Whirlpool Cha Cha

Position:

Partners start facing each other across LOD, Lead facing out from the circle and Follow facing inside of the circle, holding both hands.

Start after 48 beats (on vocals). Dance will end with scuff, step, scuff, stomp

ROCKS & TRIPLE STEPS

Styling: When rocking forward and back, you can bring your arms into the movement with a slight (or exaggerated) see-saw motion. Push left arm forward and pull right arm back on counts 1 and 5, return arms to neutral position on counts 2 and 6 LEAD:

FOLLOW:

KICK BALL-CROSS (AFTER ¼ TURN), COASTER STEP, SCUFF STEPS

LEAD:

FOLLOW:

CROSSOVERS

Start this section with leader on inside rail, follower on outside rail, both facing LOD holding inside hands. Start crossover with inside foot. Leader crosses in front (LOD) first, then follower crosses in front. LEAD:

FOLLOW:

FULL TURN FREE SPIN, SHUFFLE FORWARD, SHUFFLE SIDEWAYS, CROSS, POINT

When doing the triple step at the end of the previous section (crossovers), both lead and follow should extend their joined hands slightly back (towards RLOD) to "wind up" for the free spin starting this section. Start free spin with inside foot. LEAD:

To make the dance progressive ('mixer'), on counts 27&28 lead should shuffle forward to the next follow in LOD (follows shuffle only slightly forward so leads can catch up) and immediately pick up both the follow's hands to go into the sideways shuffle.

FOLLOW:

REPEAT