Hi Don
My right elbow problem is that it drops when i do a natural turn (with sway).
I agree with you that visualisation is very important. I need a visualization to stop this.

Phil. Is your partners weight on that right arm? She has to hold her own left arm up with only slight contact on your arm. Are you causing her to tip her weight onto that arm. This could happen if you are turning on the spot or trying to sway instead of concentrating on all the correct technique to dance the NT.

John. It is interesting. The bit about the arms being in front of the body. Which has to move the farthest and the quickest. Its not your centre. At school as a child you probably made what they called a chain, or at the ice rink. The person at the start is hardly moving. The person on the outside is flying. Do natural laws change just because we are now dancing.The right side hand and forearm are going the farthest and to keep up is also going the quickest, and is in front at the beginning, and must be in the samer position at the end. Another way. Put your elbows behind the body. Do step two of a Reverse. The body arrived first didn't it. Now put the elbows just in front of the body,well. We have not yet even touched the left side where the man's and ladies palm are flat onto each other with no gap at all between the palms. Thumbs slightly up man and lady for a better lead on the left side. Have a look at any of the IDSF finals. Not one didn't have the thumbs really protruding, or slightly protruding.

Phil. I'II wager that you don't drop your elbow in an Oversway. Not much difference between the two. One the feet are apart, the other they are not.Sometimes I wonder where the steps came from. On Richard Gleave's tape teaching a Tele Spin. Said it was probably a mistake where the man got a bit over excited, thus was born the Telespin. In the beginning the Oversway most likely came when the couple went into a Sway and acidently kept the leg out wide instead of closing. The Five Step in Tango was most likely an accident coming from a Four Step. As far as I have read, in those early days there where few moves. But each was clearly defined and had to be done in a certain way. Then along came people like Victor Silvester ( quite a story there )and Maxwell Stewert who introduced the Double Reverse Spin. Many others of course added their bit on how to create shapes in space and how to move to beautiful music.