Gancho - Variation Principles - Leaders

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Yeah.
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One of the really fun things about Tango is,
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how I'm gonna say freed is how improvisational,
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how you can do anything at every, any time.
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And this is gonna be one really stark example.
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Um, so we showed you originally tango
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with a gancho in one position.
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But I think the point to, to make is that wherever she is,
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but with whatever leg she's walking forward, I can say,
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I'm gonna put a foot forward, like either behind
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or right in front, bend the knee, turn out the knee,
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and then take her back to a gancho bang, there's a gancho.
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Um, and then she can keep moving her on.
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And you know what, I can do that same thing.
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I can put either leg near her standing leg,
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turn the knee away from her, there's a gancho,
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and then she keeps moving on.
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And then I can pick either leg.
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And if you were here in person, I'd ask you
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to tell me which leg to pick,
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but just pretend you picked left.
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And I can go here and she could go gancho
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or I could go with the other leg gancho
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and you can go back, oh, maybe it's this leg.
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No, it's this leg. No, it's right.
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And you can just keep back and forth.
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We should do Back and forth. Oh, right, right.
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Or you can go, here's one way and then the other. I
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Like that one.
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Right. So, so the point is,
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any step actually can become a gancho pretty much.
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And you guys can play with it.
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And so then what are the basic principles?
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You say whatever leg is the leg.
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She, I say there's the standing,
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there's the weight bearing leg in the free leg for Gancho.
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And so she takes a step, take a step anywhere. There we go.
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So let's pretend we're taking her back into that gancho.
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Then you'd be saying for the leaders,
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you take your left foot, let's take to a different angle.
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Same, same step mom. Uh, yes.
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You'd say, Hey, let me put my foot near her foot.
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Could be here, could be here. You can rest. It's okay.
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Here, here, here. Doesn't matter.
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But my knee is near her back knee.
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It's bent, it's popped away a little bit.
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And then I give her momentum
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and stop with a little bit of a scoop.
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And you can do that in lots of places.
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And so the trick though, is not to do what we just did,
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which is doing a hundred of them.
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The trick is to take lots of time.
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So if I were to first learn this,
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I wouldn't do what I just did.
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I'd say, okay, partner, go some random step.
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And then I'd say very slowly,
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it doesn't matter which leg we use,
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what leg would you like to use?
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Surprise me. Would you like me to use?
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I'd like you to use your left leg.
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Oh, I should use my left leg.
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And then I'll take my time and I'll put my left leg here
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or here, doesn't matter.
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Knee bent, turned out a little bit.
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And then I take her back with momentum.
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So the first step is to learn to recognize these positions
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and then go slowly and take your time
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in lots of new positions.
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And then you can create your own gancho field combinations.
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So the idea is you pick one combin, one of these gancho,
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and you get yourself in that position.
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And you do it a bunch of times slowly.
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And then you pick a different one,
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and you do it a bunch of times slowly.
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And then you start looking around on your own to see
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how they, how you can connect her forward
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leg to your gancho.
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So once again, what are the things to recognize?
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Take your foot, put it near her
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trailing leg, or near the leg.
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That's gonna be weight bearing.
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When chi gancho, pop the heel,
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turn the knee away and it doesn't matter.
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Pop the heel, turn the knee away.
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Gancho
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Gancho