PSRBalboaNotes72704

Peter's Balboa Class

7.27.04

Break Time, a Blocked Turn, and the Come Around

Break Time

• 1 & 2: as normal

• 3: Step forward on left

  • Carry your weight with you

  • Don't sink into your front knee

    • Stay vertical.
• 4: Hold on left
• 5-8: as normal

Or, alternately:

• 1-6: as normal
• 7: Step back on right, with weight, etc.
• 8: Hold
• ... and then back to normal

Blocked Turn

• 1-4: as per the tuck turn

  • 1-2: Balboa-style 'rock step'
  • 3: Hold, blocking left-hand-to-right-hand
  • 4: Step on to left, which sends the follow rotating clockwise

• 5: Block the follow's left hand with your left hand.

  • This should send her back the other way (counterclockwise)

• 6, 7, 8: Step (right), step (left), step (right)

  • Begin catching the follow on 7
  • Don't consciously rotate
• ... then back to the basic

Come Around

• 1: Back on left

• 2: Together on right

  • Open slightly to the left

• 3: Step on left

  • Bring weight with you

  • "Tuck in" towards the follow

    • Note that this is a slight clockwise rotation
• 4: Hold

• 5-6: Step (right), step (left)

  • Continue the slight clockwise rotation

    • Note that you don't have to (and shouldn't) deliberately do this.
• 7: Hold
• 8: Step (right)
• ... then back to the basic

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