How To Start Salsa

[cashface23]

ey, i was intrested in starting salsa to help me with my club/grinding dances, i don't wana join any classes, but if u know any good videos or anything else, help me out aight pc

[Pacion]

aight pc

In plain "traditional" english please :?

In my opinion, learning to salsa won't help your abilities to grind. Two different disciplines (yes, I am being generous refering to grinding as a discipline ;)).

You are probably better off looking at MTV and some of the pop videos for moves to help you with your club dancing.

[Sagitta]

Feelling comfortable moving your bodies in different ways? Hey! Someone wants to learn salsa, for whatever reason, I'm up for it. ;-)

Have you tried searching for salsa video clips online?

[Sagitta]

Check the link below.

http://www.dance-forums.com/showthread.php?t=1945

[Pacion]

Hey! Someone wants to learn salsa, for whatever reason, I'm up for it. ;-)

There is also such a thing as "managing expectations" ;)

[Paou]

Drugaya forma have some good beginners and intermediate instructional clips. And they're completely free!

check out...

http://www.drugayaforma.com/videos/
(www.drugayaforma.com/videos/)

[Drugaya Forma]

Hi there,
this is Maria from Drugaya Forma. Thanks for checking us out. Yeah, we we have some instructional free video clips and are planning to add more stuff on "2" this week. What would be good to add more beginners, intermediate or advance? more styling? Please any advise helps. Thanks. Maria

[sac76]

Hi there,
this is Maria from Drugaya Forma. Thanks for checking us out. Yeah, we we have some instructional free video clips and are planning to add more stuff on "2" this week. What would be good to add more beginners, intermediate or advance? more styling? Please any advise helps. Thanks. Maria

hey good site...how about adding mens and ladies styling and footwork?plus more moves every week/month is always a plus.u can have something called Move of the month which is the most popular move done in ur city and other parts....just a suggestion
..... good job guys...keep it up

[genEus]

Hi there,
this is Maria from Drugaya Forma. Thanks for checking us out. Yeah, we we have some instructional free video clips and are planning to add more stuff on "2" this week. What would be good to add more beginners, intermediate or advance? more styling? Please any advise helps. Thanks. Maria

More ladies' styling please. Perhaps tips on spin technique. Actually, as long as Maria is in the clips, doesn't matter...

<Oops, did I just say that out loud?>

[saludas]

ey, i was intrested in starting salsa to help me with my club/grinding dances, i don't wana join any classes, but if u know any good videos or anything else, help me out aight pc

Gud luk in doin it. U r wantin all the results wit none o d effort. Guess goin 2 skool was too hard too?

Spelin help communication, btw;

[alemana]

considering how dreadful this person's communication skills are according to you, saludas, you're amazingly quick to dialogue with them. in fact i think you probably respond more rapidly when you see an opportunity for an insult or a dig, as opposed to when you have something worthwhile to contribute.

[JackedSalseroNY]

ey, i was intrested in starting salsa to help me with my club/grinding dances, i don't wana join any classes, but if u know any good videos or anything else, help me out aight pc

Not much grinding in Salsa, it's a real dance, but if I were you I'd buy the Eddie Torres two video/dvd set.

[africana]

ey, i was intrested in starting salsa to help me with my club/grinding dances, i don't wana join any classes, but if u know any good videos or anything else, help me out aight pc hey cashface you're much better off taking hip-hop classes and watching music videos (or renting "dirty dancing" :p) to learn grinding
btw whoever told you to learn salsa for grinding obviously knows little about salsa, everything is different, including the music, flavor, etiquette, attitude, everything! It'll be a waste of time
But in fact I'd recommend salsa dancers go take some hip-hop classes to get of that feeling-the-music quality - many of my favorite & most charismatic salsa dancers have a hip-hop background

[BugBear]

Would someone please take the time to explain the concept of "grinding" because it kind of eludes me... :confused:

And taking any other dance classes but salsa really helps. I know a lot of people who have been dancing ballroom before they started salsa(my instructor danced Bulgarian national dances for four years before he started salsa :)) It if really shows you have any other dancing experience. One of the guys I admire the most has been dancing ballroom for 16 years and recently he started dancing salsa. Everytime I see him dance I'm like :shock: :shock:

[hello]

Never formally schooled in hip hop, but having danced a LOT of it, salsa was a difficult transition because of the different emphasis of beat. Hip hop is emphasized on beat 2 and 4 with no obvious pause, while salsa has the pause, and that pause can be on beat 4, beat 1, and now apparently on beat 3 according to the new post, cuban style? Someone please correct my beats, if I'm not wording it correctly!

I think maybe the grinding got associated with salsa because of how close the person dances with his/her partner. There are many times I feel the rhythm and move to how my partner is moving his hips, pelvis. To me, salsa sways the hips side to side, and hip hop moves forwards and backwards.

[Josh]

Never formally schooled in hip hop, but having danced a LOT of it, salsa was a difficult transition because of the different emphasis of beat. Hip hop is emphasized on beat 2 and 4 with no obvious pause, while salsa has the pause, and that pause can be on beat 4, beat 1, and now apparently on beat 3 according to the new post, cuban style? Someone please correct my beats, if I'm not wording it correctly!

I think maybe the grinding got associated with salsa because of how close the person dances with his/her partner. There are many times I feel the rhythm and move to how my partner is moving his hips, pelvis. To me, salsa sways the hips side to side, and hip hop moves forwards and backwards.

Salsa can be danced on any beat, with the pause on any beat. Usually the pause is on 4 and 8 though. Also, there are times when the partners are close in salsa, but most of the time the bodies do not touch as is done in grinding dancing. For hips--salsa hips do not really "sway" .. they move, but it's not a booty-shakin' dance. Salsa can be danced moving in many directions, but LA/NY styles are danced in a slot with the basic being a forward/backward movement.

[hello]

Salsa can be danced on any beat, with the pause on any beat. Usually the pause is on 4 and 8 though. Also, there are times when the partners are close in salsa, but most of the time the bodies do not touch as is done in grinding dancing. For hips--salsa hips do not really "sway" .. they move, but it's not a booty-shakin' dance. Salsa can be danced moving in many directions, but LA/NY styles are danced in a slot with the basic being a forward/backward movement.

Thanks for the clarification, I'd better put more "space" between my dancing partner and my pelvis!:raisebro: