Gui's Leader's Training

🧔🏽‍♂️Gui Prada's Leaders Training is coming to the the West Coast for the first and only time as Gui is leaving the US by the end of the year! ✅Prerequisites In order to take full advantage of our time together, it's necessary to know the following Brazilian Zouk fundamentals: Basics (on the Spot, and Linear) Viradinha Lateral Send-Away Vira-Lateral (Viradinha into Lateral) ⭐The Training The Leaders Intensive is a training based on the idea of horizontal learning. That means that on top of the instructions given by Gui, the feedback received from the followers will be an important source of learning. For that reason, this training is built on the principles of having multiple partner rotations. Training like this has never been done before. It will be new for you and for me. Our entire focus will be developing our skills for a pleasant social dancing experience and we will count on the constant and truthful feedback of the followers to help us get there. This 16 hours (10 hours of instruction, 4 hours of break and 2 hours of practice) intensive training is meant to develop Leaders' dance by receiving immediate feedback about what is important for social dancing and experiencing different styles and levels of following. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🗓️ SCHEDULE 🗓️ Saturday, Aug 6th 💪 11 - 1pm | Fundamentals Review: The walking Foundation and review the basic kit of Fundamentals - Basics (In Place and Linear) - Viradinha - Send Away - Abertura-Lateral - Lateral The first workshop will start with the most important tool for comfort and smoothness - the stepping or walking. We will go over walking with control, balance and awareness of the rest of your body. Then we will go over all the fundamentals that do not include head movement boot-camp style. During this part we will focus not only in the review itself, but also making sure you can execute them clearly with all the followers. 🍽️ Lunch Break - 1 hour 🍽️ 💪 2 - 3:30pm | Continuing the review and smoothing things out The second workshop will continue our review and change the focus to smooth them out. We are going to go over the techniques to make your fundamentals feel good and we will count on the feedback of the followers to let us know if we are making progress. 🍩 Snack Break - 30 minutes 🍩 💪 4 - 5:30pm | Body Movements The third workshop will laser focus on making our body movements calm and continuous. We will be focusing on undulations and isolations, leading them from our own bodies and in accordance to the music. Again this whole process will be done with the followers feedback. 🎈 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Practice ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Sunday, Aug 7th 💪 11 - 1pm | Mindset, Adaptation and the 'Follow the follow principle' For this part I will present the mindset that has helped me develop my leading in Brazilian over the years. Within the Mindset we will talk about something extremely important, the ability and willingness to adapt. 🍽️ Lunch Break - 1 hour 🍽️ 💪 2 - 3:30pm | Touch and physical connection This workshop will focus on the details of touch. We are going to talk about hands, arms, forearms, fingers, shoulders, chest and all the other parts of our bodies that we tend to tense up or not pay much attention to. We then will focus on close embrace and work on our pillowness. 🍩 Snack Break - 30 minutes 🍩 💪 4 - 5:30pm | Pressure points (aka applying pressure in the points of connection) and energy management. We will finish talking about managing pressure points, creating consistent points of connection and providing support to the followers. 🎈 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Practice ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💸RATES 💸 To register as a lead: $280 Dansar Students: $250 To register as a follow email [email protected]: Free To reserve your spot: Venmo @Project-Dansar 🤑 💉💉💉 Proof of vaccination required upon admission