Steve - There is a nuevo dancer couple that I see occasionally doing things
that look impossible if both lead and follow are not managing their own axis
and weight. Not being a 20 or 30-something, I don't expect to dance like they
do, but some, I said some, of the things that they lead look m
On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:56 AM, David Thorn wrote:
> ...I was mainly wondering how common it is for follows in open to
> insist on "leaning". I really have no better word since they would
> most definitely fall over if I didn't hold them up. And they do
> tend to pull me off of my balance..
I just saw a post response about the rotator cuff. I
want to pass along some great shoulder-protection
advice that I got. This would work as a warmup before
dance, as well.
I used to have moderate shoulder problems due to
lifting weights. One day someone told me that
everytime I begin a workout
Look at :27-:50 in the clip you attached. He does walk directly in
front of her feet, ie his right in front of her left, when he walks
straight ahead in parallel system. Of course, when he switches to cross
system, its different.
flame wrote:
"The point of referring to the length of Gustav
To David - with the shoulder injury/pain,
I have a similar problem, and followers who do this also tend to tweak my
lower back. You should be able to get (lead?) them out into open embrace
where they are totally vertical on - and responsible for - their own axis -
for the two or three remaining so
Alex wrote:
> To David - with the shoulder injury/pain,
>
David - Alternately, give them a hug, i.e., use one hand to support the
other. I found this useful last year when I was having a nasty rotator
cuff problem. The rotator cuff is responsible for stabilizing the
shoulder so in the unilate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ra1CGazrUw&feature=PlayList&p=517533904E339685&index=0&playnext=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikKzQwgBJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcBFsaRoPQ
I should know better than to stick my neck where I'm about to put it...
but here go
Having tweaked my lower back several times before I figured it out, in my
experience the biggest contributor to lower back issues (in a tango context) is
tight hamstrings. They pull down on the pelvis, which increases the work that
the lower back muscles must do as they pull Up on the pelvis
Ooops...OK, I screwed up...sorry.
This is the second video that I wanted to post showing the raw reaction
to Tango music...down where the guts and feel of it lay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKZChDkTrs
Now, contrast that with the first very competent but oh so boring dance
You / I, must dance with the same whole feeling/experience as
this man sings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGY4fS1EAmo
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In a message dated 3/12/08 8:03:40 PM Central Standard Time,
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<< I'm thinking that: these three videos show the real danger of taking
or giving too many classes in Tango..namely, that the dance becomes
a series of disjointed moves...a sequence of isolated moves wi
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Jay Rabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Having tweaked my lower back several times before I figured it out, in my
> experience the biggest contributor to lower back issues (in a tango context)
> is tight hamstrings. [...]
> Second major contributor is weak abs,
Jeff,
Thanks for the note, but no, I don't think it's bad posture on my part.
90% of the time I dance, I have no lower back issues whatsoever - when I
dance with followers who know how to be responsible for their own
axis/weight - even in close embrace.
It's the 10% of followers who think that
I'm surprised and yet I'm not surprised that so many people seem to have lower
back problems attributed to Tango. I'm surprised because of my own personal
perspective. In my pre-Tango days I had lower back surgery twice for 3 ruptured
discs - L3, L4 and L5. Even between and after the surgeries I
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