Weight Changes - Travelling
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- All right, so this step right here,
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- this is actually a traveling weight change.
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- This is a traveling weight change.
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- I mean, that's obviously not,
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- but then maybe you're finishing your basic
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- and do you go back against line of dance?
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- Well, you wanna be cautious, but you can keep this energy
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- and, and so that there's this still this sense of down, even
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- as you travel, you know, maybe a foot width.
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- And one thing to be cautious of is the same way it's hard
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- to go straight at your partner when you weight change.
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- It's often hard, uh, let me be awkward here.
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- Uh, fuss come to me.
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- So if I'm going straight towards her, it can be sort
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- of awkward to feel here if you're walking straight
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- to your partner on either side.
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- And part of the awkwardness is the fact
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- that the body stop being involved.
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- So if you watch someone and they're, uh, walking forward,
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- I'm, I'm gonna put this in air quotes naturally, uh,
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- then there's usually a sense of, okay,
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- yeah, I know how to walk.
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- I'm exaggerating a bit.
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- Um, but when you see people walk towards each other, uh,
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- in tango, you get something like this, I need
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- to stay on two tracks.
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- And all of a sudden you notice the torso is completely
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- unnatural, right?
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- So normally when we walk, we have this sort
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- of natural comfort body motion.
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- When you walk straight towards someone,
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- that easy is easy to get lost.
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- And even if you're doing these small weight changes
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- that are traveling, you still want to have that sense of,
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- of that, you know, see that small contra
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- rather than being here,
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- Show the feet.
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- The other thing you see when,
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- when people are walking together is
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- this, I don't want to step on.
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- I don't wanna step on. And it's really not necessary.
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- It's not that easy to step on a
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- Partner. And I'm just gonna
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- say that again
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- because you were far from the mic.
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- Uh, you, you'll see sometimes people
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- trying to avoid the feet.
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- So instead as I go towards her,
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- I'll go straight towards her, we'll go on the same line,
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- and as we go on this line,
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- we'll also be aware of our contra.
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- Now let's turn this, uh, and,
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- and make this look more like, uh,
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- what it is, which is weight changes.
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- So then you say, oh, here's that one small,
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- small white change that's traveling.
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- And then we, we dance a little bit.
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- And then here maybe are a couple of weight changes,
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- which travel a little bit.
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- And I'm calling them weight changes rather than small steps
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- because they don't push through space.
