Ballroom Blitz #011

Drag in Paso Doble - Mar 02, 2023

Transcript

Ian: Hey guys and girls of the interwebs I'm Ian,

Lindsey: and I'm Lindsey,

Ian & Lindsey: and this is the Ballroom Blitz.

Ian: Today blitzers we are doing Paso Doble the dance of the ball fight. A stupidly simple figure called the Drag. It's four beats long, only two steps, easy as pie, you can do it at home, anyone can do it in your Paso; let's get started!

[Demonstration without music]

Ian: So, it is as simple as that; only the four beats only the two actions, a little bit of Paso shape just for fun; let's take you through it. So, this figure commences in closed you will have your feet together leads you'll be ready to go on the right foot in a nice closed position all our strong Paso frame well [I'll] leave that for you to employ.

The figure is as easy as taking a strong side step to the right on the right on one.

One.

As we get there we're going to achieve our desired shaping and again I will leave that up to you. Now we're going to drag the foot as advertised in the name slowly, but then getting faster and faster over two three and four. Snapping those heels together for effect and returning our frame to neutral.

So it will look a little bit more like;

[Demonstration with counts]

Lindsey: So because this is in a closed position if the leaders are ready on their right foot quite, common in our Paso Doble, followers you will be ready on the left so we'll be taking a sideways step on the left and following along with the leaders timing we will have.

[Demonstration with counts]

Ian: And that is our Paso Doble drag. There are many more fun and exciting moves in Paso they're never as hard as you think it is loads of fun. Get yourself to a studio get some moves under your belt get yourself out on the floor and have fun with the dance of the bull fight until then see you in the next Blitz.