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[00:00] Okay.
[00:01] All right.
[00:02] So first, push over and turn.
[00:04] Can we just narrate it so I can get all the points?
[00:08] Yeah.
[00:09] So we want to make sure that we have connection with our fingers.
[00:12] This is the only information I'm getting from you.
[00:14] So just because you pull your arms, it's only going to jerk me around.
[00:18] What you need to do is literally press, create a pressure point so you're bringing your weight against mine.
[00:24] This way we're establishing our common axis, so we're pulling each other towards the common axis.
[00:29] And because you activated my fingers, now my whole palm gets activated.
[00:33] So when you need to push, I'm ready.
[00:35] If you just pull like this, it comes out of nowhere.
[00:38] But if you press against me like this, we create this undulation in our weight versus like pulling one partner in.
[00:46] So the goal is to come together and then push apart.
[00:50] Okay.
[00:51] It happens on one.
[00:53] Pull, push, three, four.
[00:56] Open the lane for me. Step out.
[00:59] You still want to prepare one, two, three, four with your body.
[01:03] But you're doing one, in, three, step away.
[01:09] Okay. You can style like this.
[01:11] But you're clearing the lane, making it super clear for me.
[01:13] Also note to myself to not go like this.
[01:16] Are you going to speak louder? Yeah.
[01:18] Is that okay?
[01:19] Yeah.
[01:20] Also note to myself not to go like this, but maintain the frame there.
[01:24] Whenever we need to create rubber band effect, rubber band effect happens because we limit our reach.
[01:30] The moment you do this, there is no rubber band.
[01:33] Like you reach the maximum.
[01:34] The whole point of tension is because we're refusing to release.
[01:37] So whenever I feel like I'm being pushed, I don't just buckle into it.
[01:41] I resist.
[01:42] Resist falling into it.
[01:43] Whenever I feel pushed out, I resist fully being pushed out.
[01:47] I'm holding on.
[01:48] This is how we create this rubber band.
[01:50] Negate.
[01:51] Negate.
[01:52] Because the moment you do this, you're adding, step a little bit further.
[01:56] So I'm out of frame.
[01:58] The moment you do this, you're adding distance and you want to limit the distance.
[02:02] Okay?
[02:03] Again.
[02:04] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and good.
[02:11] So what happened here?
[02:13] We were working on you coming in with a very big distance, right?
[02:19] So you come in here and you are here.
[02:23] The moment you release your shoulder, you're out of control.
[02:25] So you need to make sure that when you create this tension for the follower, when you connect
[02:32] with them.
[02:33] When you connect with them.
[02:35] One, two, three, four.
[02:38] We go five.
[02:40] And from here, I make sure that as they step this way, I step this way.
[02:44] I let them, I let myself feel them on my forearm.
[02:47] Because without their weight, there is nothing to pull me into them.
[02:51] Make sense?
[02:52] So it's like, I let you rest and I step far from you, but not so far that I need to do
[02:58] this.
[02:59] Just far enough so I feel like you're pulling me towards you.
[03:02] And the more energy we create, the more energy we create, the more I feel like they're getting
[03:07] me into their turn, so we land both on sensual basis.
[03:10] If there's little energy, I basically don't rotate into their turn.
[03:14] More energy, I feel like they're pulling me in, I pivot with them into the turn.
[03:19] So do give me a bigger energy so you see this in reality.
[03:22] One, two, three.
[03:24] Feel my weight.
[03:25] Make sense?
[03:26] Okay, good.
[03:27] Do you want to pause it?
[03:28] Do you want to keep going?
[03:29] Do you want to keep going?
[03:30] Do you want to?
[03:31] Okay.
[03:32] Sensual basic.
[03:33] Sensual basic starts with seven, eight.
[03:36] Eight.
[03:37] Okay?
[03:38] In our football, my hip keeps going forward.
[03:40] This is the signal that it's going to be hip in and out movement.
[03:50] If I'm just going eight, I might go mahal.
[03:53] Yeah?
[03:54] I might go washing machine because my hip is out, depending on how I prep.
[03:58] But because I'm doing and here, this isolation tells her that the next movement is going to
[04:05] be opposite.
[04:06] So eight, and make sure that we're not doing the whole frame.
[04:09] You know the feeling already.
[04:11] One, two, three, four.
[04:16] Three, four.
[04:18] Long bolero.
[04:19] Keep going.
[04:20] Five, six, seven, eight.
[04:24] Like a book.
[04:25] Po, cum, pa, ta, ta, ta, ta.
[04:30] A pointer is keep me literally on your diagonal, like you sit children on your hip.
[04:36] Here you have a better reach, better connection.
[04:38] Here we will lose a lot of connection and you have to like go over reach.
[04:42] Here, almost nothing.
[04:44] Sometimes you see like leaders literally doing it almost sideways, almost, you know.
[04:49] But diagonal is good.
[04:51] So from here, now you will catch me from the same turn and get me into sensual immediately.
[04:56] Hold the bolero in the spine.
[04:58] The spine can hold, hold, hold, release.
[05:01] Downward is not pulling downwards, it's breathing out.
[05:05] Like exhale and jump center of mass.
[05:07] A bit.
[05:08] You need to go a little bit.
[05:10] I go bigger because I'm the feeler.
[05:12] You want to give me the feeling.
[05:13] You don't need to go like, you don't need to go with me.
[05:18] You see how big it feels?
[05:19] You need to give me the feeling of release.
[05:22] Yes?
[05:23] Yeah, and one other thing before I forget, it's here, not out here.
[05:28] Very important.
[05:29] For me, it's better if I aim my elbow, it's as if I want to grab them with my elbow more than with my hand.
[05:36] So this way, my hand is like clear to style like this.
[05:39] You see leaders do this.
[05:40] Joe does this a lot.
[05:41] Like this.
[05:42] So we don't rely on this.
[05:43] We don't do it like this.
[05:44] I grab them with my body.
[05:46] And this hand might be there, might not be there.
[05:49] If I want to feel like more sense of security here, I can style it like this.
[05:55] Compression versus push and pull.
[05:57] Compression is when we make the circle smaller on every side.
[06:01] So I don't just pull her, right?
[06:03] I don't pull her.
[06:04] I don't come to her.
[06:06] I decrease space equally from each side.
[06:10] So bringing every part of the circle into the common center of mass.
[06:14] So what you were doing before is you would bring yourself and that would push me away.
[06:19] Because like there's no meaning or resistance.
[06:21] And you'd pull me and then I would fall onto you.
[06:24] But if you like everything is coming together, we're supporting each other.
[06:27] Yes?
[06:28] Compression.
[06:29] And before I forget, going backwards in time, bolero, maybe circle back to the arrows.
[06:34] Yeah.
[06:35] So bolero, as I said before, is more sensation of elongation, but only because you're like growing from the ground.
[06:42] So the deeper your roots go into the ground, like spiking, the more sense of elongation in your body and it's continuous.
[06:50] As long as the pressure is on, it feels like you have a little spike growing from the balls of your feet.
[06:57] So metatarsis.
[06:58] And then like if you keep pressure, it keeps going deeper and deeper and deeper.
[07:02] This sensation gives you the sense of elongation where you don't have to hold your chest up.
[07:07] You don't tense up because your focus is there.
[07:09] Focus like it's growing and you feel just like your body is still in motion without being in motion.
[07:14] This makes our transitions very soft and organic versus we just like and do this instead.
[07:22] Okay?
[07:23] So make sure that your spike is alive and is going deeper and deeper.
[07:26] Not all boleros are long.
[07:28] Some of them are shorter, but it's still like spike is going.
[07:31] It's like like this.
[07:35] Okay?
[07:36] Another mental cue is it's like two arrows, not just one up.
[07:39] It's elongation.
[07:40] It's not just energy is up because we're like taller, but it's not up off the floor.
[07:47] It's more like elongation.
[07:48] If you watch any of my videos, which you should, downloading them, it's always two arrows pointing both directions.
[07:54] Always.
[07:55] It's like it's almost like I'm split here and my body is growing in two directions at the same time.
[07:59] It's almost like a muscle, but up here is not super engaged.
[08:02] It's work to work.
[08:03] It's from here.
[08:04] 70% of our bachata is led by our legs.
[08:07] We don't realize it, but every hip movement, legs and core.
[08:10] Like legs, legs, legs.
[08:12] Without legs, like we're not like doing totting where we're like just standing here doing arms.
[08:17] So everything movement, legs, especially for hip movements.
[08:20] Okay?
[08:21] Okay, back to that move then.
[08:22] Yes.
[08:23] So from here.
[08:24] So it's 17 year long.
[08:25] Recap.
[08:26] Bye.
[08:27] So make sure here.
[08:28] See what you're doing?
[08:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[08:30] That's what I'm trying to show.
[08:31] So make sure I'm not here.
[08:32] Yes.
[08:33] Make sure it's not here.
[08:34] This needs to be.
[08:35] Yes.
[08:36] So to create rubber band.
[08:37] But your core needs to be active so that your chest doesn't go around.
[08:43] You tend to do this.
[08:45] So if your core is active, you're straight.
[08:48] You're coming to me with a bolero like.
[08:50] Like not bolero up, but bolero like position.
[08:53] So a little bit of like a macho position.
[08:56] So you're providing this part first and then we're aligning, like growing into each other
[09:01] and going together.
[09:02] Okay?
[09:03] Okay.
[09:04] Yeah.
[09:05] One, two, and three, five, six, seven.
[09:09] And then, sorry, I'm just going to say, connecting this way, not don't do this.
[09:14] You connect here.
[09:15] Yes.
[09:16] And then the bolero in here at the moment to do everything you just did.
[09:18] Bolero and keep going, keep going, keep going.
[09:20] There you go.
[09:21] And this is how you soften the receiving of my weight.
[09:24] If you stop, we just don't block.
[09:26] Okay?
[09:27] And then to indicate that this is essential among my house, start.
[09:30] And yeah.
[09:31] From the bolero, from your central mass, boom.
[09:36] And block, go.
[09:38] Good.
[09:39] And make sure to isolate.
[09:40] Don't do up here at all.
[09:41] Yeah.
[09:42] I think I mentioned, but yeah.
[09:43] So basically, what we want to see in the central basic is not the entire body, but the hips
[09:56] go.
[09:57] Go, go, go, jump, go, go, go.
[10:01] Okay.
[10:02] Mm-hmm.
[10:03] Yes.
[10:04] Okay.
[10:05] Oh, the turn.
[10:06] The turn with the wave.
[10:07] So any wave, any chest wave, especially rotational, the front ones, because they begin forward,
[10:13] up, and chest forward, isolated, everything else is going to be back, down, chest closed.
[10:20] The prep.
[10:21] The prep.
[10:22] So this is the position.
[10:23] You cannot start a wave without having this position.
[10:25] It's a check mark.
[10:26] You don't need to get there right away, but because we're coming from the motion, you're
[10:30] going to be able to move from the motion.
[10:31] If we were doing basic, it would have been like this.
[10:33] One, two, three, four, five.
[10:36] But because we're coming from a turn, it's going to be a five, six, seven, eight, one.
[10:42] Right?
[10:43] If we started late, it's going to feel like this.
[10:46] Five, six, seven, eight.
[10:48] We're already landed with the forward momentum.
[10:50] So before I fully, fully land, I need to start transferring my wave in low backwards
[10:55] because I'm being pulled in the direction I'm turning.
[10:57] So I'm turning there.
[10:58] I would go, I start.
[11:01] And then I go.
[11:02] When I'm fully stabilized here, then I can safely proceed forward.
[11:10] If I don't stabilize myself, we can run into this issue with you, forward or punching from
[11:16] the chest.
[11:17] That will take center of mass forward.
[11:19] So if you do it like this, like you're following, that's why I feel like when I'm trying to
[11:24] sit back, I'm being pushed down forward.
[11:27] So this is what we need to work on.
[11:29] We do it from the first normal basic.
[11:31] Open turn.
[11:32] Pull.
[11:33] Pull.
[11:34] Better, better, better.
[11:35] You are disabled.
[11:36] Good.
[11:37] Because you're like, look how much space you're giving me.
[11:40] Space.
[11:41] Not space.
[11:42] I'm constricting.
[11:43] I should be more here.
[11:44] Yeah.
[11:45] So like you're basically like controlling me so much that I don't even have space to breathe.
[11:48] So I am relying on your frame.
[11:49] If I feel your frame, I'm okay.
[11:50] If someone grabs you like this, you'd feel like I can't even stand up straight.
[11:51] So what I need to give you is turn.
[11:52] Go.
[11:53] You feel my frame.
[11:54] This is because I'm taking my own body.
[11:59] It feels soft.
[12:00] So if I'm here, stand sideways.
[12:01] Come here closer to the camera.
[12:02] If I'm here, close your eyes.
[12:03] See, if you feel like you need to feel your body.
[12:04] Okay.
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[12:21] Okay.
[12:22] Okay.
[12:23] So now I'm going to close your chest.
[12:24] There.
[12:25] Did you feel my body?
[12:26] Mm-hmm.
[12:27] Or did you feel my body in your skin?
[12:29] Mm-hmm.
[12:30] Exactly.
[12:31] You see?
[12:32] So before I fully connect with my body, I'm moving myself so you feel where I am.
[12:36] What if I like do it the wrong way?
[12:38] You see the difference?
[12:41] So if I close this part and I'm holding my hand here to give you the exact part that is
[12:46] going backwards.
[12:47] Super easy.
[12:48] So now if we pivot with this.
[12:51] you see how stable very stable so you think you need to connect fully but you
[12:57] don't start getting into the motion the moment you touch me even with like very
[13:01] little friction she will feel like okay and then by the time we like for example
[13:07] if I'm here right start closing chest without touching and by the time we like
[13:13] rotate fully we're touching longer because from here at some point because
[13:19] like you're limiting my motion I will come touching your body but I need this
[13:24] cavity to absorb my moment okay and we go forward and we finish I don't think that
[13:30] was captured but anyway the point is to start as she is so this way she has room
[13:44] to breathe and you start your movement sooner okay questions good enough enough
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