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Hey guys! I know I haven't posted in a few years, so hello hello. I was teaching some dancers the rainbow toss today and of course one of the girls ate it big time. Actually she was the very first to try it out of the whole group. I have seen so many people try to learn this lift and it ends in disaster so many times. Why do people have so many troubles with this lift? I have been both the lead and the follow in this lift and have never had that much of a problem with it. At this point I just believe that the rainbow toss is cursed and I will never try to teach it again...Discuss.
If the follow gets scared, (s)he often does exactly the wrong thing: instead of pushing off the shoulders of the lead, they grab on. Grabbing on, in this case, pretty much makes you faceplant instead of a nice, leapfroggy type action.
Ouch! Who was it? Will she be okay?
Spotters! Spotters are where it's at...
It was Chelsie (Chelsea?). She was hurt pretty bad, but she was walking by the end of the night.
Hi, Helena! =)
I assume you mean Chelsea G.
Chelsy A. spells her name with a 'y'.
The rainbow toss seems a lot safer on the surface than other tricks because the follow shouldn't be upside down or have their head rushing toward the floor. Given my first experience with it causing injury, I would agree with the instinctual reaction of grabbing on. After the injury, some of the follows refused to do the move.
I think it helps if the couple doing the move is somewhat physically compatible. In the injury I saw, the lead was considerably taller than the follow, making the follow even higher off the ground for her face plant and broken arm.
Then one time Laurel clothes lined Matt when she didn't make it over. Awkward. . .
Chuck, that curse seemed to only follow me. I guess now that I'm out of the country, it couldn't find me so it attached to you. I but I would submit that bobthecow is exactly right. The problem comes from girls getting scared and doing the exact wrong thing. I've seen and been on the receiving end of a rainbow-toss-gone-wrong, and it seems that when a faceplant/broken arm/broken nose/etc was avoided, it was by the following of that advice.
no no it's all in the wrist
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