tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post7558592792073560844..comments2023-09-27T12:44:03.592+01:00Comments on MsHedgehog: Los Dispari 1 - Essentials of Villa Urquiza StylemsHedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-4553950320500853452008-06-30T16:11:00.000+01:002008-06-30T16:11:00.000+01:00I am in total agreement with Psyche. There are so...I am in total agreement with Psyche. There are some things that we simply "grow into" despite what has been preached. Stealing from the doctors' Hippocratic Oath - "Harm no-one" and so yes, as long as it doesn't harm your partner (posture, balance etc) then do your thing if it feels better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-77802148286242850402008-06-25T19:42:00.000+01:002008-06-25T19:42:00.000+01:00Limerick Tango - what I mean is that it's the styl...Limerick Tango - what I mean is that it's the style used by my primary teacher. I say 'grew up learning' rather than 'was taught', because it's something I kind of passively absorbed from him, more than something he actively taught me (kinda like the way your pick up your parents' accent). He believes in people using whichever style they prefer, as long as it works - and so do I. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I think all our tango is a mixture of what we conscioualy try to create based on what we're consciously taught or consciously like, and what we fall into naturally because it suits us. Both methods of growth are fine. It's good to work to improve your technique, but it's also important to let your own way of doing things emerge on its own.Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278866207207171284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-59131495488267109312008-06-23T23:33:00.000+01:002008-06-23T23:33:00.000+01:00oh ... he said nothing whatsoever, interestingly, ...oh ... he said nothing whatsoever, interestingly, about the (height of) the man's left hand as we were discussing elsewhere. Absolutely nothing - it just never came up. The leaders in the classes, with very few exceptions, all did more or less the normal thing of holding it somewhere between the follower's shoulder height and their own ear, depending mostly on the height of the follower; and Jorge himself generally did the same as far as I noticed. I don't think he held it rigidly at a constant height, though. There was one man in class 7 who did the 'teapot' thing, as though he were pouring tea into his own ear, but the height of the hand still didn't come up at all; and that man mainly danced with his own equally tall girlfriend so I don't know what he would have done with me.<BR/><BR/>JD danced with me for just a few steps in the milonga class, as a check, and the hand was at a comfortable height; but it couldn't possibly not have been, because he's shorter than me-plus-heels anyway. So, nothing proven either way.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-57966025608912219112008-06-23T23:17:00.000+01:002008-06-23T23:17:00.000+01:00@Pilgrim - I have always had a shaky conception of...@Pilgrim - I have always had a shaky conception of left and right, and I constantly mix them up in speech and writing - please point out to me where I have transposed them and I'll fix it. It happens all the time, and I'm not going to be able to find it myself! Not at this time of night, anyway. And if you could do me the same favour for the other posts, I'd appreciate it.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-76502304077534187572008-06-23T22:59:00.000+01:002008-06-23T22:59:00.000+01:00How about the man's left hand? :-)How about the man's left hand? :-)NYC Tango Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15043109502403350971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-57384563608157481302008-06-22T22:27:00.000+01:002008-06-22T22:27:00.000+01:00"it's the way I grew up learning"... or the way yo..."it's the way I grew up learning"... or the way you were taught? <BR/><BR/>It is one thing to do something because it is part of a, hopefully, thought-out design and another thing entirely to do something because that is the way you end up doing it. There is a vast territory between the two and the map is marked 'here be dragons' in plenty of places.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-80895079013254716832008-06-22T21:12:00.000+01:002008-06-22T21:12:00.000+01:00"so that the woman has to hang herself from their ..."so that the woman has to hang herself from their shoulders like washing - I hate this"<BR/><BR/>Great description! (I hate that too.)<BR/><BR/>"Nor is she at right-angles, facing sideways to the man's left; this is possible, but it puts a dangerous amount of strain on the woman's back."<BR/><BR/>Naturally I disagree with this, as it's the way I grew up learning. But I can see how it would seem that way to those with a front-on style - presumably it's the same way that the milonguera hyperlordosis looks and feels dangerous to me.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to prolongued exposure to a lot of front-on guys, I now do both front-on and side-on, and like both, for different reasons and in different ways. And can do front-on without having to resort to the milonguera hyperlordosis - I think that's an illusion most of the time, anyway.Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278866207207171284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-69040108246640237892008-06-21T18:29:00.000+01:002008-06-21T18:29:00.000+01:00Hmmm! It sounds like I would have really enjoyed t...Hmmm! It sounds like I would have really enjoyed those classes. I really must get into a position where I can travel more, Limerick to London isn't that difficult.<BR/><BR/>Nice notes on the embrace though.<BR/>Once the embrace is nice it's an embrace and not a clutch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com