Week 3 (of 3) Six Beat in Level 1 & Week 2 (of 2) Spice up your Charleston in Level 2
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08 Sep 2010
Gangster's Ball Sat 4 Sep - Nick and Sybil looking very sharp at The Marble Bar pre-Ball drinks
Wed 8 Sep - After class drinks
Coming up on Wed 15 Sep:
- Level 1 (6:30pm): Week 1 (of 4) of Eight Beat (Lindy Hop) (No experience needed, start anytime)
- Level 2 (7:45pm): Week 1 (of 4) of cool stuff with special guest teacher, Trish Carruthers! (we can advise whether you're ready to move to level 2)
On Wed 8 Sep we learnt the following in Level 1 and Level 2:
Level 1 - Six Beat (week 3 of 3)
- Six Beat Basic in Closed
- Rock step, pump land, pump land
- In closed position
- Six Beat in Open
- Rock step, pump land, pump land
- In open position
- Bring into Closed
- Rock step, pump land, pump land
- Leads, offer the "arm of welcome" on 3-4
- End in closed position
- Tuck Turn
- Rock step, stop sign for 3-4, guide follow under arm for 5-6
- End in open position
- Inside Turn to Closed
- Rock step, pump land, pump land
- From open position
- Leads, read your watch on 3-4 (hand in front of follow's face)
- End in closed position
- Jig Walks in Open with a Kick-Up
- Let go of partner’s hand on 1-2 rock-step (not the back connection)
- Pump in towards our partner on 3-4, land straight, pump out away from our partner on 5-6, land straight
- Pump in, pump out, offer the hand and swing kick on 5-6
- End in closed position ready for six beat basic in closed
- Jig Walks in Closed with a Kick-Up
- Same as Jig Walks in Open but don't let go of partner's hand
- Leads: lead the swing kick by pulling follow's hand towards you on the swing kick
- Koala Dip
- Rock step 1-2
- Pump land 3-4, throw follow’s right arm around your left shoulder and put your right hand around her left waist
- Land left foot on 4 prepared to squat for 5-6
- Lower into squat position (straight back leads) on 5-6 with follow holding her own weight
Level 2 - Spice up your Charleston (Week 2 of 2)
- Kick Throughs
- Offer the hand
- Right hand to her left hip
- Push her hip on 7
- Kick land with inside foot on 7-8
- Don’t let go of her hand
- Layouts
- Offer the hand
- Right hand to her left hip
- Push her hip on 7 with more force than a Kick Through and also using the compression in the leading hand so that she moves far enough away into a layout position
- Don’t let go of her hand
- Peel Off (16 beat move)
- Prepare on 7-8 to push her in a clockwise rotation
- Lead and follow peel off: leads counter clockwise, follows clockwise for 2 x 360 degrees (casual turns)
- Back into side-by-side
- Russian Kicks
- Switch weight on 5 (fused joints!) + kick outside foot forward
- Russian kick on 6 & 7 (inside leg then outside leg)
- Pause on 8 with outside leg extended
- Tassie Devil
- Offer the hand
- Right hand to her left hip
- Prepare on 5
- Down on 6 with weight on front foot
- Lead an outside spin turn on 7-8 back to closed
- Chug Chug (16 beat move)
- Chug forward on outside foot on 5-6, inside foot on 7-8, etc.
- Pause on 7-8 of second set of 8 ready to rock step on 1
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