/13/12, Bob Green wrote:
From: Bob Green
Subject: Re: [Callers] Re Allemande Hold (was Analysis of Stars)
To: "Caller's discussion list"
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Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 11:04 PM
The straight wrist is , of course, not the whole story...i
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> --- On Tue, 3/13/12, Andrea Nettleton wrote:
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> From: Andrea Nettleton
> Subject: Re: [Callers] Re Allemande Hold (was Analysis of Stars)
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ton wrote:
From: Andrea Nettleton
Subject: Re: [Callers] Re Allemande Hold (was Analysis of Stars)
To: "Caller's discussion list"
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Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 9:38 PM
I don't know if seasoned dancers who engage in a bad habit are
Sometimes the other person will get it if you place a single finger
(from your other hand) on the back of their (bent) wrist.
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Perry Shafran wrote:
Speaking of allemandes - is there ANY way to teach experienced
dancers to not bend their wrists when they allemande?
I don't know if seasoned dancers who engage in a bad habit are able to hear
that they are in error. In a new dancer workshop, I show and tell that the two
dancers in an allemande are like two panes in a revolving door and their joined
hands are like the post they turn around. Their arms should
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Perry Shafran wrote:
> Speaking of allemandes - is there ANY way to teach experienced dancers to not
> bend their wrists when they allemande? The wrist is supposed to be straight,
> not bent, as bending can cause pain to the other person's wrist (generally
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I'm fortunate to not (yet) be injured but also attempt to "straighten" our
grip to a neutral position when this happens. If that fails (folks
sometimes actually twist it back!) then I simply open up my fingers - it is
much harder for them to crank over in that situation.
I think this is very much
trickier for a man to do this with another man
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>Speaking of allemandes - is there ANY way to tea
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Chrissy Fowler wrote:
> I once heard some great caller point out that you are engaging your upper arm
> muscle when you allemande - not your shoulder, not your wrist, not your
> fingers, and definitely not your thumb. Which is to say it's the shared,
> elastic tens
On thumbs and allemandes:
A good friend of mine is sensitive to the 'dreaded thumb lock', and has showed
me exactly why. He's right. It's AWFUL. His strategy is to keep his thumb
beside (n line with) his fingers, everything else is the same in the 'mitten
grip'. I've tried it myself, it wo
y" in this manner I can protect all my digits and limbs and
continue on the joy of dancing longer!
Perry
--- On Tue, 3/13/12, Andrea Nettleton wrote:
From: Andrea Nettleton
Subject: Re: [Callers] Re Allemande Hold (was Analysis of Stars)
To: "Caller's discussion
As a dancer my personal solution to the Rory o more situation has been to have
an old fashioned allemande grip for the first balance, as I balance away and
have a little momentum to help tear the hands apart, I switch to an ECD hold,
kind of like what you do for a balance before a swing, then it
John Sweeny wrote:
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> Yes, people always used to interlock their thumbs - that is
> how I was first taught it many, many years ago.
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> But the dancing has changed. What has happened is that
> people now like to spin out of Allemandes; and Rory O'Mores are more
> prevalent, where you spin out o
Hi Jeff,
Yes, I hate it when people stick their fingers up straight
as well, or twist their wrists over so mine is bent backwards, or try to
arm wrestle while dancing.
For me a good Allemande hold is as shown in your photo
reference, but with the thumbs unlocked so that the
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