Asa Heedman just posted this on Facebook . I am so confused about the new Basic 8 count in Lindy . Obviously , someone within the later years decided that a Lindy basic is an 8 count step side by side moving backwards and forwards . Who invented this and who started to call this the basic and why is almost all Lindy hoppers in the world learning this as their Basicstep ? ! What is wrong with just the old , traditional basicstep 8 count on the spot and that later on will take you to all different kinds of directions . I am somewhat okay but still a bit disappointed that no one seems to know the straight out swing out any longer that most of us who started dancing when Frankie was still alive called a basic swingout . But when even the very first step , the very basic step couldn ' t be left like it always been is quite worrying and disturbing . Back to Basic !