Turns:
- ½ turn to the left footwork for the man
- ½ turn to the right footwork for the man
- ½ turn to the left footwork for the lady
- ½ turn to the right footwork for the lady
- Most turns are done with forefinger contact.
- Ladies, at the completion of a turn, face your partner and offer both hands.
- On most turns, you will trade places with your partner.
- Don't duck under your arm. No matter how tall or short you or your partner is you can go under your own wrist without ducking.
- Leading: Don't use your thumbs. Man uses the pistol grip. Treat the lady like a lady. Don't yank on her arm. Remember that leading the lady into a turn is a continuation of the direction that she is already going.
Hustle is:
- A slot dance. The lady has priority in the slot and the guy should get out of the way.
- Although hustle is traditionally a slot dance, we will be learning a variety of circular hustle patterns first because the circular hustle patterns are easier than the slot patterns.
- A street dance. Generally a club dance → not a ballroom dance.
- Use 4-count hustle to fast music. Rhythm: quick, quick, quick, quick (1, 2, 3, 4) evenly timed steps (or "1, 2, together-forward")
- Use 3-count hustle to slower music. Rhythm: slow, slow, quick, quick. (1, 2, & 3).
- Open position: Hustle primarily uses open position.
- Closed position: Hustle uses a perpendicular closed position. In perpendicular closed position, the lady is facing down the slot and the guy is facing across the slot.
Starter step:
- Start in perpendicular closed position:
- In 3-count hustle, start on "and-3"
- In 4-count hustle, start on "3 4"
- Guy's left hand holds lady's right hand as he does a throwout to lead her out into open position. Then, lead her back into perpendicular closed position (Guy should bring his feet together on count 2, and should point his foot on "and-3") and then back into throwout position.
Throwout
Basic Step
- Basic step: Forward, back, together, forward (Guy starts on left, ladies start on right) Start in a 2-hand open facing position, and alternate between compression and tension with your partner as you do the basic. Keep your hands about waist level.
- Trading places with arms out to the side
- Lady's underarm turn: 2-hand open facing position → underarm turn → 2-hand open facing position.
- Gentleman's turn (The guy will let go with his right hand just before doing the gentlemen's turn.) The guy turns into the lady's right arm then put the lady's right hand on your belly button and let go of her hand. The lady's hand will slide around the guy's body as he turns.
- He turns / She turns (2 hand lead) The hand of the partner not turning trails their hand behind the other partner's waist.
- Perpendicular closed & throw out (after this move, practice returning to closed position)
- "Send out" from closed basic to open position
- "Bring in" from open position to closed basic.
- Arch turn exit from perpendicular closed
- Cross body lead: Guy travels from one side of the slot to the other using step left, step right, point left. (The guy will need to lead this pattern with both hands.)
Whip Turn
- (Use similar footwork to trading places) Start in one-hand open facing position, pull her into a whip turn, then release her back out to open facing position.
- Whip with inside turn (one turn or two)
- Back whip (start in one-hand open facing position, as you do a gentleman's turn, change the hands)
Arm Lines
- from throwout
- from arch turn exit from closed
- from trading places with underarm turn.
Double-wrap and Drop with Axial Spin
- With a 2-hand hold, lead her into an inside turn while traveling around her the opposite direction and keeping both hands. The man's left hand will be held high, and the lady will be on the man's right side. Then circle clockwise with the man traveling forward and the lady traveling backward. Then spin her out keeping both hands until the very end of the spin when the upper hand is released. Then, send her all the way across on a double roll-out. Then, wrap her in and she will turn TWICE when she wraps in. Then the guy holds her lower back with his right hand. The lady makes a small hop, crosses her ankles, and allows her feet to go under the guy's legs. As she falls, her body will rotate and she should raise her free hand straight above her head.
- Head loop into promenade (starting in 2-hand open facing position → without letting go of either hand, lift your right hand and loop it around her head causing her to turn clockwise and finish with the guy's right hand on her right shoulder) →
- Exit 1: Then, let go with the right hand, lift your left hand, and lead her out in an arch turn.
- Exit 2: While still holding both hands, lead her on a half turn to her right into a cross-hand hold → then with both hands, cause her to make two counterclockwise turns letting go of your right hand on the second turn → then while still holding her right with your left, send her back out by pushing on her back with your right.
- Technique:
- Synchronize with your partner by watching their shoulders and their rock step. (Keep your shoulders level on the rock step)
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Basic step
- Closed Basic
- Open Basic
- in open position, the rocking foot goes straight back
- Lady should have a strong hook grip and her wrist should be flat.
- Both guys and gals should NOT use your thumbs.
- Don't touch heel on back rock step.
- Ladies keep your shoulders parallel to the man's.
- Just before the rock step, both of you (both partners) should push with your arms as you rock.
- Learn how to transition from closed to open basic and from open to closed basic.
- Synchronize with your partner by watching your partner's shoulders and your partner's rock step.
- Turning Basic:
Gentlemen, when turning the basic, turn clockwise forward left on 1-and-2, then turn clockwise backward right pulling your right shoulder back (which will pull the lady's left shoulder forward) on 3-and-4. Guys, lean to your left on 1-and-2, then straighten on 3-and-4.
- Challenge Basic
(with turns and with kicks)
(Don't suddenly let go of your partner when she is not expecting it. Let go of her carefully.)
- Challenge Basic with continuous turns on count 1.
- Paul's push-off basic
- All of the basic steps above can be done either straight or turning.
- Ladies, in the absence of a lead to the contrary, do the basic.
- Don't pull on your partner during the basic.
- Reconnection step: from open position to closed basic. Guys, using your left hand, pull her across to your right side into closed position.
- ladies underarm exit turn from closed basic. (Open the window and push her out.)
- ladies outside tone turn exit from closed basic
basket step:
- start in 2-hand open position ==> bring her into cuddle position, then let her out. Ladies, don't forget to do the rock-step when you are beside the man.
- cuddle turns to both sides
- the cuddle to cuddle double turn (the "stanton") With the lady on the man's right side in cuddle position, without letting go of either hand, raise both hands and rotate the lady 2 times to the left and then recapture her in cuddle position on the man's left side → then repeat to the other side.
- cuddle to tuck 'n duck
- he turns / she turns (Before he turns, the man turns his palm toward the ceiling. As your partner turns, slide your hand across your partner's back and down the arm.)
- skin-the-cat (or "hand slide")
- skin-the-cat with normal exit
- skin-the-cat to the tunnel
- skin-the-cat to the sugar (star) → forward turn finish
- skin-the-cat to the sugar (star) → reverse turn finish
- underarm turn (or "inside turn")
- inside (loop) turn
(Ladies, don't duck under your arm when you are in an underarm turn). Note that you can use an inside loop turn to transition from a one-hand hold to a two-hand hold.
- (Guys, use an underarm turn to capture both hands smoothly.)
- outside (arch) turn: outside turns are always followed by inside turns since the hand is upside down. (Guys, any time a pattern leaves your hand upside down, do an underarm turn to correct this.)
- closed position → outside turn → inside turn → closed position
- Behind the back turn
- two-hand turns
- dish rag: Man stays on his track. Lady stays on her track.
- cross-hold two-hand turns
- cross behind: man crosses to lady's right, grabs lady's right hand with his right, turns counterclockwise and passes lady's hand behind his back to his left hand, finish with an underarm turn or double underarm turn to unwrap.
- gentlemen's high-hand turn
- walk through: Walk through with hand change → underarm turn → change the hand. Guys, as you are doing the walk through, put your free hand over your other hand.
- outside roll for man:
walk through and switch hands so man is holding her right with his right → lead her into an underarm turn while man does outside roll → underarm turn.
- Walk past with hand change:
Guy does walk, walk, forward-rock, back, back, rock-step.
- double underarm turn (she then he)
- arch turn
- In slow swing, the man and lady can do a double arch turn.
- tuck turn (and re-wrap)
- "No-hand" turns
- double-rollout
- one pass
- two pass
- cuddle charge (with forward toe tap) Stay on a narrow track.
- side-by-side charge
- sweetheart charge
- skater charge
- cuddle guided turn (or cuddle shadow)
- outside partner circles:
- (circles abandon the 1, 2, rock, step. Circular patterns are done in single rhythm to the beat. Keep feet on a narrow track. Restart your 1, 2, rock-step after a rock step.)
- (Guys, to change direction on a circle, back slowly away from the lady and find a free left foot for a rock step, then rock step, and turn the circle the other way.)
- cuddle circles:
cuddle partner circle turns → while holding onto both hands, raise the outside hand causing the lady to make a full turn to the other side (a "Stanton" turn) → cuddle turns the other direction.
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- arm-slide circle
- shake-hands position → double-sweetheart shadow
- passing hand change: switch to handshake position → open break → the man pulls her to his side while he passes behind her and goes to the opposite side (as the man passes her he lets his opposite hand slide down her opposite shoulder to switch the hands) → repeat the passing hand change 3 times
- side pass: man crosses to lady's right and switches to shake-hands position. man walks forward, forward, forward rock (both partners extend left arm outward), back (switch hands), back, rock-step)
- advanced side-pass: shake hands and walk past, then lead an underarm turn raise whole arm let her under then switch the hands on the next basic.
- repeated wrap and re-wrap
- the see saw: tap step tap step → turn 1,2 → repeat
- Chase
- challenge position: 1, 2, forward rock, 1, 2, backward rock, repeat
- (spot turns replace rock steps) walk 1, 2, spot turn, walk 1, 2, spot turn, repeat
- chase with free spin: spot turn, pivot 1, pivot 2, spot turn, repeat
- the "tornado": rock-step → man puts ladies right arm behind her and reaches around her and grabs her right hand with his left hand, he then leads her on a clockwise double turn → rock step.
- fan lady out to right then give her a reverse spin
- the "wallet": from handshake position, guy leads lady in underarm turn then puts his right hand over his head to an arm slide → while continuing to hold her right with his left, guy bends down and rotates clockwise one full revolution → guy straightens up and leads the lady on a counterclockwise double turn → then she rock steps.
- bow & arrow: man backs up → (lady turns clockwise on second step) pull her left arm up and around her and over her head and bring it down to her right shoulder → lift your left hand and lead her out to a cross-arm hold → then lift both hands over her head to unwrap.
- drape cuddle: (never let go of either hand) man backs up (lady turns clockwise on count 2) man takes his right hand over his head and places it on his left shoulder → man raises his left hand and goes out turning counter clockwise leaving her in the same spot → lady turns clockwise on second step → man takes his right hand over her head → then man raises his left hand and lets her out to unwrap.
- arm & hammer: man backs up (lady turns clockwise on second step) wrap her right hand behind her → man lifts his left hand to lead her out (lady turn clockwise) into a hammerlock → then man lifts his left hand to unwrap.
- closed tuck in??
- shake hands → windmill → exit on 5 (or exit on 6)
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Swing and Hustle Pattern Summary
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