Depends on what position you’re ending on - e.g. if you were in open hold you could bring the right hand to left hand to your right shoulder, walk turn right 360 to get into close hold? I’d imagine this comes up a little bit for other folk, in terms of how they deal with clave changes, so i’d imagine there are some moves you could fit in there, aside from improvising.
Do the same thing again and you’ll be back on the beat. Or, just come up with a standard way to get back that you can use. For example, you can turn a hammerlock (one measure), open it up to back-to-back and then spin her either half a measure early or half a measure late.
@greeneggs and Tom: Uhm. I reread your comments and it makes sense. Didn’t know what either of you meant then, but getting good enough that I know what you both mean now.
One thing I had tried was doing the same steps again. But seems to confuse my partner.
cool so once you have it down right you can actually come out of count with one set of steps and then comeback with another… dude i feel smart… still i believe i’ve screwed so bad that i have changed from 123 to 234 or 345 which actually … blows my mind!
donv69 
Tom 4:35 pm on October 28, 2008 |
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Depends on what position you’re ending on - e.g. if you were in open hold you could bring the right hand to left hand to your right shoulder, walk turn right 360 to get into close hold? I’d imagine this comes up a little bit for other folk, in terms of how they deal with clave changes, so i’d imagine there are some moves you could fit in there, aside from improvising.
donv69 5:57 pm on October 28, 2008 |
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This usually happens because I screw up somewhere. Usually because I got lost in the song then suddenly find my steps but they’re out of order.
greeneggs 9:36 pm on October 28, 2008 |
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Do the same thing again and you’ll be back on the beat.
Or, just come up with a standard way to get back that you can use. For example, you can turn a hammerlock (one measure), open it up to back-to-back and then spin her either half a measure early or half a measure late.
donv69 8:42 am on November 11, 2008 |
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@greeneggs and Tom: Uhm. I reread your comments and it makes sense. Didn’t know what either of you meant then, but getting good enough that I know what you both mean now.
One thing I had tried was doing the same steps again. But seems to confuse my partner.
Thanks
tommrod 11:41 pm on December 23, 2008 |
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cool so once you have it down right you can actually come out of count with one set of steps and then comeback with another… dude i feel smart… still i believe i’ve screwed so bad that i have changed from 123 to 234 or 345 which actually … blows my mind!
donv69 5:00 am on December 24, 2008 |
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I do back steps now. I usually need to do 12 steps to get back on track, but I don’t stop moving which is what counts.