You,re welcome... i was an examiner in Amer.style for many yrs.. the f/work you quote is incorrect.

If dancing the prog basic ( Fwd, Fwd, side, together )..taught initially with NO turn, which by the way never made sense.. but..( A/m got rich on it !)

The F/w basic, SSQQ should be.... H,...H,... I/E Ball/Whole foot..Whole foot .

If a prog. basic in SQQ rhythm.. H/T ...T ,... T/ H . What was odd..in Bronze , they taught it L.I.L. ! .

I have not seen a recent ( past 5/6yrs )techn. book from either chain, so maybe revisions have been made . There were some really bad figure "construction " in yrs past ( late fifties ), when I started working for them . I coached in many cities,for A/M and the standard was really poor, by and large .

Kimmins was the first to make an impact on technical development, and dance re construction .

I still have step lists thru Gold for A/M ( and Br vid. with Sam Sodano et al 1980 ? )

"it seems that a good answer is to remember that a Waltz is a 1-2-3 in 3/3 timing, which makes the rise on 2 and 3 last longer than it would on the QQ end of a Fox Trot's 4/4 of SSQQ."

The question was about the slow foxtrot, which has a characteristic timing of SQQ, and not the American Foxtrot with a characteristic timing of SSQQ.

In the slow foxtrot, the amount of time spent on the final two QQ's is actually comparable to the amount of time on the later two steps of each waltz trio, because foxtrot is not actually executed with a 2:1 ratio between slows and quicks, but with something substantially closer to equal time division.

The character of the action is, however, different between waltz and slow foxtrot. Despite polished's repeated mistakes on the subject, there is a very different action in rising to close than in rising to pass, and that differece is readily apparent at any point in the process.

One should point out , that the SSQQ rhythm is applied by and large in the Bronze level, and even there, some straight bar is employed .

But this is also true for Intern. style social (SSQQ )in some instances