Annonymous. So I am correct to say it happens from heal to toe on the standing leg(LF) for the first step of the slow foxtrot feather step ?

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cdroge.Do you really need somebody to tell how to do a simple thing like one step onto the next. Just do it, all slows , all heel leads down the floor. If you are able to flex the standing knee as the moving leg passes under the body which will allow you to surge onto the next step you aren't far wrong. Remembering that a step is just a step in any form of dancing. The dancing occurs on the part where the moving leg coming from behind arrives under the body. Question that has to be asked is what are you doing before the Feather Step.Is it down the LOD followed by a Three Step which has a TH. Then another Feather. If you do it yourself you can tell us. As far as i'm concerned the weight on a TH. must be over that foot. Just as a bit of added interest. In a recent IDSF comp ( the worlds best amatuers ) In the solo Foxtrot one of them started with a Feather down LOD then a Three Step followed by another Feather and Three Step into a Natural movement. The comentator said how refreshing it was to watch.

A Feather along LOD followed by a Three Step is the "Slowfox Basic" for all my dance school pupils since years. Next figure is: {Curved Feather - Back Feather - Feather Finish - Three Step}
These standard things as {Feather - Rev. Turn - Three Step - Closed Impetus - ...} are done in higher levels.

Anxious. Since its that simple I can assume then that you can dance a father step as good as the HIltons or perhaps even better. I know how to dance a feather step by moving my body to the music ,but how many people can dance it right on time,but then your defenition as right on time might be different than mine. There is a big difference between being able to just dance a feather step and to dance it with quality and feeling, The key to a quality feather step is in the slow not in the quicks. The quality of my feather step is good but not superior to most,so it all depends on what you want to acheive. As was previosly stated .We are only exactly on time in the feather step on Three. If you lower with the weight over that foot you will not be able to dance a THT >

cdroge. The feeling you mention is on the movement in between the slow and the quick, that's when you are dancing. A step is just a step.Then you dance. The footwork on the Feather is of course TH. The reason it is TH. and not THT. is to stop anyone taking it literally and popping up in the air. After the toe lower that step is history there will be no mention of a THT. Not in my book anyway. Obviously the above, or is it below, has not been read properly. The test is to stop on the third step on two toes. Check were your weight is then tell me.

cdroge. The other thread i refered to is under "Is there an and count". Might be worth looking at.

Lowering at the end of the feather the (RF) has to be far enough out in front of the body so the you can lower and roll smoothly through the whole foot. Why should you pop up when the body action is forward and then slightly up. It's a THT because we don't want to break the moving over the foot into two parts instead of one. Are we talking about the same step?

"Lowering at the end of the feather the (RF) has to be far enough out in front of the body so the you can lower and roll smoothly through the whole foot. Why should you pop up when the body action is forward and then slightly up. It's a THT because we don't want to break the moving over the foot into two parts instead of one. Are we talking about the same step?"

Obviously not, because neither dancer has THT anywhere in a feather. Feather finish yes, but not the feather.

In terms of the step on which you wukk lower needing to be placed in advance of the body, this is true - otherwise you will lower into it's toe and not it's heel. However, the way you get it ahead of your body is to use sway to point your entire body along a vertical diagonal at it's position - you can't just reach it out there on it's own without grossly distorting your outside partner position. You also want to delay placing it until your body has had a chance to drift through step 2 - if you can't yet drift step 2, your step 3 distance will be very small, and you shouldn't rise very much or you will "trip" over your step 3 placement when the rise energy gets converted back to speed.

You may not wan't to call it a THT but you better use the ball toe of the RF if you want to push off from it into the next slow,so I dont know what else you would call it