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wiseman
08-12-2010, 02:50 PM
My apologies for this crazy thread, but this has been driving me crazy ever since I got home last night from my Salsa On2 group class.

The instructor taught us this turn where BOTH the man and woman hold hands crossed, i.e. the man’s left hand holds the woman’s left hand and his right holds her right. The left hand is on top of the right during the cross. Then on the 1-2-3 going back (which is done on Salsa On2), the man now DOUBLE-TURNS the woman to her right while your hands and her hands are still crossed. The woman will turn around twice with her hands in the air remaining crossed at all times. Then after she finishes double turning, our hands are still crossed just like they were in the beginning and we resume dancing on the 5-6-7.

Now since BOTH our hands are crossed at the same time, I have difficulty switching hands fast enough and supporting the girl at the same time. There was even one woman in the class that lost her patience with me due to the latter, but I’ve already went into that little issue at another thread, so I won’t go there.

But does anyone here recognize this turn pattern and what it’s called? I would like to google it and see if I can find a streaming video on it, but I’m having hard time since I don’t know the name of this.

toothlesstiger
08-12-2010, 07:36 PM
There you run into the problem of standards. There is no standard curriculum for salsa, so every teacher could potentially give it another name, if they name it at all. Most of my salsa instructors never even bothered naming the stuff they taught us.

darkoff
09-17-2010, 04:07 PM
My apologies for this crazy thread, but this has been driving me crazy ever since I got home last night from my Salsa On2 group class.

The instructor taught us this turn where BOTH the man and woman hold hands crossed, i.e. the man’s left hand holds the woman’s left hand and his right holds her right. The left hand is on top of the right during the cross. Then on the 1-2-3 going back (which is done on Salsa On2), the man now DOUBLE-TURNS the woman to her right while your hands and her hands are still crossed. The woman will turn around twice with her hands in the air remaining crossed at all times. Then after she finishes double turning, our hands are still crossed just like they were in the beginning and we resume dancing on the 5-6-7.

Now since BOTH our hands are crossed at the same time, I have difficulty switching hands fast enough and supporting the girl at the same time. There was even one woman in the class that lost her patience with me due to the latter, but I’ve already went into that little issue at another thread, so I won’t go there.

But does anyone here recognize this turn pattern and what it’s called? I would like to google it and see if I can find a streaming video on it, but I’m having hard time since I don’t know the name of this.

If I understand you correctly, that kind of turn is called a "touch and go" or "illusion" turn, or "illusion hand change", or "wrist clip", or "wrist break".

tangotime
09-18-2010, 02:17 AM
Now since BOTH our hands are crossed at the same time, I have difficulty switching hands fast enough and supporting the girl at the same time.


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Its been around forever.. hand change cross to Under arm turn.. usually done with one revolution by lady... easy way out ?.. place her crossed hands over you head and do an arm slide to double hand hold ,or... standard hold..

wiseman
09-27-2010, 01:20 PM
Thanks guy! I already figured this out quite a while ago, actually. In fact, we just did it in class last Saturday. I'm gettin' the hang of it. :D