Basic & Ocho - Traveling Back Ochos
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- And we've actually not.
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- The back OCHO
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- that we teach is actually not the most common back ocho
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- socially, the most common ba ocho socially actually goes on
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- a zigzag 'cause that allows you
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- to travel along the line of dance.
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- And so let's show that from another view
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- side leader changes pivot like you normally do.
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- And then right here, instead of going uh, side
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- to side, we'll pivot half as much.
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- So we go on these zigzags.
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- So notice how little David's chest is
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- moving to get me to do the back
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- Ochi mostly in the hips.
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- And then to exit. I'm going
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- to exit now on standing on my right foot, change weight
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- and it'll go out into the cross.
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- One thing that is useful is not to lose your sense
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- of direction, because normally
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- Tango's a very geometrical dance.
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- It's either side or forward.
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- And if you watch someone dance tango,
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- you imagine them doing things like this
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- where there's this clean collection
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- and this clean sense of forward or side.
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- And what you don't have is something like this,
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- Which ha, which is wrong for two reasons.
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- The first reason it's wrong, it's
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- because it's stepping diagon, diagonal and diagonal.
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- And the second reason it's
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- wrong is because it's not collecting.
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- But even this looks weird, sort of this kind
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- of diagonal skiing.
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- So instead what you do as a leader,
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- what I do is I turn my hips a little bit
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- so it feels like a sidestep
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- and a sidestep that goes along with her back step.
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- Small detail. But you know,
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- these details help make you even more beautiful than you
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- are, than you start.
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- Is that possible? Don't be ridiculous, David. So here we go.
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- And I'm only going how far he takes me,
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- so I'm not out stepping him
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- And then end with a cross.
