<p dir="ltr">You don't find "nose-to-nose" makes some uncomfortable? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 25, 2015 10:48 AM, "Aahz Maruch via Callers" <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote:<br>
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> My main concern is how to acquire that tension/counterweight in a swing, if<br>
> you do not lean back.<br>
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Let momentum do the work.  The way I teach swinging, I tell people to<br>
stand nose-to-nose.  Then I tell each of them to take a small half-step<br>
to the left.  If they twist, I tell them to go back to the nose-to-nose<br>
and explain that it is critical that they stay facing the same direction<br>
when they move left.  Then I have them go into ballroom hold and start<br>
walking forward, telling them to notice how the pressure of holding each<br>
other just naturally forces them into a circle.<br>
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Particularly when I do this with people who've been twisting their<br>
bodies, they go, "Wow, it's a lot easier this way."<br>
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When they start swinging a bit faster, that's when I talk about the<br>
giving weight aspect of swinging.  It's a matter of holding the swing<br>
together, and you just don't need the tension until they're moving fast.<br>
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