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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 5: Walk

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 5: Walk

  • Walk naturally, swinging your free of weight leg forward, extending it a little, letting your axis move in the same direction and maintaining it vertically thought the transition, pushing gently from your back standing leg, and transferring your weight to the front leg at the end of this process, keep your foot always in touch with the floor, softly, without dragging it.
  • Reverse the process to walk backwards. Pay attention to point backwards with the back of your foot when extending your free of weight leg backwards, keep your foot always in touch with the floor, softly, without dragging it.
  • Maintain all details regarding your posture as described before.

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Argentine Tango follower's technique 4: Circles

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 4: Circles

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 4: Circles

Last, make circles, keeping the foot of this leg always in touch with the floor, using the “inside edge position” when passing through the “collect position” of both feet together, and when reaching the step to the side position.

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Argentine Tango follower's technique 3: Side step

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 3: Side step

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 3: Side step

Then move your free of weight leg to the side, keeping the foot of this leg always in touch with the floor, using always the “inside edge position”.

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 2: Forward and backward pendulum motion

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 2: Forward and backward pendulum motion

After bringing your weight to one of your legs, move the free of weight leg forward and backward like a pendulum, keeping the foot of this leg always in touch with the floor, using the “inside edge position” when passing through the “collect position” of both feet together.

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Argentine Tango follower’s technique 1: Posture and change of weight

Argentine Tango follower’s technique 1: Posture and change of weight

  • Legs and feet together, your weight distributed equally between them.
  • Bring your weight to one of your feet. Your vertical axis should displace in the direction of the foot that gets your weight.
  • Inside edge of your free of weight leg’s shoe in contact with the floor (“inside edge position”).
  • Your supporting leg’s foot resting comfortably on the floor, conducting the weight of your body through it to the floor.
  • Knees close to each other. Your knees maintaining a constant relation to your axis, which passes through the center of your body, from the top of your head to the center of the base of your body in regard to your weight distribution on one foot or between both feet.
  • Hips leveled, both ilium of your hip bone at the same plane parallel to the floor, aligned to your transversal plane.
  • Torso aligned with a vertical axis, resting on your head, which rest on your legs.
  • Neck and head aligned with the same vertical axis line.
  • Your head resting on your neck, which consequently rests on your torso, torso on your hips and hips on your legs and feet. Alignment of all your body parts to your central axis becomes essential.
  • Eyes looking forward. Sight aligned with the floor, looking to the horizontal line.

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