I got this commentary in a weekly newsletter from our local Tango
School here in San Diego (the one that has a teachers training
program.) I found it somewhat amusing, so I thought I'd share it with
the list, especially those who object to followers being compared to
non-human things.
And I'd like
Brick gave us this article: (clip)
Sometimes when teaching a follower I find that it is necessary to
work on the "auto-ocho" habit. Like a wild bronco that needs to be
broken, these followers become runaway horses when led forward from
the cross.Horse trainers have developed techniques for breaking
Astrid wrote:
> Good grief, thank God we do not have instructors here that think of their
> students in this way.
He doesn't - I think it's obvious that he tries very hard to make his
students dance on something else than autopilot. I'm also sure that,
in other posts, he can cast aspersions at le
