looking for advice on copas

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Cabin_Salsa

Looking for advice for a leader leading copas. How much strenght should the arms have. where to stop follower? Any help would be great.
 
Cabin_Salsa said:
Looking for advice for a leader leading copas. How much strenght should the arms have. where to stop follower? Any help would be great.
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In all moves the answer to "how much strength" is "enough for the follower to get it". i.e. watch what she's doing in microscopic detail and adjust on the fly. I usually signal quite strongly on the actual back break, curl her right hand to indicate the turn, then it's pretty much intertia / momentum until I stop her on the hip.
 
sweavo said:
In all moves the answer to "how much strength" is "enough for the follower to get it". i.e. watch what she's doing in microscopic detail and adjust on the fly. I usually signal quite strongly on the actual back break, curl her right hand to indicate the turn, then it's pretty much intertia / momentum until I stop her on the hip.
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Another important thing is timing. If you time your lead wrong but still want to complete the move, then you'd need more force than you would when you time your lead right. The thread offbeat supplied the link to has very detailed discussions about the timing of the lead in copas.
 
The follower should know how to execute a copa and some of its adornments without a leader... Then a light lead or an 'invitation' to do the move will work. If there are walking backward steps or suzie q adornments added to the basic copa, then 'framing' - something that is not often taught anymore - the follower's arms - and mutually applying tension will result in a smooth effortless looking copa.

Leaders 'horsing' or 'driving' their followers through a copa turns the dance into a wrestling match - and it shows.
 
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