"Anonymous. "Your body is carrying your moving leg ". No it isn't. it is the thrust or power off the standing leg that moves the body through the middle onto the new standing leg. The body goes nowhere without the legs."

We could get into a whole argument about how much is push, and how much is drift with the legs merely resisting gravity.

However, that is beside the point. The standing leg simply can't carry the moving leg, because it isn't connected to the moving leg. The body on the other hand is - it is the movement of the body that carries the moving leg and causes it to move. Some of that comes from that standing leg, but it won't get to the moving leg except through the body.

Anonymous. My main arguement is we must use words that a not so knowledgable dancer can understand. If we say fall , that's what they will do. If you say the body moves in front of the leg. That's what they will try to do. If you were to say quick quick, but that's another arguement. Some studios do not use the word quick when teaching the Quickstep.

"Anonymous. My main arguement is we must use words that a not so knowledgable dancer can understand. If we say fall , that's what they will do. If you say the body moves in front of the leg. That's what they will try to do."

Don, are you a beginner, or you a dancer ready to learn the truth that these are things that you actually should be doing?

If you do not have the body control yet to do them with precision, then don't. But until you get it, not doing them will limit you dancing severly.

Anonymous. By what you have written and written in the past I would say you are falling most of the time. Seldom balanced. And if somebody was in your way could you stop.
One of your past writting was when asked.That you claimed that the weight goes to the point of imbalance and is caught. You wrote It is because it is true.
Anonymous. Are you a beginner. Do you remember saying that the moving leg does not extend behond the body. Are you still saying this. Then you said. There is no point where you are really on both feet. And then there is this crazy idea that the men shapes to his left. Fina Legare

"Anonymous. By what you have written and written in the past I would say you are falling most of the time. Seldom balanced."

Yes, and if you really look carefully you will find that is true of all almost all non-beginners.

"And if somebody was in your way could you stop."

Yes, in one additional step elegantly, in zero additional steps inelegantly.

"Anonymous. Are you a beginner. Do you remember saying that the moving leg does not extend behond the body. Are you still saying this."

It goes somewhat beyond the body, but generally as little and as late as can be consistent with the desired motion. Escpecially in the case of inliine natural CBM actionsm, where there is something delicate to run into!

"Then you said. There is no point where you are really on both feet."

Which is true for fully flighted action on skilled dancers.

"And then there is this crazy idea that the men shapes to his left."

Well, it's necessary. You can leave it out if you want, but then you are not fully doing your job.