The basico cruzado.
Yes I know I wrote that I was doing away with the cross but in the end the old ‘basic-8′ was the most suitable for the eight class. There are a number of reasons it finally made the list. It had to turn up at some point otherwise the migration path from preparatory class to tango class becomes rather tricky. Secondly it’s the only time it appears on the cycle. It is not ‘just the cross’ with the attention focused on what ever else the phrase entails.
A lot of attention was placed on the walk, in close embrace. Part of the difficulty in developing the lead for the cross is learning it in the ‘softer’ open embrace. In the close embrace the sense of the lead is more obvious even if it does bring up toe tripping issues.