Killer Combo Halloween Special

Ballroom Blitz #130

Killer Combo Halloween Special - Oct 31, 2024

Transcript

Ian: Hey, boys and girls from the interwebs. My name is Ian

Lindsey: and my name is Lindsay.

Ian: Welcome back to

Ian & Lindsey: Ballroom Blitz.

Ian: Well. Happy Halloween, ballroom dancers. Today we have a second Halloween Special. We'll leave the link to last year's Scary Steps in the description. But, today we are going to do a Killer Combo. We have just finished doing it with our Advanced Class on Tuesdays. So this is partially for them to go back over what they have done in the class, but also for you, and if you would like more detailed videos on exactly how to put this combo together, do let us know in the description. But we're going to be building and smashing out some basic steps that we're going to upgrade to allow you to do more fancy steps on the end that we're going to upgrade again, and then upgrade and then double down on and form one massive killer combo in your Modern Waltz. We're going to be doing Overturned [Natural] Spin Turn and a pair of Turning Locks to Right. Let's go.

[Demonstration of full Combo]

Ian: So we're going to start this combo in this build up with a standard Natural Spin Turn. Of course we'll be doing it in the Modern Waltz. Six steps, we're going to start it diagonal wall. We're going to go down the side of the room, and at this stage there's really no, no difference to what we've done in other Blitzes. We blitzed it in last year's Scary Steps. I think we have done it in a separate blitz as well, so we'll leave all those links below. But, it looks exactly as you would know from our previous Blitzes we've got a One. Two. Three. Pivot. Spin. Brush-Settle. And with the standard spin turn, the follower has been encouraged to drive forward on the following step, because we've gone to the side and slightly forward, and that driving step is going to be diagonal center, and we would usually follow with some form of reverse turning figure in in this standard version. So we're going to start with that. But what we're going to do first is build up so that we can encourage the follow NOT to drive out of our [Natural] Spin Turn.

When we encourage the side to come to the side and slightly forward, we give them the indication in the invitation that they're going to compress and drive out; that's what they're expecting. But if we're going to add the next figure and start building this up, we need to not do that. We need to put the follower in a position where they can't do that without wording them up beforehand. So what, leaders, you are going to do is land your Natural Spin Turn, but continue to rotate your hips ever so slightly between step six of your spin turn and step one of what you're going to follow with, and that will basically disable the follower from being able to give you a proper drive and force them into syncopating beat One of the following figure; which we're going to turn into a lock. So we're going to have a One-and Two Three timing rather than a driving One. So, let's have a look at how that works, and we're going to now follow our Natural Spin Turn with a Turning Lock like so; One. Two. Three. Pivot. Spin. Settle and keep going. One-and. Two. Three.

So we added that Turning Lock. We disabled the follow up from being able to drive, enabling them to lock forward with us. We were back locking that was forward locking, and then ending the Turning Lock with a slight leftwards turn in a very “Change of Direction” type feeling, which would lead you to an outsi- or lead you to follow with an outside figure. So that's one upgrade. How do we change the exit or the transition from the end of our Spin Turn, our Natural Spin Turn into making sure that the follower doesn't drive out, that they lock, and that's the upgrade where we're going to land the step and then continue rotating ever so slightly after. But, if we're going to turn our Turning Lock into a Turning Lock to Right, which continues to rotate in the natural direction, then we need to overturn our [Natural] Spin Turn. So we're going to do this in two ways. We're going to under turn the position after step three, give our pivoting step our step for a little bit more sauce, and that will give us a little bit extra oomph to spin around in step five, settle Backing Line of Dance in step six and continue to over rotate so that the follow knows that even after all of that rotation, they still can't drive out after their [Natural] Spin Turn.

Ian: So if we over rotate and do an Overturned Natural Spin Turn down Line of Dance, we have One. Two. Three. Pivot. Spin. Brush-settle; and you notice here, it's even really hard to stop here. We've overturned. We have that momentum. We're coming down the floor in this direction, and we’re going to keep rotating so Lindsey knows she's not to drive. So, it may have been hard to see in the video, but what I did there, if I just isolate that section. At the end of step three, if we have One. Two. Three I’ve underturned this position. I would usually be a bit more Backing Line of Dance. I’ve underturned it ever so slightly, so that when I turn my toe into my pivot step, Lindsey’s going to provide me with her usual drive, but I get much more tension and I can rotate around with that pivot, and that starts the oomph to get the over rotation of the Natural Spin Turn. So we've started with our Natural Spin Turn. We've talked about how to get a lock afterwards without the follower driving.

We've pimped up our [Natural] Spin Turn so that we've over rotated, getting ready for the Turning Lock to Right. So now we're going to add the Turning Lock to Right. But we're going to pimp that up even more so that we can add a second one on afterwards. So you'll usual Turning Lock to Right ends in promenade, and we will eventually end in promenade, but before we get there, we're going to keep rotating in closed so that we can do not one, but two Turning Locks to Right after our Overturned Natural Spin Turn. So let's have a look at that first, Turning Lock to Right, the one that ends in closed, it should get us to the same position that we got to after our [Overturned] Natural Spin Turn so you can essentially go again. Starting with our Overturned Natural Spin Turn, we have One. Two. Three. Pivot. Spin. Settle. One-and. Two. Three. And you can see here we've got to the same position after that Turning Lock to Right. So that if I wanted to do it again, which is what we do want, we can.

Alrighty. So we've pimped up our [Natural] Spin Turn. We've put in a lock. We've turned it into a Turning Lock to Right, and now we're going to put in the second Turning Lock to Right where we're going to double down, even triple down, on our natural rotation ending in promenade where you can finally do something that maybe turns you the other direction, maybe a Weave from Promenade or any of your other promenade figures. So let's have a look at: Overturned Natural Spin Turn to a Turning Lock to Right (ending in closed) to a Turning Lock to Right (ended in promenade). We have One. Two. Three. Pivot. Spin. Settle. One-and. Two. Settle. One-and. Two. Out in Promenade.

[Demonstration with counts]

[Demonstration with music]

Ian: There you have it, boys and girls. Whether you're in the Tuesday class or whether you are just tuning in for this Halloween special, a killer combo in the Modern Waltz for you there. Two Turning Locks to Rights of different sorts, followed by or preceded, I should say, by our Overturned [Natural] Spin Turn down the side of a room. Not for the faint hearted. If you want more detailed Blitzes on these figures, you will have to request them because they are not on our list to blitz at all. So if you don't ask for it, you won't get. We hope you've enjoyed this Halloween special. Until next time, keep dancing. Have fun. We'll see you soon.

Ian: Well, that's it for this Blitz boys and girls, don't forget to like,

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Lindsey: and subscribe.

Ian: See you next time.

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