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→ West Coast Swing → Positions

• A specific two-arm handhold.
• The leader’s left hand ring finger and middle finger point to the right, holding the follower’s right hand (pointing down) at xiphoid level.
• The leader’s right hand ring and middle finger point to the left, holding the follower’s left hand (pointing down) at xiphoid level sort of like the characters |=|.

Reached via:

• contemporary hustle whip
• right-side inside pass into parallel

💃🏻🕺🏽 Leads to:

• hustle whip outside turn
• hustle whip leader outside pivot turn into righty
• hustle whip into left hammerlock walk-around
• hustle whip
• hustle whip outside pivot turn
• hustle whip inside pass turn into parallel
• hustle whip inside pass turn into open left
• car-wash whip
• basket whip
• basket whip with arm escape
• basket whip with an spinning anchor
• basket whip with an outside turn
• two-arm turn-in
• sugar push left shoulder slide
• left side inside chain turn into wrap hip catch alternating chain turns

💃🏻🕺🏽 Reached via:

• hustle whip
• hustle whip inside pass turn into parallel
• contemporary hustle whip
• right-side inside pass into parallel