Advanced Elements - Spinning Sit

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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.

00:05
This is a really fun one.
00:19
So that was not teaching.
It was just demonstrating, which we do in class too.
00:22
We show it first.
00:23
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.
00:33
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.
00:53
Right here, I’m on my left foot,
she’s on her right foot.
00:59
That’s the sit that we just taught.
01:02
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.
01:32
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.
01:51
So, the fundamental idea is that the side step changes…
01:56
..It changes from this,
where you’re going outside her..
02:00
..to this, where you’re taking her outside you.
02:03
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?
02:12
Yes.
02:19
And now, as you do that, you’ll see I cheat with right foot.
02:24
So, if I do it without her, so you can see the feet…
02:27
..we’ve got this, I come up,...
02:30
...and you see how I put my right foot down
to stabilize as I pivot?
02:34
And then I go back.
02:35
So, really, you’re only doing a quarter turn on one foot...
02:39
..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…
02:48
..and this is actually true for the leader.
02:49
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.
03:00
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...
03:24
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.
03:33
Should we do it again?
03:44
That was cool.