Thanks for the great discussion on swinging.
My Maths/Physics is a bit rusty - it is 40 years since I studied it at
Cambridge - so I am not going to get involved I that discussion. Yes, I
know that a couple spinning around a shared axis is different from a
single person spinning on their own axis, but there are a lot of things
going on in that shared system.
Hopefully I will meet some of you on a dance-floor somewhere, somewhen
and maybe persuade you that the lady trying to reach the man's
shoulder-blade is not a good idea - but obviously that is not going to
happen through online discussion.
So, please, if you do insist on telling the lady to try to reach the
man's shoulder-blade, then please, please, please tell them that they
absolutely do NOT have to press there - they just make a flexible frame
with the hand resting lightly in the chosen place - centrifugal force
will do the rest. :-)
Thanks.
Happy dancing,
John
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