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[00:00] So, Sina, for you, like, remembering to allow some space here.
[00:04] Let your elbows be in front of your body.
[00:07] Connect the top of your arms to your frame.
[00:10] And then kind of just let the rest, like, meet your follower in the middle.
[00:14] Okay.
[00:15] And one, two, prepare the turn.
[00:20] Five, six, seven.
[00:21] I'm going to prepare the style.
[00:23] So, Maria, anything to add for follower here?
[00:25] Are we good?
[00:26] Yeah, we're good.
[00:27] Okay.
[00:28] And here's the styling.
[00:30] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[00:38] So, for the lead here, what I'm doing is I'm letting my follower know that she has both arms available for styling.
[00:45] By preparing both arms up, sending energy down, and then just not contacting her arms.
[00:52] Instead, I move to her torso with my forearm, not my hand.
[00:57] And then there's, like, you just kind of, like, rest your hand here, fingers closed, to just let my follower know where I am.
[01:03] And then I place the other hand in front of them to invite connection when they are ready, while we both do our basic.
[01:09] And then, Maria, some styling is happening here.
[01:11] Yeah.
[01:12] For styling, I have it, yeah, it's going to be down, down, down, up.
[01:20] And then I have easy version when it's not much time.
[01:25] And when there is more time, it's going to be, for example, for example, in place.
[01:31] I think of this first, when he's asking for connection.
[01:36] I have it ready, and then I have my right frame to dance.
[01:42] I am angling my palm a little bit towards my follower, and then I'm making sure that it's in front.
[01:48] I'm not asking my follower to compromise their frame to follow me.
[01:51] There is space in between my follower and I, and there isn't any contact here.
[01:57] This allows both of us to be able to bend our knees comfortably.
[02:01] And learning to lead this way also makes it so that you're focused on leading with your body and accommodating all different shapes and sizes of followers.
[02:08] And then, so we're, we just did one basic, and we're going 1, 2, 3, 4, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm going too slow.
[02:19] And 5, 6, 7, 8.
[02:23] Actually, we'll keep going.
[02:25] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.
[02:31] There wasn't a lot of energy behind that.
[02:33] But what's happening is that I'm stepping my first two counts of the basic.
[02:37] Maybe we'll do it in Wi-Fi mode.
[02:39] First two counts of the basic, I am going 1, 2.
[02:43] Now on 3, 4, which is my bolero, I am going to take a wider step to signal that we're not tapping.
[02:50] I'm also going to think about beginning to rotate both of our torsos in 90 degrees.
[02:55] And then finally, I'm preparing my body roll.
[02:58] So it looks like, sorry, we're going to stop for one again.
[02:59] And 1, 2, 3, 4.
[03:05] And then I do my body roll.
[03:07] 5, 6, 7, 8.
[03:10] I know I want another body roll, so instead of penduluming, I am basically keeping my tension and then collapsing my chest again to prepare.
[03:17] 1, 2, now I do want a pendulum.
[03:21] 3, 4.
[03:23] But I'm also rotating my torso.
[03:25] So while you guys practice, you can actually just do a lateral wave to resolve it instead of that, like, rebote.
[03:32] Boom.
[03:34] Like this.
[03:35] And then just keep practicing.
[03:36] Instead, what we're doing is 1, 2, 3, 4.
[03:42] I am maintaining tension here just like if I were about to do a lateral wave.
[03:45] But instead, I'm going to release the centrifugal preparation and look for the 90 degrees again.
[03:52] And so the block here happens because once I release the energy, I then kind of engage my frame so that there's like a...
[04:03] Right?
[04:03] Just like the rebote.
[04:04] Okay.
[04:05] So all together, it would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.
[04:12] The up-down really helps because it tells my follower to get on one foot.
[04:18] And there's like a standing opportunity.
[04:19] Do you want to see the side of it?
[04:20] Yeah.
[04:20] For progressive, for me, it's...
[04:23] I don't think of any upper body.
[04:26] I just know that it's progressive wave transfer.
[04:29] I feel how the lead is sending me all the way on that leg.
[04:37] So I push off my right.
[04:38] Try it.
[04:40] And go on my left.
[04:41] Because it happens fast, it creates more energy.
[04:47] And the energy picks up my leg.
[04:49] Yeah.
[04:50] And then I just like either I step back or it's a turn.
[04:55] Whatever.
[04:56] I'll just maintain.
[04:58] See, I look in the mirror right now.
[05:00] Look at my body right now.
[05:01] When I'm doing this block, my weight is on my left foot.
[05:07] My shoulders are down.
[05:08] My chest is neutral slash open because I just went...
[05:11] Right?
[05:12] And my back foot is where the beginning of the movement was.
[05:17] So if we go all together...
[05:21] And because now there's a block here, there's tension, rubber band,
[05:29] I then bring my weight back and connect here.
[05:33] All my weight is now on this foot.
[05:35] And then to just complete the movement here,
[05:38] like it's what we're talking about at the end of the completo.
[05:40] Right?
[05:41] We have tension here.
[05:42] And don't put a period at the end of any of these sentences.
[05:46] Right?
[05:47] So it's like, ah, ah, one, two, three, four.
[05:53] So the transitions will also help to make sure that you don't have to create new energy.
[05:59] That instead, you're just kind of...
[06:00] There's a run-on sentence and you're injecting air into that same run-on sentence the entire time.
[06:07] Anything else to add?
[06:09] Oh, no.
[06:10] They could cover everything.
[06:11] Okay.
[06:11] That's the combo that you guys...
[06:12] And if you're going to get another...