Hi all, I have a 360 view like a radar because I do turn after turn, left and right, combined with round ochos cortados, round side steps, rounded everything.
I am a follower who leads. I am not afraid of a crowded floor. I am in the outer lane at all times, preferably dancing in the wake of somebody I trust (or somebody who by whatever strategy causes there to be space around them :)), and when necessary I defend my ronda position against aggressors using the bum nudge. I use the bum nudge also on errant pedestrians who use the dance floor to get around or to chat with each other, eg when the organizer neglects to leave a walkway BEHIND the tables, causing pedestrians to clutter up the outer lane. It should not be necessary to overtake anybody if you have a good position in the ronda. If you are behind an erratic driver who weaves, zigzags or drift towards the middle, or who is clearly the cause of a traffic jam, I say, overtake 'em. Tine On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Myk Dowling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/10/10 16:23, Jack Dylan wrote: >> Interesting! I was told the opposite - that when overtaking is absolutely >> necessary [for reasons already given], you should overtake on the inside >> but never on the outside. The reason given was that, due to the embrace, >> the man is blind on his right side and to overtake a man where he cannot >> see you increases the risk of a collision. This makes sense to me. I was >> also told that one reason why milongueros always dance in the outer ronda >> is because of this 'blindness' on their right side, i.e. they know that there >> are no dancers there to disturb him or his partner. >> > I would agree wholeheartedly with this. Someone sneaking past me on the > outside when I'm in the outer ring causes more collisions than any other > approach on the floor. I can see ahead and to my left. To my right, I > keep track of how much space I have to the edge of the floor (or of my > lane if I'm not on the outside ring). Nothing annoys me more than > suddenly finding someone intruding into that (usually fairly small) space. > > Myk, > in Canberra > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
