Technique Tips - Easier Pivots

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Followers:: sometimes the leaders need just a little help to get you going:

Just a Little Help

Artist Name:
Zully Goldfarb
Song Title:
Ciudad De Nostalgia
Album Title:
Ciudad De Nostalgia
Artist Website:
http://www.zully.com.ar/

Complex tangos sung in both spanish and yiddish with great authenticity.

From artist's website about one album: Tells the story of piringundines, from German cabaret to the Buenos Aires tango venue, and with the tango it will take us through a history of crossed destinies, and misunderstandings, love, and forget that we identifys as Argentinians.

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Some quick tips to make pivoting much easier.
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First, for the leaders, two things.
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One thing is sometimes the follower will get,
in some sense, stuck…
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..either because the floor is very sticky or
just because of how she pivots.
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And, in either case, I want you to think
of two things.
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First thing is the way that you can stabilise in your hips,
because that will give you strength.
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D. So, if you watch my hips and I’m pivoting her and I’m doing this…
N. Strength, grrr.
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..that’s a lot stronger than if I do this.
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And, you see this sort of loses the strength
in the hip.
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And then, you’ll also notice, if it’s a hard pivot,
I have an outrigger foot.
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So, for example if we’re doing front ochos
and we go…
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..side, he changes - here I’ll cheat,
pivot, step, we’ll step...
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..here, I pivot her leaving the foot out there
so I can stabilize myself.
00:54
Number one.
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For the followers, as you pivot,
there’s a right way to help.
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And so, I don’t want you to help by doing this…
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I knew what he didn't want.
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D:Yes, that’s what you don't want to do.
N: I think I do a really good bad.
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So, instead as we’re going to pivot,
you’ll notice that I’m here and I’m saying…
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..pivot and she’s not moving
and then it pivots.
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So, he goes us both.
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So, don’t help the wrong way.
01:20
On the other hand, if you watch the foot,
and I’m the follower, if you pivot like this,…
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..you see the whole flat of my foot is on the floor,
that’s a hard way to pivot.
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So, instead, I want you to think you pivot like this.
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So, there’s very little surface area of the foot.
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Now, you can tell he’s a scientist.
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The idea being that if there’s less surface area
there’s less friction...
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..which I think is kind of cool and kind of crazy.
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But because - so it fits with the tango look,
which is that we’re always on the balls of our feet.
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But, it also makes it a lot easier to pivot because...
01:59
..we don’t have so much that has to rub
against the floor.
02:02
The other thing is you can sometimes get stuck,
in some sense, if you have a sticky floor...
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...and so, don’t try to go slowly.
If you sort of pop past that hard place...
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.., it becomes a lot easier.
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And that’s kind of confusing because
we say that the followers should not go...
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..and that the leaders should go us…
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..and most of the time that’s correct.
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But, what David's saying is that, in the very beginning,...
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..we just give it a little bit of a fast start
in order to get it past that sticky place.
02:27
Yes. So, for example, if this were a sticky floor,
we might go: and, pop, and then go on…
02:35
..or pop, and then go on,
and that will help you get past it.
02:39
And this is something that the leaders
can do, as well.
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So, you can give the follower extra momentum.
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So, if I lead a slow ocho, it might be - and turn…
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But, if it’s a sticky floor, I’ll say, and turn.
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So, you see that “Ah” at the beginning.
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And so, this is something that both people can do.
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You can both do “Ah” and then go on.
Series:
Technique Tips
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Pivot, Follow, Technique, Lead
Technique Tips