Was in a Lindy Hop class and the teacher said that you can use a light touch when going slow, but when going fast you have to hang on to your partner. I had the impression the teacher said that for my ears, since he had been in one of my classes.
He was teaching the eight count Lindy turn. He was showing that you had to hang onto
the woman's back at the midpoint and then at the end you had to hang onto her hand otherwise she would fly away at those two points.
This is true because the woman is out of control and not maintaining her own balance. She is relying on the man for to balance.
You can dance this way.
Dancing this way is not covered by Partnership Dancing, because Partnership Dancing is based on the social principles of Safety, Courtesy and Comfort, the dance principles of Naturalness, Universality and Partnership, and the Law of Balance: everyone maintains their own balance.
The claim that dancing this way is faster has to be false.
To execute a Lindy turn this way, the woman is going to overshoot her midpoint turn around spot. The man has to hang on to her back to slow her down and pull her to help get her to go back the other way. This overshooting and recovery takes time.
Executing a Lindy turn using Partnership Dancing is essentially the same as if the woman went through the steps by herself, since the man applies no force to her. Doing a Lindy turn by herself is using five steps to make a half-turn, taking a step or two steps forward, turning half way and repeating. A lady can easily take a half turn with a single step, so 5 steps for each half turn is very easy for a lady and she can do this very fast by herself. The man, then only serves to set the spot and get out of her way in Partnership Dancing.
What is faster? Doing a Lindy turn pulling on a partner or doing a Lindy turn esssentially by yourself. By yourself has to be much faster. I plan on testing this on Sunday.
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