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By Craig Shucker
Mike Jacobs was the featured caller for the May Trailblazers 25th Anniversay weekend. At this session Mike presented a good dance featuring interesting applications of concepts: (1) from outfacing lines with the boys as the right-hand couples -- Own The Boys, Link Up by Shakedown (2) from parallel single file columns with boys as #3 and #4 in the columns -- Own The Boys, Tandem Reach Out by Circulate (3) from 3&1 lines with infacing centers -- Own The Centers, Square The Bases by The Gamut (4) from 3&1 lines with ends with right hands toward the center and with outfacing centers -- Funny Scatter Circulate (5) from a formation formed from a double pass thru butterfly and having the center beaus Press Out & U-Turn Back -- Split Phantom Lines Do Your Part Ferris Wheel (6) from right-hand split phantom waves with all dancers in the outermost waves -- Split Phantom Waves 1/4 Thru (7) from a formation formed from parallel two-faced lines and having the leads Press Ahead and then all dancers Quarter In -- Split Phantom Lines Square The Bases (8) from a completed double pass thru "O" -- Split Phantom Lines Tandem Here Comes The Judge (9) from an "O" -- Split Phantom Columns The "K" (10) from infacing lines -- Split Phantom Lines Trip The Set (11) from parallel single file columns -- Split Phantom Columns Open Up The Column (12) from a formation formed from parallel ocean waves and having the lead centers Fold behing the adjacent trailing centers -- Split Phantom Waves Cast A Shadow (13) from a formation formed from a double pass thru and having every dancer slide one position to the left -- Initially Split Phantom Lines, Counter Motivate (14) from a tidal two-faced
lines with boys as the the very ends and with alternating sexes -- Initially
Boys, Disconnected Spin Chain The Line
Top | A-2 Workshop | A-2 Dance | C-1 Dance | C-2 Dance | C-3A Dance Since our anniversary attracted dancers who were new to Trailblazers to this session, Mike kept things relatively simple, but still managed to get in some interesting calls: (1) from various formations -- Single Wheel (2) from a formation formed from infacing lines and having either the right-hand or left-hand couple dancers Quarter In -- Split Square Chain Thru (3) from parallel ocean waves -- Peel & Trail (4) from parallel two-faced lines -- Peel Off (5) from a left-hand ocean wave -- Turn & Deal (6) from parallel inverted lines -- Any Hand 1/4 Thru (7) from parallel inverted lines -- Any Hand Remake (8) from a formation formed from a squared set and having all the dancers Quarter Left -- All 8 Peel & Trail (9) from 3&1 lines with
ends with right hands toward the center and with infacing centers -- Coordinate
At this session Mike used some of the material from the afternoon session and added some other interesting material: (1) from outfacing lines -- Left Turn & Deal (2) from facing couples -- Left Fan The Top (3) from parallel ocean waves -- Each Box Do The Centers Part Of Cast A Shadow (4) from 3&1 lines with ends with right hands toward the center and with infacing centers -- Motivate But Centers Replace 1st Cast Off 3/4 With Single Wheel & Roll (5) from 3&1 lines with ends with right hands toward the center and with outfacing centers -- Motivate But Centers Replace 1st Cast Off 3/4 With Pass The Sea & Roll (6) from parallel two-faced lines -- Motivate But Centers Replace 1st Cast Off 3/4 With Peel & Trail (7) from parallel right-hand
ocean waves -- Motivate But Centers Replace First Cast Off 3/4 With Peel
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This was primarily a dance session. Some of the more challenging calls involved call modifications or unusual positioning: (1) from infacing lines -- Coordinate (2) from a formation formed from parallel ocean waves and having everyone Split Circulate & Roll -- Coordinate (3) from right-hand or left-hand two-faced lines -- Tally Ho (4) from an "I" consisting of outfacing outside couples and a center left-hand wave -- Plenty (5) from a formation formed from an eight chain through and having everyone Rotary Spin & the original beaus Roll -- Tally Ho (6) from a completed double pass thru "O" -- "O" Concentric Partner Tag (7) from parallel ocean waves -- Stretch Fan The Top (8) from interlocked diamonds with all outfacing points -- Centers Work As Couples, All Regroup (9) from parallel 3&1 lines with centers with a right-hand hold and with outfacing ends -- Centers Work In Tandem, All Regroup (10) from same-hand twin diamonds -- PointsWork Tandem Throughout, Very Centers Start Swing The Fractions (11) from a tidal wave with boys as the ends of each wave -- Relay The Shadow But Boys Interrupt After Cast Off 3/4 With Walk & Dodge (12) from an eight chain thru -- Pass The Axle, Interrupt Before The Last Part With Acey Deucey & Spread (13) from a 1/4 Tag -- Scoot
& Plenty, Interrupt Before The Split Circulates With Percolate
This was was also primarily a dance session. Some of the more interesting calls included: (1) from parallel 3&1 lines with the centers in mini-waves and with outfacing ends -- Dodge Regroup (2) from parallel inverted lines with infacing ends -- Split Trade Perk Up (3) from facing twin diamonds -- Exchange The Diamonds 3/4 (4) from facing couples -- Shazam (dancers must step to a right-hand wave before executing the call) (5) from parallel inverted lines with infacing ends -- Ends Start Grand Chain 8 (6) from a stagger double pass thru -- Stagger Grand Chain 8 (7) from a tidal column with all dancers facing out -- Stretched Column Tandem Right Roll To A Wave (8) from parallelogram right-hand single file columns with the #3 and #4 dancers in the center box -- Parallelogram Stack The Line (9) from parallelogram right-hand single file columns with the #3 and #4 dancers in the center box -- Parallelogram Hocus Pocus (10) from parallelogram two-faced
lines with the leaders in the center box -- Parallelogram Grand Cross Trade
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