Happened across this on YouTube just now. Obviously this level of movement by a follower takes years of dedication, commitment, hard work, and practice. Lots and lots of practice.
Showing posts with label Tango Practicing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tango Practicing. Show all posts
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Leader Practice Stuff - Yannick & Enrosques
Liz Yannick Vanhove is at Clos le Castant.
August 8 · Cendrieux, France
For our #Tango peeps!🤓 Since Enrosques are the movement that we get questions about most (aside from embellishments), here's a quick video with some of my favourite exercises! 🤪
1) Practice dissociated pivots with both feet on the floor (don't lose balance! 🥳)
You can start with quarters, halfsies, threequarters then full 360
2) For the classic enrosque, practice bending your front leg and keeping your back leg straight
(🤯Your brain will not like this, it will try to trick you into bending both legs or keeping both straight.)
for the reverse enrosque, practice the opposite; standing leg straight & free leg bent.
3) 🤓Practice classic enrosque: Step with left, turn a dissociated enrosque to the left, switch weight, use left leg (legswing pivot) to do a lapiz to the left. Repeat everything to the right with the right leg.
4)🤩 Practice reverse enrosque, a bit easier for some because there is no switch involved, a bit harder for others because it requieres more balance on axis! Step back with right, front enrosque to the left, lapiz with the same leg. Repeat on the left to the right. (I ran out of IG-video time)
-🤔Remember, Enrosques are a consequence of the pivoting of the standing leg, the free leg clicks behind or in front in the end of the pivot. Don't go looking for the hooked position from the start! Keep the free foot on the floor as much as possible!
- 💪Do this every day for a minute or two to become a lean mean Enrosque machine!
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Breaking down tango steps & sequences :: The Mini-Milonguero Dip :: A practical YouTube/Video Tip
Let's face it. Human males are visual troglodytes. "We like to watch, Eve."
And with tango, due to the complexities and nuances of the quality and character of motion through time and space and to the music - weight shifts, where your weight is on your foot aka where your center of gravity is in relation to your foot, where you want her weight to be, where you want your foot/feet to be, where you want her foot/feet to be, etc. Sometimes if you lead her to shift her weight just a little too far, the opportunity to do what you were planning to do is lost. In a few-to-several-hundred femtoseconds of little brain farts bubbling up in the primordial soup.
I know many of us leaders, perhaps most of us, use YouTube to glean/harvest/study new vocabulary and "stuff" for our tango roll-o-dex of moves. Or maybe movements is a better word. Ah. I see it's actually "Rolodex".
Using the video settings to slow down the speed to .50 or .25 is helpful, but scrubbing the video back and forth is hellatiously frustrating, especially on a mobile device.
After years of being hellatiously frustrated by the inability to have really slow simple control to break things down step by step, I had a eureka moment a couple of weeks ago.
Now, after being hellatiously frustrated reading all my drivel, here is the actual tip.
Slow the video down to .25 speed on your computer or iPad, then video that with your phone. Then using your phone, it's much easier to scrub back and forth step by step to figure shit out.
With the Austin Spring Tango Festival coming up, and being slightly week in my small space Rolodex of movements, we've been taking classes with Vania on the subject, and practicing a few times a week. We've been working on incorporating a cross-footed ocho cortado to the cross (aren't they all?) with a front cross step back to the close side on her part simultaneously with a mini-milonguero dip on my part. Mini-dip. Not mini-milonguero, although I'm sure they exist.
Sadly, the milonguero dip has been missing from my tango Rolodex for all these years.
My thick skull couldn't absorb it until I broke it down step by step and body position by body position. I'm slow that way. And I guess I've been slow on the uptake of figuring out that I could video the slowed-down video. Oh well.
Anyway.
That is all.
Oh. Here's the video. From timestamp 0:40, then he repeats it at 0:48. Michelle and Joachim. I like their "stuff".
And with tango, due to the complexities and nuances of the quality and character of motion through time and space and to the music - weight shifts, where your weight is on your foot aka where your center of gravity is in relation to your foot, where you want her weight to be, where you want your foot/feet to be, where you want her foot/feet to be, etc. Sometimes if you lead her to shift her weight just a little too far, the opportunity to do what you were planning to do is lost. In a few-to-several-hundred femtoseconds of little brain farts bubbling up in the primordial soup.
I know many of us leaders, perhaps most of us, use YouTube to glean/harvest/study new vocabulary and "stuff" for our tango roll-o-dex of moves. Or maybe movements is a better word. Ah. I see it's actually "Rolodex".
Using the video settings to slow down the speed to .50 or .25 is helpful, but scrubbing the video back and forth is hellatiously frustrating, especially on a mobile device.
After years of being hellatiously frustrated by the inability to have really slow simple control to break things down step by step, I had a eureka moment a couple of weeks ago.
Now, after being hellatiously frustrated reading all my drivel, here is the actual tip.
Slow the video down to .25 speed on your computer or iPad, then video that with your phone. Then using your phone, it's much easier to scrub back and forth step by step to figure shit out.
With the Austin Spring Tango Festival coming up, and being slightly week in my small space Rolodex of movements, we've been taking classes with Vania on the subject, and practicing a few times a week. We've been working on incorporating a cross-footed ocho cortado to the cross (aren't they all?) with a front cross step back to the close side on her part simultaneously with a mini-milonguero dip on my part. Mini-dip. Not mini-milonguero, although I'm sure they exist.
Sadly, the milonguero dip has been missing from my tango Rolodex for all these years.
My thick skull couldn't absorb it until I broke it down step by step and body position by body position. I'm slow that way. And I guess I've been slow on the uptake of figuring out that I could video the slowed-down video. Oh well.
Anyway.
That is all.
Oh. Here's the video. From timestamp 0:40, then he repeats it at 0:48. Michelle and Joachim. I like their "stuff".
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