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[00:00] Head rolls. We practice with three times over things. Small, small, large. What happens?
[00:10] I unlock my head. Because my rib is up, I breathe small. Small, large. Small, small, large.
[00:21] Okay? This is how we practice unlocking the head. Why? Because if I do small, my head
[00:28] doesn't seem like it needs to turn, right? Two things happening. For ladies or even gentlemen,
[00:33] my shoulder blades are pulling me down. My shoulder blades are back and down. My head
[00:37] wants to stay up. So even when my head unlocks, I don't go squeezing or back squeezing because
[00:44] my shoulders are being pulled back. So my neck has space for like one orange or a tennis ball.
[00:49] Okay? On either side. Now, when we tilt our head, when we roll our head, it's because our
[00:54] rib cage or chest, which is also for our rib cage, it's going on my axis. Up, rib cage
[01:00] opens to the side. Back opens. Pull. It's this motion of our rib cage doing this around our
[01:09] axis. This, okay? We don't go too much sideways. We don't need that. We lose balance. So whenever
[01:15] our head shifts to the right, my weight is on the right, and I'm going to spunk down the
[01:18] balls of my feet. On my left, on my back and my heels, I come back. Wherever my head shifts,
[01:24] my head is, it's pretty much my weight is. Gentlemen, it's good to know because you will
[01:28] have to be shifting weight as you're giving your ladies a head roll, okay? Or I should
[01:33] say followers, leads, and followers. Another thing, we never need a head roll with just pressing
[01:38] on the shoulder. We never touch her neck, touch her face, or touch her head. We don't pull
[01:43] her hair even. Please don't do that. We indicate by a breath of a bolero. Most of the time head
[01:49] those are led laterally, meaning we have to step with the bolero up. We have to breathe
[01:54] up. We never just start pressing on her shoulder. We rather open, open. And if you see, it's
[02:01] not my shoulders going up, my rib cage, my rib cage. When I say open, not to the wall, to
[02:07] the sky. Another thing we did today, difference between a hip roll and a hip throw. Hip roll,
[02:14] circle between my feet. Isolation. My upper body is not moving, but I'm also isolating it
[02:20] so that nothing else moves. Now hip throw. My chest is still staying parallel to the guy
[02:28] or to the leader, okay? So hip roll, hip throw, body movement, okay? Three different movements.
[02:37] Make sure that you're holding your shoulder blades together and your chest is always open.
[02:43] Most of the hip roll, sometimes we did today from a body roll. And as I'm coming to my pendulum,
[02:49] if I rotate my body, it's a natural hip roll. This is what we played today in the partner
[02:54] work, okay? What we did was we kept her with this and because the leader is rotating, I felt
[03:00] this. Come back, push the floor. We already know how from this moment, if I push the floor
[03:06] this way, I collect my body over this leg. If I push the floor this way, I collect my body
[03:12] over this leg, okay? So we played with those momentums, shifting the weight and rotating.
[03:16] Gentlemen, obviously when you shift your weight in the hip roll, you've got to shift your hip,
[03:20] yeah? You're not just going to go like this and expect her to move her hips. Another thing
[03:26] we did today was, what did we do? Head roll, hip rolls mainly and understanding compress or folds.
[03:34] Again, not ballet compress. Cummbrose is a fold from the waist. Forward, sideways doesn't matter.
[03:40] When we give a forward fold, it's because our hip goes back. If I push my hip slightly back,
[03:46] the body folds. Same thing. If I push my hip slightly forward, my body folds. This is a dip.
[03:52] Dips is a hip movement. Dips happen because we bring her hip forward, but not so much so forward.
[03:59] Forward on top of her back leg. Ladies, whenever we're being turned in this direction or in this
[04:06] direction, we open our feet. If he's giving me a body roll in this direction, I open my feet.
[04:12] If you see, it's like this, okay? So that we kind of don't force it too much, but it's from my hip.
[04:19] I need a little bit more wider stance so I'm stable to any movement he wants to do, okay?
[04:29] When we dip, we hold our own weight on the back, on the back leg. If you want a bigger fold,
[04:36] it's because we bend the knees, not because we push her further, okay? You guys want a pattern, no?
[04:42] You guys want a pattern? Okay. We start with Madrid. Madrid is a hip movement. We prep.
[04:48] Here, bolero, release. Bolero, release, rompo. From here we went bolero with the breath,
[04:58] and then we start rolling. Again, if you see, I'm not doing this here. I'm actually breathing up.
[05:03] Up, up, up. I roll. I come to the body roll. I breathe, breathe. I release, rotate. Take it. Push. Come back.
[05:15] Up, up, up, up. Up, up, up, up. Okay? This movement can be done in any direction.
[05:24] Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. In place we can do, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
[05:31] We can do, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Okay?
[05:35] A lot of revolutions. We can definitely lead that. How do you lead this gentleman if you ever want to?
[05:42] Hands down. Kind of like walking elbows without forcing. And then you just ask for resistance.
[05:49] Up, up, up. She has no other choice but to follow that. Okay?
[05:53] If you know the movement, how it happens, it's not because we're doing this.
[05:57] And it's not arms. I'm not doing this.
[06:01] Either, okay?
[06:02] My arms don't move exactly because my body goes
[06:04] hip.
[06:08] Okay?
[06:10] So we did head rolls.
[06:11] Hip rolls, we did dip pinza.
[06:14] Pinza dip, we did it with
[06:16] body rolls.
[06:18] So for the ladies, we go one, two,
[06:21] three. As we're finishing body rolls,
[06:23] gentlemen, I'm going to clamp the leg
[06:24] slight. So this is my natural pendulum.
[06:27] He pushes me just a little further.
[06:29] Then he closes my chest.
[06:31] And then he pulls the hip.
[06:33] And then this energy
[06:34] coming from here is going to go up
[06:37] in circle, meaning
[06:39] it's going to go rise,
[06:41] rise, rise, rise.
[06:43] He's breathing in, breathing in. He brings me in
[06:45] back to basic.
[06:48] For gentlemen,
[06:49] we go one, two,
[06:51] three,
[06:52] four.
[06:55] Four. Okay?
[06:57] This happens.
[06:59] This happens.
[06:59] Then we gently pull
[07:01] and step back.
[07:02] We give that space.
[07:03] As we pull the knee here,
[07:06] boom,
[07:07] and then we rise,
[07:09] boom.
[07:10] Try not to be here
[07:11] because we don't want to go with them
[07:12] because we both go to fall.
[07:14] So after your four close,
[07:16] boom,
[07:16] make sure that you're giving your signal
[07:18] to fully come up
[07:19] and mold it into the basic,
[07:21] you don't need to go
[07:22] basic,
[07:25] you know,
[07:25] kind of start working on transitions.
[07:27] Any other questions?
[07:30] What did I forget?
[07:32] The last part?
[07:33] Yeah, the last part.
[07:34] Oh, the hip.
[07:35] Yeah, the hip throw.
[07:37] We did culitos.
[07:38] Culitos were this.
[07:40] One, two,
[07:41] three,
[07:41] four,
[07:42] five.
[07:43] Count for culitos, right?
[07:44] Seven.
[07:45] Kick throws,
[07:45] we did on seven, eight.
[07:47] Pretty much same prep.
[07:48] We go
[07:49] one,
[07:50] two,
[07:51] three,
[07:52] four,
[07:53] five.
[07:53] My hand starts sliding down
[07:55] on her lower back
[07:56] to find connection.
[07:59] Followers lower belly
[08:01] with leads
[08:02] this right diagonal.
[08:04] Okay,
[08:04] so lead,
[08:04] you're going to be slightly diagonal
[08:06] finding her lower belly.
[08:09] Five,
[08:09] six,
[08:10] he finds it here.
[08:11] Seven,
[08:12] oh,
[08:12] where are we?
[08:13] Oh,
[08:13] I'm a follower.
[08:14] I'm a follower.
[08:14] So we go one,
[08:16] two,
[08:16] three,
[08:17] he finds five,
[08:19] six,
[08:20] seven,
[08:21] semi-circle,
[08:22] yeah?
[08:22] Seven,
[08:23] eight,
[08:24] and on one,
[08:25] as he sends me the direction
[08:26] to the goal,
[08:28] because he's holding me connected,
[08:31] he rotates his body,
[08:32] especially hips,
[08:34] boom,
[08:34] this way.
[08:35] So I feel rotation.
[08:36] If he rotates his hips back,
[08:38] or he gives me a signal here,
[08:40] slight tap,
[08:41] I'm going to go exactly
[08:42] the way I came,
[08:43] right?
[08:43] I'm not just going to start doing it.
[08:45] Here,
[08:45] for some reason.
[08:47] So as we go,
[08:48] bump,
[08:49] as I go,
[08:50] as my weight starts shifting,
[08:51] he bends his knee,
[08:52] pushes only his hip in a semi-circle,
[08:54] semi-circle,
[08:55] right?
[08:55] That's one option.
[08:57] The other options,
[08:59] boom,
[09:00] if he doesn't do anything,
[09:01] with his rotation,
[09:02] he just stands up,
[09:04] or shifts his weight,
[09:05] stays there.
[09:06] We go five,
[09:06] six,
[09:07] seven,
[09:07] eight,
[09:07] many options,
[09:08] okay?
[09:09] Leaders,
[09:09] for you,
[09:09] my arms.
[09:12] One,
[09:13] two,
[09:13] three,
[09:14] four,
[09:14] five,
[09:15] six,
[09:16] seven,
[09:17] eight,
[09:18] okay?
[09:19] Seven,
[09:20] eight,
[09:20] and one,
[09:22] two,
[09:22] I would go,
[09:23] a little,
[09:25] a little clearer,
[09:26] three,
[09:27] four,
[09:27] five,
[09:28] six,
[09:29] seven,
[09:29] eight,
[09:29] for example.
[09:30] Timing depends on music.
[09:32] Practice with different timing.
[09:33] Practice the same thing
[09:34] to opposite side
[09:35] with everything,
[09:36] pretty much,
[09:37] because Bacchata Sensual is symmetrical
[09:38] and always,
[09:40] always,
[09:40] always dance to the music.
[09:42] That's why we learn the technique
[09:43] behind the moves,
[09:44] so we can slow it down,
[09:45] speed it up
[09:46] in a very safe
[09:47] and comfortable way,
[09:48] okay?
[09:49] Social,
[09:50] yes.