West Coast Swing | 5 Basic Tuck Turns | Swing Dance Turns
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2015
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Hi!!!! Recovered from Covid and jumped into 90 minute private lesson. My dear teacher threw tucks at me while saying he doesn’t use them much and I remembered watching y’all demonstrate so here I am ready to watch and learn. Always great videos. I learn so much more than I realize-until I get on the dance floor🙌🏽👏🏽😽
Welcome back to the dance floor! Yeah the struggle is real. We learn something just fine then the music comes on ab BLAM - it all goes out the window. Keep at it... each time gets a bit easier. Then you look back and realize "Hey, I'm actually pretty darn good at this" Then you start the process all over again ;-) Happy dancing and please let us know if we can help in any way -Brian & Megan
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Hi, could you put a basic/ intermediate dance routine together? I think it would help us to
see how the moves flow when dancing.
Thanks, Jerry
Hi Gerald Charles, while this doesn’t include intermediate patterns it does include some basics to music. Hope it helps ruclips.net/video/qBb2p8yGvwU/видео.html
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Hi, Thanks for the great resources!! My wife and I just finished a beginner class and have been going through some of your videos to build on what we've learned. I've noticed in several of them you teach moves starting from the closed position, however I haven't been able to find any videos where you show how to get into this position. Any chance you could point me to one if I'm missing it, or perhaps make a video showing this? Thanks!!!
Hi Robert!
Sorry I just saw this. I have some videos on my site about it.. www.westcoastswingonline.com
Here are 2 ideas in the mean time....
#1. You can simply start the dance in closed position!
#2 You can dance a whip and instead of releasing the lady between counts 5 & 6 you can walk with her staying in closed position.
Hope that helps!
Brian B
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Robert that is a GREAT question. I'm not sure if I have a video discussing that although I probably do on my website. westcoastswingonline.com/
I can't remember 'cause there are over 250 videos there....
The easiest way would be to dance a whip, but instead of releasing the girl on the 5,6, walk with her and keep the closed position.
That should do the trick.
Hope that helps!
Brian
Hi. They’re very interesting lessons! Could you do the figure with music (ya the end). I’d like to see the flow!
How we are filming, its not possible to do music right now. We may change how we do things in the future. I'm glad you liked the lesson!
Without my thinking cap on and without a cup of coffee, I’m wondering about the utility of a tuck vs an underarm turn. What am I missing?
The leader is on a different side of the slot in a tuck vs an under arm turn. The tuck turn is based off of a left side pass for the leader. The follower 'tucks' towards the leader and travels under the arm in the opposite direction from the 'under arm turn' BOY typing this out I realize how confusing it gets LOL I think you've got it though! -B
This is the Q&A I was looking for. I'm trying to categorize movements so that when my instructor tells me a pattern I automatically know what to do and I don't understand the vocabulary. So, to make sure I understand what you're saying @WestCoastSwingOnline, the definition of a tuck is the setup on beat three towards the midline of the leader FROM the leader's LEFT side--in other words, the weight of the follower is transferring ONTO the right foot in conjunction with the right shoulder (almost like I'm pivoting like a plane around an axis from my head to my toes, but the direction of my momentum is towards my/follower's left) towards the midline of my lead on beat three. It doesn't matter if it's a left side or a sugar or a right side pass, so long as the move is executed with a mid-level high five prep on 3 with the follow's right shoulder and foot curving towards the lead's midline, it's a tuck.
@@LY43537 I'm reading this two years later and I don't know what a tuck is!
I’d love to hear more input from the follower’s perspective. That would add a lot more depth and quality to the instruction, instead of having it one-sided technique for the lead.
Hey @jessicamcguire922! Yes this was an older video where we only had one mic and Megan wasn't keen on saying a lot on video. These days most of our videos have A LOT more input on the followers perspective. Thanks Ms Megan (and our second mic ;-) -Brian
Thanks! I just saw another more recnet video with some more input from Megan. Still would like a bit more detail from the follower's perspective, if possible. :) @@WestCoastSwingOnline
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So it looks like the guy “helps” the girl around in all the turns pertaining to beginner moves by giving a rotation around the girls head
…versus other styles where the guy lifts and the lady spins underneath her own arm. Am I understanding that correctly….??
Hi Lorie,
Great question. Yes I would day the guy "leads" the turn with the rotation around the head. To be honest in a style of dance that is true lead and follow based you can't just "lift the arm and have the lady spin under her own arm" In our teaching if the lady travels under her own arm she is leading herself in a turn. If she keeps the arm in more or less an "L" shape and the guys gives a rotation around her head then he is leading the turn. If he gives 2 rotations, he has lead 2 turns. Does that make sense? Typically ballroom dance teachers who don't have a lot of experience in true "lead and follow" dance styles like WCS, Country Dancing, Salsa, Hustle ect... will simply say "the leader lifts his hand so the follower can turn" but really that's only a half truth 🙂
I hope that helps a bit!
Thanks for a great question!
-Brian
Ugh.. “the girl” ?? - can’t you just say “the follow” ??
He is referring to me, Miss Megan. I am the one in front of him and I am a girl.
Everyone needs to be way more understanding that breaking habits from years of saying one thing and changing to another also while dancing with a partner who in this case is a girl, is a hard thing to change. Most of the time we are good about saying leader and follower.
Thanks for the response. Though "we're working on it" would have been enough. The defensiveness just means that the effort you are putting into change loses some of its impact. And while it is true that you may be a girl, he isn't saying "this girl" - he is saying "the girl." Implying that all follows are girls. But glad that's not true of all your videos. This was the first I've seen and it made me hesitant to look at any of the others, but perhaps I will reconsider. Also, even aside from those who are non-cisheteronormative in their partner dancing, many women I know are also offended by being called "girl." @@WestCoastSwingOnline
@@toranailisheva3886 Hey, It's Brian B. To follow up on what Megan said, yeah this video was from 7 years ago (a time period where a lot of the dance world, at least for us, was changing from a male-female to leader-follower terminology. Many of our earlier videos have some of this antiquated language. We try our best to be inclusive as possible but when your videos are seen by millions of people (through a screen) it's hard to hit the mark and connect with every single person without being able to see and hear each other. We do try our best through!
There are many layers to teaching online and many times people don't always agree. For instance, some 'boys' are learning to dance to impress 'girls' while some people are learning to be better 'leaders & followers' and so on. We just try to do our best to share the love of dance with the knowledge we have with as many people as we can. Thanks for the feedback. I think you'll find most of our content in recent years to be more inclusive.
Best wishes,
Brian B
stop looking to get offended ffs