[Tango-L] people who can and can't

[Floyd Baker]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:30:15 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Can we get Igor Polk back posting on Tango-L?
>  How about if he promises not to repeat his infraction(s)?
>  Could we take a vote on it? Would that influence the moderator(s)
>  to re-consider his bann?
>  His off-list emails have been sincere and would have been
>  good Tango L  fodder, in my own opinion.  
>  Thanks for considering this request in his behalf...I didn't ask him 
>  if I could do this..I just thought that I'd give it a shot since the 
>  topic popped up on-list.  


I'd like to second that...  Igor is the only person on the L who had a
'real' problem with my online lessons when I first mentioned them here
a year ago...  Some others just didn't like that I seemed to be
anti-ballroom.   I'm not of course..,  but I think they were taking it
personally because I'm against using ballroom *methods* to teach
Tango.   :-/   

Igor had a complaint on my use of the term 'heavy lead'.    I was
talking about the heavy 'physical' push and pull that many instructors
teach and many leaders do to their partners.  It was a reasonable,
although somewhat belabored <g>, complaint.    I did understand what
he was saying.   Which was in fact that to him a 'heavy lead' meant
the use of emphasis in the giving of true Tango leads.  Simultaneous
leads and the energy imparted to them.   So I made the necessary
clarification to the online lessons.  

It's good to get *constructive* criticism you know?  :-)   

Floyd




  

 

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