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1. SS Bachata Pw V2 1 part 3 Intro: Hi, my name is Karina and I'm Jeff to opinion, and we are part of incognito Dance Company. Welcome to the Vishaka partner of course, for employers. In this course we're going to build on all the core techniques that you learned as a beginner and really show you some new techniques and a way to pull this stuff together to give you more rounded experience as a dancer, please do take your time in this course, especially in the first module, which is body movement. This will define how you look as a bar chart that answer. And there's something that we work on all the time, even as professional dancers also will give you lots of tips for your leading and following, which will improve the quality of your dancing in general. And moving on to the next levels. In our experience, the dances that spent the most time at beginner and improve a level really have a good quality of movement. So do take your time as you need to go over any of the core techniques. Do go over them as many times as you want to. Don't rush through these techniques. They're super important and it'll give you a solid foundation. Let's get started.
2. SS Bachata Pw V2 14ab Demo & Diamond Footwork Explained: One last time. Yes. You would have no, at least not worthy of it is just can't lie. Yeah. Hi.
3. SS Bachata Pw V2 14c Diamond Partnerwork: Welcome back my lovely people. We're now gonna show you how to do the Dominican diamond in partner with how you lead it and how you, you can also do it solo in, let me just kinda show something in a solo version how our body shape is different. When we do the diamond in the solo shape or a kind of point my shoulder away to create a line. If I show you visually a credit line. So the shoulder pulls away. Secret is kinda like this. Bat, bat. But that gives a nice dynamic to your movement. Now this will change when you lead, because you lead has to is the priority for the step. So when you're dancing this solo and you're breaking away and doing a shine for work, you could add some dimension to it. I've been showed that statistic. The point from the shoulder hip open TO is a clean line. And then here is the other side, shoulder, hip, toe. So you kinda and then change direction. change direction, charge. So just bear in mind when you're doing it solo, you can add some body shape to it. And I kinda looks nice. Otherwise, if you dance quite static, it kinda looks like step, step, catch, step, step, catch, catch up. It's not as dynamic and movement. So in Partner at the priorities in giving upon information. Okay, So in partner work, as you go from a basic, you're gonna go 123456, pull away seven, tap on eight. So already there's 78 is you're linking and you're telling us something's about to happen, you'll you'll gain it goes attention in a sense of she's going to know that your lead has changed for something different. Okay. So let's do that again to pull away. So we go 123456, step back, tap on eight. Now. Good my shape, my hand or my left hand goes in my left leg. So 1, 2. And then as we do the triple step, step, step, step. And then you're now gone onto your right hand lady's left chart sharp sharp., charge, Check, Point, Point, church or timing wise, it's 123456781234. So just for the timing, is the lady stays on the ladies timing, right for one, goes on the left on one. And you can tell by 1, 2, 3, and 4. Obviously it's a single patient steps, so we step on the ant, so it's slightly faster for the ladies in terms of following this, a very common step and you've now learned to. So you can pick up on this quite easily, but with any sort of footwork, it's again the following technique we use where we just mirror what the guy is doing in terms of work. So this one, very typical footwork that you now know, so you should be able to pick up quite easily. So obviously we get the signal that we pull away and then we get the signal, boom, boom. And then you should already know r, This is what we're gonna do. So Jeff is letting go here. But I know what I'm doing already because this signal was quite clear for me. Okay, so then usually you would do it at least twice or even more, multiple times. Okay? So look at your partner. Don't be distracted by what's going on around you. Really look at your partner and when he's pulling away and as a leader is also good. If you sort of look at the fetal, get the attention of the lady to your feet. So she looks at your feet and then she copies your steps. Okay. Let's do it again. 5678123456712345678, again, 12345678. As a lady, also, make sure you keep your hands nice and up. So the leader Kansas three cuts the other hand after the UI. For the guards when you're dancing with the ladies. The more advanced the lady is, the more sensitive shears to the movement. So sometimes if a lady's just coming out of him provers or started in provers, you might need to make your lead more obvious. But after a while, the ladies can just pick on the small. Start with this. So you can make it more subtle and not as big a movement. But to be honest, to me, depends on the song and the song is also quick. I would make my whole movement smaller the steps more than my whole lede is smaller. A key as well. Always try and stay within your frame range. If I'm too far away, 12345678 now ready? I'm ready too far away. I'm reaching forward my on my shoulders out of neutral zone, my elbows straight and everything's wrong. I'm too far away. So keep your lead quite, quite, quite, quite contained, as in from here, 2345678. If you've got a nice W shape in your arms, tap, tap, tap, tap, Google Gmail. It's kinda nice, comfortable range to kind of be and just try and bear all these in mind when you're practicing. Also don't panic if the lady doesn't copy you, It's perfectly fine. But if you do some footwork and the latest doing some other foot, we're just interpreting the music in her own way. Don't panic, it's not wrong, it doesn't look wrong, it's all fine. But ladies, if you do want to copy, then you have the step. Now, let's do from the other side and practicing music. From here, we do basic step 1, 2, 3, tap, ready 678, and step that, Judge Archer, tap, tap, char, char, char. One more. Tap. Tap. Church Archer.
4. SS Bachata Pw V2 14d Diamond Practice To Music: Yes. This pseudo code, at least one of the most GC-MS.
5. SS Bachata Pw V2 15ab Demo & Dominican Switch (2 versions) Explanation For Men: In this section we're going to cover a version of the Dominican step called Dani can switch where best to switch sides. So from this one is told about the preparation and it can be done on different times and destroyed. We're going to break back on the first half of the bar. So let us demonstrate from here. So from a basically step 1, 2, 3, tap 5, 6, 7, tap that from 1 to step back free for some slightly opening up to my left. Okay, So from here, keep all the both hands for the first version will show you another version where for work is identical, but we just changed the hats and then we step forward 5678 again to free Tab 5, 6, 7 tab and 1234567 again and 1234. Ready? Nice and slowly we step 12 back on three, tap on four, step forward, 5106, step seven, tap on eight again, and 1234 by six with a back step on three, we go 12 free. And also notice I'm sending her back a little bit. I'm not pushing her back. As I stepped back that this happens. It's like an open break. Okay. So it's very subtle. So but back from Hawaii and we open up and 31234 step forward just off her right shoulder, 5678. So let me show you that. Going green square on the camera. So nice and slowly we step 12 back on free for you. Notice how I'm giving you her some space. Damn right side, I'm going to go down her right side. And then 5, 6, 7, and this slide and 12 back on 345678. Make sure that your arms are nice and open so she can really pass through THE really don't blocker away with your arms in any way. So if we show, Again, we go 1234, so it gives that little signals. So she steps back and then you can see that Jeff really keeps his arms open. We go 5678. So don't be tempted to liter flu somehow with both arms to skip the arms open and you do your steps. And then with your frame, she should pick up on that. The shrug and square roots. She said her opening on. So just be slightly with your arms more opened and you would be normally. So when you're on free to free force here, open up with my arms, start before 567, hands back to normal neutral, and then one to open up on three coupon for step forward, 678. So the key thing really is always try and keep your frame engaged. Never loosen up your arms. So you're pulling from the shoulder, then you become very top heavy and it's uncomfortable for the leader and the follower. For the follower, guys will show really heavy. And for every ladies, if you loosen up your arms, if those other guys pulling and pushing your route, which makes him feel like he's being too rough with you. And so does try and keep that frame engaged the entire time. So for the second version, the full work is identical. It just now I'm doing it with a one handed version on my right side picking her backup. And this version I like because you've got many more permutations of it. So you can do much with it, but the footwork is identical. So let me show you the version 2. Version 2 starts off the same basic to free tap 5678. Now 12 or let go of my left-hand. Free for so now money left with my right hand to her lead. So this time around, I'm actually turning my lovely lady to her left. So I go 5678. So ladies for books different. She's gonna explain that in a minute. But for the guys is the same foot work, but the lead is different now. Okay. So you're going one to open up 34. I open my lady up to her left side. You see what is the overlap for a step forward? 5, 6, soma, her hand goes to her Hit button, front right hip. I let go at that point when I got contact with the body, then our tracer across her back and then pick her up again. Like that. Shade again in slow motion. It's about trying to keep constant contact because if you let go and read catch, she's kinda not sure about what you want to reconnect with, whereas he keep connection, then your lead is crystal-clear. So watch again, we go 1234. Okay, so my hands, tiny queen to the right, five, six, hand on the hip. Let go to hand. Now, you've gone from her right hip, crease across the lower back to the left hip, then pick up the hand as she comes through. 781 more time. 12345678. You can do that to recaps your hands, but you can also go into closed hold straight away. So just keep your hands and you want to go into a close alters, keep your hands on the latest pack. So if we go 1234, turn her and then just keep her close right here. And then we just connect like this. So just don't let her go too far, keeper, close on the back and then bring her into you. 1234567. So you can see TIF's hands going straight to the middle of my backward. He has got the most control. And then he stays close. 78. So you can choose which version you can create, connect with the ham. But the point is you want to turn it to the right? If my hand goes up her back, she knows to kinda on my shoulder. If my hang picks up the hand, then given a choice but to pick up their hand to me. Because there, there are many variations I can just pick and choose which one I wanted to do. So he didn't have to repeat the same sequence. But really, what you want to nail is the work and then work on the lead variations later. So we gave you the standard version earlier with the two hands. Now one handed version you can reconnect with the same hand or go to the back, et cetera, et cetera. There's some lovely variations of this as a nice smooth, as a good dynamic to your dancing. Social factors. Let's go from here. We do basic. There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 opened basic 1234, picker up, 6, 7 from the hand and the hand, 3456 open up on three, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, same hand. And, uh, now to pick out with a close hold, 6781234, close hold 78 and base 2, 3, 4. If I want to open up, even from a closed position, 1, 2, 3, 4, see how we'll get into it. So it's just, it's just that connection semi nice variations, really simple to just have five versions in like a matter of minutes. So from a closed hole is try that again. 1234567, 81234.
6. SS Bachata Pw V2 15c Dominican Switch (2 versions) Explanation For Ladies: Welcome back my beautiful followers. In this section, I will break down the Dominican switch and how you can follow it, right? So let's partner that. We're an open hold. We start a basic, we go 12. Then on sleeve for the leader will give us a signal to step back. 3, 4 in the first key pull of both hands. So again, we go 1, 2, 3, 4. So it's not a big step back. Don't step too far, otherwise you will lose your nice connection here with your partner just, just right behind your foot. Step back so you're ready to go forward, which is what we are going to do. All right, so we go one step back, 3, 4. Now, the leader should have stepped a little bit to the side so you can see where you're going. You are going to cross our, so we're stepping forward. We step forward, five, step forward six, and then we turn on the spots seven, tap on eight. So we're just walking forward and it's called a switch because we switched places. Okay. Let's again, we go one to then step, step back. Three, tap on for walk forward. Five, another step 6, underneath yourself seven, and tap on eight. So the term sort of starts and finishes on seven. Okay, let's do it again. When we go. 12, open 34, step forward. 56, step underneath yourself. Seven, tap on eight. Let me show you from behind. We go 12345678. Again, 12345678. So important of course, is that you keep your collection so you can feel the leader way and then the elite to come forward and to cross. So keep your nice frame obviously, and then your footwork. But the footwork should come quite natural because it doesn't go out of the rhythm of 123, tap 56, 7, tab, so you keep the same rhythm. We just go forward and around. Alright, let's do twice more. 567812345678123456, 781. Thing I do, which you probably saw in the demo video, is, I style it out a little bit, make it a slightly cheeky, especially obviously depending on the music, what my styling is, what my mom, the feeling is for this MOOC, but you can accentuate the little bit. Sticking your palm out like that and leaning forward so you can step out a little bit more. But then you lean forward to keep your frame and keep connection. And then you make it slightly cheeky with sticky your palm out like this. So just play with it. Make sure if you do stick your bomb out, that your upper body still up and you're not leaning forward like this. So just just the hip out. Right. Let me show you how that would look. Where you go. 1234567812345678. So you can play with any movie, can play with and interpret the music, even if it's not worth steps with your emotion and if your expression. So this is the first version. Then we did a second version which is slightly different for us ladies. So in the second version starts to send me go 12, but then on three for the leader lets go of our right hand. And I usually style it up like this. So I just bring it up. You can bring it to the hips. Again. Styling is always very personal. For now, I will style it up like this. So right up to my ear. And we're still stepping back like this and we're keeping the connection. Then we are going to do a turn. So instead of just walking forward and swiveling around, we're actually going to turn. Our turn will be over our left shoulder. We step forward on five to an hour, you left six and then on the spot 7, 8. So before we turned our, our right shoulder and needed the basic version. Now we're going to turn over our left shoulder. Let me show you from this side we go 1, 2, 3, 4. Now step forward on five, turn on my left, 67 on the spot. And eight, the lead for this, you will pick up because the leader is, is going in a little bit more on eight and then lead you out. So you already feel that momentum to turn five, 678. So that should be the leaf for it to do that turn and not just do the basic version. All right, let's do again 56781234567812345678, to come out of it, those two versions you can do or that already common, we can go back into an open hold. So from the turn, he usually puts your hands here. And then when we turn, picks it back up like this, or we can go into a close hold. So from our turn, if he keeps if it goes straight to your back, to the middle of your back and then stays close and pulls your clothes, then you end up in a close hold. But these two leaves are very common and there should be very clearly different. Obviously depends on what the leader wants to do next, what the next move will be. All right, Let's do two more. 5671234567812345678. And this is your domain. You can switch.
7. SS Bachata Pw V2 15d Dominican Switch Tips and Practice To Music: Okay, We're in a tips and practice section, if you know me well by now, you know this is my favorite section because practice really is the art of perfecting your techniques. So from here, starting with the two variations back-to-back, we're going to go from a basic 2, 3, 5, 6, ready? Open up one to keep her hands free. Tap on 4, 5, 6, 7, switch sides again. 234, ready? 67812345678. We become more confident. You don't have to add 70 basics in-between. For us, it's just kind of give you time to kind of rethink, make sure your techniques are correct when your techniques are starting to become really quick off the bat, what we call dancing organically, you're not thinking about the move, then you list, you don't need as many basics in between. Okay, let's try it one more time. One 23, tap 56 with the switch and 1234 switch 67 and the basic 23 tap 56, ready speech and 12345678. Now are they open to the left and lady turns to her left, we go 1, 2, open up and 5678 again. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Ready? 1, 2, 3, 4, reconnect 6, pickup the arm N1 to 3, and 5, 6, 7. Ladies with the styling on the second one. If you do lift up your arm, if you choose this styling, then make sure you bring it down over your head so your elbows days really close to your head and then sort of you brush your hair back and then bring it, bring your elbow forward and down like this. So don't bring your arm down to the size because when you're turning you might hit your partner in the face of your elbow and we're trying to avoid that. Okay. So when you bring your arm up, then really keep your arm by your ear and then bring your arms down like this, close to you and not decide, okay, just deliver health and safety tip. There. Was music.
8. SS Bachata Pw V2 16ab Cuban Switch Basic Explanation For Men: There's been a lot of Q&A. Anyone knows that. We're now moving on to one of my favorite moves, which we call the Cuban switch. It's similar to a move in Cuban, which they do with this switch sides. It's very popular in Zukin, many other dances. So if it's lovely in which, in the modern but shatter. So let me show you the sequence and the breakdown for it from the elite perspective, okay. From this version is going to show you the Cuba switch coming off the lady's left side. So first of all, prepared a lady to free for SOC and hammer lock her right arm on. So yeah, Hammer look, right arm. 5, 6, 7, 8. Show you that again. Just a simple homolog from the ladies inside. Turn one to free Tab 5, 6, 7, 8. So you lead this term obviously with your left hand, with your right hand, you lead the attorney to the normal halo like this and this one, you just drop the hammer lock 2, 3, 4. So you prepare to turn here on four and we go five fleet the term 7, 8. My left hand is literally all it's doing is just pushing her right arm down, down, so the elbows close to the rebrand. The golden rule would homologs is you try and keep the elbows close to the ribs as possible and then Belichick leaving it there. But time she turns, she will naturally lift the arm up herself. You don't have to kinda forced the whole procedure. All I do is just lower the hand and then the term dynamic makes the arm hammer lock itself like it one more time. Ashrae, the other side, 123, prep the inside lefthand, 5, 6, 7, 8. Let me show you this direction. So sorry. We start from 123 prep 5, 6, 7, 8. For work wise, it's just a basic for the guys and it's it's it's a simple left inside term for ladies. Okay. Just getting to position one more time from this side, we step into 123 prep priority and everything we're doing with our leading, 5, 6, 7. Okay. From here, the isn't it, It's quite important that your step now is a touch our steps and it goes 81. So I step 81. Look how close I am to Karina. So it's important that you are close to your partner because if you're too far away, your arms end up bending backwards and super uncomfortable and you're pulling and anything's wrong position. So you want to step your one as close to her as possible, but what barging her out of the way. So you want to stay within that range. And then what you're doing is you alternate your hands. Say your arm comes down, left arm comes up, and then you turn to your right. Like so. Let's do that again and decide. Nice and slowly. We go 123, tap on for turn 67, triple step 8, and 1. When you're on one, you can start turning to your right, 234 as you alternate the hands. And then to end it, you simply just get the lady a turn to her left. 6781 more time. Now, personally, I know this is one of the hardest leads for guys to teach when we teach this in class is very, I mean, I don't think I've ever met anyone get this moved one, not even me. I had to kinda at least practice it for 56 times before I was comfortable with the step. So it's quite a tricky step. There's many things that can mess up the lead for you. Not just not only me, my partner can also pull away. So you have to be, make sure that you really mark you're leading crystal clear with this one. So 1, 2, 3, 4, turning the lady to her left, 567. So first of all, I'm making sure I'm close to her. They might eight step under and one look across. And about Tamar tend to my left, I'm alternating the hand and check for for sender away. 5678. Which speed? Let me just show you first before you practice in industry, the speed of the dynamic looks 1234567812345678. So depending on the height of your partner, generally guys a little bit taller than the ladies. So you might have to duck a little bit, but don't Dockers in bow forward. Don't hinge at the hip. You you drop it the knee to give that kind of then we drop it a knee. You're not pulling away from her. And me. Show you something from here. If I have my lady around him, if I go 8 and 1, if I bow forward, I'm I'm pulling myself away. If I'm bending the knee, are contained, breathe comfortably and still stay close to my partner. This is also very important for the lady. Is he do bow forward, then you'll pull the lady off-balance. So then she'll fall, you'll fall. It's a disaster. So don't do that. Really bend from your nice and try to keep your arms as close as possible to the ladies are all time your body and your arms. To one last time. The trick really is a lot people, truck guys try to avoid doing is the cha-cha step is that is the triple step. And they, they think by avoiding it, they're kind of minimizing the step. But to me, the triple step is your positioning step is not only important to stay with the music, but that's kind of key. But what's really important is that the triple step allows me the flexibility if my partner's shifting around quite quickly our contract and adjust quickly. So triple step is kinda keeping me on my toes to stay close to us. I'm not having to kind of really forced my partner around what you don't want to do. You want to keep your leader was soft and sensitive enough for her to kinda just enjoy. So there's trouble more time. 123, lady turns and 5, 6, 7, trip. 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. With that triple step, as you can see very well with CEF, is that he's moving around me. So the lady is not moving on 81. She just goes top and one that's all she does. So you really have to make the effort to move around. So you do not need those three steps to move around her because she doesn't know what you want to do. So you have to do the work. So just before we finish, let me put some emphasis on the importance of how the footwork works with his Cuban switch. That is the key to the success of this MOOC. So first of all, from a normal basic, we go 123. We start turning the lady to her left. In September, the hemlock 567, things start changing now. Okay. So you're eight is not tap like it normally is. Your eight has to be a full shift of weight. And then the end, which is a syncopated between 81. And then the one. Show you that again. So we're on seven. So instead of tapping on it and being happy, you're now going to go 8. 7 is a positional step right in front of you. And then your one, the steps just in front, just behind her. So you're close enough to push obama, you'd be able to touch it. And then you also need the hand to free coupons for stepping out by 6, 7, 8. So eight then one is usually on the spot forward and side to move around her because you have to move around her, as I said, she stays on the spot. So you have to go on the sport forward side to create that curve, to move around. So obviously she can move in different directions, but more or less, It's always spot forward side eight, then one can show one more time. So as the lady has absolute freedom to move around, you have to adjust your steps. So the eight you can mark and the one you can mark and your n-step is the one way you're going to position to see where she is and adjust our show. You what I mean by that. You've gone 123, tap on 4567. So r can dictate where my eighties. But then she's now going to start moving. So my one so my end is now the one ready to plot my one close to her since she started moving more forward to try and catch me out. But then by adjusted my one. And then I turned to my right to free coupon for then a simple out how basic? 5678. So do take your time with it for work.
9. SS Bachata Pw V2 16c Cuban Switch Basic Explanation For Ladies: In this section I will explain the Cuban switch for the followers. The Cubans, which is called Cubans switch because it looks a little bit like a moving cube and salsa. But obviously we're doing it in but chapter. So we start with an open hall and a half basic. We go 1234 on for the leader is preparing you for an insight turn like this. So this arm is going to go into a homolog. So this is low and your left arm is where you follow the leads. This is where you can feel the return, right? So we go 5678. So in terms of footwork, is the normal left turn for you with a hammer lock? Let's do it once more. If we go 12345678, then from, from seven things start to change a little bit. The leader will be stepping 781 around you. You don't know obviously as a follower that this is happening. So you just go normal. Tap on eight and then on one, our step is slightly forward, but you will feel the lead for that, right? Let's do it again. We go 123456781. So you just tap on eight steps slightly forward on one because the leader is moving around you on 81, he's trying to get to your back. So you will automatically feel like stepping forward a little bit to make space for that to happen. Let's do it again. Where you go, 123456781. Then on to we step sideways, you you'll feel the lead from your arms to step back on s3 and we're a little bit turning on three, like this. Let me show you again from the other side. We were after the 10 eight and step forward, one step sideways to and then we step back and turn on three. So we sort of half a turn, honestly, obviously always depending on the lead of the guy, how much he moves around you depends on how much you gonna turn. For. E13 is a term usually sort of half. Right? Let's do it again. We go 12345678. We go 123, tap on four. And then to finish off with, we just do another insight turn 5678, basic implied term with just following the lead with both arms. Ladies, really important that helps to guide is what? Each time I am turning Karina, her frame is always engaged. The acts like a sail on a boat. At no point does she break connection to the shoulder. And this happened because the guy is going to try and move your core. So he's using your arms as a, as a communication to your core. So if you open up your arm too much and then all of a sudden you can see the shoulders already uncomfortable. It's, it's where you want to aim for is keeping your arms here the whole time as returning away. So we've got 81 even here and I'm turning to see see the frame here on her right arm. It still is. It's not this is not breaking connection here. It's staying as soon as our touched her arm, her left arm. She's turning to whole body C like this. So it's really important you kinda maintain a frown, only talked about it really super earlier on in this course. It doesn't change, the frame, doesn't stop softening up as you get more advanced, actually, the opposite, you become super consistent with it. So that it's super important on the count of three when you did a turn. Let's do that again. We go 1234567812. Now, because we're already slightly out of frame because we have to bring our arms back to make room for this, but still try to stay connected and then be receptive to that. That lead here on my right arm, I'm turning four. Okay, so really, even though for this MOOC we have to be in a slightly uncomfortable situation with our arms slightly behind us to allow this moves to happen, but then still don't go into even more uncomfortable situation. Tried to keep it there and if you feel even more pull then turn with your whole body and the lead should allow for that to happen. Let's do it once more from the site we go 1234567812345678
10. SS Bachata Pw V2 16d Cuban Switch Basic Tips and Practice To Music: It's time to practice that a few times with counselor, but slower. And then with music. Let's go. 123456781234567, basic 1234567812345678. Music by the end of Q1 on a Windows.
11. SS Bachata Pw V2 17ab Lean Demo & Explanation For Men720: There are many new and all of them. But your grade. Hello, class. Welcome back my lovely people. From here. We're going to go for the elite aspect of how you do a lean. We're gonna do on face-to-face and won back-to-back. So deletes for it. It's actually quite similar in a sense of how you lean, but the technique to get into it can vary slightly depending on the movement ended and the speed of the song. So let's go into, first of all, how you signal the lead and how you position yourself. So that's really key. Free, 45, basic, 6, 7, 8. So what you want to think of is that your landing foot you're grounded on is almost square on like a T-shape. So your lady shoulders are the top of the T and you are now your energy is going directly perpendicular to hush, to the square of the shoulders and hips. Okay, so that's really important because if you're slightly off angle, she can fall down your left or right side. So let me show you this one. From here. Plasmin do basic 12345678. You see Karina is facing straight at you. Okay. So what I'm gonna do, I'm going to turn sideways so I am right angles to her and then I step down the line, she's facing straight at you. So and then I got backup that line. If I stepped offline, she if she links useful downside or in France before that, even slightly off, you start to kind of feel the stress on the core. So your leans, your back foot has to be a directly in front of her entirely. So from here, partially from this side, we've gone 1234567. So Cranor literally leans straight ahead of her and straight back at you. Okay. Really important to get the positioning right first. Otherwise, you don't avoid crushing on your lovely flows from here. So we do a basic 123 tap on 45678. And the first thing is you landed on one. You're nice and perpendicular line. Your frame is constantly engaged. Now there's a couple of options depending on how much the lady trustee, to be honest, it just depends how comfortable the lady is. Reduce a dancer or how much he wants to link. Now, version one, she hold a plank and she creates distance between U, k. That's up to her. You don't try and force it in, otherwise that makes it uncomfortable for her. So she could lean and stay just in plank form, just like how they do in gyms and Palade is in yoga, standard plank. Okay. But you're holding this grounding for her and I'm very much waited on my left arm away. Is it am I right? It's just as a port. Right? And then, and then just delete out of it. I can drop a little bit and then push up. So I should again, a step back. One I mean plank and at lower my hand then filter so it comes out. We collect a cat, cat stretch out. So your lead is very much from your left arm. So make sure that's really strong because that's where my weight is mostly on. Is your left arm like this? Obviously also a little bit here but I don't have that much of a resistance on your shoulder because you're decide to me. So I'm basically leaning on your left arm and then do come out of a sort of draw a circle. You go backwards, down and up. So that makes me do that. Body roll up, that cut back, we call it. So you go back down and up. Let me show you a slow motion. So this is the first version where she has created this and remember Sheikh trace that distance her choice, don't force her into you. Okay. So so she's I'm offering my body is frame but say in his, in his version a, she's chosen the distance. So shows an a to get out of it, are curved my hand and comes up out of a cat back. Cool, shady other side. Nice and slowly with the basic 2345678 framing gauged. You're stepping one directly in front of her. She starts leaning into hence the lien. If you want to send her away. You can either just come up straight, which kinda core standards, or if you want to come up with a cutback stretch comes up and there's your cutback curve back into basic one to frame to create that lean. Obviously you're stepping, so you've tapped on on a you're stepping out and then you're bending that leg and you, your body shapes should also be quite straight. Like don't, don't create some sort of pens in your body. Just lean, bend that leg. And also you're also doing some sort of lean body shape like this. Okay. So you just bend your leg and then you push back up like this. Let's try to cite. So let me show the other variation. So you've got your lovely lady and now she trust you a lot. Aren't we lucky guys from here? We've done a basic 234. I offer the Leanne. She's now trusting me and she leans from my chest onto my hips. So she she she leans on my chest and hits combined. So now my arm is still engaged. So from here and there's the lean, so it's listed in plank form. So I'm not getting a full bag of weight and getting a just a ladies wear because of playing, her weight is distributed evenly. And then from here, I now have a choice of leading with the arm, like before or now I've got the other option where I can have a little hippo, kick out the hip and then lead out. So it's quite common, you know, just make sure you're hitting with the hip. You're not hitting hard. It's just it's more like a gentle nudge. She leans in, gentle nudge, comes out. Okay. Both work. Just depends on how comfortable she is if it's uncomfortable for her to get a sense for that really early on, don't wait until you've hit a super hard wood or she doesn't need much. It it says, Gentlemen, it's almost like I've gone from left foot, right foot, shift of weight. Left foot, right foot. I'm not gone. Take that. You don't want to cause damage. One more time. And then I'll show you the other side. 1234, the prep is exactly the same. And 12345678, again, we go base to free. She trusts uses. You're going to lean into you, tap on a step back on one. You're done with the hip. Comes up. If the second version, just make sure you have a very close that, so that already sort of happens on a. So if we're like this, we go basic 12345678. So you can see on 78, Jeff really sort of steps into me and then we're already almost collected. So then obviously, you can still try. She can still choose to not lean onto your body. She doesn't feel comfortable with that, but it gives us the option. If you're too far away from me, then I can't lean on to your body as a woman, it's a lot easier if we do the version where we actually lean onto your body and the signal if the hip is a lot clearer as well, to do the cap back, just lift the arm and she's not touching your body. That's quite difficult and make sure you don't do it too big, then don't make her lean too much because she's holding her own way. She's not comfortable to lean on to your body. Then just go a little bit. And then out of it, don't make a big Lean because it's quite difficult for delighted to hold a plank like this. So the second version where we actually lean onto your body is a little bit easier. So to give her that option and you give her the option by being close. So on 78 already sort of step close like this. So I only lean into you a little bit and then I'm already there. I'm already connected to u like this. And then little notes with the hip and I can roll up a lot easier for the lady. So make sure you're close. So she has that option. Let's go with the other variation we did, which was from her back to my face. Okay. So lead to get into it's completely different. So we've done a basic 12345678. Now it is variation. I'm going to do an open close and get her back facing me. So this happens on 1234. Okay. Now, the key thing is here that you are positioned with your right hip, right down the center of her spine. And what you want to be is just like earlier where she's facing straight down the middle of her lean, you'd only be off-center at all. She's got a high chance she could sideways. So you want to stay center. So I'll give a little lift on the fore end, not a full on pickup and send it to the ceiling. Just a gentle squeeze it and that gives a signal that you want the late the lady to form a plank in her body. The more the lady planks that easier for you to kind of control her movement. So the step back is the same. You step back and forth. And now even with no hands and she's completely relaxed on me, she doesn't have to hold me on nothing but still holder. My right hand on the hip. On the right Hit button. My left hand is holding here and I've got the link and you see, I'm very comfortable holding it. If I want to leave further back, I just bend my left leg to go further back. Now, to get out of it, all I do with my left leg is drop down. That creates a curve in her body. And then my hip sends a forward and there's the body roll reverse. I also do the body row reverse. The lead is so much easier for her to pick up If you did with her. She's got here on for you, lean back, you drop, come up together. They show you that again. From the top, we go 123, tap, ready, prepare the open, close. 1, 2, 3, 4. I'm in position. Then I go 5678 straight into outro like the standard open, close we did last month, a few modules ago. Okay, so the key thing is try and keep your lead really clear. Here we did a count on coming back 12345678, but the song was quicker. I'm I stretched it out over hop two bars or so depends on how quick the song is. But on most sung medium pace, going down 56, coming up 7, 8, quite normal. But of course you want to make it fit the song so the technique is identical from for the other variations. And show you the site. Slowly. We go and 1, 2, 3, prepare the open close. So we go 1234. But you're perfectly positioned directly behind her. So she leans back. You've got that support. Stepping back. 56, drop 78, prep, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Again, make sure you're close enough with the body this time, it's even scarier for the ladies because we can't see what you're doing. So you really want to be connected to her body so I can lean into you because I just pull her back without being connected to her body. It's really scary because we don't know if you have us know what's happening. So just from the preparation 123, so you can see CEF is connected to me on four here. Also, make sure let's shift around to the other side like here. Make sure you don't pull her back with this arm like this. Otherwise, I might think you want me to go that way. So with your arm like this, make sure it's very clear that you want her to face this way, so away from you. Because what I would naturally think is that you've turned that way. You want me to come with it with you. So you have to be very clear with that arm that you want me to stay this way and then keep my whole body connected. So if you lean away, then I I'm not scared to come with you. If we're not collected and you lean away, then I'm just falling backward and that's too scary. Okay, so make sure you're nice and connected. Give that a signal to face away. And then you can do this li. Let's try it once more. 5678, 1234567812345678. Always one of the trickiest things about the chatter is the ladies structure of where she moves is, is, has a, has a ton of freedom. So that's beautiful at the same time can make the leading tricky. So for example, if I do an open close and she's overturned, our can't do a lean now because I'm I'm in the wrong position or lean her diagonally. It's wrong about that. I have to kinda target my positioning as she's moving. So my lead is a constantly moving beast RAM. So I get from here, for example, if she does Overton because she's like super quick and I'm slow. For example, 123. I know by free I'm in the wrong position. So my four becomes here. I adjust my four straight away. Okay, so that's really important that your landing 4s is grounded first before you do the lien. If you haven't got the preparation, don't lean. No prep know leans. Just remember that when you're leading.
12. SS Bachata Pw V2 17c Lean Explanation For Ladies: Welcome back my beautiful followers. We are going in the world of tips and tricks with our first very easy one, which is a standard lean k. So with this move, most important to us to already mentioned that is that you keep your core and you keep a plank and you keep it quite stiff, otherwise it's super hard on the guy and you as well. All right, so we start this MOOC. We just go from a close hauled into a basic. We go 12345678. So on 78, the leader is positioning themselves like this to you. So like on a right angle, this is you, This is the leader. All right. Also, he's should be quite close to you, keep you close like that. And we have a strong frame here, then he is going to lean away. And at this point, we have to have very strong core to lean a with him like this. And I'm supporting my weight with my right arm here against his frames. And his friend should be really strong to support that. And you can support your body with his frame like this. So to start this move with just a very small, if you are with your leader, just ask him to do it quite small first to get used to it, and then you can lean more as we go along. But there is two ways how you can do a lean. One, how he just showed you is without touching body and just leaning with a plank and supporting your own body with your right hand. And then to come out of it. This is what happens. This is what we call a cutback. So we lean in a straight line and then to come out of it, we break from the hip. So then we'll we're leaning forward like this and then to come up which curve I will body and roll up. So if you just do this for me, it just by yourself. You bend from your hip like this, and then you drop your upper body and your head. And then overall, this is a so-called cutback. Okay, so from the lean, we are in a plank position. We link. Too small to begin with. Then you can feel that drop. You push out your hips and then you roll up through your spine and the head comes up last. Okay. If you feel very comfortable with your partner, that I would suggest the second version where you're quite close at the beginning, you connected with your body and then you leave and you're leaning against his body is so much easier because I don't actually have, I still have to hold my core of course, as I would just collapse. But it's a lot easier to hold your core like this then just having your whole weight on my arm so we can lean against our partner like this. And then to do the cutback, you will feel the lead from the hips this time when you connect it to his body, he will, he might choose to give you a little notch referred hip and that sends you back and you can do the cutback. Let us show you this. So we're from here. We'll leave and then hit. And you can do a cutback to come out. So the cat back is a very common version to come out of a Lean. Of course, if the guy is not giving you a notch, are not doing that circle. If it's arm, then it just means and it just comes back straight, then we can also just do a lien going down straight and coming up straight. Like this. That's perfectly fine. But the cup bug is just an extra fancy option to come out of this lean and it's very common. Let me show you from the other side. Ready, core engaged. We go 12345681234567812345678. So most important point is that you have your core engaged like a plank. If you do yoga or something and your plank on the floor, that's exactly the the feeling you should have in your body. Glutes engaged, core engaged. Then obviously a very good frame, very strong right arm here, very strong connection. And then I know it's difficult to go from all this tension into a curl up that takes some practice to then break that plank and then roll through your spine. But it's a very common move. And the more you do it, the more natural it will feel. We have done a second version for you where we lean back to the leader. So let me show you that. With this one, we come out of a open, close preparation that we've practiced a lot earlier on in this course. So normal, open-close from a basic 456781234. So we did whatever we do when we do an open, close normal thing. The leader is now faced sort of away from you. You would expect after, sorry, after an open-close that the leader is straight behind you, but he's already a bit twisted. You should be very connected to his side. So you don't lean into nothing. We should be connected first before we start leaning. And you're just facing away like this, you should feel a little lift that tells you to tense up and also to not step. So now we just have our feet together like this and we're not stepping anywhere. So then we are leaning backwards. You feel the lean. Then we're bending. So bend your legs and then we go into a body roll reverse. So push with your hip first and then your upper body second. So it's a normal when we did the body roll, normal body roll up. But this time from a leading position and our feet are together. So again from the lean, we are going and then bend your knees. So you're basically sitting on the guy's legs like this. And then we body roll up. Let's try that again. From the beginning, from the open-close, we go 1234 tens. Now, lean 678. So this body roll up is very small. It's not a massive back bend and you don't have to really release your head. It's just the little ripple up. That's enough. And then to go out of it, it's a normal outro that we taught you in the open-close we go 12345678. Let's do that again from the other side. 567 basic 1234567812345678 out 2345678. So practice small leaves first and then build up to bigger ones. But all of them should be very controlled. And you should always feel like you're stable, you're in control. You have a good frame and a good core.
13. SS Bachata Pw V2 17d Lean Tips and Practice To Music: Tips, tips, tips and practice. So let's go to some exercises that we want to offer you as a way of understanding how to practice your frame and how to engage core had to keep plank and how to build trust with your partner and how to know when to not go into fully. Okay, so for now let's work on a couple of exercises. I want to put the guy's arms out like this. And then visually guys, I want you to step back right angles and just hold your arms up like this. You're just holding Armstrong. She becoming luckily or platform for the ladies to lean on. So ladies, I just want you to hold plank and its ligand for just a little bit, just enough to keep the core engaged. I'm feeling Karina's entire top frame engaged. For me. It all the way. He's very evenly distributed. She's not pushing down on my shoulders. It's kinda it's across the arms and everything and backup. Okay. So one more time. Can you practice this and push the arm up and hold frame so you see she doesn't need my body, my shoulders and my arm being up is enough. If I had a sheep from arms here and then I'll just lean back. It's really hard for her. She's now pushing into my shoulders. This is not what you want. You don't want to to to lean on you with a push. It's more a case of she's distributing the way across your body. Okay. So when you are in a normal mature to pose, that way is here. In this arm here is also cross your left arm and the lady just leaning in like so. Okay, so that's our first exercise. Just tried square root. Don't, don't be square on foot to foot position at right angles. Remember you want to try and get that kind of angle going the whole time and not this or this you want to try and do that. So this will kind of make sure you fit, adjusted, make sure your back foot is very grounded as Susan holding she leans in, there's no way to I'm going to fall. Even I let my left my right foot. There's no way. It's all my weight is on my left. Okay. So with the back one does not exercise, you can do it. This builds a lot of trust. Is first of all, put your hands on her back and invite the lady to lean on. You. See how she says chakra, China is holding a perfect line. She's not arching backwards and doing a bridge. She is listed as trusting me completely. So I'm holding on the back of the shoulder buttons. He leans back. And so like a little game you can kind of practice when is kinda lady looking forward, keep your hands there, and then an antenna that you're ready to take the Lean and then she'll lean backwards and trust you completely and sent it back and again. Okay, so use this as an exercise to build trust. You to kinda know what the whole plank weight feels like. Well, you don't want to do is a lady's not be sure and it kinda just lean backwards precariously thinking is the OKC know, okay, and it had this kind of really awkward shape to their body and an older way is, is not, is not clean. So the Lean becomes very uncomfortable for the guy, but also super not nice for the lady. The lady needs to trust you a lot. So guys done mess about with these moves down, play games with it. Give them a 100 percent trust they deserve and make sure that start off simply and then build on to something a bit more elaborate later, right? So it's kidney, simple things go. So let's go from the top, would evolve it in back to back. And then we do music nice and slowly. And 1 234 frontal lean. And 1234 down 6781234567123. This time close 567812345678. I decide to free. I went back to the front and base 2, 5, 6, 7, prepare to three position 456 down, 78, knee there, 123 and 567. Other side, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, prepare. And 12345678 outro. Waves the back one leaders, make sure you don't go too far depending on how high the ladies heels are. If they're super high, you can't go far at all because then she's going to lose that touch with the body and she can't have the weight on her heels, otherwise she'll slip. So you can only go as far as her art sort of allows. So if we lean, you can see now that that's my maximum. If, if cheerful go any further, I'll sleep because I can't point my my feet anymore. So just be aware of that if the ladies wearing very high heels or even if she just normally use with the with the background, just make sure you don't go too far, because otherwise that slipping might happen. Let's do it with music. But you'll be able to split, to split and so on. But then all the other landscape to whether they're going to have a baby that has the people of the Macedonians. But at the end, the sigma two.
14. SS Bachata Pw V2 18ab Routine 3 Demo & Explanation For Men: This coefficient. So map of the deal for me. Okay, we're all the way now into routine free. And in this section we're going to cover all the footwork we learned earlier. And for an acute switch and put wonder leans in this lovely sequence and very typical on a, on a dance floor anywhere in the world. Okay, so we're going to get nice routine put altogether. From the top, we start with a basic for the guys, we saw a lead 2 into basic and 5678. I'm now going to start pulling away a little bit and pick up both hands. 234, ready, 678. And there's my warning them a basic is now changing into something else. So I'll leave it to diamond 234567812345678. So the diamonds straight into the DOM switch. One more time. This side, we do a basic 12345678, pull away, 2345678, diamond 12456781234. So you folks could be quite crystal-clear on that one. Let me break it down for you again. So when you go from the diamond, we go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. To transition between the two, you have to be very clear as to how you are transitioning. So we step 1234, easy-peasy, 5, 6, 7, and 8. And 1 straight in, say, eight is now shifted because remember you are on that cha-cha. Step 12, back on free for stray into the switch. 5, 6, picking the lady up into a close hold. And 1, 2, 3 out straight away into the 10, preparing for a while, 6 1771 switch. Let's do that again. Up to that point. Nasa slowly. And 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 out and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 diamond 2345678123456781234. C, preparing straight away. 5, 6, 7. Remember shift not tapping the eight on your Cuban switch, shifting weight 81234. From here. Instead of doing a simple outro, we're going to introduce one of the moves we did earlier, but with a double inside ten for the lady, both hands up in the air slowly. 56 cr lower her left arm first, so so I can unlock the elbow so it comes up nice and safely. Then keep turning. 78. Keep the arms up high so you can unfold with a butterfly. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Ready for your LEA? That's good. The other side. Nice and slowly. One tip I can give you, just off the bat now is I'll find the biggest transition when guards go from improve as two intermediate is the ability to go from one version of a step into another one and then into a term pattern into a novel and without adding basic sin. But please, if you feel you need a basic ad in, it's no there's no problem with it. It's just you you're training your muscles to start reacting quicker. And the only way you're gonna do that is to first give them the time to learn. To be quick. You don't just get quick overnight. You have to kind of learn these patterns technically and then lend to put them together quickly. Here I've purposely not for any basics in between, I've gone straight from one to another, which is how intermediate advanced dancers would dance. But Stan, sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes in a song, I might want to add more basics. Even as an advanced dancer, I would still add basics if I just want to have a calm dance or that one and just hit a 100 and moves or that I always reflect the song. The song is telling me, relax, chill, enjoy your lovely follower. Then that's what you should do. There's no such thing as you must do 600 moves because you're under advanced dancer. Not the case. There's practice again from the top, medulla base. 2, 3, tap ready 67, prepare a diamond 123 tap 567 and diamond 12345678123456, closed hold out to free, prepare see stray in, left ten for the lady, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 1. Remember nice and close arms not too bent back to free. For now, this one, your leads coming from your left hand. So the right hand is not pulling or the right hand is doing just going down to unfold the elbow so it doesn't crack or break. That's never a good sign. So your tanks coming from your left hand leaving late into a double time. 5678 c, still a smiley lady. You don't well, but the flying all the way down. 123, take your time. 5678. We're going to do the back differently. So we start with an open, close, open, close that back for lean over 56 down 78123567. So the routine, we kept it the same sequence because each one has a huge technical challenge. The footwork is not super-simple. The Cubans switches one of the most hardest techniques to kind of get your head round and the liens need time to kinda get comfortable for both your partner and yourself. So do keep it in the sequence for now. And then we can play with alternatives later. One more time from the side. 5, 6, 7, Anna base 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, pull away to free. And getting ready. 67 diamond tap, tap, Char, Char, Char, Tap, Tap, char, char, char. And 1234567, closed hold 1, 2, 3 prepare turn. 67812345678, butterflies, free shoulder, 5678, open close, step out on 45678 and nearly home. And by 6, 7, 8
15. SS Bachata Pw V2 18c Routine 3 Explanation For Ladies: Congratulations, you made it all the way to the last routine. So in this routine we combined all the moves you've just learned, and we actually kept them in the same sequence. So you don't have a lot to think about, so you can focus on your technique. So we start with a basic enclose hold. We go 12345678. On the second basic, we start to pull away 5, 6, and then 7, 8, and you're ready for our lovely diamond morph. We go 12345678. We only do this MOOC ones. So the leader should be very alert and signal you that he wants to go back into a basic. Because obviously with this move, usually keep it going for a little bit. But for the sequence which is two ones, so that hopefully the leader is very clear that he wants you to go back into basic. So from here, from our preparation into the diamond, we go 12345678. So he should be pulling your slightly towards him and do that eight to go 1234, as you can see, straight away going into the next move is our DOM switch with our arm up. So we are going to do the left turn. So we go 567 into a Close Holes here. Let's do these two moves again together. Diamond into a dominant. Dominant can switch 1234567812345678123456, 7812345678. You could see that on the diamond, I just styled my hands on the back of my hips like this because we're only doing one, so I don't want to do too much with my hands. So I give you this hip option for now. Alright, then from here we are going into a Cuban switch. So we do half a basic straight into the preparation 2, 3, 4. So we slipped down the arm to go into an open world and then straight into the preparation. So now we start to put these moves together pretty quickly. So stay alert. We go here, we do our turn, 2348, sorry. And then we do our Cubans, which 12345. Just holding it there little bit. We are, instead of just doing a simple outro, we are going into a double inside. So ladies, make sure you tap your feet. We go 5678. So make take small little steps so you can turn faster. So you will feel the lead for a double spin from your right arm. So we go 5678. Let's do that again. So instead of just single, we do a double. Leader. Leading is from the our right hand. So don't really worry about your left hand. It's unlocking from the hammer lock and going up as well, but you just worry about your frame and your right-hand here. So we go 5678. Let's do all of that again. From the very beginning, we go into basic 56781234567123456781234567812345678123, prepare 567812345678. From here we go into a butterfly. So 1234, basic 678. And then our last move is a lean back to back. So we do in out 12345678123456781. Last little tip I would like to give you for the Cuban switch. And now it's a bit unusual that we can't see our partner, he's behind us. But as a lady, just in general, don't move anywhere if you can't feel elite. So even he's back to back. I see sometimes the ladies wanna turn around us quickly as possible because they feel like they should. But if the lead is right and your frame is right, then you should feel what you should be doing. And don't feel like you need to guess what you should be doing. So just be very receptive with your frame. And if you don't feel elite, then just do your your basic steps on the spot till you feel like you should be going somewhere if till you feel a lead on our stepping this way. Otherwise, just keep your basic on the spot. Going always. So you're always on the right foot, your frame engaged and then it can't really go wrong.
16. SS Bachata Pw V2 18d Routine 3 Tips and Practice To Music: Okay, we're in the practice section. Let's go through this routine and show you in count. Ready. Altogether. Nice and slowly, we said 123456, pull away and a 1234, ready six prep, eight diamond 2345678123456, close hold out and prep to free lady turns and 56781234, 5678. Take your time. 234567. Open close. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 out, 2, 3, 5 6, 7, 8 base out of sight. Ready? And 1 3, 5, 6, 7 out and 1 2, 3, 4 prepare 6, 7, 8 and Diamond 2345678 and in 234 closed and out and 12 lovely prep 5678 and stay close. Double-tap. And 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ready six, open, close. And 12345678 nearly there. 345678 on this map of the deal, did not fit all. So that was the way it is.
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