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01.07.15. Intermediate. Elastic and Chassé after a left turn on the line.

Juli 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

With this step you can have a nice effect in the music.

Turn on the line.

Guys: Pull the lady into the line and turn her with the left hand up and the right hand down.

Ladies: Do your steps on the line and try to close your legs.

Preparation for the chassé.

Guys: You are leading a elastic with your body, going first with the hips to the side. Your right under arm is in the low back of the lady and it will go little by little up. Ladies, you go first with your hips, then with your chest and at last with your head.

Chassé.

Guys and ladies: wacht the video to see the chassé steps. Guys: In the middle of the preparation you will go faster and with more energy (watch the video) for the lady to understand, that something special is coming. You are close to the lady and you are bringing the lady with you. For the ladies: if you go up, don’t bring your head back but focus on your partner.

01.07.15. Beginners 2. Be sensitiv about the hair of the lady.

Juli 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Dear guys: Be sensitive if the lady lady has the hair on her face and help her to get it out.

Variation 1: Elastic going backwards.

Guys: You go with your right to the front but you don’t transfer the weight to your right, stay on your left. Watch the video to understand, that the leading is like a circle. Ladies: You will back with your left leg but at the beginning you don’t transfer the weight to your left (the guy doesn’t let you go to your left). First go with your chest to the front and after that with your head. If you are down it’s important that you connect your hand with your upper body to feel the leading of the guy.

Variation 2. Chassé going backwards and elastic.

Now we want to do a chassé. Watch the video to see the steps. Guys, at the beginning you need some energy with a preparation down and going up after that. On two you will lead the lady like in a circle (watch the video) for her to bend to the front and on 3 you go with your right foot to the front but you don’t transfer the weight (you will do it little by little). Ladies, on 2 you bend to the front, first with your chest, then you go with your head. From here everything is like in variation 2.

01.07.15. Beginners 2. Travelling with the lady in a close position.

Juli 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

The first three steps.

Opening like lateral but at the end the lady doesn’t come back, she is crossing backwards (and the guys are crossing  forwards). Ladies: You cross backwards with the right but your upper body has a torsion to the left. Guys: You can lead this torsion.

 

Left turn.

Normal steps for the lady. For the guys: We go to the right with the lady and then we cross backwards. Your right hand has contact with the lady the hole time.

 

The beginning of the next three steps.

Guys: You want to lead this steps in the line, now you has to cross to the street to the other side.

Have fun!

24.06.15. Beginners 2 / Intermediate. Olé with elastic and cambré.

Juni 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we repeat the olé step and after that we did one elastic with a cambré. Here you can see the olé step:

http://zouk-germany.com/17-06-15-beginners-intermediate-ole-step/

If the lady should do the bumerangue, you will get her with the left hand and lead her around of you three steps, before you lead the preparation for the elastic and the cambré with your body. This part is very important: for leading the lady with your body you will bend your upper body to the left for the elastic, to the right for the cambré and to the left again for the wave. If the lady is doing the wave backwards, you will put your right foot between both feet of the lady before you go into the basic step.

Ladies: for the elastic you are going first with your hips and then with your chest. Your head is the last part of your body going to the front. Do a good preparation for the cambré putting your pelvis to the front and contracting your center, then you go backwards but your knees are going to the front. For the wave you go first with your head and after that with your body.

24.06.15. Beginners 2 / Intermediate. Learning to dance big.

Juni 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Sometimes it’s nice if you try to improve the quality of your dance and not only learn steps. Today there is one advice for your training, one idea to dance bigger, like in a performance.

Have fun!

24.06.15. Intermediate. Repeating what we did last week.

Juni 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we repeat the steps we did last week:

http://zouk-germany.com/17-06-15-intermediate-elastic-without-elastic-combination/

17.06.15. Beginners / Intermediate. The olé step.

Juni 22, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we learn the “olé” step.

For the ladies. First you turn on the line to the left and then you will paint a half of circle with your right foot on the floor. Your right hand is painting also half of circle over the foot. Then you will go two steps backwards and the last thing to do is the bumerangue step.

For the guys. If the lady is painting half of circle with the right to the front, it’s very nice if you are painting a half of circle with the left backwards.

There are two difficult points in this step for the leading:

1. To lead the circle of the lady. You have to paint the circle with your leading while the lady is going to the front (Watch the video).

2. For the leading of the bumerangue you have to turn your body to the left (in this way the lady will go into the line) and to go backwards (and the lady will have the energy for the turn).

Have fun!

17.06.15. Intermediate. Elastic without elastic and combination.

Juni 22, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi everybody!

Today we did this steps:

http://zouk-germany.com/16-06-15-beginners-elastic-without-elastic/

http://zouk-germany.com/16-06-15-beginners-combination-bumerangue-reverse-elastic-without-elastic-cambre/

Have fun!

Fernando

10.06.15. Beginners. Turning the lady with the upper arm after a turn of the guys.

Juni 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

The beginners can do a lot of cool steps!

Guys: you lead the left turn of the lady and when you lead the next right turn you want to go into the place the lady was before you. You are turning, so you have to focus on your partner.

For leading the turn of the lady with the arm: don’t hit the lady. First contact, then you push.

Have fun!

10.06.15. Intermediate / Advanced. Training the spiral 2 to the left and to the right.

Juni 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi!

Today we did one exercise to practise the spiral 2.

The steps are the normal steps for a zouk turn (third step on the spot). The head will follow the shoulders. For a left turn, the head goes to the left the first step, the second step to the front and to the side and in the third step you will focus on your partner.

For the right turn, first step head to the right, second step to the front and left, third step you focus on your partner.

If you are doing the step with your partner, guys, you turn together with the lady and after that you will lead the spiral with your hands on her upper arms. Watch the video to see how. Ladies, don’t forget to do your third step on the spot and to focus on your partner at the end of the turn.

Have fun!

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