Pivot - Move the Elbows
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- Okay.
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- Now, once again, after you have dense tango for six months
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- or a year and you're more comfortable with the basics
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- and pivoting and OCHO
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- and stuff for the followers, I want you to imagine
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- that you can let your elbows move.
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- And so I'm gonna give you a demo where the elbows are not,
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- where they're moving, not moving and moving.
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- So here's your multi-stage demo.
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- Here's the elbows moving, and I'm gonna exaggerate a bit.
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- Uh, let's do fronto jaws.
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- And I want you to notice the way the arms
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- have changed their shape.
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- And so you'll see, and now let me actually zoom in now
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- and let's move this down a bit.
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- So if you watch my elbows cut off the head,
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- but it's okay, I want you to see the elbow.
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- Notice this elbow is breathing.
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- And so here it, it's actually pulled back a little bit.
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- I'm exaggerating. Whereas
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- before it was extended straight, right?
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- So here, straight, straight arm, bent arm,
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- right?
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- So the elbow is very bent.
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- And if you look at the other side of the body,
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- let's be over here, I want you to notice vice versa,
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- that it's bent And then it can straighten.
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- And so the exercise to, to learn this skill
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- is you wanna get like a counter or something like that.
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- Something that's, uh, whoops, super immovable.
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- And, uh, right now that's her super immovable.
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- Uh, and don't lead or nothing. Just be, be a rock.
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- And then right here, you just turn yourself.
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- And as you turn yourself, once you start to realize
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- that you can let your elbows move, all
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- of the sudden the pivot becomes a lot easier.
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- So we'll, uh, zoom in again.
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- So once again, just look at my elbows where I'm practicing
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- with in theory, the counter,
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- and notice that this is straight and this is bent.
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- And then vice versa.
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- And as you get really comfortable with this,
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- the pivot becomes super easy
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- and you can give the leader a little bit of,
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- I'm gonna call it power assist.
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- So you're not ahead of the lead,
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- but you're helping the lead.
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- And the trick is to practice this with a counter,
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- and then you'll feel it so easy,
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- and then you'll try it with a leader
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- and you're like, wow, this is harder.
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- And then you go back and forth
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- until you can do the same thing with a leader.
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- You can with a counter.
