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Title: Reverse Wave
Level: Silver (ISTD); Bronze (IDTA)
Timing: (SQQ SQQ SSS)
Rotation: Up to ⅝ to L and ⅜ to R


Title: 1-6 Reverse Wave
Level: Silver (ISTD); Bronze (IDTA)
Timing: (SQQ SQQ)
Rotation: Up to ⅝ to Left


Title: 1-8 Reverse Wave
Level: Silver (ISTD); (-)(IDTA)
Timing: (SQQ SQQ SS)
Rotation: Up to ⅝ to 
L and ⅜ to R


Title: 1-4 Reverse Wave
Level: Silver (ISTD); Bronze (IDTA)
Timing: (SQQS)
Rotation: Up to ½ to Left

Click here for the Extended Reverse Wave.

Notes
The ISTD and IDTA disagree about the role of the Reverse Wave in Foxtrot. 
Older editions of the ISTD syllabus and the current IDTA syllabus list it as
a Bronze figure -- the latter also makes it the entry for the Basic Weave. 
The ISTD, by contrast, lists the Reverse Wave as a Silver figure throughout.
There are four principle variants of the Reverse Wave:

1. Reverse Wave consists of:
     1-3 Reverse Turn (SQQ), a Back Three Step (SQQ), and
     4-6 Natural Turn (Heel Pull)(SSS)

2. 1-6 Reverse Wave consists of:
    1-3 Reverse Turn (SQQ) and Back Three Step (SQQ) into 
     Closed Impetus, Open Impetus, or Back Feather (this would be
     an Extended Reverse Wave).

3. 1-8 Reverse Wave consists of:
     1-3 Reverse Turn (SQQ), a Back Three Step (SQQ), and 
     4-5 Natural Turn (Heel Pull)(SS) into a Hover Feather.

4. 1-4 Reverse Wave (IDTA only) consists of:
    1-3 Reverse Turn (SQQ) into a Check (S), forward into Basic Weave.

Video Example 1
Notes
-5A shows the full Reverse Wave (SQQ SQQ SSS). 
-5B shows the full Reverse Wave negotiating a corner. In this case,
       1-3 Reverse Turn is turned ⅝ and the Back Three Step ¼.

Video Example 2
See the annotated amalgamation here.
Notes
There is instance of 1-8 Reverse Wave in this video:
1. Occurs at 0:54
Entry Figure: Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
Exit Figure: Hover Feather


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Pre-Bronze
1. Feather Step
2. Three Step
3. Natural Turn
4. Reverse Turn
5. Feather Finish
6. Closed Impetus
Bronze
7. Natural Weave
8. Change of Direction
9. Basic Weave
Silver
10. Closed Telemark
11. Open Telemark
12. Feather Ending
13. Top Spin
14. Hover Feather
15. Hover Telemark
16. Natural Telemark
17. Hover Cross

18. Passing Natural Turn
19. Outside Swivel
20. Open Impetus
21. Weave from PP
22. Reverse Wave
Gold
23. Natural Twist Turn
24. Curved Feather
25. Back Feather
26. Natural Zig-Zag from PP
27. Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
28. Natural Hover Telemark
29. Bounce Fallaway with Weave Ending
Additional Figures
30. Quick Natural Weave from PP
31. Quick Open Reverse
32. Reverse Pivot
33. Extended Reverse Wave
34. Curved Three Step
35. Double Reverse Spin


Former Syllabus Figures
-The Box
-Natural Zig-Zag


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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