PSRBalboaNotes110604b

Austin Balboa Weekend

11.6.04

20's Charleston

Balboa & 20's Charleston: Some Differences

| Balboa | 20's Charleston | Slight bounce | Very large bounce | Shuffle along the floor | Up & down off the floor | Small, energy-conserving motion | Big, flashy motion | Lots of rotation & lateral motion | Added to that: lots of twisty motion | Relative paucity of jazz hands | Jazz hands keenly encouraged

The Basic

• 1: Touch left foot back.

• 2: Bring left foot forward.

  • It should trace a 'C' along the floor as it goes.
• 3: Step left foot forward.

• 4: Hold.

  • (Start lifting right foot.)
• 5: Touch right foot forward.

• 6: Bring right foot back.

  • It should trace a 'C' along the floor as it goes.
• 7: Step right foot back.

• 8: Hold.

  • (Start lifting left foot.)
• The stance is still upright.

The Repeater

• On 3, put all of your weight firmly on the left foot.
• Then, on 7, merely touch the right foot behind you, without putting weight on it.
• You can repeat this pattern of bringing the right foot forward and back an arbitrary number of times.
• To escape, just plant the right foot behind you, as normal.

• Note that you can do the mirror image of the above.

  • You would start by planting all your weight firmly on your right foot on 7.

A Basic Turn

• Same as the basic, except for....
• 1: Bring your left hand towards your left hip.
• 3: Start turning the follow clockwise in place.
• 5: Start catching the follow's back.
• 7: Bring the follow in.

A Blocked Turn

• Same as the basic turn, except for....

• 5: Catch the follow's right elbow in your right hand.

  • Note that your right hand just left the follow's back a split-second ago.
• 7: Bring follow in as before.

Wax On/Wax Off/Sweep the Leg

• 1,2: Lunge left.

  • For style, prepare this by raising the left-hand connection and circling it clockwise in a 'wax-the-car' motion.

• 3,4: Lunge right.

  • For style, prepare this by taking the left-hand connection and circling it counterclockwise in a 'wax-the-car' motion.
• You can repeat this an arbitrary number of times.
• Note that before you return from these lunges, you should stand upright in a proper balboa hold.

Footnotes