Chacha class with Ryan -- 10/3/2008

Chacha forward Lock step

1. Chasse on the diagonal
2. knee, shoulder, spine, foot (Using locking step with R foot in the front as an example in the following explanation)
   
1. knee: leg that's coming under.
   
2. Shoulder:
   
1. Right shoulder compresses down.
2. weight stays over the right foot.
   
3. Right knee only bends because left knee comes from behind to bend it. Therefore don't drop the height too much, think of it as the back knee replacing the front knee.
   
4. &: left shoulder: as it compresses, it straighten the right(not left?) leg.
   
3. spine: activates
   
4. foot: transfer the weight.
   
3. Forward lock with Right foot in the front
1. bug goes from left shoulder, right waist(work it), left waist (work it)
   
4. three tracks.
   
5. Chcha opens up hip more than rumba, leading to the chasse/lock step to happen naturally.
   
6. Timing difference comparing with Samba.
   
1. chacha <---knee -- shoulder -e - & - a- spine -- foot --> Samba:
   
1. chacha locks happen at the &. while samba locks happen (at a). In other words, if we split the time between the shoulder movement and the spine movement to 4 part, the chacha lock would happen in the middle. while the samba timing would happen at the a. (need to double check correctness of this paragraph).
   

Chacha backward locks (explanation below is based on left foot behind)

1. Prep step: open up left hip. ball of the left foot on the ground then move spine over.
2. bug moves from Left shoulder to Left waist, to right waist (maybe...)