Hi Don, Is the picture still on Google Drive? I can't see it. :-(
I'm quite interested in seeing it. Some years ago, Lisa Greenleaf taught a healthy allemande hold, and I'm curious to know if yours is the same or different. I find there is a surprising level of disagreement on the topic. Rich On Feb 17, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Don Veino wrote: > [Lots of other posts trimmed...] > > 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
