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Re: Rise & Fall
Posted by suomynona
4/1/2006  5:35:00 AM
"Suomynona. This is too stupid for words. If i am passing my weight from my right foot to my left, as in the NT. I am not going to be on my flat feet."

No one ever suggested you would, in that figure. But you can find figures where you would - feather to three step, for example.

"I am going to be on my toes, and at sometime my weight will be equally divided."

Toe to toe yes, equally divided absolutely not.

"Tell me how that does not happen."

First, a body in motion does not necessarily "weigh" it's mass times gravity - at times it weight a lot more, at times a lot less. During the transition between feet in a well coordinated action, your body weight is not really supported by your feet - it is floating for an instant there.

"I only wish i could get that slow controlled drawing together of the feet that i see in an IDST final."

There's no such competition. Anyway, what you are refering to is mostly seen on the couples who don't know how to swing, and overwork their legs instead - it might be a valid style choice, if trying to get the leg clearance to dance that way didn't do such ugly things to their hold and posture.

"Also you apear to be in favour of most of the turn on the left foot in a NT. I turn my right foot about 90 degrees."

You need to take some lessons

"It seems common sense that i need both of my feet on a straight line with each other to get a controlled closing of the feet, and to be perfectly balance."

The feet are essentially parallel throughout the figure, they just turn much later than you think.

"I am able to stop just there and stay as long as i wish in that balanced position. I will be the first to admitt that there are other styles, but nobody can say i am incorrect because this one is straight out of the good book."

Straight out of your misreading...
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