Every week, you’ll find on our blog class notes and a summary video from our Wednesday and Sunday tango group classes.
These video and notes are meant to help our students remember what they’ve done in class.
In this class, we started with the classic forward ocho. For intermediates, we looked at an adventurous combination using a deep sacada we sometimes call an invasion.
Summary video
Top tips
Beginners & improvers: Forward ocho
- Leaders: Make sure you dissociate first and the step together with your partner, whilst keeping your dissociation.
- Followers: Make sure you don’t change weight in the pivots. You should be stepping with the leg close to your partner.
Intermediates & up: Deep sacada in forward ocho
- Leaders: The sacada is created when you change your weight forward.
- Followers: Make sure you feel the leaders transfer of axis so that you step together in the invasion
Homework
- All: No matter which level you’re at, it always pays to work on the technique of something as fundamental as the forward ocho.
