I tend to think of the zig as four beats and the zag as four more. Four total would be zesty or rushed, depending on the crowd and music.<div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Jerome</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span><br>On Friday, March 24, 2017, Tom Hinds via Callers &lt;<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe that zig left, zag right normally takes 4 beats.  If the dancers zag a little farther so men can easily take a left hand that would take an additional 2 beats for a total of 6 counts.  I&#39;ll confirm the timing this Saturday.<br>
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For me there&#39;s this issue of how much we ask the dancers to adjust.  It seems that asking dancers to adjust is common in English and perhaps less common in contra.<br>
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Tom<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jerome Grisanti<br>660-528-0858<br><a href="http://www.jeromegrisanti.com" target="_blank">http://www.jeromegrisanti.com</a><br><br><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><font face="georgia, serif">&quot;Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.&quot; --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</font></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>