Gancho - Variations - Side Step
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- I feel like this is Gancho outside
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- and it's one of my favorite Gancho.
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- Uh, but, but it's coming from the sidestep.
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- So, uh, here's a demo and then we'll break it down.
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- I,
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- And so as she's stepping side, for example, here,
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- The leader puts his leg in, unexpectedly, pulls in,
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- and she has a gun show crossing over herself.
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- And the idea for the followers is to realize
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- that it's not just this, that you have a certain range
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- of motion in your hip socket to get
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- that, uh, thigh over.
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- So you have room, right, uh, for the leaders, uh, you want
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- to think that you're following her leg.
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- So she's here, you're gonna turn your knee away
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- and, and slide it over as she goes so
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- that your knee is close to her standing knee.
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- And so this could, uh, so let's do it from here.
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- So for example, right here, I'll turn my knee to my left.
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- And for me, there's a pivot both on my standing
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- foot and in my hip.
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- Oh, let's see. So for
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- example, right?
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- So it can go either direction
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- and it doesn't really matter
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- which leg I put in front either.
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- So we could be here once again, either leg for either of us.
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- Yes, for either of us. So for example, maybe the neutral,
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- the, the simplest, most straightforward version would be
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- as she steps side around me,
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- I can put my foot in, pop my heel,
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- turn my knee towards her or the other way.
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- Now, one thing to be conscious of in the lead follow,
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- it's a very tricky lead actually.
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- Um, because if she were here, can you,
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- uh, what's the right angle?
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- No, let's do to the mirrors, uh, to the camera.
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- Uh, stand here. Feet on the line. Bingo.
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- So right here, as I pull her this way,
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- I wanna pull her this way.
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- I wanna rotate her. And at the same time,
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- the pull is gonna be not just this way in line with her,
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- but just a little bit to the side.
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- So I'm pulling her just off the line. Wow, that is tricky.
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- So as if I'm pulling her this way and rotating her.
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- So with that back arm for the leaders, you say to her,
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- go this way, rotate, and then tilt. Can
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- You close up that this seems
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- to me important to make it feel really good
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- for the follower, which is of course what I'm about.
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- Of course. So
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- right here with this right arm, you would be saying to her,
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- step side, rotate.
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- And so I'm rotating her and I'm pulling her into me.
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- But very, very subtle,
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- because if you do too much, she'll fall.
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- Right? And then tilt
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- and throw for the gun show, same thing, different angle.
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- Uh, let's do it over here.
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- So for example, if she goes around, I can tilt
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- and throw, and it's this back arm,
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- which is the most important arm.
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- Um, and then showing the legs for the, the styling.
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- Let's actually do, here,
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- let's do this one.
