Besides, the reverse turn, another good way to go from a hand shake position and to open position is what is called the throw away. It looks like this.
Step, step, get ready and throw away, rock step, step, step.
What happens is the gentlemen is going to take her right hand and throw it towards his right hip as he steps with his left foot across her body.
We pivot, ladies on your right, gentlemen on your left. We step on that next foot and we rock step together while we reconnect.
So, it looks like this again. I say, step, step, get ready and throw, step, step, rock step, step.
A few things to keep in mind, gentlemen. I am going to face my partner at all times during this move. Another thing is the momentum of her coming back from the rock step, I am going to follow through with that momentum as I step and release and then reconnect just in time for the rock step. Let us try that from a handshake position from behind the lead.
Five, six, five, six, here we go and step, step, get ready and throw away, rock step, step, step.
Let us try it from behind the gentlemen, five six, seven, eight, here we go, step, step, get ready and throw away, rock step, step.
A couple of little pointers for the follows, ladies, when he is starting to throw away, we want to make our turn very small. We do not want to take very large steps and we wanted her to stay as close as to him as possible so it is easy for him to reconnect with us. Another thing that we need to think about is to keep our arms up. He is going to want to reconnect with us and we do not want to make it difficult for him to find our hands. So, we want to keep our arms up. We do not know what he is going to want to do next so we want to keep them both available to him.
Whereas, if you always keep your hands in this position, the lead will find them and it is his responsibility to find your hand, do not try to grab for his arm but we need to make our hands available to him at all times.
Now, the throw away can be done from a hand shake, it can also be done from open position. You just simply take with your left hand, take your right hand and again throw out your hip as you step across with your left foot, rock step. Let us place the music on. We will try that with both the handshake position, a basic and from left handed position.
Five, six, and shake. Here we go. Step, step, get ready and throw away, rock step, step, step, get ready and throw, rock step, step, step, get ready and throw away, rock step, step, step, get ready and throw, step, rock step, step. Good, let us keep the music going. We will do both moves in a row. We will do the jelly roll and then the throw away to get back in open position. Open position to start out with.
Get ready, five, six, a basic and here we go. Step, step, ready and jelly roll, throw away, jelly roll, throw away. Ladies, we are not putting a basic in between. You have to stay close to each other on the turns. If you get too far it looks like this.
Apart on that, on a joints after a while, any time you do a turn and you end up in a rock step, make sure you keep your arms bent up a little bit and do not put your shoulder forward and should never looked like this. That is going to hurt for a while.
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