I have never danced this dance, or even the one it derived from.
Might I suggest that what you are seeing is due to ambiguity of what you mean to the un-initiated.

If there is an even number of couples, everyone participates in the 1st Pullby.
Then on the Right Diagonal Pullby everyone but the two Men on the ends participates.

Then @ B2b,
"With the one across (opposite sex), pull by left (!) and turn alone"
If I'm across from my partner, does this mean I Pull By?
(I would hesitate there, because single couples at the end don't usually participate...)

It seems pretty clear you do, but again, not knowing I would probably hesitate and that would be
the same as falling seriously behind, causing the next couple having no place to go because there is this couple in the way.
(Hey, I did what you said and stayed where I was...)

This seems a slight case of "Do what I mean, not what I say".
What you didn't say is:
"At the end, if you are facing your partner, you are in for the pullby across."

As for a single couple at the end who wants to join in,
they should be facing each other across the set, next to the opposite sex.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Smith via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

The rule for the end-effects on this one is surprisingly simple:
"If nobody gives you their hand, don't go anywhere."

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.

The end result is that as you're going off the end and back in that:
pull-by-left: everyone moves
pull-by-right: gent stays put
pull-by-left: pull by with partner
pull-by-right: lady stays put

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.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,

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.

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.

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?

Kalia

ps Happy New Year, everyone!
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