This is not always a good idea - not all good dancers are good teachers. You'd benefit more from going to a teacher who has a good reputation (ask...
Personally, I never consider a leader who can't keep time to be a good leader. To me being consistent with their timing is an essential skill a...
Hmm, interesting... you are taking LA style classes but your repertoire consists entirely of Cuban style moves? Where/how did you learn these...
Are there any social dancing opportunities where you are taking classes? If there are, those are probably the easiest way to get into social...
The style you describe seems to be what's known as "Power2", "Palladium 2", "Ballroom 2", etc. I believe there are already people who dance and...
In Japan, a lot of people are using mobile Mixi (Japanese equivalent of Facebook) for that purpose.
I dance Cuban as well as LA and NY styles. Yes, from a few different instructors. - The LA and NY styles are both slot based, i.e.,...
SOS (Salsa On Sundays) is my favourite London night. Definitely no sleaze. Every Sunday at the Royal National Hotel near Russell Square. I hear good...
And also depends on the student. A leader who's already reasonably competent with good knowledge of the lead-follow mechanics and timing who...
Son Hmm, your thread title is about rueda but the question is about son? Anyhoo, Here are some YouTube clips of people dancing son, which...
I don't believe 99% latino clubs, or even 50% latino clubs, exist in areas I've lived (Scotland/Japan).
Rueda is often used as part of teaching Cuban style salsa. Cuban style can be danced either with one partner or as a rueda, and Cuban style...
Definitely. Before I ask a girl I don't know (as a leader - I'm learning to lead and trying to dance with girls of all levels, not just my...
I went to the NY congress the last two years. The first time I went (2007) there were water stations in the evening. I remember thinking how...
... are what you should do *immediately* after injury (first aid to combat inflammation). But 8 days later, and after you thought it was getting...
Choppy/mechanical is one way of looking at it... another (and my preferred) way of looking at it is that the pauses on 4 and 8 are there for...
Salsa on2 is also known as NY mambo. In the salsa world, these terms are interchangeable. I think the ballroom-style mambo is quite different...
You got it right. It's actually possible to dance on1 that way too, but on2 (ET style) is always danced that way. There's another style of on2,...
Rubiks cube? High bicycle? Tornado? You've lost me :lol: I must be living in a different salsa world... are these some of those showy LA style...
Zouk-lambada (a.k.a. lambada zouk, brazilian zouk), which evolved from lambada, is gaining popularity.
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