This is maybe a silly question, but in an allemande to a star promenade, is it assumed that the allemanders will keep their allemande until they've brought the promenade-ee across the set?
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Eric Black <e...@mirador.com> wrote: > At 12:48 PM -0700 10/3/13, Alan Winston wrote: > >> Not to hijack this completely, but dancing a man's role in a >> men-allemande star promenade is also often really unsatisfying. Something >> like 20% of the men I run into line (in the SF Bay Area) just let go of me >> as soon as they've picked up their partner; 70% hold on but stop giving >> weight either immediately or before the promenade part is omplete, and it's >> no more than 10% who give me a satisfying connection all through the >> promenade and a positive push off at the right time. >> >> (And in star promenades with the neighbor lady, I find that about half of >> them step ahead. Good star promenade, according to me, is like this >> } >> { >> and what happens half the time is more like this >> Z >> >> I find them pretty frustrating to do most of the time, and wonderful when >> they work.) >> >> -- Alan >> > > > Two important points I was taught long ago (~1982) by Sandy Bradley: > - star promenade is an ARC, not "straight across". The outside person > MUST walk the outside of a circle, and not just head straight across. > > - the outside person needs to match timing and velocity exactly as the > allemander comes to pick them up. The image was docking with the Space > Station. Don't be early, and don't be late. Be moving exactly at the > right speed exactly as the rotating station comes around so you can > dock. > > And then walk in an arc! > > I sometimes say that if the outside person starts out early so that the > allemander is empty-armed, it's like taking a shower with your socks on. > You might accomplish your goal OK, but it's completely unsatisfying. > > -Eric > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers> >