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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Lines: Pass Thru, Wheel
& Deal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Lines: Pass Thru, Bend The
Line</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Wave: Swing Thru, Centers Run,
Bend The Line</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>(or any call where the dancers
temporarily break contact then remake contact before turning to another
position)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>What happens on that last call of
the three examples above? Somebody turns in a small space to make the
turn and somebody takes longer steps to make the arc of the turn to
finish in the ending position.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>When dancers are taught, they are
generally (hopefully) told that whenever they come to a position adjacent to
someone else that they make hand contact. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>If this is true, then why is it
that some dancers who are in the position to do the small turn usually
forgets that they are dancing with at least one or two more people who they will
come into contact with them? What do they do? They forget
to take the hand of the person next to them who has just finished
doing that Pass Thru or Run figure and they...by themselves...turn to the
ending position and the other person has to play "catch up" to end in
position next to them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Don't you think this is kind of
rude on the part of the person who left the other person "in the dust"?
These people are so worried that they will not be position to do the next
call that they forget that they are dancing WITH seven other people. I've
seen these same types of people get big frowns on their faces when they are
promenading, getting real close to the couple in front of them as if to push
them out of the way so they can get home to do their "end of promenade" swing,
hip bump, hands clap, etc. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>I was always taught that a lady
is not twirled if she doesn't want to be twirled. She initiates the twirl, not
the man. Do they still teach that in class so a lady's arm is not wrenched
or hurt so badly that she has to go home? Is it that
some aggressive male wants to twirl and thinks, "Darn it, you
are going to twirl or I'll break your arm!" </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>As to the above scenario, don't
you think that</FONT><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3> the person
who is going to make the small "inside" turn do the following:
He/she should wait for the person that did the Pass Thru with them or the Run
around them remake contact with them before they initiate their
turn? Are they dancing by and for themselves or are they "working with the
team"?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>I doubt if I am the only
member of this group who has some pet peeves about what happens
in a square. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Whatever happened to being the
polite dancer? Thank goodness that the number of the type of
people described above are in the small minority.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Thanks for letting me get one
item off my chest.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=3>Richard</FONT></DIV>
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