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- 00:01
- We are gonna show you a few variations of back ocho.
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- This first variation is just like the normal BA ocho except
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- that it just pivots less.
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- And because it pivots less, it travels a little bit.
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- And uh, it's actually a little easier.
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- It is easier and it's more common.
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- And the key point is
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- after this pivot, I need
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- to step in the same line as her hips.
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- So we go the same direction in that step,
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- And I need to step the amount that he's stepping.
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- I'm using his body to move me back so I don't out step him.
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- So let's show you that same thing from a new direction.
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- And we showed you this actually in one of those combinations
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- of OCHO and you did, uh, basic.
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- Uh, the next example is a fair amount harder.
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- And that's that you can have the followers step
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- around the leader instead of traveling.
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- So I'll keep my feet basically stationary,
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- but for her it's much harder.
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- And thus for me,
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- because the pivot is humongous, she has to do a normal pivot
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- and then more so that it can stay close.
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- So you notice here we're about the same distance we started.
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- So you do those same pivots, you do just more huge.
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- And then there you are. Um,
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- When, when I first learned this, I thought of it
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- as pivoting an impossible amount and then pivoting more.
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- Actually that's how you thought of normal back
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- ocho, not of this.
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- That's true. This. Now the final example is the same, uh,
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- same, same thing except you do it only on that last pivot.
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- So here's our back ocho,
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- and then on this pivot, we can ask her to go and then more.
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- And then notice that we have a
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- BTA follower through the leader.
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- So this is your normal ocho.
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- And then we take that idea we just did
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- and we said, oh, well, let's pivot her even more.
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- So she goes around the circle
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- and then it becomes a bta.
