Exercises
These exercises will help you developing the skill of varying your steps in basic.
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#1 - Inverting of triple step
There was12, and became21
For simplicity, let's take a 6 count basic. By inverting first triple step we obtain the following basic (formally triple shifted one step to the beginning of the basic):
1
step
rock
1
step
triple
2
bllch
step
1
step
1
step
triple
2
bllch
step
Just a second:
1
step
rock
1
step
step
1
step
triple
2
bllch
step
2
bllch
1
step
both:
1
step
rock
1
step
triple
2
bllch
step
1
step
triple
2
bllch
step
1
step
With such a replacement basic steps number remains even. Proceed similarly with 8 count basic.
#2 - Replacing triple step with kick-ball-change
#3 - Figure on the steps
#4 - Change places with ball-changes