Re: [Callers] Giving Weight

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote: Let momentum do the work. The way I teach swinging, I tell people to stand nose-to-nose. Then I tell each of them to take a small half-step to the left. If they twist, I tell them to go back to the nose-to-nose and explain that it is critical that they stay facing the same direction when they move left. Then I have them go into ballroom hold and start walking forward, telling them to notice how the pressure of holding each other just naturally forces them into a circle. Particularly when I do this with people who've been twisting their bodies, they go, "Wow, it's a lot easier this way." When they start swinging a bit faster, that's when I talk about the giving weight aspect of swinging. It's a matter of holding the swing together, and you just don't need the tension until they're moving fast. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html