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Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by ylchen-1
8/1/2005  1:46:00 AM
Hi Don, It's me. I treat all people to give me good advice on as my teachers , including my coach who teaches me and dances with me. So, you are one among them .
Sorry..I knew well of that I have been beeing a troublesome since my childhood. Fortunately, you said " Keep at it ." my hyperactive or crazed brain .Mightbe it was provoked by malignant malaria when I was 1 year of age .)
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by cdroge
7/27/2005  11:38:00 AM
Yichien-1. There is nothing wrong with the desire to learn, it just has to be channeled in the right direction, and that's why we need Coaches.
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by ylchen-1
7/27/2005  8:58:00 PM
Thanks cdroge. I like your words, be right channeled . Wrong information leads us towards wrong direction .It is extremely terrible.There are a lot of people who have been being danced incorrectly for 10 more years . How important it is to have a good coach.
After four days no lessons,( around 1/3 of time during the past period I danced alone with or without music .)my progress supprised and pleased my coach last night. There had been a qualilative change resulting from quantitative change obtained from all of your educations. To say great thanks to all of you , my coaches on line is the first thing I desired to do in this morning. Now, before my patients visited, I will do the exercise instructed by Don ,and review the lesson I learnt last night . Happy dance.
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by ylchen-1
7/15/2005  12:25:00 AM
, Dear Don, no more question about facing DC since local time 1:14PM. Now I understood what you said here.
DC is 45 degree anti-clockwise to man who facing LOD.Because of the limitation of floor, no one faces DC will stand close the center, so the clockwise movement is impossible to occur ( I had ever worried about it because of my previous stupid thinking ).
Comparing with other 4 dances, V Waltz looks like a little bit "sily." I hope someone develops it soon.
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by Doug
7/15/2005  7:33:00 AM
Yichen-1. Now that I know that you are not a member of the fairer sex I will have to look at you questions from a different point of view. Doug
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by ylchen-1
7/15/2005  9:00:00 PM
Would you please tell me the meaning about " fairer sex", why it was linked to a different point of view ?
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by Doug
7/16/2005  1:59:00 PM
YIchen-1. Fairer sex(LADY). You said you were a Man,so my advice would be different to a Man as the man leads and shapes more than the lady . her balance is also different.
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by ylchen-1
7/27/2005  4:38:00 AM
,Dear Doug, Thanks for your explanation .I used my true name when I registere here. Yiling is a female name .I had straight introduced myself to prevent from unnecessary guess. Also, I always asked lady parts in my questions , and empphasized I am a follower...
Now I feel comfortable because of that I care of what you think of me. It is not easy to know the people who she / he is .
Doug, when I review your previous post , I confused again. If I am not a member of " fairer" sex ( lady ) and not a "man" ( You had misunderstoot ) , who am I ?,
Doesn't metter. Forget it .
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by Doug
7/18/2005  12:11:00 PM
Yichen-1. Now I am confused? are you male or female. You read to much into a sraight forward question.
Re: please describe "curving to "
Posted by Don
7/21/2005  12:47:00 AM
Yichin1. I think I can see the problem here. Finish eight bars of the Natural Turns in the V. Waltz facing or backing centre, depending if you are male or female. Take it from the man's positions. The change step should bring the man to face LOD. Now you can do the Reverse Turn starting with the left foot down LOD. Any attempt to place that foot diagnal to centre will cause an over rotation. That technique is also applied to the Natural Turn. You do not try to start the Natural facing diagnal to the wall. The foot goes down the LOD. The dance actually has a feeling of going sideways and not rotary
You have probably all ready wondered how the first step of the Reverse Turn is on 2 2 3 and not 1 2 3. That is because the dance goes out of phrase on the Reverse and comes back on the Natural. As I have said before you can for my money shove this dance. I have seen too many accidents. Two fractured hips and one fractured thigh and a couple of back injuries.One more thing. Keep your Reverse Turn flatish. The only rise needed is just enough to get the heel off the floor. Nowdays there is little to no sway on the Reverse. Just for the record Harry Smith Hampshire who passed away reciently could in his younger days do a hundred Fleckerls with a cup of coffee in one hand and a plate of biscuits in the other and drop nothing. Quite a character. Needless to say he won many a bet.

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