The mirror of the whip with inside turn: the follower takes an outside (clockwise) turn on counts 5–6 while returning down the slot. It is commonly used to set up spins, hand changes, or free-spin exits. The turn starts after the post, not on 4.
For a single turn the lead arm stays long and open through the redirection. Robert Royston warns that bringing the arm in usually makes it a double turn.1 In the double-turn version each step is a half rotation, and either version finishes with an underarm turn to fix the handhold.2
Footnotes
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Robert Royston, "How to Do Whip w/ a Single Outside Turn | Swing Dance" (Howcast) at 0:54. ↩
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Robert Royston, "How to Do Whip w/ a Single Outside Turn | Swing Dance" (Howcast) at 1:21. ↩
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Created Jul 12, 2026 · last edited 1d ago