The Basic - Practice the Cross
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- This is the first in a series of videos where, um,
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- for each many times when we introduce a new step,
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- we'll go deep into one small, tiny piece of, uh,
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- important tango technique or later dance technique also.
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- Um, and the comment we wanna make is that this is the way
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- that you get excellent by working on very small things.
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- We're gonna be doing this repeatedly for different steps
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- and picking what we think is the pivotal piece of the step,
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- which when you master it will make excellence.
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- And what's more, no matter your level,
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- it's likely to be very relevant.
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- That's right. Because, uh,
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- profound truth doesn't change whether you're
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- beginning or advanced.
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- That's, it's still profound truth.
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- That's so if we talk about the basic, there's this moment
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- right here when the leader,
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- and I'm gonna move at a different angle.
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- When the leader, your hips are forward,
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- but your torso's a little bit to your right.
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- And so there are two motions.
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- There's the motion of taking your partner in front of you,
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- and there's the motion of shifting to your front leg.
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- And what I want you to do is find this motion
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- and then find this motion, this shift back and forth.
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- And then you're gonna map those two
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- together so that,
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- So one at a time and then put them together.
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- And we as followers are kind of doing the same thing.
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- Well, sort of the same thing.
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- And let me zoom in for this. Whoops.
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- Wrong zoom. Here we go.
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- We are slotting our front foot
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- to our back foot, hopefully making our toes even
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- and staying on the ball of our foot
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- because the goal is that the leader's forward step is
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- what pushes us down and makes us take the back, back, step,
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- slot the foot in even the toes,
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- stay on the bowl of the foot.
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- And then as the leader goes forward,
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- his moving his chest forward, his body forward is
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- what makes us go backward.
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- Practice. Go slowly. Go slowly to go fast.
