Re: [Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures

2009-05-26 Thread Mr tobias conradi
...@cavtel.net An: Gary garyb...@ozemail.com.au; tango-l@mit.edu Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 13. Mai 2009, 02:54:49 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures To me there are only TWO sacadas: front and back. These messages remind me of a traffic circle. There's only

[Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures

2009-05-11 Thread Nussbaum, Martin
Sergey says a friend of his came up with 1000 sacadas? Please show them to me. From a pure sturcutral anlaysis, by my calculation there are only 48. Here is my analysis: Lets start with leader doing sac to follower. There are only 3 steps involving full weight shift for follower in tango.

Re: [Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures

2009-05-11 Thread Sergey Kazachenko
This is the beginning, but he was going into more and more details. For example, if I remember correctly, instead of your 4 different sacadas he would count 6 - L/R foot, done with front cross, back cross and open. Also he would count an extra variation done with both feet at the same time - it

Re: [Tango-L] 1000 sacadas? More like 48. Was - how many figures

2009-05-11 Thread Nussbaum, Martin
You are double counting some of these. For example, on her right open step, if you do right front sac to her departing left foot, it is open, if you use your left foot, you are crossed. Yikes, I had not considered using both feet at the same time. I actually have seen Chicho do that on