As I mentioned in the article about the Giro Code, there is a convention that says that a complete turn must be done in four steps.
Respecting this convention, the steps draw on the floor a figure with four corners, a square, and there is only two pivots in that giro:
- After the Front Cross
- Before the Back Cross
This convention is a particular case of the many cases that can occur during the dance.
This is because the Giro code completes in four steps, but for a complete turn around a reference it can take more than four steps, or even less.
In the Salida Básica, which contains the turning code, there is no pivots. In other sequences more than two pivots appear during the Giro Code.
This time I bring you an exercise to practice a pivot after each step. The Giro code have four steps, so we’re going to have four pivots.
The trick is to reduce the square with 4 points to a line with only 2 points.
We have to pay attention to these tree things to don’t get lost during the exercise:
- Maintain the sense of rotation, clockwise or counterclockwise.
- Change the reference at each step.
- We return to the starting point after only two steps.
In El Pasito we created a sequence where we put this exercise in practice, with the difference that we only use Open Steps and Back Crosses.
You can change it to the proposed exercise very easily, knowing that if we keep the sense of the Giro we do all the crosses with the same leg, regardless of whether it is Front or a Back Cross.
Did you know this exercise? Let me know in the comments, I’d like to know 😀
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