Rise on the cross??

BTM. ;)

I mean to say, it's wrong.

If I'm in a really close embrace and the guy uses a body lift (not a squeeze) to "make room" for me to cross, I will go with it, but a rise is something I never initiate. Never. Oh, and this action never comes from my feet unless the guy is pulling me beyond my range of motion. (Yeah, I'm short.)

You have that whole stylistic dynamic often seen in nuevo and more open embraces where you get that elasticity thing going, contrasts in level-changes... but it is not something the lady "should" be doing on her own... and it looks really stupid if she does this while social dancing in closed embrace. You get this head bobbing effect as the lady bounces up and down in the hold.

And now that I've sufficiently ticked off half the board (probably) *vanishes in a puff of ninja smoke*
 
Peaches said:
On a more serious note--I see you guys complaining about shoes that are either too stiff, or don't have enough heel, or various other issues. Have you not run across split-soled shoes with heels, or latin-esque shoes with heels and a nice flexible sole? Or have you tried them and found them not to work?
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I wear boots to tango... It's all how you adapt the available equipment at hand :bouncy:
 
The general rule in tango is: the hight of the center of gravity is related to the size of the steps. When you stop the knees would be straight. When you take large steps the knees would have considerable bending. So do you rise at the cross? You would only do that if you wanted to take a pause at the cross (which one usually doesn't do). Otherwise the hight of the center of gravity would be dictated by the size of the surrounding steps.

Regards,

PW
 
pwpulto said:
The general rule in tango is: the hight of the center of gravity is related to the size of the steps. When you stop the knees would be straight. When you take large steps the knees would have considerable bending. So do you rise at the cross? You would only do that if you wanted to take a pause at the cross (which one usually doesn't do). Otherwise the hight of the center of gravity would be dictated by the size of the surrounding steps.

Regards,

PW
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goodness. this sounds like a cross between newton's laws of motion and the offside rule.

There must be some unknown factor that makes women believe that they should rise on the cross, like if I catch my toes with my heel its going to be painful, or I have to do a weight change here so I'll helpt it along with a bit of liftoff
 
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