[Callers] Giving Weight

Aahz Maruch via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Thu Jun 25 13:22:33 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015, Ron Blechner wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2015 10:48 AM, "Aahz Maruch via Callers" <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> You don't find "nose-to-nose" makes some uncomfortable?

Hasn't happened yet AFAIK.  I think most people understand that the
phrase doesn't mean "smash your noses together".
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