"Anonymous. Put it this way then. You have a ordinary camera and at the instant that the feet come together you snap them. Could you tell whether you were watching a Waltz or a Quickstep or a Foxtrot."
Yes, because if there is any grace and consistency to their dancing, the rise as the feet pass in foxtrot will be noticeably short of what would be required to absorb all momentum and keep them closed as in waltz. In waltz the energy here is purely 'up' - in foxtrot it is still mostly 'across'.
"What does the technique book mean when it carefully chooses words like. Rise at the end of one. Do that.Rise at the end of one, up on two and three. Does that say there is further rise on two and three. Of course it doesn't."
As has been explained to you and then silently ignored by you numerous times, the technique book only concerns itself with rise taken from the feet, ankles, knees, etc.
It does not concern itself with the change in body altitude the occurs as the legs close and reopen.
As has been pointed out to you time and time again, with todays large amounts of travel this creates a noticeable continuation upwards until the peak of step two, and a downwards trend thereafter.
The book is correct, but it does not tell the full story of what happens, prefering instead to concentrate on the intentional techniques rather than everything that incidentally happens as a result. You don't have to do anything to create this additional altitude gain as the legs close (you are correct that there is no continuation of the rise in the feet), you just have to stay picked up and let geometry due its thing.
That is a fundamental Basic that you should have learnt in a Bronze Class.
The problem is that you believe that what we both learned in brozne class is the full story - and have not yet realized that in fact it's only part of it.
"My body altitude will not experience a
continuation upwards as the feet close which you do obviously believe."
If it dosn't then there is something seriously wrong with your feather step, as everyone else experiences this incidental result when they execute the technique described in the book. It's simple geometry - decrease the width of the triangle formed by the legs and you increase the height.
Try watching some videos and determining where the highest altitude in a feather actually occurs. You will I guess be very surprised when you discover that it's as the feet pass at the end of step two.
