Monday – Tuesday (December 8-9)


December 10th, 2008

I made yoga classes my daily routine – on Monday it was with Stella Detoni, today with Maxi, tomorrow entrenamiento with Maxi. It’s a bit hardcore and challenging to do yoga when the temperature is oscillating between 32 and 35 and humidity is around 65%, however, I’m not giving up :)

I’m taking also Tango 1 classes (@DNI) learning how to lead – just recently cross with different rebotes. It’s really helps me to understand the structure of the tango much more and make my following better. I love the idea that some teachers (for example Sharna and Isaac) introduce at the beginners courses – that women and men learn both roles, leading and following. First, it solves all gender inequality issues plus deprives people of stereotypes and helps to solve “it’s your fault!” problems.

As today’s Martin and Samantha’s class was cancelled, I took Vals 4/5 (@DNI) with Christian and … (? Maxi’s girlfriend, promise to check tomorrow her name :) ) and was very nicely surprised by the detailed musical analysis of the step plus the lead ( I learnt both to follow and to lead the sequence). We were playing with weight changes, the boleo linear (lead on 1, boleo is on 2) into an ocho (on 3)… really fast… then we stopped in the middle of women’s backward (man’s forward step) to learn how to grow and lead lifting of a woman’s leg (of course, grow up with your body & center, not only hand or leg). Afterwads we did a sacada (relasing the leg and the going down). To sum up – lot of fun and really cute step :)

In the evening, of course Practica X :)