Sometimes you will find on Zouk Germany similar videos for the beginners. The reason is obvius: the basics are the same for all the students in the beginner courses.
The last week we learnt the left turn from the basic step and today was the day for the little opening to the right.
For the ladies: Keep the contact with the hand on your shoulder blade, don’t go alone forward.
For the guys: it’s very good if you have the feeling, you’re opening an space on your right side. Be a gentleman with the lady and think always “the lady first”.
1. Lead the lady for she to do the elastic again. She will transfer the weight to the right and after that to the left. Here you have to open a window with the left elbow and bring the lady through the window. For the ladies: go with your hips if you are doing the elastic.
2. For the second variation watch the video. When you go backwards, you open to the side and put your left hand in front of you. After that you do prision to the left side. When you are leading the lady to the right, first you lead and after that your left hand goes down. Let now the hands free for push the arms of the lady up.
Today we started with some headmovements to understand how they work.
For the ladies: pay attention to your feet, you have to transfer the weight. If your head is on the right side, then your weight is on your right leg. If your head is on the left side, then your weight is on your left leg. Put your pelvis to the front if your head is painting a circle. forward. Your chest is in and you bring your ears to your shoulders on boht sides. And don’t let your free hand dead to the side, use your ladystyling.
For the guys: you don’t put your hand on the neck of the lady, be careful with your lady. You transfer your weight and you’re always on the opposite side of the lady.
I hope you enjoy Zouk Made in Germany so much as me! It’s funny to do the videos and I’m happy if the videos are helping you.
The combination for today. Bumerangue reverse from the basic step for the ladies under the left arm of the guy.If you want to watch the bumerange reverse (a long right turn on the line) from the lateral step you can check this (subtitles are in English available):
After the bumerangue please guys, first bring your lady to the front and after that you can turn.
For the little steps the most important thing is to feel the center of the lady over her feet, so you can help her keep the balance. Watch the video for the opening, the leading with the right hand it’s important, so you can bring the lady on the line.
At the end the guys need to pull with both hands, so the lady is coming and after that we bring the hands over her head.
Today we repeated a combination we did last December.
We start with lateral and rond de jambe. For rod de jambe please don’t forget to bring your lady a little bit down, to block her and to turn her on her left foot. The lady can paint a circle with the foot and her eyes can follow the foot.
After that we did elastic. Here you can play with the speed of te the step and with the music. You lead the wave with your body, you have contact with the body of the lady on your right side. You bring her to the front and help her with your body for the head-movement.
The head movement for the ladies. At the first step your head is on the left side. With the second step you bring your head to the front and at three you bring your head up. Think about the weight of your hair: that’s the secret if you don’t want to have the hair all over your face.
For the elastic: guys, we have to wait one step for the lady, we are doing the same steps as her while she is doing the elastic. You put both hands down together and press a little bit, so the lady can open her chest. If you are bringing the lady up, both hands paint a circle at the same level of the shoulders.
For the ladies: if you are going down, you bring your center over your feet, your pelvis is to the front, your chest is back and your neck is to the front. If you are going up, you are going the first with your hips.
For the last head movement, the leading of the guy is very important. Please, be careful if you are leading head-movements. You put your right hand on the shoulderblade and not on the neck of the lady.
Hi everybody! Today we had the pleasure to start another beginners course in Bremen. We started with the basic step and after that we did a little opening to the right. For the basic step you can check this video too (there are subtitles in English):
For the little opening we said something important: the guys have to be always a gentleman and think “first the lady”. We invite the lady in every movement. For the lady: it’s important for you to keep your upper body directed to the guy.
Today was the first day after the holidays and we wanted to repeat some steps to refresh our minds.
We did the combination lateral + left turn and lateral with right turn. For the guys: you can use your body for a better lead. If you watch the video you will heard “we cross the street”. That’s about using the body to block the way of the lady so she doesn’t do the lateral step but the turn. Our uperbody shows the lady the direction she has to go. For the ladies: you just need to do your third step always on the spot and direct your uperbody to the guy.
About the bumerangue reverse. For the guys: the lady has to do her steps on the line, so we have to go out of the line during the first “1,2,3” and after that you come back and do the basic step forwards. For the leading, your right hand is helping the lady to understand the turn and the left hand is painting a circle over the head of the lady. For the ladies: please, try to do your steps on the line and focus on the partner while turning.
For the cambré we will watch very soon a long explanation, but the most important thing for the ladies is to put your pelvis to the front while doing the cambre. If the guy is bringing you up, then you push up here with your right foot. For the guys: After the turn you bring the lady to you and you have contact with her, there is no free space on your left side. VERY IMPORTANT: help the lady to do her preparation for the cambré and stay on the right foot. Then let her do the cambre and stay the hole time on the right foot. You don’t need to lead a deep cambré, please be careful with your lady.
Today we had the first lesson of a new beginners course. The first day we learn the most important thing: the basic step. Here you have a long explanation of the basic step. You can switch on the subtitles in English:
Usually when we are learning the basic step, the guys and the ladies have the same problems. For the guys: If you think you can do your steps, try to invite the lady in the basic step, lead her slowly for a good feeling of the lady. For the ladies: our focus is on the hand of the guy because of the conection. We can’t go without the conection with the guy.
Another thing we did today is the left turn from the basic step.
For the ladies: while turning you hold your arm in front of your chest and take care about your elbow, because you can hit the guy. It’s very useful to focus on the guy while turning, so you where the turn finishes.
For the guys: you will lead with your right hand on the waist of the lady and your left hand will paint a circle over the head of your partner. You should hold your partner againg on “2”.
The step for the intermediate level was a turn during the lateral and two possibilities for the elastic.
1. The lady is doing the lateral to our right side. Then we turn her with the left hand up and the right hand down. We let the lady do the step backwards and after that we bring her to the front and lead the elastic with the right hand. The left hand doesn’t have any power, it doesn’t lead anything.
2. We turn the lady with two hands up and change the hands. We let her go but we don’t follow her, just extend your arms. After that pull for the lady to come forward and lead the elastic.
Hi everybody! Today in Bremen we have done two things.
At the beginning we did one exercise for the ladies to understand how to be light for the guy. We have to feel the hand of the guy on our back. If we are going forward we have to do it active, not waiting a lot (the hand is too hot!) but without losing the contact. If we are going backwards we have to keep the contact too and go actively backwards-
After that we did one nice step. First we did the bumerangue and the guy is turning to the left too. Please guys, during the bumerangue let your hand over the head of the lady and not over yours. We bring the lady to us like with the yo-yo and when the lady goes away from us we will turn to the left. Watch now the video. You have to turn focusing on the lady and feeling the tension of her arm.
For the ladies: we are doing our ladystyling. After the turn, when we are doing “one” with the right foot we start with the ladystyling.
