"Coming into the the Reverse Turn, the lady must move out of the mans way. Not like Alex Moore's book which has the lady still holding a diagnal to the centre position. Somebody is already thinking how does the lady move out of the way . She invites the man through on the Feather Step doesn't she, and she should also on the first step of the Reverse."
This is the thinking of someone who hasn't learned to do actual CBM... you that problem often, and at suprisingly high levels.
The lady can invite the man forward without getting off her original diag center direction of movement. The post even has the clue to how - she manages it just fine in the feather without stepping off the track (if there is any curve in the feather, it's between 2 and 3, same as the only place where there's curve in a reverse turn)
If you do actual CBM, which involves rotating your body until is it no longer aligned with your direction of movement, you will not have any problem making space for your partner when commencing a turn, without needing to step to the side of their path. But it will take about a week of practice to break some lifelong (pre-dance) habits before you can isolate your body parts and recordinate them in this way.
This is the thinking of someone who is completely out of touch with two bodies actually having to dance together. Even with the proper use of CBM the partner dancing backwards cannot dance absolutely straight on their tracks. And I mean absolutely. This is particularly true for reverse turning movements. I not talking about any gross 'stepping out of the way'. But a combination of 3 possible techniques must be employed:
* Both partners dance a curved 1st step, effectively reducing the amount of turn of the entire figure.
* The partner dancing forward dances straight or the 'true line' while the partner dancing backwards makes way, to borrow Alex Moores terminology a slight 'loss of alignment' by the partner dancing backwards.
* The partner dancing forward 'underturns' the figure between 1 and 2 and makes up for it with a larger amount turn on the foot swivel between 2 and 3 or simply ends the figure underturned.
You'll find all the top champs using one or more of the above techniques. The Hiltons cleverly use a combination of these in discretion that it's hard to tell that they are not following 'textbook' technique/ alignments.
Rha
Dave