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Title: Four Step Change
Level: Silver (ISTD); Gold (IDTA)
Timing: (QQ&S) or (QQQQ)
Rotation: 1/4 to Left.
Notes
In our 1966 edition of The Revised Technique, the Four Step Change is 
featured as a Named Variation (Gold). In the figure's notes, Alex Moore 
recommends that it be "used anytime instead of a Brush Tap," and should 
employed on the floor "in the same way as a Change of Direction in Foxtrot."

Video Example 1
Notes
-18 shows a Four Step Change with a 1/4 turn to Left.

Video Example 2
See the annotated amalgamation here.
Notes
There is one Four Step Change in this video:
1. Occurs at 0:40
Entry Figure: 2 Walks
Exit Figure: Progressive Link

Please note that this extreme example of the Four Step Change 
deviates from the Ballroom Technique in two ways: 
a) The Man crosses his feet between steps 2 and 3; and 
b) The Man strongly overturns his top line to the left. 

Syllabus competitors should be wary that this styling of the 
Four Step Change can be confused with the Back Contra Check 
(not Syllabus).  


Pre-Bronze
1. Walk
2. Open Finish
3. Progressive Side Step
4. Progressive Link
5. Closed Promenade
6. Rock Turn
7. Open Reverse Turn, 
    Lady Outside
8. Back Corté
Bronze
9. Open Reverse Turn, 

    Lady in Line
10. Progressive Side Step 

       Reverse Turn
11. Open Promenade
12. L.F. and R.F. Rocks
13. Natural Twist Turn
14. Natural Promenade Turn
Silver
15. Promenade Link
16. Four Step

17. Reverse Four Step
18. Back Open Promenade
19. Outside Swivel (Methods 1-2)

20. Reverse Outside Swivel   
      (Methods 3-4)
21. Fallaway Promenade
22. Four Step Change
23. Brush Tap
Gold
24. Fallaway Four Step
25. Oversway
26. Basic Reverse Turn
27. The Chase
28. Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
29. Five Step

30. Reverse Five Step
31. Contra Check
Additional Figures
32. Reverse Pivot
33. Alternative entries to PP

Former Syllabus Figures
-Open Promenade In-line

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