helo from uk... thanks so much for the lovely tutorial ! very nice indeed .. just simple but effective lovely ways to do the echo from very routine steps ..very useful .. im gonna look at it a few times ...although it looks simple there is technique involved ... thanks so much..also may I say I love your colour scheme ..both of you are so gentle and effective.. thanks so much..!
Wow! Very well explained. Ocho starting on 1,4 are certainly interesting! Ochitos look fun too! For ocho on 1, when does the leader change the weight from right foot to left foot before stepping diagonally backwards? TIA
Think of our four feet, my two and my partner's two, standing on the corners of a square. If we both shift our weight to the hand side (HS) or the arm side (AS), then we are both standing on the side of the box. For a super compact ocho-we can even do a 360-degree turn right on the same spot!-we shift our weight to diagonally-opposite corners, putting us in cross-system (CS). So, for example, I shift my weight to HS while turning my torso towards AS, sending my partner to the opposite corner. Now I can step back and around myself with the AS (right) leg, clearing space for my partner to step forward and around me with their HS (right; we are in CS) leg. I hope that describes what you are interested in. A suggestion for content-based questions is to give us the timestamp where the action in question occurs in the video. Thank you for the question!
helo from uk... thanks so much for the lovely tutorial ! very nice indeed .. just simple but effective lovely ways to do the echo from very routine steps ..very useful .. im gonna look at it a few times ...although it looks simple there is technique involved ... thanks so much..also may I say I love your colour scheme ..both of you are so gentle and effective.. thanks so much..!
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Wow! Very well explained. Ocho starting on 1,4 are certainly interesting! Ochitos look fun too! For ocho on 1, when does the leader change the weight from right foot to left foot before stepping diagonally backwards? TIA
Think of our four feet, my two and my partner's two, standing on the corners of a square. If we both shift our weight to the hand side (HS) or the arm side (AS), then we are both standing on the side of the box. For a super compact ocho-we can even do a 360-degree turn right on the same spot!-we shift our weight to diagonally-opposite corners, putting us in cross-system (CS). So, for example, I shift my weight to HS while turning my torso towards AS, sending my partner to the opposite corner. Now I can step back and around myself with the AS (right) leg, clearing space for my partner to step forward and around me with their HS (right; we are in CS) leg.
I hope that describes what you are interested in. A suggestion for content-based questions is to give us the timestamp where the action in question occurs in the video.
Thank you for the question!