Unfortunately, I don't have time to read all of the posts that popped up today while I was at work. And I probably won't until after I return from Ann Arbor. So, please excuse me if I end up repeating something someone else has already mentioned.
--- Tango For Her <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone, PLEASE, tell me why soooo many teachers teach > young followers to s-s-s-s-stretch their leg out, > really far, in a backstep!!! Is that the only way to > teach them to have a straight knee and a beautiful > leg? Can't they have it with a shorter backstep like, > say, in the same county? Here teachers confuse length of the body with length along the floor. If a follower learns to use the length of her body, a properly-sized step will follow. Followers tend to take small steps if they initiate the back step with their knee or the middle of the thigh. If you teach them to step where the leg rotates in the hip socket. This fixes a lot of the problem. Trini de Pittsburgh PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburghs most popular social dance! http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l