Wed 12/29/04 6:30p Culver CIty (2x2 Multi-Step)

The 2x2 format was something I developed a few years ago when I actually had an official Multi-Step class. I was getting pretty creative and came up with some out-of-this-world routines and formations - we did not only 2x2 (moving between two boards fromt and back, and two boards side by side), but also 3x3, 4-square (four boards line up like a box), Zig-zag (L-shape that goes continuously), Triangle, Partners (2 people sharing two boards), Chorus Line (People move continuous up or down a line of boards) and Circles (boards line up like the minute marks on a clock, all the way around in a circle).

Since I don't do routines in my class - I think they are quite boring and offers no intellectual challenge - I had to come up with an efficient way to call out the step moves and board switches (if any). What came out were, like my single-board class, commands that begins with the "switch" then the "move". With every switch-move at four beats most of the time, I was calling a new switch-move about every 1.5 seconds. That's a lot of talking.

Yesterday was the last 2x2 class for the year, and maybe forever. I taught the diagonal switches plus the "side-diagonal-side" switch. My class was such a skilled group that we only had maybe about two or three "pile-ups" and almost everybody had no problem picking up the new switches.

Maybe one of these days if I ever go on the show circuit like Izett does I can show off my 2x2 class. But for now it shall remain undiscovered.