"Back on their heels with their pelvis tucked under" -Carol
I'm trying to picture this stance. Does it look like they are
slightly bent forward from the waist? - pelvis in and under the
chest? Shoulders slightly forward? ..hard to picture..
would you describe the 'better' stance?
Is it; pel
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
The majority of men I dance with are sitting back on their heels with
their pelvis tucked under. They learn the correct posture and then five
minutes later they go back to what I call 'midwestern couch slouch.'
It's not possible to dance close embrace with these guys and stay on
your own axis,
Carol,
Wow, sounds like you have serious problems there. I know there are
many ways of teaching Tango so, usually, I don't pontificate too much :-).
But good posture is so fundamental to good Tango that every teacher
should teach it from day one and every day thereafter. And it can be
difficul
Very interesting, since my experience mirrors this. Before and during my
first trip to BA, 10 years ago, my back would often hurt. Then I started to
learn how to hold my head up, fix my spine and posture, and I now know that
tango shouldn't hurt. When it does, it's a sign that I'm falling into b
tlanta
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From: "Lois Donnay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tweaking lower back
Before and during my first trip to BA, 10 years ago, my back would often hurt.
Then I started to
learn how to hold my head up, fix my spine and posture. What
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
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,
