Slidebreak (5 counts ; 10 musical beats) : Brief Description

The combination of a Side To Side and a Slidebreak is called an “overhead walk”.

Steps

1: (Step back)

The man leads the lady to move backwards — by pushing her right hand slightly with his left hand — as he moves backwards-left off the lady's line, leaving it free for her to step forwards and offers his right hand for the lady to take his right hand in her left hand.

2: (Step in)

The man leads the lady to move forwards — by pulling her right hand slightly with his left hand and pulling her left hand slightly with his right hand — as he moves forwards.

3: ()

The man leads the lady to move left — by pushing her left hand slightly with his right hand and releasing the lady's right hand from his left hand — as he moves left.

4: ()

The man leads the lady to continue to move left — by letting the lady continue, as indicated by his previous lead — as he moves left.

Some dancers syncopate the slide away: stepping away on the beat on their outside legs (on the ball of the foot), and closing the inside foot to the outside foot with weight on the and beat (so that the outside foot is free to walk forwards).

5: ()

The man leads the lady to continue to move left — by letting the lady continue, as indicated by his previous lead — as he moves left.

6: (Finish)