It shows how fixed a person can get in their thinking. After dancing for some considerable time I found that it is possible to do a Change of Direction in the Foxtrot after a Three Step. I have never come across this before. My Change of Direction always came after a Feather Finish. Live and Learn.

"Anonymous. Put an extra slow into a Change of Direction after a Reverse Turn or a Natural in the Foxtrot you will get run over with that extra slow."

What astounding idiocy! You should not dance a change of direction unless you own the corner - if someone can get behind you, you have misplaced the figure. If you own the corner, no one else may enter it.

"Change the timing after the Reverse to q q s for the Change of Direction and you will live on."

Again, gross ignorance. Do not change the timing of moving figures, change the timing of stationary osition-development ones instead. Especialy if you need to comply with a limited list of legal steps with fixed mandatory timing for the moving figures.

"I hope that no student will gulled into thinking that a Parrot's knowledge of its contents will be sufficient."

Of course, you have to actually understand the reason behind was what written. Until you do, please stop making ignorant and unwise recommendations!

Anonymous. Don't believe that if you enter a corner first that no one else may enter. My experience is that in a Pro.Am I was first into a corner doing a Hover Cross. Another arrived and this former international thought it was a great joke by jamming us into the corner deliberately. That left me bouncing from one foot to the other whilst they went from one shape into another. As for only doing a Change of Direction in a corner. I do it half way down the floor into a Feather and a Left Side Feather without any trouble whatsoever. If I need to I will change it into a Curving Three Step, or a Double Reverse Spin Open Telemark to finish diag to center, then any reverse figure that I think is suitable at that time. Moral of this story is the Change of Direction can be done where so ever you wish.

If you place a stationary figure in the way, expect to be hit. If you place it in the corner and are hit, well that's why god gave you elbows...

BTW you can almost always escape a corner trap by suprising your opponent with a fallaway movement...

Anonymous. Actually I got this one from a Michael Barr video. In the Waltz. He does a Fallaway Double Reverse and an Open Telemark straight into the far corner on side 2. And straight out on the same line he went in. Then a Chasse, Quick Open Reverse with a Chasse Finish Which finishes Diagonal to the wall on the new LOD. It works well and comes as a suprise to anybody watching especially as the Fallaway and Double Reverse is going straight into the corner and imediately turns back on its self. Its worth a try and has become one of my favourites.

Possible, yes. Legal in examinations? NO.
Legal in closed competition? NO. Advisable? maybe

Anonymous. A Change of Direction after a Three Step is actually more in keeping with the correct timing. As you are aware the Three Step starts on the man's RF and finishes on the man's RF. This will allow the correct amount of beats for the Change of Direction which will bring a person out on beats 3 4. on the man's LF leaving 1 2 for the first of the Feather Step on the man's RF. Luv2Dance may have something to say about this.

"As you are aware the Three Step starts on the man's RF and finishes on the man's RF."

I personally subscribe to Guy Howard's IDTA definition that the three step starts and finishes with the man's LF.

If you use the ISTD definition then you will also be aware that in their interpretation of foxtrot, the last step of one figure becomes the first step of the next figure. In this case the last step of the three step (RF) is the first step of a following natural figure such as the natural turn. It cannot be the first step of the change of direction which is why it is not listed as a suitable follow.

What you are actually dancing is a three step + RF walk(S) + change of direction, thus adding half a bar to the phrasing.

Don't confuse fitting the measures with dancing a sequence of actions that works. The reason you should not dance a change of direction after a three step is that the trend of turn is wrong. Depending on where you enter the change of direction in the music, the number of slows you spend in it will vary so that you can come out measure aligned... if your next figure benefits from such a start. There can be good reasons for dancing across the barline when one is no longer a beginner.