Every time I try to talk about embrace, walking, stability, clarity issues it always fails because it sounds like the same list over and over and over again. And that’s because it is. I keep thinking that if I say the same thing several MILLION times, that perhaps someone might hear it. Especially the people that need to hear the message the most.
Nope.
Bear with me here, I want you to read something, there’s a pay-off at the end:
“I teach my students how to embrace (2 of 8 types), walk (all 6 types), ocho (6 of 
, turn (all , cross (all 256), and cortado (2 of the from both sides of the equation. Meaning women learn to move as a Lead and as a Follow. Men learn to move as a Follow and as a Lead. Then I drill that all in over 14 weeks at the beginning of every 2 hour lesson for 20 minutes. This process corrects for physical pressure issues, lack of clarity issues, use of the arms and hands issues, pulling, pushing, not listening or engaging in a conversation with one’s partner issues. My process addresses embrace, posture, position, clarity, and intention issues. repeat mistakes, using video, with and without me in the equation. All while using a detailed walking exercise for BOTH roles that I developed which can be found under the exercises section of TangoTopics (Lead > https://tangotopics.com/exercises/lead-exercise-2020/ | Follow > https://tangotopics.com/exercises/follower-exercise-2020/).”
This is an example of the some of the verbiage I use whenever I am writing about a tango subject. It’s basically the ‘whet-your-bordom’ idea. Which is to say about 2 sentences In, assuming you got that far, your eyes glaze over and you stop reading and skip to the next paragraph where hopefully I’ll stop yammering on and get to the point. Like now. 
What I have discovered is that none of that descriptor above means anything to anyone and I know two reasons why!
1.) The reader/dancer has no frame of reference to what any of that stuff means. To most people it sounds like stuff they’re familiar with, but the details and importance of it escapes them because the reference material is missing!
and 2.) No one has taught the reader/dancer about hyper self-awareness. (Side note: Having been taught that stuff, it would allow the reader/dancer to translate all that gobbly-gook into something they can use.)
I have a solution for the first part, and the second part, I believe there is a way to do this remotely but I need more data to prove a point. Anyone want to be my guinea pig ? Hahahahahaha.
I believe there is a way to address the first point visually. Several years ago, now, I shot a series of videos that show you visually what all that stuff above means. It’s a foundational language of sorts that I developed in visual form. I figured out that the tactile sensation and physical pressure to communicate with your partner is at the heart of everything. It’s the cornerstone really. Without that understanding, then a lot of what I talk about and the way that I talk about it is open to interpretation and distortion.
So without further rambling, I want to show you a doorway to another tango world. It’s actually two doorways. Each video below is no longer than 3 to 5 minutes. These are completely free and are, coincidentally, the foundational building blocks of tango topics. Originally they were part of tango truisms, the forerunner to tango topics, and now they form the basis of my development language of the intensive process.
Touch > https://youtu.be/mk318eWg8nQ
and Pressure > https://youtu.be/w1fltNixFfI
And if you want more of this series:
Pushing > https://youtu.be/bpPfrRgRQbg
Pulling > https://youtu.be/ypiOrNX4sfs
Resistance > https://youtu.be/ux6FJYxZZyg
Rigidity > https://youtu.be/q9DrJJHoPJI
Hanging > https://youtu.be/6wXSI2hpYBk
Force > https://youtu.be/EYmDBzE94bw
Compression > https://youtu.be/pvrJD61beTQ
I’ll give you an example of what I’m on about > If you’ve watched the first 5 videos — “Most people, in my opinion, use entirely too much of physical pressure to embrace and dance with each other. They literally ‘scream’ at each other. This has become normalized and people believe that this is what’s supposed to happen in Tango. It’s not by the way. This way of dancing is what I later termed ‘Resistance Based Dancing’. It’s the process of using tension, resistance, and physical compression and force to push or to pull, which then creates resistance or inertia in order to move with your partner in some tango figure.”
If you watch the videos, then reading that paragraph above makes a lot more sense IN MY OPINION.
YMMV.