[Tango-L] ..1 1/2 yrs of watching YouTube

[Michael]

Mario:
I don´t agree. Whenver the man steps outside the follower´s right, it
usually signals a walk to the cross. The Argentines do it because they
pivot on the left and want to go forward on the same foot. The only
way to do that is a quick weight change to the right. The woman
doesn´t know if the man is on parallel or cross feet. She just feels
him to the side and she wants to get back in front of him.

Michael
Washington, DC
Vacationing in Buenos Aires

Mario wrote:
>
> ..This is what I’m seeing after 1 1/2 yrs of
> Watching YouTube

> 8. Walking, outside follow's right, usually signals a cross footed walk to the cross. The cross then always follows a couple of steps later. When walking on the outside right is in parallel footing, there usually is not a walk to the cross but an extended outside walk or a few steps later a box or giro. Only rarely do I see a cross follow in parallel feet. (=1 or 2 a month after watching many videos daily.)
> The difference is that cross footed outside right is a signal to walk to
> the cross...while in parallel it can mean a giro soon or an extended rhythmic walk.

> 12. When a leader walks outside follow's right in parallel, he usually does a giro before ever reaching the cross. I have only seen the outside parallel go all the way to the cross about once in a zillion (70?) dances.
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