<div dir="ltr">I have never danced this dance, or even the one it derived from.<br>Might I suggest that what you are seeing is due to ambiguity of what you mean to the un-initiated.<br><br>If there is an even number of couples, everyone participates in the 1st Pullby.<br>Then on the Right Diagonal Pullby everyone but the two Men on the ends participates.<br><br>Then @ B2b,<br>"With the one across (opposite sex), pull by left (!) and turn alone"<br>If I'm across from my partner, does this mean I Pull By?<br>(I would hesitate there, because single couples at the end don't usually participate...)<br><br>It seems pretty clear you do, but again, not knowing I would probably hesitate and that would be<br>the same as falling seriously behind, causing the next couple having no place to go because there is this couple in the way.<br>(Hey, I did what you said and stayed where I was...)<br><br>This seems a slight case of "Do what I mean, not what I say".<br>What you didn't say is:<br>"At the end, if you are facing your partner, you are in for the pullby across."<br><br>As for a single couple at the end who wants to join in,<br>they should be facing each other across the set, next to the opposite sex.<br><br></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Smith via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The rule for the end-effects on this one is surprisingly simple:<br>"If nobody gives you their hand, don't go anywhere."<br><br><div>The messiness usually comes from people feeling like they should be going somewhere, similar to what happens with a diagonal chain or right & left through. This is just different enough that people don't think to stay put if there's nobody there.</div><div><br></div><div>The end result is that as you're going off the end and back in that:<br>pull-by-left: everyone moves<br>pull-by-right: gent stays put</div><div>pull-by-left: pull by with partner</div><div>pull-by-right: lady stays put</div><div><br></div><div>If you have an odd number of couples, there will be a couple out at the end which gives you a slightly different sequence, but in principle it's the same.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I recently called Beneficial Tradition for the first time and noticed a consistent hitch in the dance at the top of the set. It was probably happening at the bottom too.<br>
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I was doing the variant with no wave balance in the A1, just Women allemande L 1x and P swing. Though the transition from the pull-bys in the B2 to that L allemande worked well inside the line, it was always funky at the ends. I'm speculating that that's because folks coming out of the pull-by pattern into empty space at the end were tending to head in a consistent incorrect direction.<br>
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Those of you who have called this dance a lot, have you noticed the same issue? How do you teach the B2-A1 transition to minimize the confusion and end effects?<br>
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Kalia<br>
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ps Happy New Year, everyone!<br>
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