Chris Stratton
11-01-2007, 11:49 PM
Trying to come up with a summary of the theory of leading rise and fall. Here's a proposal:
The man can lead the lady to rise, but he may only allow her to fall.
If he leads the end of the rise in a way that has a sense of completion, she will naturally commence to fall unless his body says stay up here.
As he feels her coming down again, he can pick the time when he wants to being to gradually catch her fall and redirect it into movement across the floor.
I'm thinking of a demonstration, something like two people tossing around a duffle bag full of clothes - you can activily swing it to launch it up and send it flying, but when you catch it you start by following it down, and only gradually absorbing and converting that descending movement to a stop or a toss back up again.
A related idea: it's okay to be under your partner when going up, but not okay to be over them when going down. You can sway against the movement on an upswing, but you can't sway into the movement on a downswing, or you will crush your partner into the floor. (though in more advanced cases you can briefly sway into the movement at the start of a downswing, provided you neutralize it before your partner becomes trapped underneath that sway)
Thoughts?
The man can lead the lady to rise, but he may only allow her to fall.
If he leads the end of the rise in a way that has a sense of completion, she will naturally commence to fall unless his body says stay up here.
As he feels her coming down again, he can pick the time when he wants to being to gradually catch her fall and redirect it into movement across the floor.
I'm thinking of a demonstration, something like two people tossing around a duffle bag full of clothes - you can activily swing it to launch it up and send it flying, but when you catch it you start by following it down, and only gradually absorbing and converting that descending movement to a stop or a toss back up again.
A related idea: it's okay to be under your partner when going up, but not okay to be over them when going down. You can sway against the movement on an upswing, but you can't sway into the movement on a downswing, or you will crush your partner into the floor. (though in more advanced cases you can briefly sway into the movement at the start of a downswing, provided you neutralize it before your partner becomes trapped underneath that sway)
Thoughts?