[Tango-L] off topic: sky blue and white stripes...

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In my view, the only authentic somersaults are those done while wearing 
Comme il Fauts.

Spatz
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Ed Doyle wrote:
> Astrid - What have you done?  :-))
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> Ed
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> On 6/16/06, WHITE 95 R <white95r at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Social somersaults are done with feelings and passion. They are not done
>> for
>> the audience but only for the inner bliss. These somersaults are done
>> always
>> in a close embrace, leaning forward in a chest to chest position. They
>> never
>> appear fancy or showy and consist basically of very small movements. They
>> never will feature a complete turn. These are truly the only true and
>> authentic somersaults and are the predominant somersaults at huge events
>> where only no name instructors teach the zen of somersaulting and all the
>> best somersaulters go to do their somersaults. These are very easy to tell
>> apart from the others as they are listed with * (asterisks) next to them.
>>
>> The show somersaults are just that. Unnecessarily showy and contrived
>> somersaults performed by travelling professional somersaulters. These
>> somersaults are soulless, empty caricatures of the real somersault. They
>> are
>> principally found in places where master somersaulters teach their
>> complicated routines to newcomers to somersaulting who then proceed to do
>> these showy somersaults in the most innapropriate manner and interfere
>> with
>> the true somersaulting spirit in all possible ways. Look for double or
>> triple flips, contrived appearance of body control and other ostentatious
>> displays of physical prowess and technique.
>>
>> with tongue firmly in cheek,
>>
>> Manuel
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>>> From: Rick Jones <rwjones52 at yahoo.com>
>>> Reply-To: rwjones52 at yahoo.com
>>> To: tango-l at mit.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] off topic: sky blue and white stripes...
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>> astrid <astrid at ruby.plala.or.jp> wrote:Everybody in the Irish pub I was
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>> in
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>>> ended up almost doing somersaults themselves...
>>>
>>>
>>> Would that be social somersaults, or show somersaults?
>>>
>>> And while we're at it, let's have a debate on just what, exactly, social
>>> somersaults are...
>>>
>>> And does anyone want to write a prelude to a somersault aesthetic?
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