Transquarter Movements

What the hell is a "Transquarter"? You know, I don't really know but I do know what a Transquarter Movement is in the Dance of Shiva and I'll explain it here...

Change Plane Movements Forwards Backwards Transquarter
Transquarter Movements in the Horizontal Plane	Horizontal Plane

Position 1	Transquarter, 1 to 3	Transquarter, 1 to 3	Position 3
Position 2	Transquarter, 2 to 4	Transquarter, 2 to 4	Position 4
Position 3	Transquarter, 3 to 1	Transquarter, 3 to 1	Position 1
Position 4	Transquarter, 4 to 2	Transquarter, 4 to 2	Position 2

Change Plane Movements Forwards Backwards Transquarter
Transquarter Movements in the Vertical Plane	Vertical Plane

Position A	Transquarter, A to C	Transquarter, A to D	Position C
Position B	Transquarter, B to D	Transquarter, B to C	Position D
Position C	Transquarter, C to A	Transquarter, C to B	Position A
Position D	Transquarter, D to B	Transquarter, D to B	Position B

The Explanation of What it is....

Most of the times that I type Transquarter my spell checker underlines it in red. I guess the term hasn't made itself into the public subconscious as of yet. Not to worry, here is one entry of said term into the light. It's a way of moving from one point to another point that isn't a Forward Movement or a Backward Movement. It's sort of like a shortcut between two points which you would normally need two Consecutive Forward Movements or two Consecutive Backwards Movements to move between. So instead of going from A to C via B (Forwards from Position A to Position B and then Forwards again to Position C) we can go straight there via a Transquarter... or a Jump.

So why not call it a jump movement instead? Well, the guy who invented this exercise decided to call it that. And it does sound kind of cool.

Now notice that each row as usual corresponds to one complete Transquarter movement. Unlike Forward or Backward Movements if we continuously do Transquarter movements we only keep moving between the same two points. So they aren't that much fun to do unless we somehow combine them with other movements. One way we can do that is to do a Forward Movement and then a Transquarter and then a Forward movement and then a Transquarter. Repeat this set of movements four times (for a total of eight movements) and we return to whence we came.

e.g.
from 1 to 2, (Forwards)
from 2 to 4, (Transquarter)
from 4 to 1, (Forwards) (we're not there yet because we have to do a Forwards and a Transquarter)
from 1 to 3, (Transquarter)
from 3 to 4, (Forwards)
from 4 to 2, (Transquarter)
from 2 to 3, (Forwards)
from 3 to 1.... (the final Transquarter) and so we return from whence we came.

Transquarters in the Horizontal Plane
Transquarters in the Vertical Plane