Hand-in-hand hold
Partners skate apart with arms extended and hands clasped, side by side or facing each other.
Also called hand in hand, hand-in-hand position or arm-in-arm. Other names.
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The partners skate apart with arms extended and one pair of hands clasped. Facing the same way, they travel side by side or one behind the other; the drawing shows them side by side. Facing opposite ways, one skates forwards and the other backwards with the joined arms out to the side, and in the Cha Cha Congelado the pair can even be back to back.
U.S. Figure Skating’s rulebook counts the arm-in-arm position, side by side with arms linked, as a variation of it.
The Swing Dance moves into it for its forward steps, steps 9 to 13 and 24 to 28, and asks for at least 24 inches between the partners there, so both can skate forwards without catching each other’s feet.
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In the UK's grades
None of the British level lists in this guide name it outside the Skills tests below.
No test syllabus recorded yet.