I find that if it's a regular hey (ladies start by the right shoulder) a ricochet hey feels a bit like a reverse Mad Robin - walking a sort of dosido track while facing across - adding, of course, the push-off...
M E On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM, John Sweeney <[email protected]>wrote: > The key thing for the caller to understand is that when the two dancers > ricochet they take each other's place in the hey, and are now going > backwards. > > This means that they must NOT just bounce back the way they came, or to > a neutral position on their own side - they have to follow the looping > flow of the hey. > > I never actually explain that though. I just tell them to bounce back > at the opposite angle to the way they came in. Describing it as a > triangle usually helps. And one quick demo usually solves 90% of the > problems. > > The other 10% of the problems come from people who bounce back and then > stop! They are still part of the hey and have to keep moving. > > So instructions like these sometimes work: "As you come to the middle > you will meet someone on a diagonal; bounce off that person and head > backwards on the other diagonal, then move left* and come in again; you > are going around the same triangle over and over again." > > *or right, depends on the dance. > > Note: As you bounce you change direction by just under 90 degrees, it is > very easy to let that rotation continue and throw a couple of spins in > :-) > > Happy dancing, > John > > John Sweeney, Dancer, England [email protected] 01233 625 362 & > 07802 940 574 > http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events, Instructional DVDs and > Interactive Maps > http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Contra Dancing in Kent > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
