Hyperreal

GUU tonight…

Usual kind of thing… I really enjoyed the night. No heavy analysis tonight though – I’m too tired.

Intermediate moves…

• First move step across thing, with a twist. I think we did this last week at Rutherglen, but there was a bit extra.. on the step across add an extra CW turn for the girl. Most step-acrosses I do have such a CW turn, but because the first move has left you in a different place, it’s not quite the same…
• Don’t know if this has got a name? I’ll call it Octopus into wrap. Would start with the lady’s break-through part of an octopus, but as we’re not double-handed coming out of the previous move, we just do a travelling return, going double-handed on the way out. The next bit we did something similar to recently. Continue leading the girl back, but take both hands over your own head on your ACW turn across. As the girl comes round there’s a slight pause/lowering of the hands before turning her under the double hands on the spot. As she comes round bring LH down but continue turning her another half turn until she is facing away. Lead with the RH coming down to her RH hip moving to the right, so you’ve got her in a basket-style wrap in front of you, stepping a bit to the right. Lead back to the left, with another step, then back to the right. While doing this lift your RH and her LH over her head onto her left shoulder… lead back to the left and lift LH over to place her RH on her RH shoulder. A wee nudge away, into a double-handed lean away… (can you tell what’s coming next???)
• No idea what this is called… So, for me it’s simply a backwards drop. Yep, you’ve got two choices here, either go straight for the arms supporting under arms and pull back for a drop, or put a wee pause in there to split it into 2 beats. You’ll need to step in first, and make sure to step back and get your knees away from the girl as she comes down! Lift her back up, and hook your right hand under right to lead her CW… once you’ve got her hand, lead back ACW, but block for a ceroc spin kind of thing (though only using right hand??) Catch L-R to go straight into first move…

I liked all these moves apart from the drop. I don’t like drops where you can’t see your partner’s face. In fact I don’t like any leads where you can’t see what your partner’s reaction to them is. I’d like to find something cool to do with the octopus wrap thing. Because my partners tonight might think I wanted to drop them, and I didn’t want to catch, I didn’t try the move without the drop on the end…

As this is the second time I’ve been taught something like this, I’ll hopefully remember it and be able to use it again.

Anyway, good night… Bit of a sore back and arms from catching falling women, but I’m sure that’ll pass…

Good to see everyone there, and hope to see you all again soon.