11 Mar
2012
11 Mar
'12
5:53 p.m.
I've learned how to cope with pullers. I don't grip the wrist in front of me. I
lay may hand on it, sometimes slightly bending my fingers. If I'm pulled I'll be
pulled off safely. And I am not pulling another's wrist myself.
Maybe that's not as satisfying a form but it works.
Modern square dancers recognized this pill problem and their awkward solution is to place
palms up to the center, just touching the sides of each other hands. I do not like that at
all.
\bob
On Mar 11, 2012, at 13:06, Read Weaver <rweaver(a)igc.org> wrote:
Trust me (or find three others and try it), you can
give weight, I've often had it done to me--not just gripping hard, but pulling. When I
teach beginners, I teach not to, and I teach that it's ok to just drop your hand if
the person behind you does it. Since you're not (supposed to be) giving weight,
there's no momentum advantage to holding hands, so you're not messing up timing by
dropping your hand (unlike in a hands-across star, where giving weight could, if the
choreography calls for it, allow you to move faster/farther).
If I ran the world, I'd get rid of the wrist-grip star altogether--giving weight for
me is central to the connected-to-other-people aspect of contra dancing.
--Read Weaver
Jamaica Plain, MA
http://lcfd.org
On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Dorcas Hand wrote:
The comment about giving weight in the saddle
pack is unnecessary. You really can't give weight in that position - but you can grip
too hard.
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