TWO STEP TURNS - The Ultimate Guide
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- This is your instruction manual for Two Step turns! In this dance tutorial, you'll learn how to two step better by covering the most important element ... Two Step turns.
There's just no way around it. If you're going to learn how to two step, you're going to have to be good at 2 step turns. In this "Ultimate Guide to Two Step Turns", we'll cover all of the important elements including:
- 3 Types of Turns (Pivots, Chaines, Spirals)
- Which Turn to Use (and why)
- How Much To Turn
- Partnership
- Leading and Following
- Spotting
- Turning At The Right Time
- How To Practice Two Step Turns
LEARN HOW TO DO THE 3 TEXAS TWO STEP TURNS HERE:
• HOW TO DO COUNTRY DANC...
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I have been dancing in the Flathead Valley for over 22 yrs and now I'm seeing an explosion of new people learning to dance in our community due to the surge of people that have moved here. We love to two step and all swing dancing. I live in Kalispell, Mt. Glacier National Park is my back door. This is an awesome place to live, and a awesome place to dance!
Country dancing is growing everywhere again!
I'm a software engineer during the day and a few months ago I started bouncing at Cowboys Red River in Dallas. Girls ask me to dance constantly through the night
but I cant so.... Here I am lol. Appreciate the videos they help at ton.
That's so great that you're getting out there now. You'll wonder why you waited so long :-)
Thanks for watching and being a part of our community!
Lol I'm in dallas too and going for the free dance lessons this Wednesday, I'm here to soak up info and mentally prepare. This is a great and informative video too
It's the worst feeling ever to have a beautiful girl come up and ask you to dance and you have to say no 😂 same reason I started. It's so much fun never thought I would like it
Hello from South Dakota! I'm using this for a date night with my husband during COVID! :)
Hello from Texas. That's awesome! We love to hear that and hope that you guys have a great time together! Let us know how it goes :-)
I’m part of a dance group in Lubbock. Our group is a family and we’re growing our dance community here! We dance every weekend at Charley B’s and practice every week. We are hopefully going to start giving lessons soon at Charley’s. It would be so cool to have y’all come and give us more to learn!
That’s awesome! That’s how you grow a dance community :-)
We’re in the early stages of planning our tour. We’ll likely have multiple dates across Texas, but it will take a bit to nail everything down.
Thanks for the suggestion and for supporting us!
Oh yes, dancing with a pro is AWESOME!
I so agree that dancing with a good leader is better than dancing with someone who is pulling and pushing.
For sure! Definitely makes it easier and more enjoyable :-)
I've heard you say all these tidbits before in your dance-type videos, but it's so helpful to hear it again in a guide-type video because turns are hard for beginners! When you break it down into tips, it makes it easy to remember and implement. Thanks again, and I'm really enjoying XDance University!
We're so glad you're enjoying XDU! We have huge plans for it and are working hard to add lots of new content. As you can probably imagine, the interactive format is very time consuming to create content for.
Thank you so much for always being here supporting us and for your positivity and encouragement!
Yes! Dancing with a leader with on-time, clear leads and a balanced halo is SO much easier. When I dance with a good leader I feel much more confident. When I'm with someone who rushes the leads or is behind I feel like I look like a terrible dancer because I'm off-balance, on the wrong foot or trying to catch up. I appreciate it when a leader will ask if we can walk through the steps slowly so they can get the correct timing. Likewise, if I'm not catching on to something I appreciate when they walk through the move with me step-by-step so I can get the feel at a slower pace before we try again at full speed. Thanks for all your tips! It's very helpful to hear the basic information delivered in different videos - as I learn more, I am able to pick up different information from the same tips.
We love that! Everyone wants to learn the "cool new stuff"... but the best dancers know that the "how" matters more than the "what" (that's how they become the best dancers).
To be honest, learning to lead is more difficult than learning to follow. There's just more to know in the beginning. How well a follower dances is greatly affected by the lead, as I'm sure you know.
Thank you for your comment and for supporting the channel! Let us know if we can help in any way.
ALWAYS informative and entertaining. You really hold my interest. Great teachers!
That makes us so happy to hear! Thank you for being here and supporting the channel :-)
Thanks for another great video! I started watching and took a turn for the best.......
Lol clever
Glad that worked out for you
Excellent tips! Best I've seen. Thought I knew all the basics - wrong!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the Texas Two step x
We do too!
Eugene Oregon. We need country two step
Tulsa Oklahoma has a great dance community!
We're starting to feel like maybe there is a Tulsa conspiracy going on hahahaha! We've gotten a few Tulsas here.
Thanks for the suggestion. Stay tuned over the next couple months as we nail things down. We'd love to meet you and dance with ya!
We're from Orange County Calif
That's where Rose is from too :-)
Great tips guys.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for supporting us and the channel :-)
@@countrydancex You're welcome.
You made it easy to learn
Love to hear that!
From Dallas, Texas and Red River is where I want to dance! Haven't been there yet!😊
That's a cool place. We had a great time there :-)
Awesome tips! Thanks. I went though a learning phase of cool moves which I could not quite master but now I'm backing off and trying to perfect my basics, timing and connection. I noticed the ladies appreciates that. Yes, elements are better then patterns because patterns tempt follows to back-lead and anticipate which creates confusion. I'm guilty of double prep. Need to work on that. The halo advice is confusing because follows give me conflicting advice. Some like a deliberate big halo and others (mostly advanced dancers) tell me just hold my hand up and let me spin myself. I will be visiting Houston soon for a very short visit!
The basics are where it's at. They're what make the "stuff" work.
BTW... "just hold my hand up and let me spin myself" is TERRIBLE advice.
Pendleton Oregon round up needs you here during rodeo!
Oregon in da house!! We’ve had a few people reach out about Oregon. Whodathunkit? Ha
Milwaukee WI , my first time. I don't want to look foolish. My Son and I are close on hight.
From the Indianapolis , Indiana area. My wife and I have been dancing over 35 years now and we love the many couples dances we do. Line dancing is fun as well, but really enjoy dancing together, but couples dancing or partner dancing seems to have almost died here. The two remaining Cowboy bars seem to only want to teach more line dances. We have a couple of places we still go other than the Cowboy Bars. One is a Moose Lodge where country dance has the place every other Friday night. Then we also have a VFW Lodge located on the old Ft Harrison Campus where I DJ for a group of dancers. We do a couple of line dances and then a couple of partner dances and so on. Both groups are older folks, but with some younger mostly ladies. Would love to find a way to get partner dancing going again, but I'm not sure how. the younger crowd seems to like line dancing, but that might be because those who do dance instructions just don't want to talk the time to teach partner dances, Two Step and so on. Over the years many places around here closed up, maybe because we just didn't buy enough adult beverages to keep them going. If you are dancing and on the floor all the time, you don't have time to drink! If you would ever want to make a trip up this way, please let me know. We could figure out something for the Cowboy Bars or the other places I mentioned. You do a really good job and I know your viewers really appreciate your efforts. Stay safe, God Bless! Dave H
Thank you so much for being here and supporting the channel! We love hearing from you guys and different dance communities. Let us know if there's anything we can help with :-)
Come to Clovis California! We have a dance group that we call our dance family. We would love to see you in person and learn some new techniques.
Hi there. Thank you for the suggestion. It's most likely we'll be in SoCal this summer and have talked about doing something in NorCal too. Not sure on dates/locations just yet, but maybe there will be something close enough for you!
Hello Anthony and Rose, this is Kelly from Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. Our dance community would love to see you come to Winnipeg for a country dance workshop to teach 2-step, West Coast Swing, Triple 2-step and others. Please come to Winnipeg; we think you are awesome!!!🥰
That’s so sweet! We actually may have something in the works this year for Winnipeg. Rose’s sister lives there and a workshop would be a good excuse to visit;-)
Marshall , texas
Great video! Big hello from El Paso, Texas where there's a lot of 3 step'n going on, lol!
Hello from Houston! We're not even sure what a 3 Step is ha!
@@countrydancex 😂
3 step is polka
Since Polka and Mexican music sound similar, it would be danced pretty close to the same.
I'm a dope. Do you both keep the "quick quick slow slow" steps with your feet during the turns, or just step to the beat and start over with the steps at the end of the turn. Thanks
That's a legitimate question. The answer is that when you're turning, you're still dancing. Rhythm is counted through weight changes. When turning, you're still changing weight.
Another way to think about it is that if the person who is turning loses the rhythm, they will also get out of sync with their partner.
So... keep the rhythm while turning :-)
@@countrydancex cool thanks
come to Thirsty Horse in San Antonio, Texas
Maryland close to Newark, Delaware, Lancaster, Pennsylvania area.
We do have some events planned for the Northeast. You can check out the schedule at www.anthonyandrose.com
Lincoln Nebraska
We haven't been to Nebraska yet. Good dance community?
Some of your lessons that I have been watching lately, particularly the wrap/sweetheart combos, have recently become private. How do we gain access to these private videos?
Come to Wichita Kansas! We have great dancers who love to learn and it’s a great location right in the middle of country.
Thanks for the suggestion! We haven't heard much about Wichita until now. Could you tell us more about the dance community and places to dance?
Country Dance X Yes! We have three major dance studios Astep Ahead, Sway ballroom and the Lux ballroom. We have several place to dance socially beside the studios that all have monthly social dances, is our newest place Union Stockyards a huge revue all country. We also have Dancing In Paradise plus lots of small local bars that have small dance floors. Wichita has been host to the ACDA sunflower dance festival for years. All our studios would be thrilled to host an event.
I know I'm late to the convo here, but what about club rodeo? I was in Wichita in 2014-2017ish and club rodeo used to be the place to two step haha
Coyote Joe's in Charlotte! Great line dancing bar with a growing two step scene.
Got a vote for NC! Sounds fun :-)
As complex as it looks at speed, y'all make it very easy to grasp at least from a mental grasping standpoint. Not that I can do much with it atm. It looks like a pretty good time though.
Currently in ND, Bakken oil field so not exactly a dancing hotspot. Are you still planning on doing this with the current *thing* going on?
We’re just like everyone else... just staying in doors and waiting to see how this plays out. :-/
@@countrydancexGood times. Hope you're all doing good and staying safe down there. Don't let the beer bugs bite!
12:34....quick wit at work.
Marriage. It brings a whole new perspective on relationships.
A lot of two-steppers in San Antonio, Texas
“Embrace the suck!”
👊🤟
Murfreesboro, TN where can we get information on your tour, cities, dates, etc?
Hi there. We are working on the dates & locations now. We should be posting more in a month or two. It takes a bit of planning :-)
We visit Middle TN a couple times a year (we'll actually be there in a few weeks) as we have family there.
Nortons in QC AZ
Thanks for the suggestion. I believe we're going to try to do something in the Phoenix area this summer :-) How far is that for you?
@@countrydancex Phoenix isn't too far!Nortons is close to my house,however the most popular club here in AZ is located in Mesa,Az called Denim and Diamonds,you would definitely get a better turn out there!
Bandera,Texas
We went to San Antonio a couple months ago. We will definitely do something there again. That's pretty close, right?
Bandera is the cowboy capital of Texas ,you haven’t danced in Texas until you’ve danced in Bandera,especially the 11th street bar
Come to Durango Colorado and give a weekend workshop then explore my backyard, the San Juan Mountains. End of July/beg of August is the high country wildflower season, come get 13k foot high in a Jeep on a mountain 4x4 road-- you will thank me.
That sound like so much fun! We are greatly considering doing some workshops in CO.
Yes I hate having arms stretched and yanked too high above head
It’s not the best lol
"Heit from Belton Texas!"
Is that “hello”?
If so, Hi from Houston Texas
@@countrydancex heit that my estyle to say hello thanks.
Let me know if can take it an a private class on a sewing Whit your lm drive to your city gladly thanks.
I’m searching nice dance boots for my wife. Felt soles. Any suggestions?
Try Sway'd boots!
I Dance at mama bells in Basehor Kansas they have dance lessons Wednesday through Saturday. They only wanted to teach stiff dancing. They are so stiff and I am from Oklahoma and we do step different. They all want to do line dancing if you go out on the dance floor and to step around them, they get offended. Call you a Frogger what does this mean, I told the dance instructor when she kicked me and my partner Off out of her class because we are doing the Oklahoma two-step which were side-by-side. She wouldn’t let us back on the dance floor and my partners daughter that I was teaching to do the Oklahoma two-step owns the bar, I explain to her we are doing the Oklahoma two-step and I was like I was an attitude from an instructor
So where are all the good leaders? I'm not demanding a great one, just a good one.
Just gotta get out there and ask people to dance!
@@countrydancex I suspect you'll need to be patient with some not so good leaders while finding your good ones. Be positive in your constructive teaching. Leaders will listen. More good leaders will arise with your assistance. Most leaders have not been deploying "tip twelve". Leaders with your encouragement will be delighted for you to ask them to dance.