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From: Bree Kalb via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net><br>
To: Martha Wild <mawild@sbcglobal.net><br>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Hand Turns & Safety<br>
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<div>This is a long term project of mine: to teach and encourage what I call “the physical therapist approved” way to Allemande. I don’t seem to be making much progress so am delighted that others care about it, too. </div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;">Hear, hear! My sentiments exactly! How on earth are you supposed to “give weight” (in the proper way, just a tiny bit so you are both part of a unit) and get around each other with a flat, palm to palm contact? The only way that works is that people bend their wrists so that they have some purchase on the other person. Which hurts my now no longer flat wrist! So wrong, painfully wrong. Please, please, please, stop teaching a flat hand allemande. It doesn’t work. Curved fingers, straight wrist, the thumb is just sort of loose and not doing much. Thank you for bringing that up, Erik!
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<div>On May 17, 2019, at 3:01 PM, Erik Hoffman via Callers <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">John Sweeny below hoped we callers would teach more about hand turns and the like.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I’ve been thinking on this for quite a while. Years ago I had a discussion with Brad Foster. We both lamented the loss of the allemande with mildly interlocking thumbs to the modern overprotective thumb against the side of the palm allemande. At that time I think I was still in Santa Barbara, thus it must have been pre 1994. I wrote an article for our dance rag called, “If Allemande Left, Where’d Allemande Go?”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I talked about what I do when someone grips my hand—and I think all of us should remove that word, “grip” from our caller’s vocabulary…<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">But the most important thing I discussed is:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li class="yiv7942226512m_-1489096215264895198MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Our Wrist is Strongest When It’s Straight<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="yiv7942226512m_-1489096215264895198MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Our Fingers are Strongest When Curved<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="yiv7942226512m_-1489096215264895198MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Thus, however one does an allemande, it should be a hook, with curved fingers and a straight wrist.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Lately I’ve seen teachers promote the straight fingers, bent wrist, and flat palm method. The almost always makes one person’s wrist uncomfortable. Not as bad as when someone draws the others hand into that almost-Aikido-put-them-on-the-ground position, but usually quite uncomfortable.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Thus I hope most of us learn the curved fingers, straight wrist, no grip, and, no thumb clamping allemande, ECD hand turn, two hand turn type hand connections.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi Rich,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> I would just call it a “Big Set Mixer”. It is a slight variation of the one in the Community Dances Manual. Callers just make up a 32 bar sequence that works for their dancers.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> While it is a good example of all ages having fun together, I really wish callers would teach the dancers just a tiny bit about how to do better hand/arm turns and swings :-)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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