Video I found on the web

diputs

diputs

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I have no idea if they are any good. I am not a ballroom dancer. I am guessing it is a paso doble. I am not sure what I am basing that on.



I just noticed that there are a lot of videos from this studio.

http://www.youtube.com/results.php?related=VIDEO BALLROOM DANCING
 
Oh, my god. How did you find this site? I just scanned through couple competition clips. Thank you for posting this.
 
Very interesting video! There was a lot of closed hold position in their choreography, which took me by surprise. Paso Doble is usually open, since the woman is supposed to be the cape and the man the toreador(?).

Twilight Elena
 
Dancebug said:
Oh, my god. How did you find this site? I just scanned through couple competition clips. Thank you for posting this.
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Not sure how I found the site. It is another site that allows people to upload videos. Like putfile, only this one seems to be big with myspace users.

I also found some ballroom videos from a show called, "So you think you can dance" From what I gathered they took a group of people and had them dance with different partners doing the different ballroom dances. I was a little disappointed though. I was hoping for the "disco" dance, that they would have done hustle.
 
These are Yukka Haapalainen and Sirpa Suutari, from Finland, and one of the highest ranked couples in Latin competition in the past few years. They were consistently first or second at the top events (Blackpool, International, UK Open, European pro championship). In 1999, they were 2nd in the World Pro Championship. I think that is the year when Bryan and Carmen won the title for the first time. It was a very intense competition and it wasn't certain at all that Bryan and Carmen would win. Yukka and Sirpa were certainly in the running for the title. They retired in 2002.Yukka does a lot of judging now at the highest level.
If I'm not mistaken, these clips are actually from commercial dance videos that you can still get at the usual vendors. I think this is the "Advanced Latin Techniques" video.
 
DancingJools said:
If I'm not mistaken, these clips are actually from commercial dance videos that you can still get at the usual vendors. I think this is the "Advanced Latin Techniques" video.
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Jools,

I think you are correct. I believe Jukka Haapalainen and Sirpa Suutari's video tapes are still one of the most popular ones.
 
There are also some clips from Bryan Watson and Karen Hardy's video Champions Choice on the YouTube link. I think the Jukka and Sirpa video is called Advanced Latin Techniques.
 
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