I would like to know the figure name Pepper pot of Quick step. How to dance this figure?

Ahhhh... pepper pot. One of the most simple steps in QS, but one of the most difficult steps to execute correct. It won't be helpful just to read the descriptions how it is done, IMHO.

Ju. The Pepperpot is not a difficult step to do. It usually follows Scatter Chasses. and follows an Open Lock. Including the Open Lock which is Quick and Quick. You will find your foot is in an open position. In other words it is just a lock with changed timing, three steps. Followed by a Lock Quick Quick. The whole thing is Q and Q Q Q
You will find that the last step is a quick and not like an ordinary Lock which finishes on a Slow. Just for practise do an orinary Lock Step from from the Locked position LF Q and Q Q Q. You can throw it in anywhere you like. As I said they are just Locksteps . No big deal.

"Ju. The Pepperpot is not a difficult step to do. It usually follows Scatter Chasses. and follows an Open Lock. Including the Open Lock which is Quick and Quick. You will find your foot is in an open position. In other words it is just a lock with changed timing, three steps. Followed by a Lock Quick Quick. The whole thing is Q and Q Q Q
You will find that the last step is a quick and not like an ordinary Lock which finishes on a Slow. Just for practise do an orinary Lock Step from from the Locked position LF Q and Q Q Q. You can throw it in anywhere you like. As I said they are just Locksteps . No big deal."


What the...Huh?
Is it me or is DON's post so badly written it is borderline-incoherent? This sounds so like the babbling or rambling of a demented person to me.
???

Internet ghost. You might like to know this came from a book which came with the tape.Which had in it and on it the Pepperpot.You nasty little boy.

Hmmmm...
Don saw this step in the book and tape and claims that it is not a difficult step and no big deal. I wonder how much money I am willing to bet on what he has to say on various ballroom dance topics.

(I am not saying it is Ok to insult Don the way internet ghost did, though.)

Guest. There is nothing hard about a Pepperpot. Do an ordinary Lock, without unlocking do Q and Q finish with Q Q. One bar of music.You will finish with the feet apart on the last Q. Do it again if you need the practice.So where is the problem.

(I assume that you know those Q's are not all same Q's.) Where is the problem? The problem is not just watching or reading the step or describing it with words, but trying to do the way Blackpool finalists do. I told you that it is one of the most simple steps in QS but hard to do right. I am glad that it is not a big deal for you. Because it is such a big deal for me, I would love to see how you do it. If you ever record yourself doing pepper pot, please post on youtube and let us know.

Most of quickstep is really not a big deal, once you break it down to its component pieces and spend a week practicing them.

The complexity comes in only in that the tempo means there is so much of it, the momentum requires care to control, and of course it is not just you alone on the floor.

But it responds well to practice.

Ju,
I've asked a number of people about the pepperpot, and I've always gotten different answers.

The versions I've heard:


Ver 1.
From promenade, step forward in a light hop/spring from the floor with the RF (slow) allowing the LF to close to the right foot without weight.
Then do two chasses in Q&Q timing.

Ver 2.
Do a tipsy forward in PP.
In the ISTD Grey book :"The Ballroom Technique" the "Tipsy to the Right" is listed as going backwards on the Man's LF first, doing a chasse, then a lock (if memory serves).
Simply reverse the figure and go forward but in PP.

Ver 3.
(The one I subscribe to) Do a hop on the RF lightly closing the foot (S), next do a chasse (LRL) but without closing the feet (Q&Q) sort of like a TIPSY chasse (again, see the grey book), then do a lock (QQ with RF then LF), then exit (S) with RF.


I'm sure there are others with other definitions out there.



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