Gancho - What to Practice
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- So ladies and gentlemen, meet my partner, Frank.
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- He, he also has been studying tango for a long time now,
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- as we talk through the gancho for the leaders, uh, out
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- of the way, Frank, uh, for the leaders, I want you to think
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- that you have that it's a really complicated motion,
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- and so you have to build it up slowly.
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- I mean, I probably don't have to tell you it's complicated.
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- Think about the build it up slowly piece, meaning
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- that the first piece is just getting used
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- to picking up your knee and your heel, right?
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- So some people will bend the knee by shifting forward,
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- but that invades your space.
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- We'll get there later. So you pick up your knee
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- and your heel, and that may mean
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- that your foot slides back a little bit
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- or you place your foot close enough if you're doing the,
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- the version we did before.
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- So you have number one, oh, I can pick up my knee.
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- And then you have number two.
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- I can pick up my knee and I can turn it out, right?
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- So here's the turnout of your leg.
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- And you want to correlate these two things, the knee
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- turnout, but you're gonna do them at the same time.
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- One thing, one more time, one thing,
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- picking up the knee and turning it out.
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- So then as you do this reo gancho, as you bring her back,
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- you say knee and I'm gonna be turned out.
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- And then you add to that rotation,
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- meaning, oh, she's over here.
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- I wanna bring her back. So you go and come back
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- and notice that there's this rup, there's some speed to it.
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- Rup with a little bit of a swoop underneath.
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- Now WW
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- people pay a lot to hear that sound.
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- Anyway, here we go. So now you add all of those together,
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- drop, and then that will give you a good gancho lead,
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- but you, it needs lots of practice.
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- Now for followers, uh, let's see. Now here it is with Frank.
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- Uh, as you go to your freno, see
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- how Frank sticks his leg out, you walk over and,
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- and notice, actually lemme call this out.
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- The first thing is mapping. It's not even the kick,
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- it's being careful to do a gesture
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- with your leg and then shift.
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- But instead say it's the movement of my center of gravity
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- that influences, uh, the step over with my left leg.
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- And then as the leader brings you back
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- and starts scooping underneath, notice how my hips turn.
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- And then as my center of gravity goes back,
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- my left foot follows my center of gravity.
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- So it's just getting used to this idea
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- that your foot goes over
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- and your foot comes back as your center of gravity shifts.
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- And then only after you get through that do you then say,
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- and then I extend through the hip.
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- I flick, and then I leave my knee back
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- as my leg comes down.
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- So, one more time. Eno walks over foot map
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- to center, foot map to center.
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- Do it in the hip. Wham. And collect.
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- Here, I'll bow here. So here's our bow with me and Frank.
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- Close up.
