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let's make this pattern a spotlight of your routine we will do so by dividing our body
in three parts our feet hips and torso let's get dancing our standing foot determines the
direction where we're going to step next how many times you find probably yourself or your
dance friends unbalanced and uncontrolled during the spot turns all because this tends
to lag it doesn't help us and it's actually ruin our our body alignment to fix this we
need to concentrate on our standing foot and before we taking the step we need to pivot
and see that our toes our foot and our knees are pointed to the direction we will step
next so now you have take a step and during the turn your spot turn you should finish
into the position where your both feet your knees are facing the direction you will step
into next now to replace your weight and before the side step always slightly pivoting your
standing foot in order to make a nice side action now when we turn into the left again
we need to pivot our standing foot and take a step forward now pivot into your spot turn
use using your standing foot and as you can see right now the alignment is straight forward
take a step forward replace your weight and again before the side step pivot your stance
and foot in order to finish in the nice side action let's try one more time to side step
peep at your standing foot first now take a step forward pivot your standing foot facing
the right alignment forward and pivot your stand and foot continued with the side step
now to the left pivot your standing foot take a step pivot your standing foot to your foot
alignment is in correct direction take a step forward pivot your standing foot and continue
it with your sides once you feel comfortable with your standing foot rotation you can start
work on your hip area the one important thing to remember in the spot turns that our hips
are never squared in neutral position one hip is always lower than another so which
hip has to be low and which hip should be high easier to remember and this is the tip
our standing leg hip should be always higher than our free leg free leg hip it has to be
always slower so if for example your standing leg is right my left hip my opposite leg hip
should be down so when we have the spot turn and I'm gonna start with the side step facing
to you once i pivot my standing foot
Welcome to american spin session for the child in this lesson we will learn the essentials
to stay balanced during such a quick turns as an added bonus i will show you an arm styling
that could set you apart on the dance floor here is the overall footwork before i get
into detail notice that my first chasse is going towards the partner for the right rather
to the side we started with the rock step rock
Let's talk right now about the footwork when we have a rock step back we have ball flat
ball flat during the chasse ball ball flat ball because we need to spin ball ball flat
ball flat and once again rock step ball flat ball flat ball ball flat ball for a spin ball
ball flat ball flat chassis forward you might find yourself during this step in this position
so if you're on my partner you can see that my foot is turned in as you can see in the
profile i have a pigeon toes that's not the pretty position you have to align your front
foot so your knee and your foot are facing to the partner front it's not turned in and
even if you have a hip action after the rock step we have a rotation make sure that this
rotation is not is has a limit and you not rotate all the way um back and it will affect
your footwork make sure that you rotate just the right amount and saving this beautiful
alignment in your foot now from here it's like a press walk press replace press as you
can see my foot my knee is perfectly aligned the spin now that we have done our rock step
and forward chasse we need to prepare our legs for the turn so first what we need to
do is to straighten our standing leg at the same time coordinate your left leg bring your
knee up so this action straighten your standing leg to engage your core make your waist look
slimmer and spice up this routine i will show you two hip actions we're gonna use number
one it's a cuban motion or I call it figure eight we have to draw a perfect figure eight
with our hips number two rotation just twist your hips around your spine and i will show
you with each figure which action we're gonna use now if you are still not quite confident
about the steps you can always rewind back and go through it again slowly until you feel
comfortable with the steps we're gonna start with our chassis in place and we're gonna
use a figure eight cuban motion motion hip action so we're starting with the right foot
two three figure eight four and one perfect figure eight into the check two three now
during the chassis to the left and right we're gonna use a twist.
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