East Coast Swing vs. West Coast Swing: Know the difference?

Know the difference between the popular swing dances: East Coast Swing vs. West Coast Swing?! ‪@SocialDanceOnline‬ gives you a break down of both ecs vs.wcs! #swingdance #swingdancing

[@renearreola6785]

Another difference I've figured out is: that you can't fake gravity, meaning in ECS when you're jumping around, what goes up, must come down; that's hard to not do when people are bouncing up and down in ECS. With WCS, people can fake walking, meaning that since WCS is much more grounded, people may have difficulty trying to figure out how to 'walk' when they think they're trying to 'dance'.

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Oh that is interesting! 😊

[@dpatanduk1]

West Coast swang yo! Bringin' that California love in this! You know how we do! 🤘🏾👌🏾

[@ethelryan257]

Really well explained. Thank you!

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Thanks! Glad we can help.

[@0anant0]

Fun fact is most of the time, we start dancing WCS with ECS's triple, triple, rock step and (underarm) throw out! :-)

[@SocialDanceOnline]

In wcs it is called a starter step and it comes in different amounts of steps because there are many many different versions. But I would guess that it comes from the ecs throwout.

[@justagerman140]

ECS looks just like a jive, or am I wrong?

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Yes, jive, ecs, and single time swing are all the same music just different speeds. Jive and single time swing are done to the same speed. Ecs is done to slower music. The other difference in jive has a lot of kicks and flick and ecs does not. There are some other differences but those are the main ones.

[@justagerman140]

@@SocialDanceOnline That's very interesting, thank you!

[@kristieroybal4888]

What video??? There's no video! 😢

[@SocialDanceOnline]

You can click on it at the end of the video, or the link in the video, or the link in the comment section of the video :-)

[@goodintentions1302]

East Coast in Central NYS is not triple step. Thank God!!

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Haha ya it can be quite tiring

[@AnjaLerntDeutsch]

Ecs looks like jive to me. But. Is the bounce always UP in ecs??

[@ochmanek]

the bounce is always down

[@AnjaLerntDeutsch]

@@ochmanek yeah, should be, right? Like in Lindy hop. But here i see some up bounce. That's why i asked :)

[@ochmanek]

@@AnjaLerntDeutsch in the video I don’t see the bounce up. It should be down for Lindy, Boogie and Rockabilly Jive

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Ecs in ballroom dance competitions has evolved to have little to no bounce down or up. the triples we do are down but you have to come up to go back down, so there is some lift in what we do.

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Watch the Full Video Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWSUqmxnr82IbKs

[@PrincessNinja007]

All the improv videos I see are wcs is it not a thing in ecs?

[@SocialDanceOnline]

I’m not sure what you mean as improv, social dancing in general would in my opinion be improv. So yes ecs can have improv dances. I think you see them in wcs more bc wcs is more prominent right now.

[@theplinkerslodge6361]

But which is better?

[@SocialDanceOnline]

Whichever you like better.

[@theplinkerslodge6361]

@@SocialDanceOnline 😁

Salsa? ;). Lindy hop?

I go on two salsa courses with people who are judges (one of them have also been host in the local TV show Let's dance) and are educated in teaching dances and on west coast swing with people who have danced west coast swings for years so it's unlikely fair to compare them. I could go on West Coast Swing beginner with the same one mentioned earlier too but I don't as it's the beginner course only but maybe I would had learned better there as he's way more professional and better. Maybe I could had gone it free of charge as lead? Anyways I feel like the salsa is way more fancier at our level but there's also more going on. Maybe West Coast Swing is a bit slower? I also figure one could use things from Salsa & Batchata in West Coast Swing (and things from Kizomba, Smooth Foxtrot, Tango, ... in fox.)