your dance step bugaboo

[fascination]

I have seen several folks bemoan different steps...its funny how one thing is a nightmare for one person while its no big deal to another...I noted this as I see folks struggling w/ fallaway, dbl reverse, heel turns etc...mine is the spin turn...so anyhow, what's yours and why?

[Twilight_Elena]

...You have, like, an HOUR?

T_E

[fluffy]

I've no problems with heel turns, fallaways, spin turns, but I cannot do a decent threestep, it always feels really really horrible, awkward, unnatural, jerky, and just about everything else a foxtrot shouldn't be!

[redhead]

samba walks
and I expect heel turns to become in issue if i ever do standard

[Anna]

hmm...probably spot turns. I used to hate natural top but it's a lot better now that I've sorted out the proper position.

I'll have to think about standard but it might be feather finish.

[Anna]

Ooh, Laura's post just reminded me...definitely FT change of direction.

[Medira]

The Natural Twist Turn in tango. I can't seem to finish it quick enough to end up in proper alignment. I'll get it though! I will!

[LXC]

whisk and chasse in waltz. yep, bronze figure yet drive me nuts every time

and every time we do the feather/3 step, reverse wave drill, no matter how well and poor i dance it compared to last practice, i have to stop and tell dh that it's freaking too hard

[Musique]

fallaway reverse and slip pivot.

it's a nightmare. yet we still have it in our routine, dunno because we think we need to learn this stuff, or because we are insane.

Russell Monk once said in a group lesson, prepare 300 bucks for this figure. Maybe we just haven't paid enough tuition for it, though we've fought over it for a year now.

[skwiggy]

If I kept a tally of the amount of money spent on each figure, it would probably bring me to tears. I can't even begin to count the $$ spent on the feather step. Ugh.

[Anna]

Oh, man, whisk and chasse is bad. I always lower too early out of the whisk and fail to close my feet on the chasse. It's a lot worse than fallaway reverse-slip pivot (although probably I'm just not aware of how badly I'm doing that).

[cornutt]

Anything involving swivel steps. I've worked and worked on how to balance myself with my partner properly. I've had lesson after lesson after lesson on these. I've spent time in the swimming pool doing them in slo-mo so I could analyze what I'm doing. I've just barely gotten to the point where I can stay on my own feet while doing an ordinary swivel step. Never mind actually leading it. :rolleyes: And the last time I tried to do swivels in a lesson, I tweaked my left knee a bit.

[Chris Stratton]

Oh, man, whisk and chasse is bad. I always lower too early out of the whisk and fail to close my feet on the chasse. It's a lot worse than fallaway reverse-slip pivot (although probably I'm just not aware of how badly I'm doing that).

Hmm, I thought you were fairly good at both of them.

[tangotime]

Of course you would state it differently.; simplicty is more often the keynote to success ( paralysis by analysis)

[Anna]

Maybe it's mostly my partner's fault then, but from the comp videos whisk and chasse is what we do most consistently uglily, across all dances.

[dancesportgirl21]

a new combination in tango that goes from pivots to a slip pivot, viennese crosses, and ends w/a contra check has been giving me trouble. First, I have to get the pivots consisent (after doing about 30 of them my left knee decided it didn't like them anymore) and then getting enough cbm on the last lock before the contra check so my knees don't separate and I maintain balance. That and no rise on the slip pivot. See I know what I do wrong, now it's just a matter of doing it right ;)

[ChaChaMama]

I still struggle with the basic movement in jive. I don't think I'm using my feet and ankles as well as I should be, and, in consequence, my jive looks a little flat. (And I think I sometimes overcompensate for this by looking busy on top, which compounds the problem.)

Volta action in samba also is an ongoing battle. I'd got it to where I thought it was passable, only to realize I'm doing the hip action wrong. Aaaah!

ChaChaMama

[fluffy]

Volta action in samba also is an ongoing battle.
Have you noticed, like spinning, one side is always MUCH harder than the other!