Instructional video for a basic sugar push in West Coast Swing. More videos are available at www.branditobias.com

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrjk85UjKkAOCA-VDy_zI5vt - - Watch more How to Swing Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/507301-How-to-Do-the-Sugar-Tuck-Swing-Dance The West Coast Swing Sugar Tuck. So it comes off of a sugar push where I would bring the ladies forward and then swing them back in the sugar push. The difference is going to be that my left hand comes up, walk, walk. Now you could do this as a touch step or a triple step. We could go touch then I'm going to... this is the tuck, I'm going to send her the other direction, step. She takes a triple to finish it. Triple step. So again, I go walk, walk, touch, step, triple step. You could take that as a triple. Walk, walk, triple step, triple step and the tuck still works. Off the sugar push I bring the ladies in, immediately lifting my left hand. Walk, walk, touch and/or triple, touch, step, triple step. Because my hand ends up over the top I need to finish this with an underarm turn. Walk, walk, triple step. And that fixes the hand. Stance magic, right? From here we have the sugar tuck. Walk, walk, tuck the ladies, triple step, finish with an underarm turn, triple step, triple step. That's a sugar tuck. Now, with a sugar tuck I can take my left hand up and she goes underneath. I could take my right hand up and she goes underneath. I could take both hands up and she goes underneath both hands and then I could do another sugar push where we split. There's all kinds of variations. If I take no hands up in the sugar tuck she does it as a free spin. Once you end the sugar tuck you immediately have four more moves. We're going to do it to music. It's a sugar push with a tuck turn and we call it a sugar tuck.

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrjk85UjKkAOCA-VDy_zI5vt - - Watch more How to Swing Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/507299-How-to-Do-the-Left-Side-Pass-Swing-Dance Let's go swing, left side pass. From here, open position. Ladies are gonna do the walk, triple, triple. Exact same footwork you would do in an underarm turn. Guys, yours is a little bit different. You're actually gonna step completely out of the way on count one, moving out of the way so she can go by your left side. That's gonna be one. On count two, I just take this foot, put it right underneath me, two, as she passes moving subtly to my right. Then, we have two triple steps as she passes. Triple step, I face her. Triple step. That's the left side pass, so she's gonna go by the left side, walk, walk, triple step. Triple again, walk, walk, triple step, triple step. Remember, if there was a door here, I would say, after you and she would move right by my left side. I'm doing the exact same thing with my lead as saying, after you, inviting the lady to pass by my left side using the basic step of walk, walk, triple, triple. I start left. She starts right. That's your side pass. Here it is to music. After you with your left side pass.

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrjk85UjKkAOCA-VDy_zI5vt - - Watch more How to Swing Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/507298-How-to-Do-the-Underarm-Turn-Swing-Dance The West Coast Swing under arm turn, sometimes called the right side pass. We start from the open position. Nicola is going to take her two walking steps forward. Guys are going to step back and get out of the way. Let's show it to you, like this. Walk, walk, triple step, triple step, walk, walk, triple step, triple step. So I'm going to step back, leading the ladies forward, and then I'm going to cross over with my right foot, getting out of the way so she can stay and walk straight down her slot. Remember the lady has a slot in West Coast Swing. It goes back and forward. She takes walk, walk. I go back, cross. Walk, walk. Back, cross for me. We pass just like in East Coast Swing on the first triple. Triple step. We face each other for the second triple. Triple step. I end up with my right behind my left, her left is behind her right. Again, I go back, cross. She goes walk, walk. Pass on the first triple. Triple step. Then we take this other triple in place. Triple step. As we cross, as we pass each other on that first triple, make sure that you don't bring your feet together but that one foot actually crosses in front of the other. So as I go back, cross, my right foot stays crossing in front of my left. Her left foot stays crossing in front of her right. So we go triple (see how she's crossed in front?) step, triple step. So one more time. Walk, walk, triple step, triple step. And that's the under arm turn. We're going to try it to music. There's your under arm turn.

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrjk85UjKkAOCA-VDy_zI5vt - - Watch more How to Swing Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/507302-How-to-Do-the-Whip-Swing-Dance The West Coast Swing Whip, which is our first 8-count timing in West Coast Swing. The whip is walk, walk, triple, walk, walk, triple. If we just did that in place, I go left, she goes right, walk, walk, triple step, walk, walk, triple step. That's basic whip timing. What's going to happen on the walk, walk, I bring her in. I go back cross. She comes forward and starts to pivot. Walk, walk, that's 1, 2. By 2, I have her back with my right hand. My left hand is in a closed position, but on 3 and 4, I'm going to take 3 and, right in place, 3 and. I'm 90 degrees for the lady, 4, I step across, 4. Now we're offset of each other. Her shoulders and the middle of my chest, that's 4. On 5, I'm going to collect my foot underneath me as she turns, 5. That's the whipping effect, letting go, 6, 7, and 8. I'm going to pick her up on 2 and let her fly on 5. Pick her up on 2, let her go on 5. I have, walk, pick her up, walk, triple step, walk, walk, triple step. We'll do that from a different angle. Again, picking up the lady on count 2, leaders, I have walk, 2, that's 1, 2, 3 and I stay right here, 3 and. 4 moves across the slot, 4. As she comes forward. She's going to pass me, 5, 6, 7, and 8. On 3 and 4, Nicole is doing what's called a coaster step. That means back together forward. A coaster step is back, together, forward. She goes 1, 2, back, together, forward. She's forward on her right. I'm on my left. From here we go, 5, 6, 7, and 8. To music, it looks like this. There's your basic whip.

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrjk85UjKkAOCA-VDy_zI5vt - - Watch more How to Swing Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/507300-How-to-Do-the-Sugar-Push-Swing-Dance The West Coast Swing Sugar Push So remember that the West Coast Swing basic is walk, walk, triple step, triple step. East Coast Swing has a rock step, West Coast Swing has as walk walk. So, walk, walk, triple step, triple step. I start left, she starts right. The Sugar Push looks like this - walk, walk, triple step, triple step. So again, walk, walk, triple step, triple step. What's going to happen is I'm going to back up left right, she's going to come forward right left. I'm going to present my right hand. I might already have that right hand, but just in case I don't I'm going to present it. She's going to go walk, walk. On this first triple she's going to kind of slowly push into me a little bit and I'm going to absorb that weight or that energy. Triple, sending her back, step. Now I just kind of send her away from me. There's no need for me to take a big step towards her. Step, I let go of the right hand, we triple in place, triple step. Nicola will take her left foot and pull it behind her right as she finishes that pattern. So again, I go walk, walk, triple step, triple step. We'll do that from a different angle. I start left, she starts right. I bring her in, walk, walk. I take my triple kind of in place, triple, just stepping a little bit forward underneath myself, triple step. Then she's going to take her triple step, triple step. I really kind of think like behind and forward. So, we're going to go walk, walk, behind and forward, triple step. So we have a Sugar Push, like the ladies coming in to get a little bit of sugar, and then I send her away. That's walk, walk, triple, triple. That's your Sugar Push. We're going to do it to music. And there's your Sugar Push.