Improvement comes from working on your foundation. The 3 basic steps – Forward, Side, and Back. Improvement is not about patterns and figures, and how many you know, it’s about cleaning up your foundation! That will do more good for you than any thing else.

Practice with Tango Sticks
At some point along your tango curve, you have wanted 1.) to practice a step, a pattern, or a figure. Or 2.) you have seen something that you want to try out. Or 3.) you’re imagining an idea of how something might work and want to try it. In all three of these instances, you will need a practice partner. You’ll need to schedule their time against yours. And once you’re in the same room with them, balance their issues of how they do X vs. how you engage X. And once that challenge is overcome then it’s getting into the idea of what it is you had in mind to begin with. All told, this could be several hours or days between the idea and the actual doing of it.