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Welcome to the Modern Swing Community Wiki!

Check out “Thinking in public” for West Coast Swing for a general introduction to the forum. 

Here is some example information that this wiki looks to collect:

• lists and explanations of useful concepts and skills
  • for example - a relatively simple concept of Lead Projection has almost no information about it online
• Drills
  • what do they help you develop
  • how many people find a particular drill useful?
  • what is a good order to do them in
• Wiki pages for Pro dancers
  • Igor Pitangui
  • Austin Kois
• Tips and lore for conventions:
  • SO Swing

Note that these are just examples and generally any information that you think would be helpful for or interesting to the Westie community, would be a good fit.

Here are some things I'd like to cover/for other people to cover (in no particular order):

• Musicality
  • Counting music in 2 beat increments
  • Phrasing
  • Call and response
  • Extending patterns
• Personal Movement
  • Weight Transfer
  • Body flight
  • Rolling count
  • Grounding
  • Hit and meld
  • Pulsing upbeats
  • Contrabody
  • Pitch
• Connection
  • "Law of inertia" for linear/rotational momentum
  • Lateral Connection
  • Resisted release
  • Invitational vs active leading
  • Posting
  • Shaping
• Meta-learning
  • What does a reasonable skill progression look like?
  • Primer on analyzing your own videos
• Misc
  • Difference between delayed double and a hitch

Note: for some of these - there is already good material available online, in which case assembling a set of references (and maybe providing scaffolding around them) should work well. 

Also some topics here (like video analysis) may work better as a forum post and others would work better as wiki entries, lean forum post when in doubt!

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