Exit of new yorkers in FADS style rhumba?

after the third new yorker man does a rock step on the fourth while the lay does a alemana then they come together to do a 5th pos break and man brings lady around in front of him as they get back into the box. side together side and back and your right to the beginning of your boz. this is step one in bronze..
 
Thanks... I think what I ended up doing (social surival) was an alemana and then left-together-forward for that half of a box... the timing of american rumba makes a lot of sense to me for a certain type of music, but the foot patterns have just never felt natural until I figure them out...
 
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having been d, director for both org. had you gone forward on the left foot ( slow ) you would have danced the box as taught in a / murray -- the slow danced on 1 and 2 of the bar-- they still fight over the right and wrong on that issue !1
 
I thought side (3) close (4) forward (1) would be FADS timing - but maybe I've been dancing AM timing without knowing it. Doesn't really matter to me though - only point is to be able to do something at socials where neither the music nor the partner seems compatible with an international rumba...

Though I do think an endlessly repeated american rumba box can be a very good context for sharing the feel of connection and matched movement with a very new dancer - or even with an experienced dancer who somehow never picked up that concept (though in that case only if you do something distracting like have a conversation, so that it's the body rather than the mind doing the dancing)
 
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OK -- lets clarify-- a/ m commence forward left ( SLOW ) ON 1 - 2 OF BAR-------- f/ a -- commence side left ( q -q ) on 1 and 2 of the bar -- which tied in with mambo -- and still does -- having been d/ d for both-- you think your confused ???
 
what was hard for me was teaching fred astaire rhumba for 3-4 years then switching over to arthur murray timing and trying to teach these new paterns then switching all my open work to hold on 1-2. boy i'm sure glad i got outta that place.
 
The only curious thing is how I picked up AM timing by hanging out with a group that seems to have much more FADS ancestry than AM ancestry...
 
You probably got it from me and Warren, Chris - when we were doing American, we trained with coaches who started in the AM system (not that we danced much rhythm - but my first trophy ever was in American rhumba).
 
For anything in smooth or standard I'd agree, but I think I was too late to get any rhythm from you. I did actually get some from the latin coach though... when I dropped into a pre-social class at his place once, and am really curious if I'm remembering wrong or if he was teaching AM timing underneath a FADS banner. Thought this was also the timing taught in summer lessons and such. And in terms of actually competing it, I only ever did so while hanging out with the NYU crowd, who are based out of a former FADS studio... maybe I just have a bad memory.
 
mr bixx said:
after the third new yorker man does a rock step on the fourth while the lay does a alemana then they come together to do a 5th pos break and man brings lady around in front of him as they get back into the box. side together side and back and your right to the beginning of your boz. this is step one in bronze..
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Was this a Feudian slip? :raisebro:
 
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