Lindy Hop is a form of swing that is danced to very quick “Big Band” music. Known for outrageous tricks like flips and around the back moves, this style of dance is fun and lively. With the quick music, compact steps and quick feet are a must. These free online dance lessons will teach you some basic steps.
Lindy Hop basic step video:
The Swing out Video Transcript
The basic Lindy swing-out – It’s an eight-count pattern that goes rock-step, triple-step, walk, walk, triple step. It looks like this – rock-step, triple-step, walk, walk, triple-step, rock-step, triple-step, walk, walk, triple-step. So what we’re going to do here, the swing-out, we’re swinging her out to start doing whatever it is we want to do in the dance.
We start with the rock-step – rock, step. On this triple-step I’m moving to my left by getting in front of her as she goes dead forward. Triple-step. From here, she’s going to walk past me on her walk-walk. I’m just going to get out of the way with my right foot – walk, walk – so she’s moving away from me now. On the next triple-step, she moves away from me still. Triple-step – turning around to do a little swiveling action as I rock-step, she goes swivel, swivel. I’ll pick her back up into close, triple-step. We’ll take a walk-walk around. Walk, walk, back it up, triple-step, and we can do the pattern again.
So it goes, rock-step, get in front of her, triple-step, send her by you, walk-walk, finish it off, triple-step, she swivels coming back at you with her right, I go left, rock-step, picking her up into close, triple-step, stay there, walk, walk, back it up, triple-step, and we can start over. So I start left, she starts right with the rock-step. We’re going to do the Lindy swing out to music. And we’re doing the Lindy Hop.
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