I've learned how to cope with pullers. I don't grip the wrist in front of me. I lay may hand on it, sometimes slightly bending my fingers. If I'm pulled I'll be pulled off safely. And I am not pulling another's wrist myself.
Maybe that's not as satisfying a form but it works. Modern square dancers recognized this pill problem and their awkward solution is to place palms up to the center, just touching the sides of each other hands. I do not like that at all. \bob On Mar 11, 2012, at 13:06, Read Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Trust me (or find three others and try it), you can give weight, I've often > had it done to me--not just gripping hard, but pulling. When I teach > beginners, I teach not to, and I teach that it's ok to just drop your hand if > the person behind you does it. Since you're not (supposed to be) giving > weight, there's no momentum advantage to holding hands, so you're not messing > up timing by dropping your hand (unlike in a hands-across star, where giving > weight could, if the choreography calls for it, allow you to move > faster/farther). > > If I ran the world, I'd get rid of the wrist-grip star altogether--giving > weight for me is central to the connected-to-other-people aspect of contra > dancing. > > --Read Weaver > Jamaica Plain, MA > http://lcfd.org > > On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Dorcas Hand wrote: >> The comment about giving weight in the saddle pack is unnecessary. You >> really can't give weight in that position - but you can grip too hard. > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
