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Five beginner mistakes in kizomba that slow your progress

Looking at the feet instead of feeling the weight. Holding the breath when concentrating. Using the arms instead of moving the body. Rushing to learn figures before owning the walk. And comparing your chapter one to someone else's chapter ten.

Dawou Tarraxo, pioneer of Tarraxo. Five beginner mistakes in kizomba that slow your progress

The fix is always the same and it is never glamorous. Return to posture, breath, axis and weight transfer.

Foundations are not the first level. They are every level.

Every kizomba and urbankiz level comes back to posture, breath, axis and weight.

Five beginner mistakes, step by step

  1. 5 BEGINNER MISTAKES THAT SLOW YOUR PROGRESS
  2. 1. Looking at the feet instead of feeling the weight.
  3. 2. Holding the breath when concentrating.
  4. 3. Using the arms instead of moving the body.
  5. 4. Rushing to learn figures before owning the walk.
  6. 5. Comparing your chapter one to someone else's chapter ten.
  7. Return to posture, breath, axis and weight transfer.
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This lesson comes from the book

Page 75 of The student's book by Dawou Tarraxo, the TOCA Method page this lesson comes from
The student's book · page 75

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T O C A

Two bodies. One connection.

TTouchThe connection with your partner. Feeling through contact, never through force.
OObservationListening to your partner’s body, energy and tempo.
CControlMastery of your own movement. Precision without tension.
AAwarenessFull presence: with yourself, your partner and the music.