Someone sounding suspiciously like yet another Quickstep alias posted:
"The only way to get the body ahead of the foot is to have a straight knee."
Flawed logic.
You can very easily do it by bending the standing knee forwards while advancing the body forwards so that it remains vertically aligned over the standing knee.
In fact, you can see a picture of precisely that as frame #2 of the "forward walk" on this website. The only difference in that sequence is that the moving foot has already gone through too early. Ignore that and the picture shows the exact position of the standing leg standing foot and body described: knee bent, body vertically aligned, but ENTIRELY FORWARD OF THE STANDING FOOT.
Of couse you can also do it off a straight leg, and will do so at the end of step two of numerous figures in the modern ballroom. There use to be a great picture of Marcus Hilton hanging there, body weight beyond both feet as he prepared to step out in promenade.
"I have heard i should project my spine forward. I have heard i should project my body forward, which mean the same. Never have i been told that my spine , body will go to an imbalanced position."
If it doesn't, you'll be constrainted to either taking steps no more than about one and a half times the length of your foot (so that you can go from balanced over the back foot to balanced over the front foot, with no intervening imbalance), or else you'll have to halt your body in place and only move it at times when both feet are stationary. Obviously real dancers do NEITHER OF THESE SILLY THINGS - which can be avoided only by the appropriate flight of the body through substantial periods of imbalance. (Don't let yourself be confused by the moving foot being on the floor - it is still cannot contribute support to balance during the time when it is moving across the floor)
"otherwise he would be falling backwards. Sorry if this treads on a few toes but facts are facts no matter how a person moght wish to thing otherwise."
Facts are indeed facts, but in this case you are ignorant of them. A substantial portion of any normal walking is precisely a fall; however it is a well aimed and well timed fall that takes you exactly where you want to be when you want to be there.
In contrast, we often misuse the word "fall" to mean allowing something that we didn't want to have happen happen, such as moving backwards faster than appropriate. But that's not just falling, it's falling as a result of poor aim and body timing. Good falling, well aimed and timed, is a necessary element of most human movement. And that is fact, recognized by all who research human movement, regardless if you want to proclaiim your ignorance by disputing it!
"As far as not counting the beats. Are they crazy. When i tap my foot to a tune being played Am i not counting."
Not unless you are using language to assign meaning to the taps. But foot tapping can also be distracting to your ability to sense what is going on, and as a result is prohibited in many musical performance ensembles. Seriously - you risk a lecture from the podium or even being ejected from rehearsal.
Plus you can't exactly tap your foot while dancing! Especially in a dance like foxtrot where most steps do not land on beats.
