The article "East Coast Swing" is too filled with inaccuracy to be edited. It needs to be replaced in full with accurate information relative to the East Coast Swing.
1. The "Steps" described are mis-named and the descriptions within are misleading. To begin with "Steps" in dance is the "Footwork", "Positions" are the positions that the partners are in to perform a specific "Pattern" (body movement) There is no "He Goes" or "She Goes" and when used with "Leader" and "Follower" is ambigulous. The titles are "Woman's Underarm Right Turn" or "Woman's Underarm Left Turn" and "Man's Underarm Right Turn" or "Man's Underarm Left Turn", all depending on the direction that the turn is to be made and by whom. The turns are also correctly sometimes called "Outside Turn" or "Inside Turn" describing the direction that the turn is to be made. Partner dancing obviously forms a partnership and within the partnership there is a leader and follower. Traditionally the leader is the man and the woman is the follower. "Outside" or "Inside" is viewed from within the partnership from the vantage point of the man (leader)with the couple facing each other right eye to right eye. To the man's left is outside for both partners and to the man's right is inside for both partners.
2. The "Footwork" described is from dances that are not to be mixed. The article states that the footwork of Swing Dance, Jitterbug, Lindy-hop, and East Coast Swing can all be mixed. That is not true! An East Coast Swing is an East Coast Swing and the steps (footwork) and can not be mixed with those of the other swing dances. The single step is Swing Dance; the double step is Jitterbug; the triple step is East Coast Swing; and holds are syncopations numerous variations. This so call "Footwork" describes "Step" that belong to specific dance styles and are not mixed within the same dance. Each can be danced to the same genre of music with the same tempo depending on the dance couple's level of dance.
3. An In-place Basic is the steps danced in the same place without movement to either side or forward or backward. They do not have to be danced in the same position.
4. The pattern originally described as the pretzel is correctly renamed the cuddle although the turn is the "wrap turn" and the position that the couple ends in is the "cuddle position". The "pretzel" is a position and the turn necessary to achieve the "pretzel" position is a modified "Woman's Underarm Right Turn". It is an intermediate level position.
5. The "Tuck Turn", the "Throw-out", and the "Return to Close" are all mislead. There are no nudges or pulls or pushes in dance. Each pattern is lead by each partner maintaining a correct frame. Directional body movement is lead from the frame itself, not nudges, pulls, or pushes. Turns, dips, flow, promenaides and other patterns are all lead by properly trained arm and hand placements of the man (leader).
6. Like other topics requiring expert instruction, amateur dancers should refrain from writing dance instruction, editing the content of such instruction. A case in point is the page on "East Coast Swing". It has had so many contributors, each meaning well, but most misinformed.
--AttitudeDanceStudios 13:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
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