Hey, guys, I'm back with another video, and this is sort of a continuation of
Episode one.
How to Get into the shadow position. The shadow position is when the guy and the girl is facing the same way.
So there's many ways on how to do it.
And this is just another one so that you can, you know, vary it in your dancing and keep the dancing, you know, unpredictable, which is the best kind of dancing.
And right now we're going to learn from this awesome couple from France, Mika and Emi.
So let's get into it.
Keep in mind that on count 1234 they during the Spanish step where they twist their body to change the direction.
And then they get into the shadow position, starting on 5678 Just so you're aware.
Okay, so let's have a look.
12345678 Boom!
And they're in its shadow position.
Easy is that, but let's break it down very, very slowly.
Okay, so on one.
Normally in the basic step, you would just go this way.
The both of them will go this way, but he's going to do something different that will make them both go that way.
And this is the key 12 So on two, he has, um, angled his body to be facing that way.
So your body is the most important lead.
It's not your hand.
Um, your body will indicate where you guys air going.
And now for the follower, this happens a lot when I'm dancing with someone who's new.
They assume that because we're doing a basic step that we're going, you know, we're going to this direction and because I angle my body differently and I'm going this way.
Uh, they I think it's something different and they sort of freak out and they just stop everything and so.
Obviously, the move will break down.
Someone will lose balance.
So for the for the girl, if you knew all, all you need to do is just step, step, step top.
Just your basic.
It's just it's a different direction, all right.
34
If you see on four, he's preparing something.
He's preparing a turn, but there's also another thing.
He knows that he wants to be in the shadow position, so he needs to match the girls timing.
So here he steps back.
He steps back because she's traveling down.
So he needs to catch up with where she is going to end up so and then he will tap with this one tap and then he will step and then tap.
So very simple.
It's just a step tap stepped up.
But there are two things that you need to pay attention to the number one you need to pay attention to the lead.
The turn.
Number two.
You need to pay attention to the timing.
Let's have a look at it one more time
going that way.
Then this is the turn while he's step tapping.
And the way you can also know that he stepped having properly is because now they're going to go on one.
They're going to go to the right because he is matching the girls timing.
So don't all of a sudden go to the left because you've been taught that one is always to the left.
No, that's poor technique.
You have to make it as easy as possible for the girls as a lead so that she can focus more on her job, which is the styling the, you know, the making the movement Look, look bigger.
Look, look better.
And so you need to pay attention to your timing.
Don't abruptly shift her weight for no reason.
Okay, so that's all I've got for today's video.
Actually, I'm still going to use this video for the next episode because there's a almost identical one where the guy will actually be in front off the girl instead off behind the girl like this one.
So that will be exciting as well.
Um, but for now, thank you so much for watching and please, um, like, share and subscribe and a lot of good stuff, because that's really helpful for a new channel like me.
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