Basic & Ocho - Front Ocho at the Cross
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- And this is a really iconic, common, common combination.
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- And here the follower is doing front is in the
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- circle around me.
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- Oh, we're interrupting the basic to do that.
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- So let's show that again.
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- The first half of the basic, you know, the right here,
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- I don't change weight, pivot her, and then I open
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- and she steps around me and close and she steps around me.
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- And if you look just at the leader's footwork, um, notice
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- that after she crosses right here, I open.
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- And what do you notice? You notice that my instep is
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- to my right heel because this is a very narrow position.
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- I'm trying to make it easy for her to get
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- around me if I did this.
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- This is like saying you can't pass.
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- And so instead you say, why don't you come around me
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- and why don't you come back?
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- So here's that moment. Why don't you come around
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- and notice she stays pretty close.
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- There's an instinct on that forward step to walk away.
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- Um, we should talk about the way you get
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- out of the cross in that.
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- What's that? How do I get outta the cross?
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- Could you tell me, could you do
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- A close up of the feet, please?
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- Uh, right here? Yes, please. Sure.
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- So my, I'm transferring my weight to my left foot
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- and then with my right foot, I'm sketching
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- around my foot quite tightly and stepping around him,
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- Do that again.
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- So I transfer my weight to my left foot
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- and then I'm kind of pulling to the ball
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- of my big toe to come around.
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- It's not as easy as it looks.
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- And then after that, you end with the same tango clothes.
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- You end the normal basic width, step side
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- together and bath.
