Instructional DVDs:

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Carrie Lucas Instructional Dance Videos $34.95 DVD plus shipping

Carrie's videos are simple to follow and easy to understand. Carefully edited by Bruce Gleason at Thumbs Up Video, these instructional DVDs include detailed slow motion to show you step-by-step each section and every angle. By far one of the most precise instructional videos produced. How much information is delivered through these DVDs will surprise you. Each DVD is $34.95. Please add $5 shipping. CA residents add 7.75% sales tax.

 West Coast Swing DVDs

WW110 Fourplay (a special pattern for four dancers)

Country Two-Step DVDs

WW401 Beginning / Intermediate

WW402 Intermediate / Advanced

*Country Line Dances Volume 1

WW201 Tush Push, Electric Slide, Cowboy Boogie, Slapping Leather, Cowboy Cha-Cha,

Carrie Lucas Prices: Each DVD $34.9 plus $5 shipping. CA residents add 7.75% sales tax.

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Jerry Dawson Instructional DVDs

Beginning Level, West Coast Swing – The Basics of the Dance

Jerry is one of southern California’s best instructors and has been dancing and teaching for many years. His DVD for beginners is over 2 hours long and has everything you need to learn the basics of the dance. Although Jerry's DVDs are a bit more than the others listed here, he has more information you can use in real-life social dancing. Also included is a link to his "Basics of the Dance" full size Workbook. This workbook has the complete written instruction for learning the basics of West Coast Swing. Very valuable for those who are just beginning the dance - and one of the only written instructions available.

$50DVD

Intermediate Level – Expanding Your Vocabulary in West Coast Swing. Again over 2 hours of lessons and over 54 patterns, many with alternative steps. An excellent West Coast Swing DVD. Produced at our stage at Thumbs Up Video in Orange, CA.       $50DVD

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Jonathan & Sylvia’s Dance DVDs

Jonathan & Sylvia has too many accolades to mention here, but the have performed and won many competitions around the world. Their DVDs were produced here at Thumbs Up Video and are an excellent teaching tool. Smooth Style Lindy has many West Coast Swing moves and is great for those who wish to dance Lindy but without the extreme physical demands that most Lindy styles have.

Beginning Smooth Style Lindy

Intermediate Smooth Style Lindy Vol. 1

Intermediate Smooth Style Lindy Vol. 2

Advanced Smooth Style Lindy

The Balboa: Very fast, 8-count, partners basically glued together, all footwork. The Balboa was created in, and named for, the Balboa Park Club, an enormous wood-frame building, home of the Naval Officer's Club in San Diego during WWII (Lowell Gosser, several-time WCS champion, *was* here in San Diego during the war, and backs up this story.). The floor is about 13,000 square feet. The Balboa has lots of fast footwork but not much whole-body movement, and was developed as an answer to the question, "What do you dance when the band plays Dixieland jazz?" (The Balboa uses a "shuffle" basic, with short foot movements and overall "look" optimized for really fast swing music, such as Dixieland.) Skippy Blair says that the Balboa is not a swing dance since it has no 6 count patterns, only 4's and 8's. All swing dances have a at least one or more 6 count patterns.

According to _Sylvia Sykes (who, along with Jonathan Bixby, has made Santa Barbara the Balboa capitol of the world), the Balboa really isn't a style of swing at all. It is danced almost exclusively in closed dance position and most closely resembles a dance the natives of 1930's Chicago called the Shag". The Balboa has an eight count basic but the rhythm pattern isn't like traditional single swing's "slow, slow, quick, quick". "It looks like cartoon dancing, close together, with lots of footwork, although the feet hardly leave the floor. The upper body remains still and the dance doesn't travel much around the room. You could dance to very fast music - 190 to 250 beats per minute! While being dressed up. At one time it was popular up and down the West coast, from Seattle to southern California."

Beginning Balboa

Intermediate/Advanced Balboa

Prices: $40 for the first DVD, $70 for two, $100 for three, $130 for four, and $160 for all five DVDs, plus $5 shipping.

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Shim Sham Instructional DVD w/ Skippy Blair     $40DVD

This DVD shows simple step-by-step instruction on hoe to dance the Shim Sham, with six well-defined sections.  This line dance comes from the 40’s New York swing scene – it’s fairly complex, but this DVD makes it easy to learn!

Recorded at the Jack & Jill Orama 1997 in Buena Park.

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There are several Workshop Notebook videos (summaries of workshops) which were taught at NASDE competitions that we also have available on DVD. Those workshops would be Seattle, Bridgetown Swing, and Swingdiego. The workshops are filled with the world's best swing dance teachers, each one giving specific instruction on their workshop which they taught. Each events workshop notebook is $45DVD plus $5 for shipping.

Also we have the DALLAS DANCE workshops, which are full-length workshops for a $90DVD.

       

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