Is there one and if there is, what is it? It seems so fast!
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:01 AMAre you talking about going into the double bump, or travelling with it?
Going into it with the arm position is fairly obvious if you transition from another step that looks different - that is the only cue I know for it. It's particularly easy to catch & seems to flow nicely out of hip bump and any step with the arms both raised. It's hard to catch & looks really similar to Sununda & Double Back.
Travelling with this step is so slow that it seems really easy to follow, with the angle of the body changing like it does with plain old choo choo. -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:28 AMI meant the choo choo double. I learned it with a different name and though I tell my students the proper name, I fall back into the wrong name. So sorry. -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:29 AMI totally forgot to add the part of the question.....how to cue for the half turn. Wow.
So....how do you cue a choo choo double half turn?
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:53 AMThere is a half turn on a choo choo double?
I know there is the single bump pivot turn from Volume 7. But I'm interested in knowing how to half turn a choo choo double mesself!
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:56 AMThe double bump has a half turn?! It's not on my grand list of steps from GS & workshops, but that might just be us not having picked it up.
The single bump's 1/2 turn starts with a 1/4 turn, and since you don't do 1/4 turns with that step, you know the 1/2 is coming. I would assume a double bump 1/2 turn started the same? It seems like it'd be pretty awkward, though.
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Re: Double choo cue?
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 9:56 AMPer the other discussion going on, we now call it a double bump, and there is no half turn with a double bump.
Ha ha! and now is the part where I get to use the FAQ tribe!
ats.tribe.net/thread/e53f...e488f6990412
halfway down is a description of the 'cue' for the SB half turn-it's a more emphatic gesture with the hands and arms, something you learn to recognize with time.
For more info on the hip bump family, see here for links:
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 12:50 AMThe only time we use a Double Bump half turn is if we discuss it beforehand. It's not a standard move. -
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Re: Double choo choo half turn?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 12:58 AMSo after posting earlier this afternoon (yesterday for many of you) I HAD to go try it. :)
It lives!!! MWAAAhahahahaha ....coughcoughdamnpollencoughcough ... Mwahha... oh fergit it.
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 7:09 AMThanks Sandi :) I've seen you girls do it in a bunch of videos on youtube and it seems like it would definitely be a good idea to discuss doing it before actually doing it :) -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 8:41 AMhey Diana, I hope I didn't give you wrong information-I looked at the cues and tattooes video, and there is no double bump half turn in it. Have you seen it in another video?
It's funny, I've done it, but never thought of it as a half turn, I always, in my own head, called it a 'flip'. But it really is a half turn. And like Sandi said, there is no cue, so you'd talk about it beforehand. -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 9:04 AMI like the word flip better :)~ -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 9:39 AMsee, that's the thing. The half turn is more of a flip. In the Cues and Tattoos video, it's a pivoting double bump. The first pivot Carolena does is fast, because she took a longer step, but then you can see that it doesn't flip back around to the front right away. In a half turn, it would be a very crisp flip to the back, then flip to the front.
Funny, I was just thinking the other day about how I'd love it if there were a cue for this so we could use it more often. I like the way it looks. -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 10:35 AMYou want one? I figured one out yesterday.
But I can someone post a link so I can see what YOU are calling a DBhalf turn.
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 10:56 AMI don't know that there is actually one in a video-Diane said she's seen it in some videos, so it would be great if she could post a link.
Basically, you do one double bump (4 full counts) facing front, then it flips to facing back for 4 cts. I hope you can visualize that. The only video I know of that it's on is an old Ethnic Dance Festival performance, and I have no way to get it up on the internet. -
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Re: Double choo cue?
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 11:36 AMThat is... you're flipping to the back on the one and finish the 4 cts of the double bump. Then flip around to the front again on "one". BAM! -
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re: Double choo cue? - arm cue
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 4:01 AMre the cue for this move ... i learned the move as Sandi describes it, along with a cue where the horizontal left arm rotates slightly, turning palm more upwards. So it begins with a normal double bump, then cue (left arm rotates so palm is turned upward - when the arm is down only, eg on the 1 and 2 counts!) and the next set flips on the one and finishes 4 cts, then flips back, continuing till move is changed.
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Double Back Half Turnish
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 11:41 AMHm. Okay.
I'll try to transcribe my mental process (Warning: Contents may splash about and taste like cola)
Go through regular double bump
When you are ready (ready? READY NOW?! ;-))):
You do your two bumps forward on 1-2, but you change angle slightly to the left on the and before the one. This is your cue.
Finish your back count, 3-4.
On one-two you do your bumps forward.
On 3-4 you pivot on the left leg to turn halfway, landing on four.
The ever important "And..." is the pause before you go again.
Arms on this are similar to Double back, except they have Bumpy arms ;-)))). On the pivot (3 I think...) right arm sweeps 'round with the pivot while left sweeps up in back to get that lovely spiralling effect when you turn. On one, you raise right arm strong like you normally would in DB.
In your version, Principessa Majora, is the flip on the "And?" That would really make this move superfast, no? -
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Re: Double Back Half Turnish
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 11:42 AMNevermind my last sentence, Sandi answered the question. :) -
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Sandi's Way
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 11:45 AM::goes off and tries flipping on the one (hey... simmer down, keep it polite!)::
Oh! Verrah noice and you get all four counts, back and front. -
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Re: Sandi's Way
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 11:59 AMHere are a few links to where I saw it being done and it looks awesome!
Here at 2:24
youtube.com/watch
Here at 0:11
www.youtube.com/watch
And here at 3:31
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Re: Sandi's Way
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 12:33 PMThose are all Double Bumps pivoting. Not flips. Ya, I don't think we have any handy videos of the flip for ya. Sorry!
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Re: Sandi's Way
Fri, May 23, 2008 - 4:28 PMHey Miss Di,
I went and took a look at the Pura performance and they aren't doing halfsies on those, it looked more like Choo choo's that pivoted one third each time until it came back to front. -
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Re: Sandi's Way
Sat, May 24, 2008 - 8:06 AMYeah....I guess I was wondering more how it moved and got around than anything. -
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Re: Sandi's Way
Sat, May 24, 2008 - 8:33 AMit moves around the same way as a pivot bump, except you're still moving the right foot toe-heel for 2 counts each, you're just propelling yourself around at the same time. -
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Re: Sandi's Way
Sun, May 25, 2008 - 12:53 AMMiss Di, I'll show you when I see you in Erie. :) -
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Re: Sandi's Way
Sun, May 25, 2008 - 6:38 AMCool cool! It'll be good to have an actual person showing me :)
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