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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.
[01:57] 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 with them,
[02:31] When you connect with them, 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 this.
[02:58] Just far enough so I feel like you're pulling me towards you.
[03:01] And the more energy we create, the more energy we create, the more I feel like they're getting me into their turn.
[03:08] So we land both on sensual basic.
[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.
[03:16] I pivot with them into the turn.
[03:18] So do give me a bigger energy so you see this in reality.
[03:22] One, two.
[03:24] Feel my weight.
[03:25] Make sense?
[03:28] Make sense?
[03:29] Mm-hmm.
[03:30] Okay, good.
[03:31] Do you want to pause it?
[03:32] Do you want to keep going?
[03:33] Keep going.
[03:34] Okay.
[03:35] Sensual basic.
[03:36] Sensual basic starts with seven, eight.
[03:41] Eight.
[03:42] Okay?
[03:43] In our footballero, my hip keeps going forward.
[03:46] This is the signal that it's going to be hip in and out movement.
[03:49] 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 be opposite.
[04:06] So eight.
[04:07] And make sure that we're not doing the whole frame.
[04:10] 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.
[04:22] Seven.
[04:23] And like a book.
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[04:51] So from here, now you will catch me from the same turn and get me into sensual.
[04:55] Immediately.
[04:56] Hold the bolero in the spike.
[04:58] Spike and hold, hold, hold, release.
[05:01] Downward is not pulling downwards.
[05:03] It's breathing out.
[05:05] Like exhale and drop center of mass a bit.
[05:08] You need to go a little bit.
[05:09] 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.
[05:17] You see how big it feels?
[05:19] You need to give me the feeling of release.
[05:23] Yes?
[05:23] Yeah, and one other thing before I forget.
[05:25] It's here, not out here.
[05:29] Very important.
[05:30] For me, it's better if I aim my elbow.
[05:32] 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.
[05:41] 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 get started 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 because
[06:19] like there's no meaning or resistance.
[06:21] And you would 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?
[06:27] Compression.
[06:28] And before I forget, going backwards in time, bolero, maybe we 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
[06:40] growing from the ground.
[06:42] So the deeper your roots go into the ground, like spiking, the more sense of elongation in
[06:48] your body and it continues.
[06:50] As long as the pressure is on, it feels like you have a little spike growing from the balls
[06:56] of your feet, so metatarsis, and then like if you keep pressure, it keeps going deeper
[07:01] 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, focus like it's growing and you feel
[07:11] 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.
[07:21] Okay?
[07:22] So make sure that your spike is alive and it's going deeper and deeper.
[07:26] Not all boleros are long.
[07:27] Some of them are shorter, but it's still like spike is going.
[07:31] It's like like this.
[07:35] Okay?
[07:35] Another mental cue is it's like two arrows, not just one up.
[07:40] It's elongation.
[07:41] 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
[07:53] pointing both directions.
[07:54] It's almost like I'm split here and my body is growing in two directions at the same time.
[07:59] But up here is not super engaged.
[08:02] It's work.
[08:02] The work is from here.
[08:03] 70% of our bachata is led by our legs.
[08:06] We don't realize it, but every hip movement, legs and core.
[08:10] Like legs, legs, legs.
[08:11] Without the legs, we're not like doing tutting where we're just standing here doing arms.
[08:16] So everything, movement, legs, especially for hip movements.
[08:19] Okay?
[08:20] Okay, back to that move then.
[08:21] Yes.
[08:22] So from here.
[08:23] So from 17 year long recap.
[08:26] So make sure here.
[08:28] See what you're doing?
[08:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[08:29] That's what I'm trying to show.
[08:30] 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.
[08:35] 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.
[08:44] 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.
[08:58] And then we're aligning.
[08:59] Like growing into each other.
[09:01] And growing together.
[09:02] Okay?
[09:02] Okay, yeah.
[09:04] One, two, and breathe.
[09:07] Five, six, seven.
[09:09] Sorry, I'm just going to say connect.
[09:10] I love it.
[09:11] Connecting this way, not don't do this.
[09:13] You connect here.
[09:14] Yes.
[09:15] And then the bolero in here at the moment to do everything you just said.
[09:18] Bolero.
[09:18] And keep going, keep going, keep going.
[09:20] There you go.
[09:20] 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 it's essential.
[09:29] Like my house.
[09:31] And yeah.
[09:33] Bolero.
[09:34] Drop your central mass.
[09:35] Boom.
[09:37] Block.
[09:38] Go.
[09:39] Good.
[09:41] And make sure to isolate.
[09:42] Don't do up here at all.
[09:45] Yeah.
[09:45] I think I mentioned, but yeah.
[09:47] So basically, what we want to see in the central basic is not the entire body, but the hips go.
[09:56] Go.
[09:57] Go.
[09:58] Go.
[09:59] Check.
[09:59] Go.
[10:00] Go.
[10:01] Okay.
[10:02] Yes.
[10:02] Okay.
[10:03] Oh, the turn.
[10:04] The turn with the wave.
[10:06] So any wave, any chest wave, especially rotational and front ones, because they begin forward,
[10:12] up, and chest forward, isolated.
[10:16] Everything else is going to be back, down, chest closed.
[10:20] The prep.
[10:22] So this is the position.
[10:23] You cannot start the wave without having this position.
[10:25] This is a check mark.
[10:26] You don't need to get there right of the way, but because we're coming from the motion.
[10:30] 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.
[10:45] Five, six, seven, eight.
[10:47] We're already landed with a forward momentum.
[10:50] So before I fully, fully land, I need to start transferring my weight in low backwards
[10:55] because I'm being pulled in the direction I'm turning.
[10:57] So I'm turning there.
[10:59] I would go, I start.
[11:04] And then I go.
[11:05] When I'm fully stabilized here, then I can safely proceed forward.
[11:10] If I don't stabilize myself, we run into this issue with you, forward, or punching from the chest.
[11:16] That will take center of mass forward.
[11:19] So if you do it like this, like your follower, that's why I feel like when I'm trying to sit back,
[11:25] I'm going to push down forward.
[11:27] So this is what we need to work on.
[11:29] We do it from the first normal basic.
[11:32] So I open turn.
[11:33] Pull.
[11:34] Pull.
[11:34] Better, better, better.
[11:38] You are disabled.
[11:40] Good.
[11:40] Because you're like, look how much space you're giving me.
[11:43] Space.
[11:44] Not space.
[11:45] I'm constricting.
[11:46] I should be more here.
[11:46] So yeah.
[11:47] So like you're basically like controlling me so much that I don't even have space to breathe.
[11:52] So I am relying on your frame.
[11:56] If I feel your frame, I'm okay.
[11:58] If someone grabs you like this, you'd feel like, I can't even like, I can't even stand up straight.
[12:03] So what I need to give you is, turn, go.
[12:09] You feel my frame?
[12:10] Even though I didn't touch your body, but you felt it.
[12:13] This is because I'm taking my own body, it feels soft.
[12:16] So if I'm here, stand sideways.
[12:18] Come here closer to the camera.
[12:20] If I'm here, close your eyes.
[12:21] See if you feel like you need to close your chest.
[12:24] There.
[12:25] Did you feel my body?
[12:26] Mm-hmm.
[12:27] But did you feel my body on your skin?
[12:28] Mm-hmm.
[12:29] Exactly.
[12:29] You see?
[12:30] So before I fully connect with my body, I'm moving myself so you feel where I am.
[12:35] What if I do it the wrong way?
[12:38] You see?
[12:39] 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 going backwards.
[12:48] Super easy.
[12:49] So now flip, pivot with this.
[12:51] You see how stable?
[12:53] Very stable.
[12:54] So you think you need to connect fully, but you don't.
[12:57] Start getting into the motion the moment you touch me.
[13:00] Even with like very little friction, she will feel like, okay.
[13:04] And then by the time we, like for example, if I'm here, right, start closing the chest without touching me.
[13:11] Go close.
[13:12] And by the time we like rotate fully, we're touching longer.
[13:17] Because from here, at some point, because like you're limiting my motion, I will come touching your body anyway.
[13:23] But I need this cavity to absorb my moment, okay?
[13:26] And we go forward.
[13:28] And we finish.
[13:29] I don't think that was captured.
[13:30] But anyway.
[13:31] Yeah.
[13:31] Yeah.
[13:31] Yeah.
[13:32] The point is to start as she is.
[13:37] Go turn this way.
[13:40] There.
[13:41] Okay.
[13:41] Makes sense.
[13:42] Yeah.
[13:43] So this way she has room to breathe and you start your movement sooner.
[13:47] Okay.
[13:48] Questions?
[13:49] Good.
[13:49] Good.
[13:51] Enough?
[13:51] Enough details?
[13:52] 17 years long.
[13:54] inaccessible.
[13:54] please