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Title: Forward Lock Step
Level: (-) (ISTD); Silver (IDTA) 
Timing: (12&3)
Rotation: None.
Notes
The Forward Lock Step is listed below the Backward Lock Step in Guy Howard's The Waltz and Basic Principles (2011), presumably because the Man's steps in one are the same as the Lady's steps in the other, and vice versa. Curiously, the Forward Lock Step has been given no Precedes or Follows, making it unclear whether the IDTA views it as a figure co-equal to the rest.

In ISTD syllabus Waltz, the Forward Lock is almost entirely absent. The only reference to it we could find was in our 1966 edition of The Revised Technique by Alex Moore, under the entry for the Back Lock: "A Forward Lock is not a good figure to use in the Waltz."

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Pre-Bronze
1. Closed Changes
2. Natural Turn
3. Reverse Turn
4. Natural Spin Turn
5. Whisk
6. Chassé from PP
Bronze
7. Closed Impetus
8. Hesitation Change
9. Outside Change
10. Reverse Corté
11. Back Whisk
12. Basic Weave
13. Double Reverse Spin
14. Reverse Pivot
15. Back Lock
16. Progressive Chassé to Right
Silver
17. Weave from PP
18. Closed Telemark
19. Open Telemark
20. Open Impetus
21. Cross Hesitation
22. Wing
23. Outside Spin
24. Turning Lock to Left
25. Drag Hesitation

Gold
26. Left Whisk
27. Contra Check
28. Closed Wing
29. Turning Lock to Right
30. Fallaway Reverse and Slip Pivot
31. Hover Corté
32. Fallaway Whisk
Additional Figures
33. Forward Lock Step
34. Fallaway Natural Turn
35. Running Spin Turn
36. Quick Natural Spin Turn
37. Open Natural Turn from PP


Former Syllabus Figures
-Backward Passing Changes
-Double Natural Turn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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