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Re: Body Flight
Posted by Quickstep
4/4/2006  6:53:00 PM
Suomynona. I still dont see how the body weight can be as you say.
If my weight is forward in relation to my standing foot and then is going to move ahead of my new standing foot. To me it would indicate that I am falling and catching. I have an old shot of Peter Eggleton and partner. In it he is at full stride, the weight is right in the middle. The front foot is on the heel. The back foot is on the toe, the lady the same. There was a question. Is he going forward or backwards.There was no way of knowing. The positions are identical. If I go to a Latin DVD. Slavik says that between one foot and the other in a step there are thousands of body positions. It would seem to me that a person may play with the speed of where along that line they are at any certain time. But with Eggleton if there is body flight it will be from that centered position. The front or the back leg arrive way before the body. And with the person going backwards, how can it be any other way and to keep a good posture. Personaly I think that what you are describing is a perfectly natural movement that will only come, with like, seven hours a day seven days a week practice. It might be something that is aquired and not taught. At the moment I am with Peter Eggleton. Also at the moment I am trying to have a straightish leg as it arrives, which immediaitely flexes as I lower my toe, or in the case of the lady the heel to the ground.
Re: Body Flight
Posted by madmaximus
4/4/2006  10:54:00 AM
How often we call "dangerous" that which we don't understand.

Body Flight is how you carry the body from leg to leg with as high a quality as possible.
It has very little to do with raw speed, and everything to do with the mechanics of propelling the body without unnecessary effort, clutter, and movement.
I'll leave the actual mechanics to others in the mood for debate.

My metaphor for body flight:
Think of a surfer.
They paddle furiously to get the surfboard started.
Once they've caught a wave, there is no effort to further push.

I've found that in dancing, the more I know, the more I don't know.
It's great humble pie.


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