Troels Bager & Ina Jeliazkova | Cha Cha Cha dance lesson
I wanted to point out the difference between walking forward and backwards
so i just said before under one count in a log step you can transfer full weight
yeah when you're walking forward what is the difference between a full log
and a backward block when we said when we talk about weight whenever i go forward
and i catch it with the new step i'm not sending the foot now the waist now the foot now the weight
i'm on my standing leg and i drive through the standing leg and catch it with the free leg
when i'm going backwards i have this very simple theory you don't know what's behind you so you
have to check first ah now i can go ah now i can go ah now i can go ah now i can go now i can go
what's important is that there's a big difference between checking what's behind you and delaying
yeah so i'm not doing point working on my left foot left foot and go my weight is constantly
going i'm pointing and as i'm pointing i'm already pushing off from the left
transfer pointless transfer point push transfer point push yes so it's a constant it's a bit like
we have a station but the train is not stopping it's just oh that station will pass or that
station is passed so that's things we passed in a delay we actually take a break ah station
okay let's continue understand the difference whenever we go back i see a lot of hip
with no purpose i place my foot around onto the leg now whatever i'm creating now
is to get in enjoy the step and to get out of the step that's the two things
enjoy fulfill and then get out of myself i see a lot of let me enjoy here
okay i spend all my i spend no more fuel there's no more left what they do now ah nice that's not
and but the guys are just as bad for what i'm saying
is you have to be a bit better of how you spend your energy how you spend your action
so if i want a lot of action there fine but i still need 10 to move out i can't use everything
oh this is going to be tough oh i can spend it all even so it's like da
but i just need is how fast it gets those 10 percent and now oh i'll go slowly and
then i go out yes so we are taught all the time like this this is an action this is an
action now that's not the reality this is the reality in the sense of whatever the finish is
is also the beginning of the new thing so you can say finish that action but in my world
i finished that but that finish becomes the beginning of the new thing
we say finish and now what new step okay step ah but now it's not linked now it's like this so i
get on to and through that finish that becomes the beginning of the new action and that's where i see
that the faster the dancers are it becomes oh next one up next one instead of h3 okay this is the
beginning that finish book so you're constantly clear when here finish oh new step change
chapter finish music go up that's a new step go back down what i'm constantly aware alright
enjoy but that becomes the beginning of the new step i think yeah because for the girls
and of course whenever you are in a hole you can take the liberty
to play around with this but it has to be a choice what i mean by that if you do a back basic
and the guy stands out you can be sent quite a bit and enjoy that but again you're not bouncing your
weight off your foot you're just dancing into your heel more into your point so now you are relying
on your partner probably but you are able to now use that again on your standing leg and i see
fish take me out okay let's go again yeah who's going for a lot of reduction in a look like this
that's not that's not what we want to do right now the problem is i've used my capacity yeah now
what we have to do is that we have several ways to achieve this picture one of them is thinking okay
i can dance 50 back i have two sides of my body front and back
let me dance fifty percent back home and now let me dance fifty percent forward
the similar look yeah more balanced more balanced and i actually have now let's say fifty percent
to finish that on the way out so the last one here is just a station it's not okay let's show that
dancing is not showing a picture it's going through it's exploring the movement and the moves
as we are dancing through them yeah so actually if we take our line on the body we have in front of
the shoulder that's what i call positive we have underneath shoulder that's what i call neutral
and we have here which is negative which is not really the right word but that's just in terms of
positive and negative yeah okay when we are here now we are neutral now can we dance 50 negative
and 50 positive in the opposite side so we now suddenly have a relation between the side going
forward and the hip going backwards exactly now as you're finishing the last percent there your
weight should go forward not backwards so your hip is going backwards but your weight is traveling
forward very nice now i suddenly see that there's a purpose for my action
i'm finishing this action why should i work 100 back if i want to go forward i have to go
through that but i'm actually no i'm going forward so i can transfer that way makes
sense so that nowadays like this when you arrive you transfer your way here you have to arrive
now you can dance back back and fulfill your honorable shoulder you do all these things
you want to do yeah but you have to finish the last whatever 10 with actually going up
okay same thing in the fan look i see a lot of people hanging and going out now it's okay if
you really have decided that with your partner but you want to do an extended version but i
always think that the lady i like an independent lady that's communicating with the man so it's
not take me out no we're communicating and we can enjoy that i give her a bit more space and she's
to have the liberty and the freedom to enjoy it more but don't make yourself depending on your man
we don't want that in general right we want to have fun together and we want to take care of
each other so if you go a bit off balance oh i will take care of you now we go back again
that's what we want the last step of the log step when we're traveling backwards place the
foot then transfer the weight when i transfer weight i transfer onto the foot so i would have
a charm champ center foot transfer the weight onto i'm clearly here i see a lot of onto now
i'm on to so i can now use that again i'm onto our past i don't have any action to get that again i
have to be honest now you have to use that action to reduce the step to close onto now use that
action to create a nice hit to create a nice knee we want but also more importantly to use strength
same thing so that's why wherever i stand my weight i always send it on to my foot
okay now i can actually make a decision how i want to use that foot how i want to create those
actions on the foot yeah here good because this is a very important thing for the man and the woman
just dancing around the leg uh on the foot dancing on the foot creating actions in order to do steps
yeah not just down steps and make the action fit around that that's how we talk okay you need to
step okay create a bit more action okay take a step create a little bit more action i'm the
opposite start here okay what actually produces that step ah that's the action step okay get on
to this step now what steps what actually reduces that step that's the action now how much time do
i have defines how much action i can create that's a big thing as well because we all practice slower
and we all want more that's the can we have more can we have more yes we can have more but that
more changes when we listen to the music and we hear certainly that it's a fast or if it's a slow
that's a huge difference if it's a wrong attention i can create more in a chat chat
the question you have to ask her more what because in a rhomba i can create more depth
more stretch more time through my body in chapter i can't do the same i can create more rhythm
that's more it's just not the same more and that's a huge impact because i feel that we're trying to
do the same more in all the dances i want to do different i want to do something more rhythmical
more heavy more earthy i want to retention more slick more sexy more rhythmical right
i want to do wrong more full or more melodic all but it's about to take filling out the time i
want to make it more earthy i want to make passive more stretch more with the difference between the
stretch and the hatch between stillness and attack that's different we're totally different more in
each dance and that i think is a huge thing that has to be aware of in order for us to have five
different answers and for them to look at five different latin dances and not just one pile of
more volume more speed more attack yeah i think it's great when i see
um when i get drawn into something that's what i want to hold what's that was that and then
oh something happened and now i'm getting excited again i don't want to have everything delivered in
my face i want it to be clear and that's where the competitive company i can be quiet and radiated
and i'm thinking i'm so clear in what i want to do and that becomes their competitive if i do this
it loses something it's not it's maybe the same kind of still in a picture i do but it's not the
same essence it's not how i get there yeah and that's why i think it's important that's the
chances fancy touches me where you actually allow yourself to do something different in each step
in each dance and i gave that freedom through the mechanics
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