strathspey@strathspey.org:28011

Andrew Buxton

RE: Lead up - which hand?

Nov. 1, 2001, 6:50 p.m. (Message 28011, in reply to message 28002)

Alan Paterson wrote:

	>"Teachers like Rules" oh dear. Any of the teachers out there have
anything to
	>say to counter this somewhat sweeping generalisation? :-)

	What about the pupils?  Do "rules" make it easier for them?  It may
be hard to share this fascination for giving the correct hand, especially
when it makes things harder rather than easier.

	I suspect that sometimes (a) the instructions did not distinguish
between "lead" and "dance" - especially for the older dances and (b) the
deviser did not always stop to think about which was better(??)   I find it
perverse to lead down RHJ when you then have to cast up on your own side -
it's very easy to cross by mistake!

	Maybe all this stuff about "correct" hands is to defend the status
of those teachers who were themselves taught by the great and good and so
are "in the know"!

	Andrew Buxton
	Brighton