'Steel vs spaghetti': Your standing leg is like steel - dynamic, strong and grounded, your free leg is like spaghetti: light and loose without tension.
Your free leg hip is stable yet loose and lower than your base leg hip (this removes tension from your free leg)
'Collection' - Thigh or ankle (as you prefer) connection as you walk
Push off the floor as you walk - to make your walk more dynamic.
Never lock your knees: You standing leg knee is softly flexed (not locked) - this gives you better contact with the floor.
Always find your axis - 'it's your beauty and your power'
Walk in the line of your hips - Imagine your hips are at the centre of 2 crossing lines: one going forward / back and the other - left /right. The first line is the guide for forward and back steps, the second line guides side steps.
Introduced - Adding Parada to Change of Direction after Side Step ( a variation to adding Parada to Change of Direction introduced in Week 4)
Week 6: Starting August 20
Reviewed Paradas from previous weeks.
Introduced Parada from Cross System Cross:
Cross System Cross with Resolution
Parada from Cross System Cross
improvising with Paradas
Week 5: Starting August 13
Improvising using Change of Direction with and without Parada (see Week 4 video)
Review of Parada from Parallel Cross (see Week 3 video)
Week 4: Starting August 6
Refined and linked all the Paradas learnt to date.
New Parada was introduced at Bondi - Parada from Change of Direction Step combination. This combination and Parada will be shown at North Sydney in Week 5:
Change of Direction with or without Parada
Improvising with Paradas (including from Parallel Cross)
Week 3: Starting July 30
Continued refining Parada from Parallel Cross.
Introduced double Parada.
Here single and double Paradas are used to resolve a Medialuna:
Medialuna resolved with Paradas
Integrated Paradas into our dance, showing different places for adding Paradas.
Essentially the entry position for Parada is when Follower is in position for, or has complete, a Front or Back Cross step.
Continued emphasis on connecting at four points in the embrace and musicality.
Week 2: Starting July 23
Theme: 'Playing with Paradas'
Introduced Parada from Parallel Cross
Parada from Parallel Cross
Here's an improvisation with Paradas...
Improvising with Paradas
Week 1: Starting July 16
Increased focus on musicality and embrace
Review of Giros to the Right and Left from Parallel Cross, and linking the two:
