Small Pivot - Intro
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- We're going to teach two really pr reasonably common.
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- The first is super common. The second is reasonably common.
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- Uh, small pivots where the leader steps around the follower.
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- But even more importantly than the small pivot we're
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- teaching is the sensation of it.
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- The, the idea that the pivot can be subtle and expressive
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- And intercom control.
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- So it's something that happens between us.
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- So here's the first one.
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- Uh, let's do from this angle,
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- and then right here I step around her softly,
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- and then we go on usually into a,
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- a left foot basic or something like that.
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- But right now, I don't care about that ending.
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- I care only about the first three steps,
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- 1, 2, 3,
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- And that little pivot feels very personal,
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- feels very just between us.
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- So for the leaders, keep in mind that if, uh,
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- if this is your partner, if, if, if I'm facing my partner,
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- if you are my partner, when I step around,
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- I need to turn a little bit.
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- So if she's here, as I step around, if I were
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- to take a big step, I'm facing here, you want
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- to keep facing your partner,
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- and in particular you wanna be going around the fall.
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- There's axis, which is on the ball
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- of her right foot in this case.
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- So as you step around, you step around,
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- but you, you turn just the tiniest hair
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- so you can stay facing essentially the line
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- of the ball of her right foot.
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- So I step side, and then with my right foot,
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- I step a little bit around, but I'm pivoting so small
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- And I'm not actually causing the pivot that much.
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- I'm just kind of letting him let it happen.
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- And, and then, then also I'll do it
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- with a shift of my weight.
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- You know, I don't have to use my upper body at all.
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- It's all this like, Rashida hug me.
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- All the sacrifices we make, yeah,
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- This is okay, You know, that, you know,
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- it's not about what the upper, what the,
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- the arms are doing at all, but
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- More hugging. This is
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- a great idea.
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- Okay. Then pivot number two would be, for example, if you,
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- uh, just did a tango close.
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- Then right here, I'll fake her out
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- and do a small weight change.
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- But I am just shifting a little rotating to my left.
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- So my left foot is free. I slide it past her just a little
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- so we can have a small pivot and then exit.
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- I wouldn't exactly call that faking me out, by the way,
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- Right? She, she, she knew
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- all along what I was doing.
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- So, one more time, we have a tango close right here.
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- I'll shift a little bit of weight to my left foot
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- and rotate a little to my left so that she shifts.
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- But my left foot is wide so
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- that I can then create a small pivot.
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- Now if you take a look at the foot shot,
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- it's an interesting dynamic.
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- So let's start over here.
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- So if we have that tango close forward side right here,
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- notice I have a sloppy clothes
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- and I'm around her so that the weight shift
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- for her isn't my complete shift.
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- So that we have a small pivot as I finish my weight shift,
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- And then I kind of chase his foot with my whole bo
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- with my body and my foot so that I stay really close to him.
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- So, play with these two. They're fun.
