Standard lesson with Ikaika 6/9/2010

Attendee: Sharron

Today we worked on foxtrot. 2 things.


1. Stay on the standing leg longer, move toward the partner before going backward.
2. sway from the hip, (no. groin rather). It is a strange area to focus on really. But the feeling is trying to use that area at the origin of power for the sway, tighten the muscles there to tilt the hip bone, creating the crease between the femur and the hip bone. I think I only just understood in on the right hip on the beginning of the first step of the feather step, and the third step of the feather step. Not sure of the rest at all.
3. then we talked about neutralizing the sway on the step to the reverse turn. The initializing of the neutralizing is also from the same area. But now I'm standing on the left leg, with the right leg forward, held at a hip tilted position. Now need to level that part first to be in neutral position.

Questions remaining:
2. what to do on step 2 in feather step.
3. rest of the reverse turn?