Learn salsa dance steps and moves for free! In this salsa dancing lesson we show you how to perform the salsa dance moves we call the ‘snapalicious’. For more free salsa dance lessons and salsa dance videos, please visit our website: http://addicted2salsa.com . The song is ‘La Soledad’ and you can download it here: http://bit.ly/v9y54z

Pasos avanzados para aprender salsa. Para más videos de salsa, vayan a http://addicted2salsa.com/videos/es/ . Este video de salsa les enseñara como bailar los pasos mas avanzados de salsa en estilo de línea cual es conocido como estilo de salsa de “Nueva York” or de “Puerto Rico”. En este episodio les eseñaremos los pasos de salsa en el conteo de uno que son fáciles para principiantes. Esta movida la llamamos el ‘reverse titanic’.

How to salsa dance video episode 89 provides you with a simple intermediate move that combines a windmill flare with other basic combinations. We call it the Copa Check Bounce salsa dance move. The song used in this video is provided by German Silva and it is called ‘Unchained Melody’, you can find it here on iTunes http://itunes.com/germansilva

In episode 88 of Addicted2Salsa Salsa Dance Lesson series, we will teach you a quick intermediate move that we call the Forward Travel Wrap. It is composed of a variation of a salsa cross-body cuddle move for the guys and then performing a short double spin with flicks. If you ever
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This salsa dance lesson video will show you a few salsa dance moves that take a few of our salsa “wind themed” moves, like the windmill and cyclone bounce, to make a small quick pattern. For a more elaborate explanation of the Windmill salsa dance move, check out addicted2salsa episode #42. For a more detailed explanation of the Cyclone Bounce move, check out addicted2salsa episode #46. The song used is “Reflexiones” by Tito Rodriguez Jr.

Anthony Persaud and Jocelyn Rosero will teach you another intermediate salsa dancing move that will get you into a left sided hammerlock position. This salsa dance move is called “Pass Behind the Back” lock since you actually travel in similar fashion to performing a “Coca Cola Salsa” move with your partner, but end up on the ladies left slot size. From there, you can perform any of the other salsa dance combinations that you know. The song used in the video is “Guarare”.

And now something for the ladies! This salsa dance video will provide the ladies a few styling tricks when social dancing with a good lead. Jocelyn will show the ladies how to take advantage of specific dance cues from your lead in order to perform clean salsa styling. Using this in your social dancing will help you enjoy playing with the instruments in a song much more enjoyable. As a note to leads, you do not have to fill in an entire song of back-to-back patterns. Always remember to leave some room for the ladies to style and enjoy the salsa song.

In this salsa dance lesson video, we teach you how to dance the famous DPS lock combo but on the New York / Puerto Rican “On2” timing. In addition, Jocelyn explains some of the dance styling that the ladies’ can perform even when they have both arms behind their back.

This is a short reference video on how to perform the cross body lead 180 that we had shot previously. The video will take you through the steps on how to do the cross body lead 180 in salsa dancing for on1 counts. This salsa dance video is from Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa

I realized that most salsa dancers are not doing enough footwork when social dancing! This quick video lesson will teach you the basic salsa slide footwork which is most commonly used by Puerto Rican band members as they sing at a live concert. (You can use it social dancing as well!).

This salsa dance video lesson will teach you how to dance the salsa cross body lead with turn. Using the “Cross Body Lead in Salsa Dancing” video, this will help you add a salsa left turn for the ladies in combination with a cross body lead. This reference video is from our salsa iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa.

This short salsa dance video will teach you how to do the basic salsa dip. Normally salsa dips are done in the end and are usually NOT recommended for crowded salsa dance night clubs. We kept the salsa dance lesson short since there are several salsa videos out there with the same content. This mini lesson is from our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

This short salsa dance lesson will teach you how to do a simple Butterfly spin move in salsa dancing. This move can be chained together with other spin or stop moves, like the Cyclone Bounce. This also contains a promo video for our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa! You can find more information about Pocket Salsa on our website: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

Now that Salsa Dancing Romance Day is upon us we thought it would be appropriate to add some more salsa romance into our dance steps. A lot of our fans are couples who enjoy learning to salsa dance with each other - some have even met through salsa dancing! We hope that salsa dancing continues to bring romance to your relationship and enjoy this salsa dance video lesson! The major tip for the lesson is that adding musicality and style at the right moments can turn any great dance into a memorable one!

This salsa dancing lesson video will teach you how to perform the salsa dance S-turn into a salsa dance 180. We will first explain what a simple salsa S-turn is and then link it to performing a salsa dance cross body lead with turn into a cross body lead 180.

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This week in salsa dancing, we are going back to salsa dance basics and teaching you a salsa dance beginner cuddle wrap combination into a copa (in-and-out) and cross body lead 180. Since this is a intermediate move and we have done other salsa dance lesson videos on the copa and the cross body lead 180. Enjoy!

The song is called “Yambú Para Gozar” by Ismael Miranda

Another salsa dance video lesson to help keep you engaged in salsa dancing at the night club or salsa socials. This is a very simple move comes out of a open break into a ladies’ right turn and then goes into a blind rainbow move. The lead and the follow end up back-to-back, from where you turn and go into a reverse salsa wrap or dance cuddle. Afterwards, Julie will show you some good fashion Ladies’ Styling for salsa dancing.

The song is: “Vamonos De Rumba” by Johnny Rivera (Conjunto Clasico). I’ve linked to the new live concert album which I HIGHLY recommend.

In this addicted2salsa salsa dance video lesson we teach you the a very basic salsa dance hand flick coming out of a “hammerlocked” cross body lead. We also provide a quick salsa leg flick to add some additional men’s styling to the salsa dance move. We consider this an intermediate move, so please be careful at the club trying to pull this off, since doing it without proper timing and technique, it could hurt your partner. Keep dancing!

This video will help provide you with three great ways of improving your dance spinning technique. While most of the advice presented in Julie’s video tends to be ‘known’ by most intermediate dancers, we believe it does not get addressed early on by beginners. The three main items that we will cover are good dance frame and position, the salsa dance prep and spotting.

In this episode of Addicted2Salsa salsa dance video lessons, we will show you how to perform a basic salsa windmill combination into what we call the “hourglass copa”. The Windmill is very similar to other moves you have done that require an cross-body lead with an outside turn, except this is just a variation in styling of that basic move. The hourglass copa is based off of basic copa move (a.k.a in-and-out), except that the lead requires the use of two points of contact on the ladies’ shoulder blades.

At the end, Julie will break down some basic ladies’ styling techniques when performing this move. Finally having a woman’s voice in the video is refreshing!

In this episode of Addicted2Salsa we show you how to perform a basic blind cross-body lead with a loop-over lock salsa move. While the move may look easy at first, it is the timing and the proper leading where some may have difficulties. Also, we will take it and chain it together with going from a cross-body hammer-lock to a reverse loop-over. I consider this a more intermediate dance pattern because you have to be very careful on how you lead this move. These moves done incorrectly can hurt the girl in VERY bad ways. Julie Merrill also adds a few key styling points for the ladies.

We’d like to thank our sponsors for this episode: Gabellini Dance Shoes

In this episode of Addicted2Salsa, we go back to the basics to help you learn how to do a 180° Cross-Body Lead with a Turn (*a few others call this the ‘Coca-Cola’ move). We first start off refreshing you what a Cross-Body Lead with a Turn looks like and from there add-on the extra dance steps required to do a half-revolution. Getting the 180 degree cross body lead will help build the salsa framework for you to execute the 360 cross body lead - which will show you in a future episode. If you have any questions, feel free to post them at http://social.addicted2salsa.com .

The song used in this video is ‘Manias’ by Tito Nieves.

Well, got a chance to take a break from work and went to the Al Liquid Silver Summer Salsa Splash 2007 event in Palm Springs, California. Met lots of great people, especially Allan from Nuevotec Productions who has more videos from the event.

With that said, most of the comments I got were: “I like your YouTube videos“. And I realized that the way I danced in those videos is way to old. So, thanks to Allan, he captured me dancing with the wonderful Jennifer Stein from Majesty In Motion Dance Co. Enjoy!

After taking the rest of the video and editing it, I’m happy to start off a new series (that hopefully will continue). I had watched a DVD called On2005 A Year in Mamboland, and I decided to use it as inspiration on how to show all the nice video clips of social dancing at the 2007 West Coast Salsa Congress in Los Angeles California. I title this series: A Weekend in Salsa. I like the name because that usually when most of us go out for salsa during the week. Additionally, that is when most of the salsa congress events occur. Now, I have no real background in directing/production/editing so I did my best for my first shot. This is mainly for you guys to enjoy the dancing that goes on a salsa congresses during the night events. Again, please enjoy!

This salsa combo is kind of tricky to perform, so practice it various times at home to get the timing down: especially the mechanics of moving around the lady and moving their arm down (so you don’t break it).

So I decided to release this episode a little earlier than normal. One of our members asked about different ways of getting out of hammerlock positions. In this episode of addicted2salsa, I show you a couple of simple ways to get out of hammerlocks and one slick/combo way. Please some of these moves require practice and patience so you do not hurt the ladies arm. Ladies, this is the best way to practice your copa step.

Well, we are here again, bringing you a simple, yet slick salsa combo you can learn and use at the club (or wherever).This combo uses a lot of simple elements (half a turn), with a drop hands, and then a blind cross body lead while switching hands. In addition, we use the concepts of a wrap and a copa to finish off the combo. (You can check some of the moves in an earlier podcast). Enjoy!

Well, this is a funny one I think. The name of this combo was given by our video grapher (Cedric Parlade) because everytime I taught the combo I would make a ‘boop’ sound similar to that one on the radars in submarines. If you would like to do the ‘boop’ sound, it is done on the counts of 1 and 5.

I usually use this combo to give me more time to think what move/combo I will be doing next - so basically I use it to stall. ;-) Good to have it in the salsa dance arsenal of moves.

Well, say this three times fast! “Double-handed, hand holds”. So it might be easy.. but sometimes we get stuck in weird hand positions. Here is another episode of the Addicted2Salsa Podcast! Today we go over a couple of slick ways of getting out of two-handed holds in combos.

You know, sometimes you end up holding both of the follower’s hands (crossed position) and maybe don’t know how to be slick about getting back to normal for the next move? Well, we summarize a couple of ways of doing it, so you can just pick one whenever you end up in that position! They can be used as regular salsa combos, or combo finishers (think of interesting ways of putting them in).