Colour coding hands and legs?

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Gemini1357

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lol @ Freemasons.
Yeah. Maybe it's so people can see the left and right clearly without having to orientate in their minds. It's really hard to do that in real time so that would help a lot.

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Hmm.., just got a silly idea from "One trouser leg rolled up" thread, http://www.salsaforums.com/showthread.php?t=7369

Sometimes I do get confused about what teacher hand/foot is left or right, when we are in a circle around him and I have to be turned the "wrong way". Can take some processing power that should be used for better purposes.

Wouldn't it be beneficial if the teacher had for example blue wrist bands on right hand/leg, and red ones on the left ones, and the students hade the same?

Would look silly perhaps, but couldn't this minimize at least some degree of confusion? I feel I'm not the only one who messes up with those issues from time to time.

I assume it has been tried, does anyone have any experiences of going about it this way?
 
Yep, I'm really curious about it. I can't be the first one thinking of this can I?

Just spent the last 15 minutes struggling with one of my drop in videos with pretzel kind of moves, hammerlocks and stuff, hands going all over the place. Took me a while to figure out I had my hands mixed up. I had to actually think to get it right, and we don't like that, no..

It could be useful in instructional videos I think, those watching could get their own wrist bands to speed things up a little bit, it would strengthen the visual input.
 
Great idea! but it should be red on the left and green on the right, or you might get a ferry crashing into you.
 
I've seen and questioned a teacher about why he wore different coloured trainers - yes, it was to help him tell left from right ;)

Personally, I enjoy confusing teachers who say "it's the hand with your watch on" as I'm left handed and wear mine on the right :P
 
Gemini1357 said:
Yep, I'm really curious about it. I can't be the first one thinking of this can I?

Just spent the last 15 minutes struggling with one of my drop in videos with pretzel kind of moves, hammerlocks and stuff, hands going all over the place. Took me a while to figure out I had my hands mixed up. I had to actually think to get it right, and we don't like that, no..

It could be useful in instructional videos I think, those watching could get their own wrist bands to speed things up a little bit, it would strengthen the visual input.
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Are you reading my mind or something? I have thought of *exactly* the same thing, even with the same colours, blue and red, like spiderman. It has to bee tight latex too, and the teacher as well as students would have them. Then the teacher could just say:
— put the blue arm under the followers green arm (followers would be in green and yellow, also in latex of course) and twist, and so on...

I also have problems knowing what is right or left, this would really be a good idea.
 
I would also add that colour coding is a swedish thing too. Instead of numbering things you colour code them, it's more fool-proof.
 
Ron Obvious said:
I would also add that colour coding is a swedish thing too. Instead of numbering things you colour code them, it's more fool-proof.
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He's going for the green ball... and for those watching on a black & white TV, the green is the one behind the brown.

/edit: oh yeah, I did have a serious point - what about the colour-blind (chromatically impaired or whatever PC term is now appropriate) who are somewhat left out of the equation!
 
Yep, funny.., right

I find it obvious the reason the teacher tries to have leaders oriented in the same direction as himself is exactly these right/left issues.

Since you all seem to find the idea ridiculous I guess you easily can explain why? Just curious, must be something I missed here.
 
Actually I think the idea is good, I was being serious (and funny at the same time) when I said I had had the same idea. But it's also funny because these colours have other associations.

Didn't we talk about these brown and red balls before?

But how would you carry out this thing? If not latex, what did you think of? Ribbons? Because it has to be extensive enough so that the eye sees the colour of the arm always.
 
Gemini1357 said:
Yep, funny.., right

I find it obvious the reason the teacher tries to have leaders oriented in the same direction as himself is exactly these right/left issues.

Since you all seem to find the idea ridiculous I guess you easily can explain why? Just curious, must be something I missed here.
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Not at all Gemini it's a great idea! Thought of the same thing too where teachers would use some sort of stick on 'L' and 'R' signs for your arms and legs. Arm bands would work just as well as long as there is enough contrast between them and the clothes. Not those blow up ones though, that would look rediculous!

Must say that there has been some real comedy in this thread.!! Getting chased by Ferries indeed... :lol:
 
Ron Obvious said:
Actually I think the idea is good, I was being serious (and funny at the same time) when I said I had had the same idea. But it's also funny because these colours have other associations.

Didn't we talk about these brown and red balls before?

But how would you carry out this thing? If not latex, what did you think of? Ribbons? Because it has to be extensive enough so that the eye sees the colour of the arm always.
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OK, no problem.., being mocked might hurt when you actually did say something really stupid, which of course happens a bit too often if you don't keep your mouth shut - ouch..

And sure, the idea ain't to be called bulletproof until it's been tested. Does it shorten the learning curve of a group? It very well might. Does it make a difference in a video? I would find it plausible.

But big latex arms, hmm.., a better solution, but not very dignifying is it?

Simple ribbons, some kind of perhaps neon type wrist bands could at least be an improvement, even though not visible at all times.
 
Gemini1357 said:
OK, no problem.., being mocked might hurt when you actually did say something really stupid, which of course happens a bit too often if you don't keep your mouth shut - ouch..
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That's the problem with text isn't it Gemini. Sarcasm can be taken for something else far to often and it really depends a lot on the culture you grow up in as well. It's well known that the Brits have a certain sense of humour just as the Fins and the Americans have theirs. There have been more than a few times when I've heard heard of an English person making a joke or being sarcastic in the States and it's not gone down to well at all; even though to you what they said or did sounded hilarious. What with this being an international forum the same thing is bound to happen.
 
Flujo said:
It's well known that the Brits have a certain sense of humour just as the Fins and the Americans have theirs.
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I've heard that fish don't have brains so they don't think. But I've never understood until now that that's what the fins are for ;)

Anyway, I think it has to be latex or it won't work. With this fast motion, the brain has much to process and it processes vast movements first. So a band won't do any good, we must drape ourselves in latex or velvet for this to work.
 
Flujo said:
That's the problem with text isn't it Gemini. Sarcasm can be taken for something else far to often and it really depends a lot on the culture you grow up in as well. It's well known that the Brits have a certain sense of humour just as the Fins and the Americans have theirs. There have been more than a few times when I've heard heard of an English person making a joke or being sarcastic in the States and it's not gone down to well at all; even though to you what they said or did sounded hilarious. What with this being an international forum the same thing is bound to happen.
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Well, I don't know.., "cultural differences", we all watch the same TV-shows, and europeans really often are very rude to americans whose happily outgoing and generous personas they interpret as naive stupidity.

I really can't see how you can actually like something while making a spectacle of it to the point of ridicule. Those two things just doesn't go together very well. At least you don't take it seriously.

Making fun of something or someone is usually a put down, which might be very motivated or just harmless fun. "Sarcasm" comes from greek "sarkazo" meaning "to tear flesh", not entirely harmless.

Sure fun for most people, and most people would think twice to bring up ideas when they are most likely ridiculed however great the comedy value might be.
 
But we weren't making fun of you, we were making fun of some circumstances that could arise were this idea put into practice. Don't take it personally. And the thing about mocking Swedes for colour coding is the same this as you Swedes mock Finns for always carrying a knife. It's not true, it's just supposed to fun.

As for the sarcasm: sure, it comes originally from tearing apart flesh, and irony originally comes from eiron, one who feigns ignorance. It was originally an argument method coined by Socrates in which you concur with the one with which you argue in absurdum, hoping to finally tie his own arguments into a knot and thereby proving a contradictory position. Irony isn't either used in this sense today.

So we aren't sarcastic or ironic really, I guess you can say we are being hyperbolic with your idea; exaggerating it.
 
Hehe, I know, I'm kind of appearing like

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.. here, but no problem, I'm not personally offended. This is more like fun to me. I'm not "in love" with this little idea that might be completely pointless and off the mark.., just trying something out.

But, aren't those damned greeks always right? Sarcasm and irony is still used in exactly the same way today I would say. We're still human beings after all.

And this rethorical hyperbole, you used it to make a straw man, funny but not fair. This is not what I suggested. (sorry about the live links, I found them relevant and have problems getting the links "not live" or useful in preview)

Sooo, despite all this abuse (hehe..) I still actually think simple blue-red wrist bands should make it a little bit easier to imitate a teacher. Haven't seen any arguments against it at least.

Some teacher should try it and see if it makes a difference. For the sake of progress or whatever.
 
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