West Coast Swing thing

[meinfs]

Cool! I haven't done any West Coast Swing yet, and certainly no competitions, I have learned some East Cost Swing and Hustle. My dance instructor doesn't do WCS, but i'd like to try it out some day.

Cool. East Coast swing (ECS) and West Coast swing (WCS) are two very different styles of swing. Although WCS was derived from Lindy Hop without the hopping and the wildness Both do the 6-count basic.

Start by learning and mastering the 8-count whip moves. Those moves make you lead your follower FORWARD instead of rock-back stepping (which is biggest basic difference between the two styles).

Here's my humble effort caught on video:
Funny how I easily forgot the new moves I've been practicing and reverted to the moves I know by heart.
This is the "Newcomer" division which means we're relative newbies and have not been doing this long. So please don't expect super moves. That'll be years from now...


Dave, I can help teach you WCS... Sugar push, lazy man tuck,... --mein the "little sugar pusher." LOL... thanks Rex

[davedove]

... lazy man tuck,...

That sounds like my kind of step.