Advanced Elements - Spinning Sit
This is hard, even for an advanced step. We advise you to be patient with it, and kind both to yourself and your partner.
<"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim' ". - Lyndon B. Johnson
- Artist Name:
- Eugenia Leon
- Song Title:
- Malena
- Album Title:
- Album unknown
- Artist Website:
- http://eugenialeon.com/
One of our favorite singers of the modern day.
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- This is a really fun one.
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- So that was not teaching.
It was just demonstrating, which we do in class too. - 00:22
- We show it first.
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- Show it one more time and then he’ll explain
the magic behind it. - 00:31
- And so, for the followers, there’s this moment of flying.
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- N: Yeah, it's really fun.
D: Really fun. - 00:34
- Hard on the leaders, wonderful for the followers;
exactly the way it’s supposed to be. - 00:41
- So leaders, I’m going to show this step and
I want you to ignore the beginning. - 00:47
- So there’s this beginning, ignore that.
There’s this ignore that. - 00:52
- There’s this, ignore that.
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- Right here, I’m on my left foot,
she’s on her right foot. - 00:59
- That’s the sit that we just taught.
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- So there’s this thing that happens
in front of the sit. - 01:04
- So, before, you step side to the outside,
now you’re stepping on the inside. - 01:11
- Before, you stepped here
with your left foot past her foot… - 01:17
- ..or from this angle, actually better, here
with your left foot past her foot. - 01:20
- And now, leaders are pivoting, and, followers,
you’re stepping in a circle around them. - 01:26
- And the leaders: you see my left foot is
going inside, past her right foot. - 01:30
- My left foot is going inside.
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- And then, once we’re there, and in slow motion,
basically what happens is… - 01:37
- ..I’m just going to pivot on my left foot,
until all of a sudden… - 01:42
- ..I’m in the exact same position
that I would have been before. - 01:45
- We open out. We sit.
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- So, the fundamental idea is that the side step changes…
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- ..It changes from this,
where you’re going outside her.. - 02:00
- ..to this, where you’re taking her outside you.
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- But you need to end in that same final position
so we have a spin so that you end up outside. - 02:10
- He makes it sound really easy, doesn’t he?
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- Yes.
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- And now, as you do that, you’ll see I cheat with right foot.
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- So, if I do it without her, so you can see the feet…
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- ..we’ve got this, I come up,...
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- ...and you see how I put my right foot down
to stabilize as I pivot? - 02:34
- And then I go back.
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- So, really, you’re only doing a quarter turn on one foot...
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- ..and then you’re putting your right foot down
to stabilize and then go back. - 02:42
- For the followers, as you do this, I want you to think…
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- ..and this is actually true for the leader.
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- I want you both, I want you both to think, that, as you do this,
you help get the lady around on that first side step. - 02:56
- So that first side step actually is half the turn.
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- It’s one of those great steps where there’s
half a turn from the first side step… - 03:04
- ..there’s a quarter of a turn where you’re actually
pivoting on one foot, for the leader… - 03:07
- ..and then there’s another quarter turn
where the leader pivots on both feet. - 03:12
- So, for the leaders, you don’t need incredible balance…
- 03:15
- ..but for this one brief split second of quarter turn,
as long as you have the first side step be larger. - 03:22
- So, for the followers, notice – so I’m going to over lead her...
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- I’m going to say "we’re going around",
but she also has to be willing to take a big side step there. - 03:31
- And then we can, you know, get a fair amount around.
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- Should we do it again?
- 03:44
- That was cool.
