What are you currently 'working on' in A.T.?-Vol.II

The town's once-a-wk. milonga has lost it's musicians and my practice partner is heading up a charity drive so taking a week or more off..for the last few days I am practicing alone...the walk, the giro right and left...today, I feel like the walk is solid and getting more so...the giro is becoming smoother...I'm now using slower tangos and when I take a step, I am focused on which is the free leg and keeping it that way, playing with it and letting it make a move around me (with the music)... this last one is adding a new level to my dance!
 
Giros, with different entrances and exits. Sacadas in the giro, this time in close embrace. They are easier now, I think understanding the geometry helps.
 
Trying to figure out why this happened:

Dancing in shared weight hold.. suddenly when I walk backwards my body pushes down and into my partner. Any ideas?

I do have rather stiff hips that I normally can do something with to get them loosened up.. maybe they're just getting worse :(
 
Light Sleeper said:
Trying to figure out why this happened:
Dancing in shared weight hold.. suddenly when I walk backwards my body pushes down and into my partner. Any ideas?:(
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I take it that you are sure that it's not a problem caused by your partner? More than one partner can have the same 'problem' too...like 'sitting back' instead of leaning well forward.
 
Mario7 said:
I take it that you are sure that it's not a problem caused by your partner? More than one partner can have the same 'problem' too...like 'sitting back' instead of leaning well forward.
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Well, at first it felt like *he* was backing away from *me*.. but it's normally me that goes wrong, I must admit, and he said he only did that because he couldn't help it because I was pushing down. Maybe I need to get my hips dislocated or something :rolleyes:
 
Light Sleeper said:
Trying to figure out why this happened:

Dancing in shared weight hold.. suddenly when I walk backwards my body pushes down and into my partner. Any ideas?

I do have rather stiff hips that I normally can do something with to get them loosened up.. maybe they're just getting worse :(
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Collapsing your upper body so that you are downward weight?
Taking too far of a backstep so that it increases your lean?

I'm a smidge skeptical that he felt he had to pull backwards away from you because you were too heavy. It seems like it would make more sense for him to send his weight more FORWARD if you are leaning on him too much or being too "down".

Leaders? Would you sit back in order to help with downward pressure from a follower or would you try to counterbalance her by going towards her more?

My point is that it could very well have been a problem with him, because his solution makes me go "hmmmm..." :-? :eyebrow:
 
Zoopsia59 said:
Collapsing your upper body so that you are downward weight?
Taking too far of a backstep so that it increases your lean?

I'm a smidge skeptical that he felt he had to pull backwards away from you because you were too heavy. It seems like it would make more sense for him to send his weight more FORWARD if you are leaning on him too much or being too "down".

Leaders? Would you sit back in order to help with downward pressure from a follower or would you try to counterbalance her by going towards her more?

My point is that it could very well have been a problem with him, because his solution makes me go "hmmmm..." :-? :eyebrow:
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When something doesn't goe right, it's rarely 100% one person's fault (although it's usually not 50/50 either).

I always try to match the force the follower gives me. While I don't know who/what caused the issue she referred to, I agree that the leader's reaction seems flawed.
 
I once had a woman weigh me down in a close embrace class. We were both beginners and I told the instructor, he then told her to reach higher and forward with each step that she took backwards. You know that sort of walking downhill backwards? I can't explain it better but for the next several minutes she was amazing and then later the downward entropy took over again. He showed her how to push up from the floor and up thru her upper body (forward) while stepping backwards..I'm sure a woman can explain it better.
 
when I walk backwards my body pushes down and into my partner. Any ideas?
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The amount of weight that goes "downward" is related to the amount of "lean" you have, when "measured" from the top of your body. If you are standing with no "lean" at all, there would be no weight "on" your partner. If you are leaning against him at a 45 degree angle, much more of your weight would be "down" on him.

If he was walking forward, and you backwards, my guess is that your backstep may have been longer than his forward step, which increased the amount of "lean".
Maybe he HAD to change the length of his step. Maybe he was doing it just to do it.
Who knows.
Hey, this could be your way of asking someone to lead a volcada there!

(Usually, when the woman takes a too big step it ends up feeling like she's moved away from me, and there is this accordian like feeling. In this case you MAY have done a really good job of keeping your upper body forward towards him.)

Or, maybe not.
 
It seems like it would make more sense for him to send his weight more FORWARD if you are leaning on him too much or being too "down".
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Unfortunately, I got plenty of feedback from women that "the other guys" did not want them sharing any substantial amount of weight. Rather they were asked to "be on their own axis".
So, many men are "afraid" (come on guys, man up) of women who share weight, it seems to me.
And let's not confuse this with the woman actually "hanging" on the man with her left arm over his right should. Or did I just do that/
 
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