(Bachata) So good! Bachata's core principles with a spoonful of zouky head~ Wongung & Yoni LATIN Lunar New Year workshop

“Holding on the inside of the elbow is way more stable.”

CONTEXTExplaining how to take the arm connection before starting a head movement

“When you draw a half circle with energy in your left hand and drop down, she doesn't stop right away — she carries a little further and takes that opening energy with her.”

CONTEXTExplaining the flow of energy the follow should carry after a head movement lead

“If this weight only comes from my left hand, it feels sharp to her. It has to come from my body.”

Explaining that in the move where you drop down with the left hand, the force has to originate from the torso, not the hand

“This left hand has to carry a really good connection — that's how I can send the energy of my body straight into her.”

Stressing the role of the left-hand connection and the quality of the energy transfer

“You can't just pretend to lead — you actually have to lead it.”

Explaining the move where the left-hand connection brings the follow down, stressing that real force has to transfer

“For her body to open up, the lead has to open his body too.”

CONTEXTExplaining that the lead has to open his own body along with the follow's opening movement

“The main lead is in the right hand. With the left, you just follow the opening.”

CONTEXTExplaining how the two hands split roles in a half rotisserie turn

“You have to lock the frame like it's Lego — then the body stays still and only the arms move. That's isolation.”

Explaining the separation of arm frame and body — isolation — in the rotisserie turn