oh, and as for changing the alignment, it's wrong and it looks terrible on everyone who does it.

Anonymous. Before you condem try. As well as already written Sway on step two hold for three will give a shape before a person arrives ready for the Oversway.This is nothing new , its an old trick. But is best from a lowered position.

Don, are you totally unable to comprehend the English language?

Of course the oversway works better from a lowered position. Which is why the official technique requires that you enter it from such a position. Which is why the official technique does not preface the ovesway with a closed telemark, but instead with an abbreviated telemark that does not use rise and fall.

It's not your dancing that is bad, it's your reading.

Anonymous. You hit the nail right on the head when you mentioned a kind of Telemark into an Oversway in the Tango. As we all know the whole of that move is totaly flat. So do the same in the Waltz.

Yichen. You are aware of how a lady moves out of the Fan position. You draw your RF to the LF on beat two and switch to the LF and step out on three. Change the timing to (and one). Do the same action but this time square and moving sideways again to the count of and one. There you have the same action for a Chasse as you do in the Fan. Do you understand this, that the action in both is identical except in the Fan where the heel lowers on two. But the exagerated movement of the hips are there on a Chasse. Paul Kilick does exactly the same Chasse in his Rumba on my disk.

Try to get the picture I won't go into details about toe and all that but here it goes: flat ,flat,flat,flat,ball,flat and do the exact opposite coming back !