Gancho - Variation Principles - Followers
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- Followers as you're now saying, well,
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- a gunshot can happen anytime.
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- How does that change what I do?
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- In some ways, the answer is it doesn't.
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- You know, you have the same, uh, useful principles,
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- but it's helpful for you to know first,
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- when is a ganjo possible?
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- And the short answer is, you,
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- you have three steps in tango, right?
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- You have forward side and back forward step.
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- There's no gancho side step.
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- You might get a gancho back step, you might get a gancho.
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- So every time that you step, uh, let's say side right here,
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- you're going side, you might say, oh, there might be a here.
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- And then every time you step back you say, oh,
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- there might be a gun show there.
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- That's thought number one.
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- And then when you're holding your leader's body,
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- you can usually feel them shift their body.
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- You can sense that their leg is going out,
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- that they're turning their hip to make room.
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- And so if your leader's going
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- to lead you in some weird gancho, pay attention,
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- how do their bodies change?
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- And then that will give you lots of forewarning.
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- Don't ask, are they leading me into a gancho?
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- Let's pretend you're practicing it.
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- Ask instead, is there forewarning
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- that I can pay attention to next time?
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- Just what do I notice about their bodies?
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- They're about to lead me to gun show. That's number one.
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- Number two, uh, if a leader is standing here
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- at this angle, actually, let's be here at this angle.
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- There's not a lot of space.
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- But if you turn the leader this way,
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- there's more space right between the legs.
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- And what you do is you turn your hips to say, where
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- can I turn my hips so that my leg can find that space?
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- And that's true in this back step,
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- but it's also true in the side step that the gun show here,
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- the gun show, his knee would be right here.
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- And you want to go to the side of his knee.
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- And so there's two gestures.
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- If you're doing a gancho on a sidestep,
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- and we'll talk about this more, but the idea is you just
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- wanna look for the space wherever it is.
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- If my leader's over there,
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- and I'm gonna do a gancho, I'm gonna turn my hips
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- so I can find that space.
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- If my leader is over here
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- and I'm gonna do a gancho, I'll turn my hips or,
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- and find the space over there.
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- There's a leg right here.
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- I'll say, oh, I can move my knee over and find the space.
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- So that's one useful thing.
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- When these GTOs come in unexpected places,
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- how can I turn my hips?
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- So it's easy for our, for our, uh, for my, our,
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- our knees to lock.
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- Um, final point is that if you get too far away,
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- it's really hard, right?
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- So if my leader's here and I try to gancho
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- and his legs right here,
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- and I'm over here, I'll never reach.
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- So part of this is staying really close to your partner
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- as you go around, so that when you comes time to gancho
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- or rap or whatever it is, uh,
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- you don't have to reach for it.
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- Stay close. That means you have to pivot a lot sometimes,
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- especially on that back step.
