[Callers] Giving Weight

[Aahz Maruch via Callers]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote:
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> My main concern is how to acquire that tension/counterweight in a swing, if
> you do not lean back.

Let momentum do the work.  The way I teach swinging, I tell people to
stand nose-to-nose.  Then I tell each of them to take a small half-step
to the left.  If they twist, I tell them to go back to the nose-to-nose
and explain that it is critical that they stay facing the same direction
when they move left.  Then I have them go into ballroom hold and start
walking forward, telling them to notice how the pressure of holding each
other just naturally forces them into a circle.

Particularly when I do this with people who've been twisting their
bodies, they go, "Wow, it's a lot easier this way."

When they start swinging a bit faster, that's when I talk about the
giving weight aspect of swinging.  It's a matter of holding the swing
together, and you just don't need the tension until they're moving fast.
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