrong: come dance with me and we'll see if I can rid you of that nasty habit

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by rubyred View Post
    I couldn't believe he got me to use my feet and dance patterns I had never danced before. Like you I thought how did I do that, I'd never learnt the steps but he was such a good lead I just did it!
    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    It feels weird not to be in control of your own feet but it really works. (with the right lead of course!)...Just a shame, I doubt there's many leads who've got the skill to lead it
    That's because to be a good follow you need to stop thinking. Let the man lead you (it's where the 'It's always the man's fault' in MJ comes from). When we start thinking 'oh no, I don't recognise this move' we stop following. I am like this with Tango, I start trying to follow, therefore I can't! I'm convinced that's why I follow better once i've had a wine or two as I stop thinking and just relax.

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    I'm convinced that's why I follow better once i've had a wine or two as I stop thinking and just relax.
    I wish I could, but alcohol upsets my balance and I come over all dizzy on the floor.

    Valium or prozac might work? - but it's too risky master.

    Don't want to end up part of the Prozac Brigade.

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    If you do triple steps, it's normally at a 'null' point where direction is changing. If you do them without the lead (normally you will have to) then the lead is stuck waiting for you to finish before leading the next movement... it also means that you will (normally) have to anticipate where this 'null' point is - if the lead didn't want to stop there, then you have forced them into having to complete the move the way you want rather than what they were planning.
    Interesting assertion.

    In my world...
    Well executed triple steps can be 'transparent' - ie independent of lead & follow.
    Triples are used just as frequently (or perhaps even more so) for travelling - one of their major purposes, after all, is to allow for faster, smoother traversal of the floor.
    Movement is constant - there's no such thing as a 'null' point. Triples done at the full extension of a move can, however, be used to great effect to build tension between lead & follow (and yes - follows can use that point to draw out the moment... which is FUN!)

    In my world

    PS - DC - may I have a dance with you?

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    I come over all dizzy on the floor.
    I must resist.

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    Re: Improving footstep technique.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    I come over all dizzy on the floor.
    I must resist.
    That would explain why she hasn't been seen for such a long time

    I couldn't resist.

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