circular glide

Alright, as you stand on your left foot TOES, and slide the Right foot the the right, you will raise yourself up on your RIGHT foot TOES... Now, putting your left foot FLAT on the ground, PIVOT (in a counter-clockwise direction) on your right toes while dragging your flat left foot towards your right...that move is a cross between a backslide and a sideglide... What I personally do is, as you are pivoting on your RIGHT toes...slide your left flat foot 'in' towards your right, then push it 'out' away from your right...if you were standing still in one place, it would look like you slid your left foot towards your right, then back out, but what you are REALLY doing is pivoting around, so it gives a way-cooler illusion of movement... anyhow, after you have slid your left flat foot away, (you should be facing a different direction...how much different it up to you...) raise yourself up on your left toes, and slide your now FLAT right foot towards your left raised foot...again, you are PIVOTING on your left toes, doing the same movements as before... After this, it's just repetition as long as you want...don't forget to do someting (anything!) with your arms, because if they just stay stationary it looks kinda dorky... Now maybe you see why you are 'spinning in a circle while spinning in a circle'...I'm not even sure if this is the move everyone is talking about...I was just backsliding one day, and I tried to linke into a slideglide, and then I couldn't stop spinning! :-) You don't make ALL your turns at 180 degrees, so you face the exact opposite direction...if you did that, then ya, you would just be sliding back and forth along the same damn line...heh, I still think it looks cool though! ANYHOW, after you start the slide, and as you begin to pivot just as you said you do, and you slide the left foot in towards your right which is doing the pivoting and supporting your weight, you only want to pivot ~90 degrees at first...you can vary the degree that you turn later on after you work out the kinks...what you don't want to end up doing is revolving the exact same amount every turn...it loses a lot of it's "fluidity" after a while... Now, don't forget, as you are pivoting, you are sliding the foot that ISN'T supporting your weight at all times...that is what makes the whole illusion work... Plus, a BIG-FAT-MOTHERLOAD part of this glide are the arms...while arms are always (IMHO) really really important, for some reason the are ignored during glides...it really doesn't matter what you do with them so long as you are swinging them around, or just passing waves through them, or whatever...I look at is as making them see the "whole" picture of you WHOLE body moving around as if it is floating across the dance-floor instead of the crowd focusing in on your only your feet...

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