[Tango-L] Nuevo lead and follow and repressed teaching

[Jack Dylan]

Trini,
Very true. When a lady is tipped into a Vocada, she needs to be able 
to keep her body straight so that only a horizontal force is exerted against 
the man. The man can then support this with his body weight and no strength 
is required. [The typical Gavito Lean]. Some ladies sag into the man, i.e. concave 
shape, thereby exerting a downward force and the man must then use his strength 
to support the lady. Other ladies stick their bums out, i.e. convex shape, which 
reduces the force on the man. The problem with this is the man might over-compesate 
because he's expecting more forward force and he can tip forward, off balance.
But, while keeping a straight body while leaning forward is easy for a 20-year old girl, 
it's often a different story for a 50-year old lady, unless she's already a trained dancer.
In this context, one problem that I often have is that I'm quite tall and I have a problem 
with the leaning action when the lady is considerably shorter and we don't have a good 
chest-to-chest contact.
Jack



----- Original Message ----
> From: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) patangos at yahoo.com

> One of the reasons women 
> have trouble with volcadas and colgadas is a lack of a good core.