The lesson will be broken down into easy to follow sections to start you off, and then builds up from there.

The Dance – Rock & Roll Jive

We’ll be covering the basic movement (called a Fallaway Rock), a Throwaway and then a step called the Pull Spin.

The Fallaway Rock and the Throwaway also feature in the Ballroom Jive. The Pull Spin is a Rock & Roll step but can also be adapted for your Ballroom Jive if required.

Our aim is to give you a selection of steps that can be learnt and mastered in a confined space.

The important thing is to make sure that you don’t rush your Rock & Roll Jive. The timing is quick-quick, slow, slow and you must make sure those sideways movements are slower than the back rock.

The Music

We’ve used a track called Days Far Ahead by Logan Rich for this lesson, but any Rock & Roll style track should work. Please note we had slowed the tempo down for teaching purposes:

The Rock & Roll Jive online lesson

Our online video lesson can be found below. We hope you enjoy.

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Still on target for a Ricky & Laila dance-off, but wait it appears Anton is more popular than Natalie.

I preferred Natalie’s original Rock and Roll performance to Ricky’s but I think it’ll take a miracle for Natalie to be saved unfortunately.

Ricky’s up first, and starts with what appears to be the same mistake he made the first time.

Still feels a little lacklustre, though Len might appreciate Natalie’s pop-out!

Natalie’s up next and still the same wonderful amount of energy, shame about the mistake with the through-the-legs manouvere.

Unfortunately I don’t think there was much chance of Natalie staying in the competition out of the two of them, and I’d be surprised if it isn’t 4-0.

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Just waiting on Len to confirm it…

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…and there’s the confirmation.

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Sorry Ricky but already this has much more energy and fun than your performance – and there’s a knicker shot for Len!

It actually seems a little too Jive’y in places but I’ll give this an 8 too.

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I’m already scared from watching the training videos of the lifts!

I do wish Ricky would do something with his free hand, it does tend to just hang around.

Looks like a slight mistake at the start but Ricky appears to have recovered admirably.

For me the routine just appears to lack energy, which is surprising considering the content, and very nearly a bad slip-up at the end!

Should get 8’s though.

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