How different in technique is in the Waltz 4. 5. 6. of a Spin Turn for the lady, to the first three of a the man's Natural. I know the lady brushes and the man closes but the technique within thoes steps.

Don. I can think of two differances there may be more. (One)there is no sway as the man pivots. (Two) The lady has a srong upward swing of the body in order to dance around the man,this I think is why she has a brush.

There's officially no sway on step 1/4 of the natural either. A difference in sway would only come about on step 2/5.

And whoever is going forwards most certainly has a strong upwards swing of the body on step 2/5 of the natural, as well as the spin turn!

There are real differences between the steps. But there are useful similarities, too.

The man does sway on the first three steps of the natural. The latest technque is that the the lady never sways or has a slight sway, this is fine if the man is six feet or more and weighs forty to eighty pounds heavier and his partner is several inches shorter. But my partner is the same hight and ten pouds heavier ,so her help in swaying is impotant to me, not only that, when she dances with our coach I feel the sway he has imparted on to her when we dance right afterwards, so to say that the lady does not sway or is minimal. (Geoffrey Hearn. A technique of Advanceed Standard Ballroom Figures 2004) is questionable ?

Nobody sways, but if you swing you have sway. When to do this depends far more upon what kind of action you are dancing than what role you are dancing - man's forwards actions are closer to lady's forwards actions than they are to man's backward actions.

Nobody has sway on the first step of either half of a natural turn or either half of a natural spin turn - step 1 or step 4. Sway develops on step 2 and step 5 of the natural as a result of swing. Officially it does not develop on step 5 of the spin turn... but practically?

Not true ,you swing into the double reverse turn and there is no sway. Sway can be the end result of swing but not always, anyway I did not say you sway on one ,I said you sway on the natural turn but not on the pivot in the spin turn. Swing is not always up. We swing our sides in the reverse turn of the v.waltz without sway. We also swing our sides in the three step with only the hint of a sway.