Ilove using role-neutral swings, and as Maia suggested, I think they are afabulous teaching tool to correct awkward swings during a lesson. However, I have observed stress indicatorsfrom some dancers newish to role swapping when I have tried using a neutralswing. It seems as though having an asymmetricalswing hold indicates that both parties are in agreement as to who will end upwhere at the end of a swing. Even forregular role swappers, using a neutral swing delays the role decisionconcurrence from the beginning of the swing to the end, possibly making peoplelate to the next move.
Mark Pigman Tacoma,WA > Maia McCormick via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net >Tue Jul 5 14:06:36 PDT 2016>But, I emphasize that you're both walking >(orbuzz-stepping) *forward*, >roughlyaiming at a point over your partner's shoulder. In fact, *the >footworkfor a swing for both roles is exactly the same!!!* A good way to >emphasizethis might be to have participants do a gender-neutral swing >(e.g.right hand on shoulder blade, left hand clasped with partner above >theheads) and then change the hand position into your classic ballroom >swing(perhaps even trying out ballroom position with person A leading, >thenwith person B leading) and noting how the footwork stays the same.
