lefty

→ West Coast Swing → Handholds

Leader left to follower left handhold.

This is a mirror image of the righty position because it requires a left-to-left hand connection instead of a right-to-right hand connection, sort of like the characters |\|.

Reached via:

• behind-the-back whip

Examples:

• A double handed sugar tuck into a hammerlock.
• A double handed sugar push inside turn into a sweetheart.
• A crossed-up sugar push inside turn into a cross-down handhold.¹
• A crossed-down sugar push outside turn (sugar tuck) into a cross-up handhold.¹
• A double handed sugar tuck with a left hand release into a right handhold.¹

💃🏻🕺🏽 Leads to:

• head drape
• hairbrush
• lefty fold RAG free spin

💃🏻🕺🏽 Reached via:

• behind-the-back whip
• sugar push left shoulder slide
• sugar push lead inside pivot turn to righty
• righty sugar push shoulder catch into lefty
• shadow position into sweetheart into lefty handhold