Floor Surfaces and Foot Support (was Scottish Country Dancing VSScottish Folk Dancing)

Pia Walker

Feb. 3, 2006, 12:10 a.m. (Message 44062)

Is it not the case that we are supposed to gently float across the floor
with almost no contact between foot and floor at all :>)

Pia


  Most basketball courts now seem to have quite different flooring and it is
the ankle support given by their footware that prevents injury.

  Unfortunately, the soft soled pumps we wear do not provide the support
needed to dance comfortably on other than wooden floors - sprung or not -
and most of us know that we would prefer not to dance in other than pumps.


  Regards,

  Iain Boyd
  Wellington
  New Zealand





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Anselm Lingnau

Feb. 3, 2006, 1:49 a.m. (Message 44065, in reply to message 44062)

Pia wrote:

> Is it not the case that we are supposed to gently float across the floor
> with almost no contact between foot and floor at all :>)

Yes, but we're also supposed to obey the laws of physics.

Anselm
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Bryan McAlister

Feb. 3, 2006, 9:09 a.m. (Message 44071, in reply to message 44062)

I am not sure this is true.  Jazz shoes seem to be gaining a hold. I 
certainly would not go back to Ghillies.

In message <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>, Pia 
<xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> writes
> Unfortunately, the soft soled pumps we wear do not provide the support 
>needed to dance comfortably on other than wooden floors - sprung or not 
>- and most of us know that we would prefer not to dance in other than 
>pumps.

-- 
Bryan McAlister