djsilver. If you want the way that top competition dancers dance the Tango International Style then don't take much notice of the book. The set up is this. Feet diagnal to the wall with the LOD. Top turned to almost face LOD. The palm of the hand is covering the ladies spine, not the fingers on the spine. With the first step walk, with CBMP the way the feet are pointing. The next step will bring you out of CBMP by stepping to the side the body will be almost facing LOD. Your now ready to do the best link you have ever done using the first walk technique > . Entry to a Five Step follows the same pattern. Now the arguments. The going in a circle, if you did all walks as Suomynona said, but in my own words. the right foot walk tracked the first LF walk in such a way that it would eventuately go in a complete circle. That's the way I was originaly taught, knees almost touching , footwork included using the inside edge of ball of foot have all but disapeared. But I will say this . It looks and feels good. >

Just be carefull with how you create the feeling of the top turned anticlockwise relative to the feet. A right side lead is by no means the mirror image of a left side one - it's not really a right side in advance shape, so much as a movement in a way that the right side gets there first, while still staying in the usual left-biased shape.

The way a couple do their setup will determine how the Tango is going to be performed. The shoulders not square with the feet. The hold much further around the ladies back. Still right side to right side with the lady more to the mans right. What is worth mentioning again is on a slow ( two beats ) the foot must arrive on the first of the two beats. This should result in a sharper action without even trying.

Tango Dancer:
"The next step will bring you out of CBMP bt stepping to the side, the body will be almost facing LOD."
I practice the above and I really could do a link with ease. This "next step" might be a progressive side step as described by Alex Moore and does not conflict with Syomynona's walk sequence. And I can appreciate the benefit of arriving the feet early on a slow( 2 beat). I feel like guiding the music - great! Thank you.

Could you discuss a bit on the reverse turn. After the Q, Q, I have turned my partner and now I am square with her. Then I have to step back with my LF (slow) with right shoulder leading. My partner would compain right away that I have thrown her out of balance.

"Could you discuss a bit on the reverse turn. After the Q, Q, I have turned my partner and now I am square with her. Then I have to step back with my LF (slow) with right shoulder leading. My partner would compain right away that I have thrown her out of balance."

Simple, you shouldn't square up to her if you are planning to take her outside partner. Just under-turn the QQ so that it ends in CBMP ready for the lady to step outside partner on the S - think about what you would do for alignments on the 2nd and 3rd steps of a quick open reverse and do that.

DJSILVER. Tango Reverse Turn International Style. If on the 3rd step ,lady outside, if you, and equally so she do NOT do this step in CBMP you will have two hips fully exposed. If your partner does not know what CBMP is they to be a good dancer must learn.
The same technique is used in the Waltz. During the Reverse Weave on step four which is the first step of the Passing change CBMP is also a must.

djsilver As well as having your feet positioned diagnal to the wall in CBMP. As man try turning your body a little more anti- clockwise towards the LOD. The next step goes towards wall. This second step has been pre determind by your first step. From here you will get a very dynamic Link with strong CBMP on the first step.. I have also been told that a common fault is to walk on beat two instead of beat one in a Walk and many simular other steps the same. This gets difficult to explain , but here goes. Closed Promenade S Q Q S on the last quick see how easy it is to do the slow, only arriving on the second beat. In other words use the beats as they were intended to be used

hi my name is kathleen,
i am doing an assigment for school and i can't find any good sights on how to do the tango!! i was wondering if you could help me out? i am only in year 7 so could you plese explain every thing so that i could uner stand thatnk you so much!!

look in the 'learning center' of this website. american tango would probably be easiest to cover in writing.

DJSILVER. I wonder if you are aware that
timing can be altered to suite yourself. That troublesome step in the Open Reverse Turn with the lady outside, you can if you wish give Step Three an extra Slow. Also the same is being done on the second step of a walk , hold it for an extra two beats, then Link. You see we can bend the good book as long as the judges like what they see. This is of course the Tango International Style. Have you tried a Four Step with a head flick Right, Left to two beats before going into a Closed Promenade. There is a reason for this which you can possibly work out.