Cuban Break-through!

Well I just had a group class with Inga... (damn, I forgot how hot she can be). So, I've been going a little too crazy with this lifting of the heel thing. The heel will still lift to allow rotation of the foot, but it's not so much lifted on its own as it's drawn up by... wait for it... the hip settle of the same leg. Now wait, you say, how can you lift a heel if you're settling on that foot? Because the action is fluid and it only begins to ever so slightly rise up as the hip pulls the free leg over. Then, when you pop the free foot in front and transfer partial weight to it, the now back heal is off the floor fully with tons of toe pressure (rather than the ball of the foot on the floor, this might be wrong but I'll wait to be corrected).

She pointed out that I am collapsing my top when I compress. In my desire to get a full compression I've been pulling my shoulder down with it, and it's breaking my side and creating a bad line. It seems like there's almost two separate points of compression, the hip and the lat. Before I've been thinking of it as a point between those two that crunches, but I think its two 'crunches' at once. I don't mean crunch, but flexing of muscles. However I think about it, the important part is keeping my top very up and tall, giving me a bigger look, and then achieving the 'champ' look by rotating that top over my compressed lower half. I'm still a little fuzzy on how to describe it. I'm at the 1st level of understanding right now with this. So, I may not be describing it quite right yet.

Good lesson. I learned a lot and got really sweaty. Def worth the $10.