16 Feb
2014
16 Feb
'14
11:25 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014, Erik Hoffman wrote:
On 2/15/2014 10:32 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
Oddly enough, as has been pointed out here, you are a somewhat large-ish
man -- that means your personal safety requirements are not necessarily
what's appropriate for the general dancer population.
So yeah, it's pretty much all about safety from my POV. Any kind of
spinning move out of allemande or wave risks yanking the thumb. And
actually, my concern is more about waves than allemandes: the grip is
mostly the same for both and the spinning half-sashy is pretty much
standard these days.
I have no idea what you mean by "guideposts", though; from my POV either
the thumbs are interlocked or they're not. (If each person's thumb can
touch the other person's webbing between thumb and forefinger they're
interlocked.)
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014, Michael Fuerst wrote:
So, Aahz, why do you want to eliminate it? I'm talking about the
thumbs up as guideposts, fingers hooked around the others hand, a
hook, not a grip, wrists straight, fingers curved. Is it just the
safety issue? I play music. I teach music. I worry a lot about my
hands! I have things I do to protect myself, and I don't let people
grab and grip, or bend my wrist in some painful way.
I should have said thumbs an wrapped around the other's hand.
Interlocked was the wrong.
<whew> I do know people who believe that interlocked thumbs are
correct, and I've been on a campaign to discourage the practice. ;-)