pivots - strong side vs weak side

[koinzell]

I'm sure everyone has noticed they can pivot easier to one direction, especially when performing movements such as giros, sacadas, enrosques, and lapices, as well as embellished ochos. Normally it's easier for right-handed people to turn counterclockwise and left-handed people to turn clockwise.

What do you think is the limiting factor that prevents you from pivoting well towards your weak side? For me it seems I can't draw my right shoulder as far back as my left to create that rotation.

 

[Mladenac]

What do you think is the limiting factor that prevents you from pivoting well towards your weak side?

The limiting factor is that certain movements are not developed throught the life.
So when having some left/right problems I try to recognize what I do good on the strong side,
and try to mimic/reconstruate those movements on the weak side.

 

[twnkltoz]

It's a combination of differing levels of strength, coordination, and flexibility on the two sides.

 

[dchester]

I'm sure everyone has noticed they can pivot easier to one direction, especially when performing movements such as giros, sacadas, enrosques, and lapices, as well as embellished ochos. Normally it's easier for right-handed people to turn counterclockwise and left-handed people to turn clockwise.

What do you think is the limiting factor that prevents you from pivoting well towards your weak side? For me it seems I can't draw my right shoulder as far back as my left to create that rotation.

From the leader's perspective, I think it's nothing more than as soon as you get comfortable in one direction, that's what you tend to do at a milonga, which only reinforces the tendency. To get better in turning the other way, I think it's simply a matter of practicing it more often.

Of course due to the nature of the embrace (not being symmetrical), some moves will always be easier to one side than the other, but I don't think that pivoting (in of it's self) is one of them.