Spinning around

Joined : 05 Jan 2007 Posts : 37

Is it just me or do other people get a bit dizzy sometimes when there are lots of spins.

Am I doing something wrong? Someone in class told me to look at one spot on the wall as I turn, very hard to do though.

Makes me feel a bit sick tongue

Joined : 01 Jan 2007 Posts : 5

Well, you have to spot!!
But that isn't very easy and you can't do it perfect the first time.
You have to practise spotting.

This is one exercise, to learn spotting: (this is also how I learned it)
you have to take a spot straight before you (at the same hight as your eyes) then take little steps turning and keep your head as long as possible at the spotpoint, then when you can't keep your head there any longer (because yoúr body has turned to much) turn your head to the otherside and look again at the spotpoint.

exercise 2:
take a person who wants to stand in front of you (about 8 steps away from you) with his finger up high as your spotpoint. You are going to take a step forward with your right foot (or your left foot). And turn (a whole turn over right shoulder, weight on right foot) while closing left foot next to right foot. In the turn you have to spot at the finger of the person who stands in front of you. You can do this as many times as you want without getting dizzy (if you spot at the good way), and you can also do this exercise as quik as you want and you can ad some arms in the turn.

I dance line dance for about seven years, but my spotting is not yet perfect, because I take my spotpoint to low and that is not so pretty. And I want to wish you luck with spotting. I'm sorry for my bad english. You can take a look at my website www.freewebs.com/dansjah then look at the page movies and you can see me spotting in my dances.

Good luck with spotting!!! And turning

Greetzzz Janna

Joined : 05 Jan 2007 Posts : 37

Thanks dansjah

I'm going to give that a go, if anything it sounds like a bit of fun whether I manage it or not.

Basically it is keep looking at the same spot as long as possible.

Thank you cheers