I was reading your definition for Follow Your Neighbor and
I am perplexed about something.
Your web page says "Leaders as one movement 1/2 Box Circulate &
U-Turn Back while Trailers Extend & Arm Turn 3/4."
How can this be correct? If you need a 3/4 rotation, wouldn't it
be a 1/2 Box Circulate and Roll? (Or something to that effect.)
I originally learned the Leads' part of Follow Your Neighbor as
Fold & Roll.
Unfortunately, there are two kinds of Folds used
in square dancing:
- the kind of Fold where the inactive dancer does not
move, and the active dancer folds into the spot immediately
adjancent to the active dancer to look at them (this is the
default kind of Fold at the Challenge levels); and
- the kind of Fold where an adjustment is made by all dancers
to form a normalized formation (this is the default kind of Fold
at mainstream).
Anyway, as an attempt to make the definition more precise, a
decision was made to not use the term Fold. 1/2 Box Circulate
puts the Lead dancer in the correct position, and the U-Turn Back
puts them in the correct facing orientation. The 1/2 Box Circulate is a 1/4 turn, and the U-Turn Back is a 1/2 turn, which makes the total movement a 3/4 Turn.
I suppose I could have defined Follow Your Neighbor as the following:
- 1/2 Split Circulate; Centers Arm Turn 3/4 as Ends Roll Twice.
