Hi,
I'm male and I am thnking of taking classes from a very experienced and technical Male teacher (as the female teacher are not as technical as he is)

Do you think the European style classes (w/o partner) with the male instructore would yield better results in learning techniquw than dancing with a female teacher?

ABC, I did mostly lessons with a female instructor and recently started taking some hours with a male instructor to work on technique. It helped me a lot so I'd deffinitly advice you to go ahead and do it. Not only because he might be more experienced when it comes to technique (my male instructor has been teaching for more years than my female instructor has been dancing), but also because any dancer should take lessons with instructors of their own gender.
But you really want a mix of both I guess. Especially if your male and female instructors communicate and try to make their lessons build on each other.

ABC,

I dance with a female teacher that has very good technique, timing and etc. However, she can't see everything if she is dancing with me and while doing our routines. During our lessons sometimes we borrow a good male teacher to look at what we are doing. It only takes a few minutes and it really helps me, especially if he dances the technique that I'm trying to do with my partner. He also borrows my teacher to demonstrate something with one of his lady students. This is the best of both worlds, unless you have enough money to pay for both teachers at the same time--this can get expensive quickly. I do take (with my pro am lady) occasional technique lessons with a higher level visting male teacher.

Dear quickstep,
I do agree with that to know and to do correct basic is much more harder than figure or variation itself because of that this most important part lack of full figure in book or showed by coach. To observe Marcus instructional clips and learned with Tony ( 7th on the world now )( only one lesson with him now, but will be more after I did well as he said completely ), I have some points as follows: 1. the elbows are not level with the shoulders, they are slightly lower , and forward, outward, man's left hand levels with lady's nose and keeps in midway between the parnership, arms fix with torso, man's right forearm 7-10cm above his wrist support lady left arm from her left posterior axillar line, this is very important for leading and beautiful, relaxed , big volume frame, lady feels very comfortable for bigger room and stable balance , and necessary extension from her supporting foot, couples obtain larger upper spaces also .
( unfortunately, such chair is too expensive . most of chairs are rigid ,and small,unflexible for the figure needed more room.), man's right hand is UNDER ( not on )lady left shoulder blade with light touching only ( I don't want to be lifted, or have a sense of dropping in the well.)
You wrote the neck tie hold on man's right hand for required angle. when right side to right side connection, lady left armpit hight ( posterior axillar line )has set the wrist position.
finger tips touching on the chest bone with nipples line underneath the hands, then oper the upper limbs , both hands facing each other may be what we want. Lady upper limbs forward , slightly round and upward , both shoulders back and down, left hand places on man's arm ( yes, more outside of man's upper arm is more natural than book said, top female dancers put their left arm outside the man's upper arm with fingers (excepts with the thumb ) closed. When I did like that , my coach watched and said nothing till now. I knew he preferred I did it in common way , but I hated .)Such most perfectest ( natural and very relaxed ) holding can be noted in the top seven in the world commonly. They really keep their arms parallel to the floor just like holding a tray with glasses ,upper part is a reaction from the ankles and knees. no pull nor push. ).
ylchen

Yichen. When you mentioned Tony.are you refering to Tony Dorkman and his sister.He is demonsrating here in about two weeks time along with Jukka Hoapalainen and Sirpa at our Casino.

TechniqueMan
There is absolutely no question - get a good solid basic technique and don't worry about 'fancy' steps(This applies to all technical skills in my view). In slow waltz, spend a lot of time practising natural turn - link- reverse turn - link -natural turn etc.. with good posture and poise and shape all the time. Do it with a teacher.

What would be the timeline on the learning curve for all this technique mentioned above for an average dancer.
lets say 1 hr class per week and 1-3 hrs practise 5 days a week.

Anonymous. It is debateable about how much practice should be done. The main point being, is the step being correctly executed. If it is not you can see what problems can arise. Definitly the best way is within a short a time as possible after the lesson. It is a fact . leave it till the next day and parts of what has been learnt will start to disappear.

What sort of technique from the original list i posted are we looking at in the english tango (international style). both have a dirrent dancing style

Get a good solid basic technique and don't worry about " fancy " steps.
Very good point. To complement each other.
ylchen