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- One of the ideas in tango is that you need to go through-- or not ideas.
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- The things that are super useful is to go through your partner as a leader, and
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- actually as a follower, too. And so as an example, if I wanted to push her back, if
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- I do this,
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- she's not going back. And you can say, "Why is she not going back?" Well, it's
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- because she's not there. She's over here. And if I do this, then she does go back.
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- And so from a direction perspective,
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- a lot of it first is aim. So for example, if I want you to walk backwards and I do
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- this, I'm a little off-kilter, and so that will be diffuse.
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- You know, "Whoa, go backwards." Doesn't make you feel like you want-
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- No, I'm a lot off-kilter. Doing it subtly wrong.
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- Here's subtly off wrong. Go backwards.
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- And that happens all the time.
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- But if you're right there and I do this, go backwards, then you
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- really feel the pressure, I'm going to say, coming towards you.
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- So for example, it's very common for a leader to go a little bit to the follower's
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- right side, his left side, right here.
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- And so if I go forward like this,
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- she felt it, but my energy is this way, not through her.
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- And so then if I want her to go backwards, it's much better for me to be here
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- through her, instead of here through her.
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- So a lot of these things are tools
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- to make us able to be on earthily together, which is one of the goals in tango.
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- So there's two things I want you to put your mind on.
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- One is aim, which is what we were just talking about, and then the other is the
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- pressure being on your hands in the direction you want.
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- Meaning, if my partner is here, if I do this-
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- That's an extreme
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- ... she's not feeling it because my hands aren't moving through her, and so I'm
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- putting my pressure here, in this case, through the hand.
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- Or if I'm on the side,
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- I could have a little bit here.
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- I lead like that.
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- Here
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- and here.
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- And it's also her hand on my shoulder right now.
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- Now-
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- My hand on his shoulder is going-- I'm leaning forward a little bit.
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- So this is, I'm conscious how each point, how my left hand can push her back, but
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- also
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- how my right hand can push her back, but also
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- how my
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- right, I'm going to call it bulging bicep- ... can push her back.
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- But so at each point of contact, we can be really clear how we get that direction
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- of pressure and then take that through your partner.
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- I have one thing to add, and it's a little bit frou-frou, but it helps if you have
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- in your mind a very clear idea of exactly where you want to go, and then if you put
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- your whole self to going that way.
Lead - Going through your partner
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