From what I've seen at dances, the #1 thing people need to learn is that your dancing is supposed to have something to do with the music. A lot of people know some good moves but have no idea where the music beat is or even what the tempo is.

@Janet-re7fv

2 жыл бұрын

Agree of what your say. But

@jesusbarriopedrolopez8128

2 ай бұрын

​@@Janet-re7fvPues tiene mucha razo Stan Porque el paso basico es muy importate en todos los bailes de salon Si no no hay cordinación En que momento del tempo se hacen los giros y figuras

This is the best swing dance how-to video I've watched! Very clear teaching.

Terrific teacher. Wish I had this years ago..

This was so helpful! My partner and I watched this video over and over and now we are tearing it up on the dance floor!

@Pixopolis

5 жыл бұрын

Self Made Millennial i

This was practically perfect! Thank you, I learned a lot.

I like seeing each move explained and demonstrated clearly. Thank you - this will be very helpful to many.

He is a fabulous teacher. I learned all the moves from this video and added a few more! Great !

1:41 Starting position Happy day's side step (open and closed) Side Bumps Spin Bumps 6:35 Ladies turns Gentleman's turns Wraps Dishrag out 12:10 Combo 13:25 Handshake turn Windmill Open style spin Slide

@tesstrinidad4498

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks , copied.♥️♥️♥️😜

@kathleenwalker7982

8 ай бұрын

appreciate this so much!

This video really helped me when I was still a wall flower and now I move every night!! Thank you!!

Tom's a great instructor. This is easy to follow. Great video.

So clear and taught perfectly. Cool guy for sure.

One of the best instructional videos ever ... thanks a million

Best thing I've found yet - forgot my old 4 count swing - this is a quick easy refresher - i can always throw in the backstep later

It would be terrific if Tom starts the description of HIS part. 💙 Then, Jeri can say (& and show), "Well, ladies, that was from the gentleman's point of view. This is what WE will do..." ❤

I did a lot of these moves during my "disco days". I had a friend who was a DJ at the clubs I frequented, and he would select guys (mostly from the military bases nearby, who were used to doing drills) who would be willing to learn the dance moves and would be honorable enough afterwards. I had a great time teaching them and dancing with them....thank you Miguel, especially. I got a few standing ovations and a photographer followed me around one night (totally freaked me out and made me feel like a Princess at the same time, lol) I never knew they were "swing dances". They were disco to me, lol. But...oh they were FUN!!!

My left ear loved this

@paintballfanatic7231

5 жыл бұрын

Haha I was noticing that too.

I have watched a lot of jive clips and this is great. Beautifully paced for a novice or improving male. It shows the leads really nicely. I look forward to trying this out on some unsuspecting friend. A great thing is that there is no syncopation so I hope it can be danced to a lot of 4 time music. Most pop!

absolutely fantastic!

great teacher! thank Tom Rocker

Trying to impress a girl, so this is a plus thanks ☝️

Uma aula muito bem demonstrada. Parabéns professores.👏👏👏👏

Excellent video - thank you very much

Thoughly enjoyed your style and moves. We will do all of them. Deeply appreciated. Best video of them all

My wife and I just recently started taking Swing Dance lessons and your instruction has been VERY helpful.

great job thanks so much...still learning some steps

very easy to follow!

I like the teaching, very easy to follow, it has your basic steps you can work with and repeat as you go along.

@nataljanatalja8764

4 жыл бұрын

Скучно

Great lessons. Thanks for the video.

Magic guys, thanks a lot

1. Starting position. 1:40: 2. Side Step, Open & Closed 2:10: Open is a, "bridge" - transition between - other moves. 3. Side Bumps 3:20: 4. Side Spins 4:15: 5. Combos - of first 4 5:01: 6. Ladies' Turns (2) 6:40: 7. Gentlemen's Turns (2) 8:04: 2nd preferred. "Step through turn" 8:46: 8. Wraps 9:26: 9 Dishrag Out (Wrap Spins) 11:04: 10. Combos - of second 4 12:09: 11. Handshake Turn (Men's #3) 13:30: . . Combos of all. Talking w/ partner. Pick & choose 20:00:

@kathleenwalker7982

8 ай бұрын

thank you for your time doing this...big help!

Great job 👌 in teaching the different positions 😌

Thank you. Very helpful :)

Your smooth calling of the steps made it so easy to understand thank you.

Thank you, this has been a very instructive dancing video for my wife and I. We watched it a couple of years ago to learn some swing dancing moves, and keep coming back to it. It's interesting that the instruction was done apart from being in time with the music, but we've found this to be an advantage. The steps and turns can be incorporated into other styles of dancing beyond swing.

@TheSwingDancer

6 жыл бұрын

You fully understand our method of instruction, way to go. You are using to expand your dancing experience, we actually designed the steps to be as easy as possible so that almost anyone could get started dancing. Appreciate your wonderful comment! Tom and Jeri

That scene in Swingers with Jon Favreau brought me here. Good video

Good sir- kind sage, this might just save my butt before the big 'hangar dance' on Saturday. One thing is clear- I need to find myself a bowler hat.

@NVanHiker

5 жыл бұрын

It's a fedora.

@dannyc.jewell8788

4 жыл бұрын

I associate bowler hats as tuff guys , Bat Masterson,20's 30'sBritish servants,etc ,have a little style ,don't get uptight,view this twice lol , dance with your partner just be kool dude

Very well done.

Thank you!

Best for Seniors Thx

Thank you. I like it that you don't emphasise the footwork. I would like to learn the lead as I don't have a partner: your DVD gives me hope that I can do the lead. I have a sense of rhythm so hopefully my feet will do what is required.

Tried to look for your cd but no Luck? love the way you teach Tom excellent.

This was really cool!! You guys (and girls) really made it easy to folow.. THANKS..11

Thanks for the instructions...can add more to our moves.

@thomasroeder1364

5 жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it! It was a pleasure meeting you in Rome

It's just been amazing for me to see these moves and know the tag names given to them after I've been dancing for over 30 yrs the very same moves not know the names. Strange right?? 😅👍 but its gr8 to learn though..

Excellent teachers

I love you guys

Very good!

@roseboquida4259

6 жыл бұрын

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This really helped me.

@TheSwingDancer

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! It's all about getting people started to enjoy the magic of dancing! www.theswingdancer.com

@neillamb3296

6 жыл бұрын

The Swing cut v. Fcrddddddfddsxenbbbnndzv-=///f

@paulyamamoto6298

6 жыл бұрын

The Swing Dancer 1f

Very instructive. Get that poor woman some decent dancing shoes!

Now all I need is someone crazy enough to dance with me haha

Imagine I learn all this in elementary school. Where they taught us to dance. So we wouldn't be shy about dancing at the school dances.

My left ear thanks you.

i like it is . super.

Magic

What a lady!, warum sind nur die wenige frauen so wunderbar, und der rest nur erträglich?

Thank you

Basically these same moves I've been doing while dancing the Jive dance..🤣

I'm going to give time to. Prayer 😊

a demonstration with music at the end would have been ideal.

@moo639

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. They need some music for dancing.

@Conservatarian

Жыл бұрын

It would be best if the video both began and ended with the dance demonstration of the moves to be taught. It is important to begin the video with a demonstration top help us learn what we are trying to achieve.

Very smooth combo 24:34

@song-rz6hi

8 ай бұрын

Gumdrop 35:40

Thanks for instruction : ) If you could show these moves in practice with music as you go, this would be a better video.

The Savannah Band is good for this too.

Would like to learn the movement of the feet and legs in the jive to go along with the moves.

@janiehuzieran6966

4 жыл бұрын

This not close to Jive or east coast swing on east coast swing you swing to the sides and the back step. A lot of his moves are from disco and latin. I dance both Jive and swing

Tom, where did you learn to dance this form of swing? Are the names of the moves coined by you?

I'm new to this but is there no rock step in this type of swing? And is this still a basic 6 count ?

@TheSwingDancer

6 жыл бұрын

This video was made for the nearly 80% of people who aren't dancing. The moves are designed to be as easy as possible for people to get started and enjoy the magic of dancing. From there take dance lessons as mentioned in the video, or find other dance videos to enhance your dancing skills. Thanks for viewing!

@19ford53

5 жыл бұрын

Norman Wong. The swing that I learned was the East Coast Swing ...triple step, triple step, rock step with several different turns.

@largelester

5 жыл бұрын

@@19ford53 I have the feeling he teaches in the Midwest, not on the East Coast.

😍

I'd like to however second Stans comment. The video did not show the moves with the music being incorporated. Steps are fine but the moves in rhythm n tempo is most important n soothing to the eyes..🤣🤣

Audio?

Who else is here because it's an hour before your dance and you desperately need to learn some moves?

note to self 4:11, 7:15

Today is min. video with 720p standard ;-)

I loved your lessons, but to me you left out the “quick quick” step at each cycle of steps. Most swing music tempo requires it. To me you left out those steps. An 80 year old man who did swing dancing almost every day of his teen years.

@janiehuzieran6966

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you I dance for many years swing and Jive

who else is watching this because the eighth grade swing dance unit is coming up and you don't want to make an ass out of yourself?

How about JITTERBUG????

@user-fy3tn9tv3g

5 жыл бұрын

back in old days, and still today, we people here call this 【 Jitterbug 】.

turn on the sound.

Compliment too to the woman dancer here, with her partner all the way. dancers need to be, "in tune" (pardon the pun) the next move coming. Sure coordination so impressive as here takes time & practice, but, seems like fun all in itself.

I was doing the jive when I was 12 years old....because the girls could not always get partners I ended up in the mans position...so I danced all night......trouble was when I started to dance with a male partner I had a problem because I was going the wrong way .....but very ,very happy days.......I was still jiving when I was. 55 , wish I still was.

Lol Tom and Jeri (Tom & Jerry)

Add some music our call out the tempo please.

Zéro

Good morning are you ready to dance?

Check out more videos at www.theswingdancer.com

@jeansenn4834

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Roeder dr

I won’t say that people somewhere don’t dance this way. If you ever go to a swing dance convention or even a studio ballroom they will not recognize what you’re doing as swing. It’s annoying to be jerked around in four counts when everyone else is doing six or eight count patterns. Of course what happens in hotel bars and clubs well anything goes. They do something like this in Country Western bars. You might feel quite at home there if you like country music.

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great dancing - very helpful - but the bleating trumpet music was annoying.

Do I need to buy a pimp hat?

@screeningmimi

5 жыл бұрын

The hat is optional, but the two tone shoes are a must.

@jtm726

5 жыл бұрын

It's called a fondora hat.

Who is Happy Day?

@fanceymiller4644

4 жыл бұрын

Harold Smith Happy Days is a tv show made in the 70s about the 50s.

@haroldsmith130

4 жыл бұрын

I dont watch TV. What is the relevance of this TV show to this dance? Was the TV show about swing dancing?

@fanceymiller4644

4 жыл бұрын

Harold Smith The Happy Days move is the same dance move the kids on the show do in the opening credits. It is simply a pop culture reference that can tie the move to a visual memory for those that did see it.

@haroldsmith130

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant idea. I hope it catches on.

I just wanna say, that poor girls shoulders! Yikes, if someone did that to me on the lindy hop dance floor..........

Para sa P. E hahahahahahahhaha

I initially thought this was from 20 years ago when I started swing dancing. please go look up lindy hop or east coast swing instead of this if you want to learn swing dancing with any sense of rhythm. However, dancing is about having fun, so if that's your goal, this is okay.....

@mrdavester

5 жыл бұрын

This vid has to be quite old. Look at the computer in the back. Anyway, I watched this vid maybe 10 years ago when I started dancing

needs music

R u kidding me. Tom and Jerry

Cuando el porky daba clases de swing y ahora es presidente lol, así lo queri

You forgot the rock step. This is single step swing but no rock step.

Most people dance to music.

Great moves, but not the proper steps for swing. Triple-step, triple-step, rock step. Start with the steps not the moves

@largelester

4 жыл бұрын

several different styles of swing dude

N'importe quoi ... swing dancer ... lol