Log In

Username:

Password:

   Stay logged in?

Forgot Password?

User Status

 

Attention

 

Recover Password

Username or Email:

Loading...
Change Image
Enter the code in the photo at left:

Before We Continue...

Are you absolutely sure you want
to delete this message?

Premium Membership

Upgrade to
Premium Membership!

Renew Your
Premium Membership

$99
PER YEAR
$79
PER YEAR
$79
PER YEAR

Premium Membership includes the following benefits:

Don't let your Premium Membership expire, or you'll miss out on:

  • Exclusive access to over 1,620 video demonstrations of patterns in the full bronze, silver and gold levels.
  • Access to all previous variations of the week, including full video instruction of man's and lady's parts.
  • Over twice as many videos as basic membership.
  • A completely ad-free experience!

 

Sponsored Ad

+ View Older Messages

Re: Hover Telemark
Posted by anymouse
7/31/2007  2:09:00 PM
"I find myself moving into the Hover Telemark to quickly(to much flight)"

"We are coming out of a bounce fallaway,we take it easy in the BF with a slight hover on the syncopation but still have good flight which has to be controlled somewhere in the feather finish"

There's flight, and then there's falling through things faster than you intended to with out of control momentum.

What you need to try to do is to keep the body moving at a reduced speed through the high point of the feather finish, only within the constraint of what your foot strength can currently support. You want to just gracefully float along there, and feel that you come down only when you want to. If you make it too ambitious for your strength, or you don't aim it perfectly, you will feel that you are forced to take the last step earlier than your want to, or to rush through the last step, and then all that out of control movement makes you hit the next figure without the control to do it nicely.

We are not allowed to talk about the actual timing here anymore (BANNED TOPIC) - but that's okay - what's really important is not the being able to state the actual timing in detail, but instead learning to match the pace of the downswing of one figure to what you need for the upswing of the next, so that the transition between them is natural. Otherwise, the mismatch between them will make you feel like you are either rushing or dragging. You want one to just flow naturally into the next.
Copyright  ©  1997-2026 BallroomDancers.com