Table of contents

All The Moves That I Know

  • Basic 8 step 1
    • w cross
      • w sacada
  • Basic 6 step
  • Tango walk
    • Close Embrase
    • Open Embrase
  • Ochos
    • Forward Ochos (Ocho Adelante)
    • Back Ochos (Ocho Atrás)
      • Back ocho into a back ocho for me into a sacada?
  • Ocho Cortado (Cut Ocho) (from halfstep or sidestep with disasoation)2
    • to ocho cortado
      • cross for me (leader)
    • to full ocho
  • The Sandwich (El Sanguchito)
  • Boleo
    • From side step, stopping followers foot

Leading

  • Intention with your chest not with your arms
  • Posture
  • Strong embrace
  • Navigation
  • Being on the beat (musicality)

Things I want to Learn

  • Boleo after tango cross 3
  • Medio giro “half-turn” 4

Things to Practice in Classes

December 2nd 2025

  • Salida Americana
    • From left foot rebote
      • Open follower up to the forward ocho
    • From foreward ocho (3 times)

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Class Overviews

October 28th 2025

  • Basic Lapiz
  • Basic Boleo from sidestep 5

October 29th 2025

  • Getting into cross system after 8 step, push follower to the right to keep her on that leg then step back and guide her into ochos

November 1st 2025 Embrace Workshop

  • Being able lead and follow without using your arms
  • Slowly integrating arms into the movement
  • Changing from close embrace into normal embrace
    • Exhaling when going into close embrace
    • Inhaling when going into normal embrace
  • With close embrace leading with your chest is very important
  • When doing a backstep, be sure to lean foreword not backwards to keep connection when in close embrace.

November 4th 2025

  • This was the first day of the “intermediate” class
  • Ani restarted from the basics with the walk
  • We worked on connection and “feeling” the partner and giving strong intention
  • We worked on moving the feet first and then the chest
  • Exercises
    • Leader goinog left and right pusing and controling the followers feet going back and forth

November 6th 2025

  • 2nd day of intermediate class and the longest class so far
  • Worked on tension and using tension in your body to communicate with the parther that you are in control and that they can wait
  • can be used by the leader or the follower
  • when a leader is going from a simple 1-3 beat step to a faster or a slower cadence, they would become tense to let the follower know that something is coming up.
  • Sort of an alert system. but also usefull because the follower can use you as more leverage in their danceing for balance if you are more tense and strong
  • Then we worked on a sandwich with the tense move that we learned where we tense up to tell the follower to pause and then cancel the sandwich to pull them into an ocho cortado and then pull them to you and out of it into cross system, cross and then salida.
  • from the cut ocho, you can lower your body, move her leg around into a circular “boleo” and then exit into a “???” into paraell system.

November 07 2025

  • Cut ocho from sidestep cross system into lefthand halfturn.

November 18 2025

  • Ocho cortado
    • After ocho cortado, can do a 360 while the follower is in a cross position as long as the leader is holding the same, strong frame.

November 19 2025

  • Intention always going foreward
    • Akin it to a dick going up and foreward. “A” position.
  • Rebote
  • Rebote after ocho cortado
  • Rebote 360 with many and 2 rebotes
  • Waltz step
  • Milonga tempo using rebote

November 28 2025

  • 2 sacadas from 2 back ochos (and “dont know the name where the follower pivots over my extended foot”
  • basic 360 giro after sidestep (apatura)
  • basic 360 giro after front ocho

‘December 2nd 2025

  • basic 360 giro review
  • rebote to

Tango Music 

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Notes

  • A woman isn’t to lead and they must be under a man

  • When a man commits an error (navigation error) , a real man can acknowledge it and course correct (correct the navigation)

  • A woman says, don’t judge me and takes no responsibility. A female follower can literally close their eyes when dancing with a leader, trusted or not, and take no responsibility in the bad leadership of the leader (navigation errors, dance errors). Only sit back and judge the leadership.

  • A tango dance consists of two people but when asked, most people are only looking at the female dancer and sees her, the follower, as the main part of the dance even though the man is in charge of navigation, dance figures, and general musicality.

  • Women will metaphorically wait at the finish line for a leader to become a good dancer and then desire to dance with him, Up until that point, the male has no real value as a dancer.

  • Yeet

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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPs4_2oIAKs ↩︎

  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDHS59ijZKc ↩︎

  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cnnCzLO1uI ↩︎

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir5VaLrGWJg ↩︎

  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOYbtIQ2tSA ↩︎