Don's photo illustrates the "OSHA-approved" grip I mentioned. It's not the intuitive thing to do, so callers would do well (IMHO) to promote it.
Jonathan, the "thumbs-up" position is different, and puts one at risk of injury or just awkwardness (like, when a new dancer grabs my thumb with their whole hand- ick). "Hand manners" in general would be a good topic - and how callers can promote good ones. -------------------- Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 [email protected] On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Don Veino <[email protected]>wrote: > [Lots of other posts trimmed...] > > Similar to a previous comment, and knowing one size does not fit all, I try > to preface any "style points" with a fellow dancer with "it would help me > if..." and then describe or show my desired interaction behavior. Puts the > issue totally on me and makes it sound like I'm asking a favor of them to > adjust to my needs, not correcting them -- if it leads to further good form > from them generally thereafter, so much the better. I've not had a negative > reaction to this since I started doing it. > > BTW, for allemandes I use a connection that I picked up somewhere in my > contra travels (which sounds a lot like some of he best practices described > to this point). I find this to be fairly common where I dance. As a picture > is worth a thousand words, here it is (note I'm torqued slightly in these > due to holding the camera with the other hand for the photo -- the normal > connection is neutral and unstressed but results in good weight): > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3My2DFMxZpOb3g1MVJWSS1lOGc/edit?usp=sharing > > -Don > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
