18 Feb
2014
18 Feb
'14
8:23 p.m.
My daughter gives great weight and definitely prefers a regular swing. She feels out of
control and in danger in a two hand swing. It flings her closer to the other dancers who
are much bigger and heavier than she is, even now at age eleven, and if it gets too fast,
threatens to sweep her off her feet.
Andrea
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On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:04 PM, George Mercer
<geopmercer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I like the two-hand turn for children, though some really look forward to
the "regular" contra swing.
.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Lindsay Morris <lindsay(a)tsmworks.com>wrote;wrote:
With small children, a two-hand turn in place of
a swing is usually a good
idea. And I've sometimes used a two-hand turn to show a grown-up partner
what a buzz-step swing ought to feel like.
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http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:12 PM, John W Gintell
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I've noticed some tall dancers bend their knees and stoop a bit to make
them closer to the height of the person they are swinging with. A very
nice
gesture.
probably
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:23:35 -0500
From: George Mercer <geopmercer(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: [Callers] Height diffferential
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A number of years ago I danced a number of times with a woman who was
much
> shorter than me. I am about 5'6" or so on a good day. She was
4'8" give or take an inch. When we'd go into a swing, as my arm went
around
> her to her back, she'd lock her left arm down so that I could hardly my
that
right hand past her side. At first I thought it
was bad form on her
part,
> but let it be. Then as I watched her dance with others, I realized when her
co-swinger managed to get his arm around her to the "normal"
place
it had the result of lifting her left side up to
what appeared to me to
be
> a discomfort level. The taller the man, the further her left side was
> forced to go. I had to learn a new approach to entering a swing, even > lean toward bad form when the height of the
other dancer led me to an
> adjusted approach. I'm not suggesting we should teach this, but
thinking
about how
your technique (good or bad) can cause another discomfort is
worth thinking about. Over the year I've danced enough with men that
I've
> also experienced discomfort with this height differential. Just out loud.
Thanks.
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