Saturday, 15 May 2010

2 steps at a time

Breaking down any patters into sets of two (each set representing 2 beats) makes understanding the patterns much easier. For every two beats there are one of four things that you can do. These are:

1) 2 Walks: You can walk on each of the beat

2) Triple step: Triple steps are core to WCS. A triple step requires three complete weight changes (left, right, left or right, left, right) in two beats. A normal triple in this instance has the 2nd weight change between the odd and even been e.g. 3 & 4, 5 & 6.

3) Pause: You can pause and add your style (hit a break, play with the music)

4) Synchopation: Covers a whole loads of different things that are not covered by the above three. Things include kick ball change, synchopated triple *, taps etc

* Synchopated triple: A synchopated triple occurs when the three weight changes are made differently to the normal triple steps. e.g. &3 4,

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