Perfecting your drive action | Ballroom Dance Tutorials | Episode 3

Welcome back to our weekly Ballroom Dance Tutorials!
In this episode we teach you all of the fundamentals you need to master when it comes to drive action.
We've broken this video into four sections to make it easy to follow:
1. What is the drive action?
2. Coordinating the different actions of the drive step.
3. Usage of the standing leg.
4. Drive step exercises.
To summarise some of the key points made in this tutorial, the drive action is found and used in the swing dances and is located at the bottom of the swing. It is important to increase the speed of this action to produce the increase in power we wish to portray.
The three main actions that must be coordinated in the drive action are; Compression (bending of the standing leg), rotation, and a frontal movement to transfer the weight.
The standing leg is the key to producing a powerful and accurate drive action. Not using the standing the leg enough or using it incorrectly will cause many problems not just for the drive step but also for the step following.
We hope that this video helps you to improve your drive action.
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- Jonathan Kontrobarsky & Talysa Trevallion
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[@ramonawalter1442]

Thank You !!

[@christinapearson3805]

I must admit I had never heard of this drive step before.. It certainly does make the step look much better than just pacing forward.. I still have much to learn.. Thank you both for another insight of ballroom life.. Take care my beautiful friends 😊❤️

[@jtballroom]

Christina Pearson it’s our pleasure to bring new ballroom dancing information to you Christina 😊 Even the most talented and high-level dancers still have lots to learn and improve! Thanks again for watching our video as soon as it goes up 💗

[@lvvlzz]

Oh my god thank you so much for all the lessons you guys made 😍

[@MrVaneq]

great tutorial, easy to look at and follow but hard to master! I have a question - is this action used in every figure in swing dances like waltz, foxtrott?

[@johnoldie1]

Talysa - could you please elaborate - it seems so important - to complete the lowering just in front of the standing leg. The weight otherwise can transfer too quickly into that forward swinging leg. This is what I do unfortunately.
Jack in Japan
Great video.

[@johnoldie1]

Thank you. This drive in the waltz must be the most important step? Do I detect Australian voices?
Jack in Japan.

[@evelynedayde3341]

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