My super dumb question of the week ...

[Numawan]

You are in front of each other. The leader initiates a side step (to his left, to her right), then a forward cross step for both (to his left, to her right). You land into the classic americana. Are you then in cross system or in parallel system?

You are in front of each other. The leader initiates a side step (to his left, to her right), then he leads her into a forward cross step (to her right) while he does a secret weight change and makes a non-crossed forward step (to his left). You land into the non-classic americana. Are you then in cross system or in parallel system?

 

[Rabbit]

1) parallel 2) cross

leader on LF, follower on LF or both on RF = cross
leader on LF, follower on RF or the reverse = parallel

 

[Numawan]

Yea ... logical! Lol!

 

[opendoor]

...You land into the non-classic americana. Are you then in cross system or in parallel system?

For this reason the false mirror is called Espejo cruzado!

 

[Numawan]

Didn’t know that.

 

[Tangogal]

I don't especially like the crossed system parallel system terminology for this very reason. It's overly complicating a simple consequence of weight changes.

 

[opendoor]

..It's overly complicating a simple consequence..

This terminology helps you to sort figures by alphabet, Tangogal. When I learned calgadas (like Numawan now does), I had little video clips of all variants on my first iphone1. XccSS-LF(LF) for instance was the title of a counterclockwise colgada in crossed system, which was initiated with a side step of my left foot, fetching her left foot. So when you count all possibilities together (left, right, front, back, crossed, parallel, circular, linear) you only can keep things in order with systematic classifications. Sounds nerdy, doesn't it?