[Tango-L] dreaded back step

[Alexis Cousein]

Dubravko Kakarigi wrote:
> That is only part of the story.

Agreed. I just said it's the Golden Rule because even *that* rule is trampled
on with both feet often enough...and everything starts (but does not end) with
that. Obviously, that rule is completely ignorant of such a thing as a ronda, so
it's not the end all and be all of things.

> What is much more important is to be able to predict with a reasonable degree 
> of certainty that no one else also sees that space and try to get into it just 
> as you do. 

And that's a shared responsibility. Civility is everything, just like when two
people converge on a door.

And another part is making sure that even if you are sure no one is going to
fill that space, that you aren't distubring the ronda (either by pushing
people into the spaces of yet other dancers, or by creating traffic jams).

One step at a time. If people bump into other people (often, I pause or
take microsteps to observe where to go, only to have someone just
bulldoze over me because I am "in the way" of the end of his twenty four count
pattern #23), you can't expect these people to be mindful of the later parts
of the navigation skill set.