Settle a debate:

The way I learned in College Station and the way everyone else there two-stepped (unless my mind is even fuzzier from college binge drinking than I think it is) was, from the man's perspective:
-One full step with the left foot
-One half step with the right foot to be parallel with the left foot
-One full step with the left foot
-One full step (even a little bigger of a step than those taken with the left foot) with the right foot

Basically, like this:



But other people I've encountered, and most videos on the internet, seem to teach it like just walking:
-One quick full step with the left foot
-One quick full step with the right foot
-One slow full step with the left foot
-One slow full step with the right foot



Am I an idiot, are Aggies idiots, is everyone else wrong, or are there just different ways to do it?

That second way looks dumb as hell

These "other people you've encountered" are stupid and should be openly mocked

If you repeat your four steps, wouldn't your right foot be way in front of your left foot? Two full steps with right foot, 1.5 steps with left foot.
Edit: my feet are reversed from your post.

redd38 said:

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That second way looks dumb as hell

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Videoing in portrait in the dark looks dumb as hell too though.

One, two, one-two-three. Start with a step to the left.

Or

Left, right, left-right-left.

LEFT right LEFT right RIGHT left IS WHAT MY FEET DO I THINK BUT IM A LITTLR DRINK

Men:
Left (full)
Together(bring right to left)
Left (full)
Right (full)

histag10 said:

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Men:
Left (full)
Together(bring right to left)
Left (full)
Right (full)

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This is correct.

That Song in that first video. Jon Wolfe sucks.

That's not a two stepping tune

Left
Right
Left
Right
B
A
Select
Start

No, that is no how I spent 4.5 years in the hall of Shame dancing, and I never had a girl go WTF are you doing. My wife and I just finished a wedding, I just did the steps.

I got 1 full step left, half right, half left, full step right, half left, half right, repeat....

Always spin her on her left foot, your right foot.

It's just a jump to the left

I never understood why the two step actually has 3 steps and you dance to music with 4 beats per measure.

I had a hard time getting it at first because the L-L-R steps take 3 beats to finish so you're starting the next sequence in the middle of the measure. Still doesn't make sense to me.

Claude! said:

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It's just a jump to the left

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And a step to riiiiiiiiiiiight

The second one looks closer to a waltz.

Left
(Even)
Right
(Even)
Left
Right
Left

The repeat starting with your right foot.

So, a couple years ago my wife bought a groupon for an intermediate two-step class in the Woodlands. We show up with a couple other couples. The instructor introduces himself, says he's from California, talks about all the competitions he has won (who knew there were two-stepping competitions?), and says that Texans don't know how to two-step. He then proceeded to waste an hour of our time, teaching us the "right" way to two-step.
(Edit) Now that I have watched the video up top, that may be the same dude in the second video.

Yep, I would say competition two step is a lot different from the dance hall two step most all of us do here in Texas. Years ago I dated a girl who danced in competitions, and the patterns were a lot different when they were dancing for judges.

Well, thanks for settling a debate I had about 30 years ago. Counting different styles, turning, going backwards and all, there are about 20 different STEPS to the 2-step. So, I'm not crazy.

I learned to two step at Country Western Dance Class for PE credit in 1985.

We learned "Quick, quick, slow, slow".

35 years later that technique hasn't let me down!

Is that first couple trying to poke someone's eyes out or something? Look like fools with their hands/arms flailing all over the place.

i learned the first way but then i saw urban cowboy and tried doing it like bud. been stepping on toes knockin knees ever since.

It looks like a lot of people on this thread don't know the differences between a two-step, three-step, waltz, polka, and just walking around a dance floor.

Waltzing is hard.

2 step is a easy drunk dance, so naturally it works for dance halls.

Also, in my case, we spin so much and in so many different ways that the two stepping part is largely irrelevant.

Great Beard of Zeus said:

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Waltzing is hard.

2 step is a easy drunk dance, so naturally it works for dance halls.

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Waltz is one of the easiest, if you can count to three you can waltz.

You jump to the right and you shake a hand
Then you jump to the left and you shake that hand
Meet new friends
Tie some yarn
And that's how you do the Scarn

Clearly only way to settle this debate and that's a dance off. Old Army night at Harry's when the covid clears.

ptothemo said:

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Clearly only way to settle this debate and that's a dance off. Old Army night at Harry's when the covid clears.

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Why not meet in the Walmart parking lot and pretend its the THOF?

Need a regulation surface so that there are no excuses from the losing parties.

Let's move on..How 'bout a Schottische?