PLAY VIDEO by clicking    Basic Texas Two Step Moves #1  

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          The man faces the line of dance with the woman directly in front and facing him in a basic Texas Two Step position. Two forward quick, quick steps are taken. The man's left hand guides the woman's right hand through a woman's clockwise turn. The man slows his movement to allow the woman to turn. The pair ends back in the original position with the man facing the line of dance. Here the turn is demonstrated on the slow slow Suggestion: The man can signal the woman that a turn is coming by pushing the woman's left hand back ( his forward ) on the first slow and then backwards on the second slow in preparation for the turn. Similarly, at the same time the man can use his right hand on the woman's left back by twisting the woman forward on the first slow and then back on the second slow. In other words, both hands are used to lead the woman.
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          Man faces line of dance with woman directly in front and facing him. The man guides the woman through a woman's counterclockwise turn using his left hand and the woman's right. The move ends facing (in) the line of dance.
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          Man facing line of dance with woman directly in front and facing him. The man guides the woman through a woman's counterclockwise turn using his left hand and the woman's right and the two dancers end in a cuddle with the woman on the man's right side. Start at 26 and ends at 55.
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          Man facing line of dance with woman directly in front and facing him. The man guides the woman through a woman's counterclockwise turn using his left hand and the woman's right. At the end of the first half of the woman's counterclockwise turn the man takes hold of the woman's left hand with his right and lays the woman's arm on her right back He also takes her right hand with her left and brings it forward to his chest level. The woman turns one and a half times. The man's hand goes up, around the woman's body and over the woman's head. (Sweetheart hold or Skater's hold). The man remains slightly behind the woman in the Sweetheart position.
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          The turn can also be done on the man's side.
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          The woman drops her right hand downward and bends it across her left back to grasp the man's right hand. He then turns her clockwise one and a half turns. He raises his hand above her head to end in a sweetheart hold while she extends her other hand outward and in front of him.
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          Man facing line of dance with woman directly in front and facing him. The man guides the woman through a two woman's counterclockwise turns using his left hand and the woman's right. They both end in the original position.

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