We think ganchos are a little over-rated. They're cool but, on a scale from 1 to 100 of coolness, with 50 being normal, we would say a gancho is 55 or 60, so it's cooler than normal. But a lot of people think it's much higher. (Nancy says) How can I protect us when people want to lynch us for saying that?

To be fair, until the technique and the other movements become clear, you can't blame people for liking the gancho better than other movements. Because gancho movements are more macroscopic and more unusual, they are easier to see. Other movements are more subtle so it's harder to see their coolness, until those subtleties become clear.

One thing that's interesting that we see as teachers is that, oftentimes, students will like things more the more they understand them. Part of that is liking what you're good at, but part of it comes just from the understanding.