Mapping - Extension
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- One really, uh, useful idea is how the movement
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- of the body should map one part of the body to another in,
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- in all dancing, but also in tango.
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- And in tango it's mostly in the rotation of the spine and,
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- and the hips and in the extension of the legs.
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- Um, so what's an example of bat?
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- So people, most people when they walk normally,
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- they walk fine, perfectly fine walk and things look logical.
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- And then they start to dance tango.
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- And they'll start to do things like this.
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- They'll be like, and they'll say, oh,
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- I extend, and I step and I collect.
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- And it'll look very unnatural.
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- And you know, you see someone do this in a supermarket
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- and you think they're crazy, but, and,
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- and maybe they are, they're crazy tango nuts.
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- And unfortunately they're not just crazy tango nuts,
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- but they're misguided crazy tango nuts, which is much worse.
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- Um, and so the point is that the reason that looks
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- so unnatural is because it doesn't make sense
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- to have your leg, your body
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- and your leg move is separate, uh, separate items.
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- So you'd say instead, well as my body moves,
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- so does my leg move.
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- And then if you do this in super slow motion, you know,
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- people would scratch their head,
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- but they wouldn't maybe say you were crazy.
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- Um, so then what's the point?
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- Well let, let's notice what's wrong if I do this,
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- that's wrong because my leg is going ahead of my body.
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- Um, uh, and many people will say, well you should practice,
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- you know, project the leg and then
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- and step, um, this is wrong.
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- Which people will also think of as leading with the chest
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- or leading with the body because the body's moving
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- independent of the leg.
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- And you can do the same thing backwards, right?
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- You could backwards equally wrong, right?
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- Equally wrong backwards as opposed to a, well we have
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- to work to have a natural back step.
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- But eventually you can say, well, as I go back,
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- my body is going with my leg.
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- So then we know what wrong is, uh, at either point
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- where the chest leads too much or the foot leads too much.
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- And then the trick is to say,
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- well actually I'm gonna move my body with my leg
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- rather than just my leg and then my body.
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- So then you can practice, you can say, well,
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- as I move forward naturally, at
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- what point do I reach a point of no return?
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- Oh, and you can work or pay attention to a natural walk
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- and then slow it down and slow it down.
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- So you walk naturally and you say, oh, I'll walk naturally.
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- I'll walk naturally.
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- Where you work to keep that mapping of the,
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- of this natural work.
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- So you start fast and everyone knows how to do it,
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- and then you go slower and that gets harder
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- to not lose your natural.
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- And, but then you start to feel the relationship
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- of the shift of the body to the extension of the leg.
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- And this is true forward, but it's also true side.
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- And when you go side once again,
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- you don't wanna do the leg and then shift the body.
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- You say instead, oh, as I go,
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- I feel the relationship between the body
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- and the leg, between the body and the leg.
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- And this is true in all directions. The back is the hardest.
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- You know, can you feel the body push the leg back?
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- Can you feel the body push the leg back?
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- It's really worth working on it.
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- It's a really profound difference between feeling awkward
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- and being, I dunno, even more amazing than you already are.
