Ballroom Blitz #047

Video

youtu.be/Rn2Vl2_cSzA

Transcript

Ian: Hey random dancer on the internet. My name's Ian,

Lindsey: and my name's Lindsey,

Ian & Lindsey: and this is a Ballroom Blitz.

Lindsey: Hello ballroom blitzers and welcome back to the channel. We are in the Latin world today, we are dancing Samba and a super excellent and really easy move called the Whisk is up on the table today. So let's have a look at it!

[Demonstration without music]

Lindsey: As you can see it's a sideways move with the cheeky tuck behind. You can do it on either foot, we were just demonstrating four times so twice each way, but you can do as many as you like or need to.

Now, if that's looking a little familiar we have done a blitz on the basic movement in the Samba where we had a sideways movement. There is a bit of a crucial difference between the two so we will have a look at that first. So if I'm doing the basic movement that goes to the side I'll be ready on one foot or another here I'm ready on my left so I'll shift to the left, and then in the basic movement the bounce happened by placing my foot to the side of my other foot. In the Whisk what happens is we do that sideways movement and then we tuck that foot behind and get that, it's a similar bounce action, but it will feel quite different with that foot tucked behind. Now we don't want to overdo this tucked position. We're not trying to get it into to a locked position like we would in a lock in a Quickstep or even in a Cha Cha. It is just behind and it's just the ball of the foot. If you can see that my heel is off the ground just enough so I can shift my weight and replace on that same foot that I started the movement on. So the footwork if I go one way and then the other would be

[Demonstration with footwork]

Lindsey: or if I do it with the count it's a classic Samba count of

[Demonstration with counts]

Lindsey: We have found this to be an incredibly useful move. For starters you can do as many as you like and it tends to go nicely in between your other figures that might be a little bit more difficult, it's a nice stabilizing one. It's also a great move that often the leaders will do when they're guiding their followers into something a bit more complex like a Solo Spot Volta.

[Demonstration with music]

Lindsey: And there you have it, the Whisk in the Samba. [A] nice easy one it's a great one to practice your Samba bounce to, feels great, very useful. Give it a go.