Oh, but that's why I like them! The lady suddenly gets to strut her stuff and have the upper hand! You go you chicken walkin' girrls!
Follow your heart...no one is making you do ballroom. A teacher of mine once said "the purpose of dancing is to love doing it." I'm not sure that's grammatically correct, but you get the idea....
I think corte jaca is one of the most god-awful steps in existence. Thank god I've never seen it led socially!
My issue is that not only do I not enjoy Salsa dancing, I don't like the music, either. I used to live in a neighborhood where the menfolk would get drunk, and hang out on their stoops to all hours playing Salsa music through blown speakers. Ay dios mio!
I actually saw it danced well in competition once...it was Dima & Olga Sukachov (what the heck ever happened to them?!) in some Pro Latin event in San Francisco about five years ago. I was amazed. Still hate the step, though.
OMG, me too! I'm fine until after the contra check. One of these days when I'm bored I'll make TS actually teach them to me, but we've got other fish to fry right now.
I think I was scarred for life by the styling of my first latin teacher who had us visual "sawing wood" with the joined low hand during this step... Lumberjack and Samba do not go together.... well maybe the Monty Python Lumberjack in a reverse role/same sex samba.... but that's neither here nor there....
Here ya go (and keep in mind that Slavik and Karina could probably make the hokey pokey look cool): [YT]n3wUbC8unpM[/YT]
Oh, that's a corta jaca? I've seen those...I think they're really cool to watch. My teacher and his wife like to dance those.
Absolutely! I won't even dance samba, so there's that for not liking them. I just think they can be very pretty to watch, is all. I was expecting them to be something I'd never seen before, is all.
Maybe doing them and watching them are two different things? You know, I actually saw shalene do them with a student and looked pretty darn good. At least I was buying it from them....
and this version doesn't show the way-cool option of dancing it with your arm down (like sawing wood, as Eric pointed out, and which inspired Laura to sing the Monty Python lumberjack song....)
