Originally Posted by
El Salsero Gringo
Secondly the leader needs fully to get to grips with the follower's weight and to bring it in close. Your centre of mass is somewhere just behind your belly button - bringing your two centres of mass as close together as possible makes the move work, remembering that the contact between you is offset right-side to right-side: lower torso to upper hip. You should both be looking directly over your partner's right shoulder. You should both lean away with the upper body, but the hip-to-hip contact is a must.
After that, remember that the two of you, with torso's locked by the frame in your arms and chest, together rotate about your common centre of mass - that will be, roughly, half way in between your two belly-buttons. Probably a bit closer to the man's, as he likely has greater mass.
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