Brick gave us this article: (clip) Sometimes when teaching a follower I find that it is necessary to work on the "auto-ocho" habit. Like a wild bronco that needs to be broken, these followers become runaway horses when led forward from the cross.Horse trainers have developed techniques for breaking wild horses which requires the tying up of a bronco to a barn or tree until it is too tired to fight anymore. I haven't heard of such techniques being used in tango, but it could be a possible last resort.
Good grief, thank God we do not have instructors here that think of their students in this way. He probably thinks, he is being funny, too, but this reads like he has a secret taste for S and M, when it comes to women. Terrible! I would say, the people to blame for women going into automatic pilot on series of ochos are none other than those instructors that make women practise ochos against the wall for long periods without giving them a partner to teach them that ochos are actually a led move which does not really appear in the form of a series in tango but rather usually consists of no more than half an ocho at a time. The man to who this happens probably also does not know how to lead ochos with his chest instead of his hand, otherwise he could easily stop her movement. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
