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hey guys I'm Aaron and I'm Christina
we're professional ballroom dance
instructors coming at you today from New
York City and today we're gonna be
talking about a little dance we call the
swing also what we refer to in the
ballroom world as East Coast Swing so
what we're gonna be doing is starting
taking a look at the basic action so
gentlemen let's take apart our footwork
what we're doing guys is we're always
starting with our left leg and what
we're gonna be starting this dance with
is what we call a link step or a rock
step taking our left leg and rocking
behind one two and then following this
up with a triple step action going side
together side and then repeating that
with our right leg to our right side
together side and then following that up
again Rock step one two three one two
three Rock step now Christina is going
to demonstrate the ladies part all right
so ladies we are gonna start with our
right foot in the rock step so we're
going to take our right foot and step
behind replace that's our one two and
then side to the right three and four
five and six again one two three and
four five and six now we're going to
talk a little bit about the different
hand holds we're going to be using it in
the swing for starters we're going to be
using a bit of a modified hold here from
what we're used to in most of our
ballroom dances where gentlemen we're
going to actually place our thumb on top
of the lady's hand and bring it down to
about waist level here we're also going
to be slightly turned out as this dance
has a lot of rotational action that
we're going to see right away as we rock
step okay now there are several other
types of holds as well we're also going
to be using a double hand hold a single
hand hold in an open position as well as
a handshake hold that you'll see will
get us into several more of our advanced
patterns now let's take a look at that
basic action again together one more
time
and 1 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 1 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 1 2
and now let's try that with music
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