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    Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

    I had a dance like this on Saturday night. She was one of those people who give a little extra "tug" on your arm at the end of every step-back. No reason for it, she just did it. She wasn't a beginner by any means - and she didn't seem excessively nervous either.

    After 30 seconds of this, it was getting on my nerves (it doesn't take much), and so I decided to try to fix it, by leading a finger-tip hold.

    Unfortunately, she responded to this by gripping the fingertip with her entire fist! - there wasn't much I could do about that, apart from gently prise my finger away and lead other things... A case where the cure was worse than the disease, in fact.

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    Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

    What a great post by Ruby

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    Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    I had a dance like this on Saturday night. She was one of those people who give a little extra "tug" on your arm at the end of every step-back. No reason for it, she just did it. She wasn't a beginner by any means - and she didn't seem excessively nervous either.

    After 30 seconds of this, it was getting on my nerves (it doesn't take much), and so I decided to try to fix it, by leading a finger-tip hold.

    Unfortunately, she responded to this by gripping the fingertip with her entire fist! - there wasn't much I could do about that, apart from gently prise my finger away and lead other things... A case where the cure was worse than the disease, in fact.
    So why didn't you tell her? Courage?

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    Re: Keeping hold without using thumbs - HOW?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steven666 View Post
    So why didn't you tell her? Courage?
    More like apathy - I don't usually give out unsolicited advice.

    He habit wasn't actually hurting me, it was just annoying me and throwing me a bit off-balance. And after all, I could be wrong (hey, anything's possible).

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