Weight Changes - Turning
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- 00:05
- So if you're using weight shifts to turn,
- 00:08
- I think one thing that's useful to pay attention
- 00:10
- to is who's on the outside of the circle
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- and who's on the inside of the circle.
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- So for example, here, if I were on the inside of the circle,
- 00:19
- then as I turn, I'm gonna keep my feet together.
- 00:21
- And if anything, my left foot will cut behind my right
- 00:25
- and that will make it much tighter, right?
- 00:27
- So right here, if I want to change weight so
- 00:28
- that she comes tight around me, I'll be doing that.
- 00:33
- 'cause I wanna make myself narrow and this makes me wide.
- 00:35
- Oh, you can't get by me.
- 00:37
- But if I do that, it's like, oh, let me make it easier
- 00:40
- for her to get by me.
- 00:41
- And the same thing can be true.
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- If I'm a follower, then I could say, oh,
- 00:46
- I want you to be able to get by me.
- 00:48
- Right? Be careful not to clip the top
- 00:50
- of your foot with a heel, though. It
- 00:51
- Would really genuinely be useful if all of you practice
- 00:54
- that because it's, we found it very difficult
- 00:56
- to teach in class, just that to make yourself narrow.
- 01:02
- So then as I'm asking her to go around me
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- and now my turn, and then,
- 01:11
- oh, look what happened.
- 01:12
- We're almost the other direction.
- 01:14
- So that's thought number one.
- 01:15
- And then thought number two is, as you go around,
- 01:18
- be cautious of, of losing the focus on your partner
- 01:22
- or letting the foot wander.
- 01:24
- So if I'm being the, uh, going one going around,
- 01:27
- then notice, here's an example of my foot wandering.
- 01:29
- Oh, I want to go around her.
- 01:32
- And here it's sort of going sideways and then goes around
- 01:35
- and then finally finds its destination.
- 01:37
- Instead of saying, oh, I'm going straight over here.
- 01:41
- And then likewise for her, she could say, oh, I'm,
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- I'm going straight over here so that there's no noise.
- 01:50
- That's thought number one.
- 01:51
- And thought number two is be careful
- 01:53
- of letting the body raise too much.
- 01:55
- So there can sometimes be an instinct for the body to do,
- 01:59
- I'm changing weight where it becomes up and over and up
- 02:02
- and over rather than staying over
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- and down, over and down.
- 02:08
- I wanted to mention that when David says noise,
- 02:10
- what he means is excess movement. Yeah.
- 02:12
- Thank you.
