1972 - World Champions Latin American Dancing - Rudolf & Mechtild Trautz

Rudolf and Mechtild Trautz, from Germany, were 4 times World Champions in Latin American Dancing. They won their first titel in 1967 in Melbourne, Australia, became second in 1968, and again won the World Championship in 1969, 1970 and 1971. They were also European and German Champions.
Rudolf and Mechtild also belonged to the Ballroom elite in the late '60 early '70 and became second in the World Championship Ballroom in 1971.
This video shows their Cha-Cha in 1972 -- one notices today how much things have changed.................... The keen eye will discover Marcel and Ratna de Rijk from the Netherlands

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Rudolf-Trautz
• Mechtild-Trautz
• Latin-American
• Dancing
• Cha-Cha
• Hugo-Strasser
• Orchestra
• 1972
• Strictly-come-dancing
• mira-quien-baila
• dancing-with-the-stars
• Mainz
• Germany
• Marcel-de-Rijk
• Ratna-de-Rijk

[SDiable88]

thank god we don't have to dance like that today!

[bmwsitgez]

exactly, just like you are not wearing clothes of back in those days, just like you have a different hairstyle today, just like everything changes as time passes by.... But you have to respect these people and they way things were done in the past as it was as they knew was best!

[crimsonidol86]

OMG, you rock! Thanks so much for uploading these!

[bmwsitgez]

Your welcome, haha. Had so much laughs myself watching the cha-cha style of the early '70.

[Mithuna222]

i wonder if the way we dance latin now is going to be ridiculously funny to future generations in 30,40 years from now xD

[lacadance1]

Danke fürs Video! Ich hab' gegen ihm getanzt, spaeter sehr viel von ihm gelernt!

[indi4a]

Спасибо за видео. Сейчас это смотрится не АХТИ, но Баланс и ритм Ребята уметь держали

[kaleido600]

Улёт!!!

[anastasiachristie]

i feel like iam on "its a small world 'ride in disney land and those are colorful dolls moving about so silly..now dancing is so much more in tune with human sexuality

[trouble147girl147]

this is just amazing...i love it!! :D

[ElekTroShoK3V]

LMAO

[doorknobs6]

@bmwsitgez the black dress is fine without the pink underneath

[AkihiroHattori52455]

@bmwsitgez I think you misread Sdiable88's comment. They were just saying Thank God we don't dance like that now; that didn't denote in any way that they didn't respect their way of dancing. It's pretty obvious that they're dancing that way because of the time period. I was thinking the same thing as Sdiable88 when I saw this, but I definitely respect their dance style.

[ProEndy95]

just like a robot . . .xd i prefer di filippo