Today we did a nice step to practise the tension in the arms between the leader and the follower.
Guys: You will bring the lady with you right hand always around you, feeling the tension between both arms. You keep with your left hand the lady close to you. If the lady goes on 1 with the right again, you will pull her into the line and lead the bumerangue reverse.
Ladies: Stay with your upper body to your partner. You will walk around your partner because your partner is leading you, keep the tension with the arm and don’t go alone. Remember for the bumerangue reverse: It’s a turn on the line.
Today we started one new course for beginners and we did the basic step and the left turn from the basic step. If you follow the link, you will find both steps:
A very short explanation about how to do the circles with the chest from the basic step staying on the spot. Your body needs some exercise to do this moves fluent. Be patient. Control your shoulders and your hips, you want to separate the move of your chest.
After that we did today a combination:
For the combination there are some important things for the guys and the ladies.
For the guys: After the left turn you will bring the lady to your left with your right hand on the left side of her body. Block the lady going like in slow motion. Your leading is painting a circle but please don’t forget the leading of the chest of the lady to the front and back.
For the ladies: If the guy is playing with your chest, please, press a little bit (not much) against his hands. In other way you cannot feel the leading. If the guy is leading the wave, you have you right free and you go with your right to the front.
Today guys, if you are behind of the lady you want to lead a snake. When the lady is turning on the line doing a head movement you will put your left hand under her left arm. In this way you control better the shoulder line of the lady. You will paint a circle and lead the snake to the front. remember to bring the lady back. After that you will open to the left.
For the ladies: While doing the head movements think on stretch the opposite side. Transfer your weight with the head movement. for the snake you hae your right free, so go with your right leg to the front.
We will do todaay the bodyroll (the wave) reverse.
Do the normal wave and at the end you have to sit bringing your pelvis back. Then you start a wave to the front from the hips. Your feet are looking outside for giving you more stability and your legs are doing some pressure inside.
Guys, if you are leading the lady think about both hands. You start the move with the right hand but at the end you bring the lady up with your right hand. Try to lead fluent.
For the ladies: Your arm is free and it’s not a dead fish You can comb your hair or just hold your arm with some tension.
You will turn the lady to the left with both hands up. After that you pull in a line to you with the left hand and you go with the right hand to the axil of the lady. You want to bring her right shoulder up for her to go with the head to the left.
The lady will turn the three steps with the head to the left side. If she is in front of you, you will paint half of circle to the front. The lady is now with the head on the right side. You will now bring the head of the lady straight to the left. For that, you let your left hand up and push with your right hand to the left.
Now comes the last head movement. You will lead the lady to the right. The first three steps the lady stays with the head to the left. She will go under your right elbow. The forth step you have to bring both hands down for the lady to go with the head to the front and the fifth step both hands up, for the lady to go with the head up.
For the ladies:
Your head follows your shoulders. After the left turn you will go the first three steps with the head to the left side. Then comes a half of circle. Bring your chest in if your head is down for not to fall to the front.
After the circle the guy bring your head straight from one shoulder to the other. The last head movement you will go five steps. The first three steps you stay with the head to the side. The forth step you go like in a circle to the front and the fifth step you will bring your head up.
Think about it: The hole time you are turning on a line, so you have to go always the line.
It’s very nice for the coordination of the guys to learn to lead the lady… even if we cannot see her!
Watch the video. The most important thing for the guys is to lead the lateral of the ladies after the turn under the arm. Don’t forget to the cross step and lead the lateral inviting the lady from one side to the other.
We learn today how to do head movements while turning together on the spot. For the ladies: Please warm up your body before dancing this step and practise under your own responsibility.
Here you can remember how to turn on the spot togehter to the right:
Now we want to do some head movements while turning.
Guys: While turning you have to keep the same energy he hole time. The leading for the head movements comes from your upper body. Your arms are connected with the lady. If you go by 1 with the right, you will bend to the right, your right hands goes down and your left hand goes up. Then you bend back in a circle by 2 and 3. By the second 1 with the left your upper body is to the left. By two and three you will bend to the front. By the third 1 you start from the beginning.
For the ladies: Remember to relax your head and strecht the opposite side of the neck while doing the head movements. Connect your arms with the arms of the guy, your shoulders stay down. Don’t focus with your eyes while doing head movements.
The end. Guys: for opening the position, you bring the lady to your right side. Your right hand goes up and the left hand goes down. Ladies, close your ribs if you open and don’t transfer the weight to your heels because in this way you will loose your balance. A cambré for the end after the opening is possible too.
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Hi everybody! Today we just repeat the step we did two weeks ago and we did some exercises for the arms of the ladies.
Ladies: Maybe in other dances like in salsa you have a lot of tension in your arms but the tension in zouk is different. Relax your arms and try to be a little bit back to feel the connection with your partner. The connection, if you are dancing the lateral step, is not about pulling with your arms to you but staying a little bit back, so you have a natural connection without a lot of energy on your arms. Let your elbows and your wrists go down to be more feminine (elbows up are more masculine).
You can see here the explanation of the hole lesson:
The table cambré after the elastic is a very popular step. You have to be careful: Ladies, you need the right technique. Warm up your body and do the steps under your own responsibility.
There are three important things today:
1. Elastic. For the guys, watch the video to see where to put the energy for the elastic of the lady. You want, the lady goes to the front and up opening the chest. For the ladies, let your shoulders down if the guy is leading the elastic. Go with the leading and pay attention becasuse the guy can play with the velocity of the step.
2. Bringing the lady up before the table cambré. Guys, the hands of the lady have to go up parallel to her body, in other way she doesn’t feel comfortable. Ladies, put your both feet on the same level as your shoulders.
3. Going down. Ladies, to have to “sit” with your center over your feet. You look to the front. Guys, don’t bring the lady back, becasuse she needs to control her center.
You can comb your hair or just hold your arm with some tension.