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Ah I see, you discuss it in 8:30 I see that doing a chasse going forward or backwards only makes sense with the character of the dance as it travels down the floor. Doing a chasse sideways doesn’t really. But man, I tried it for five minutes and chasse sideways doesn’t look as pretty but it come in handy with ladies who don’t know the dance and I try to lead it socially. I feel as as Inline feather for me as the dude is beneficial as I go backwards far more than forwards due to making her commit to three steps instead of two. I also feel like an inline feather for me forward and a French cross for her seems hard to convince with her having to win down the floor and get around me. I did not understand triple two when I saw other “world champions” teach this. It felt like they were being payed to teach, but not trying to teach teach it, if that makes sense. They are just showing steps. You are breaking this down incredible, in the same way that you breakdown every other dance. I am starting to appreciate the dance far more and it’s only been about 3 hours of looking at this video over and over.

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Bill!!! So good to hear from you! Thank you for the nice words. I'm trying.. Several people that I was fortunate to be around coming up in the dance industry made a huge impact on my career. You were definitely one of them! Thank you for all of your tutelage over the years. Thanks for reaching out.

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lol. We get that a lot. Dudes here like to dance.

Hello, and thank you for watching and commenting. A drop triple is a term that I used to describe dropping back, bracing yourself on the ball of the three, then replacing on and, with or without rotation on a passing pattern and then stepping on the four. It is the only step on basic six and eight account patterns where the heel should not strike the ground due to the foot being out from under the body. The purpose of the drop is to brace you and send you forward onto the end, not to go backwards. Let me know if you need further explanation. Thanks again!

Thanks for asking this question! I was wondering the same thing too.

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Hello and thank you for your questions. Not full steps, half strides, but definitely passing your feet so that each step progresses down the floor. I say, that the steps are twice as fast and half the size of the normal strides you should take on the Slows so that your body flight remains the same. I could go on about the topic for days, but I'll spare you here. The short version is... Two Step is a direct descendent of the Foxtrot where the Step Together only happens at the Bronze (Beginner) level, when you graduate to the Silver (Intermediate) level you pass your feet to make the dance travel more and it becomes smoother. We do far more spins and more difficult patterns in Two Step that work best with momentum and putting the speed at the beginning of each basic pattern with finesses at the end, hence the change to QQSS instead of SSQQ which happened largely in the 80's. I also believe that closing the feet on the quicks is largely responsible for the development of Country Swing as it made what was a progressive dance more stationary by accident. I'd be happy to give you a longer explanation if you'd like. Thanks again!

@@DAmicoDanceHouston I would, actually! I’m a dance nerd, and I teach big classes in my locale. For everything gained there’s something lost, and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how that change in footwork, from a step together to a passing step, was worth changing the feel of the dance. Many thanks for your attention! I really have enjoyed your videos, and your personality - which some around here say is not unlike my own . . . 😁

I’m happy to expand on this. Feel free to reach out to me via email or text. [email protected] Or 281-202-5247

Thank you for that! Believe me, I’ll take as much advantage of that as you’ve the time and patience for! In the meantime, have you written much about country western couple dancing, with regard to the progressive dances? I’d love to see any and all!

We're almost even for all of our classes. It's a blessing for sure.

I have people sign up for 6 week courses, 1 class/week, pay in advance, for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, and only accept equal numbers of men and women, (or I should say, follows and leads; some women want to be leaders, especially in same sex couples, of course). I also have a dancer “survey”, so I can match partners by age, height, and dance experience, as much as possible. This partnership is very fluid; we change and rotate partners like crazy during the classes. I think it greatly accelerates the learning process, and builds community

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I appreciate that!! Be sure to follow our facebook page by the same name if you don't already. We've been posting a lot of new content there. What city are you in? Maybe I'll make a trip there to teach in the near future.

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