Back to Basics West Coast Swing

One of a series of workshops that was taught by Wayne and Sharlot Bott at the 2001 Bridgtown Swing in Portland Ore.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Westcoast
• Swing
• Wayne
• Sharlot
• Bott
• Bridgetown

[fseesauras]

This is really good, I've never heard so much detail on the frame of the lead before or the handhold. I wish my dance instructors were this thorough! It really makes a difference to the follow when the lead directs the movement with his body, obviously... first off you know he's not going to throw you out with his arm in some impossible direction or command you to infer impossibly large steps. I wish this type of instruction were a standard!

[idontnoapassword]

@FL52 In WCS most beg/intermediate moves are 6ct or 8ct patterns (most but not all), and the whip @3:20 is an 8ct move. Don't recommend learning WC on youtube, however if you checkout other whip patterns here you'll get a better understanding of the counts.

[dancingpy]

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[FL52]

@FL52 sorry! I meant at 3:20.

[FL52]

He is counting to 6 throughout the video but at one point at 3:30 he counts to 8. Can anyone explain why?

[donsdance1]

Last post doesn't know much about wcs. Suggest you take some lessons and stop trying to learn it on utube, these connections are way beyond your understanding. Take some time learn study go to some workshops. I bet you come back with a new awaking in your thoughts in about a year or two.. You just put down one of the greatest wcs dancers and teachers of all times. "ignorance is bliss i guess"

[brucehigley]

This is the worst lesson I have ever seen on You Tube...

[joseebl1]

This is great thank you!!!!

[ianlovo6]

The lesson is not clear because it always stop.

[BRNZ42]

he's counting and-uhs as triplets. one-and-uh two-and-uh three-and-uh etc etc. In swing music the eighth notes are really triplets, so the footwork is actually on the "uh" , as in one, two, three-uh-four, five-uh-six. Now west coast is usually danced to straight music, so his feet are straight, one, two, three and four, five and six. Like eight notes. But he's still counting triplets, which I think is a holdover from lindy hop, which is usually danced to swing music: three-uh-four, five-uh-six.