This recording is the first time I’ve seen myself dance since I started taking lessons about 7 months ago. It was fun and exciting to see this and I also spotted things I didn’t like about the way I dance and started making changes to that right away. I also like that I can track my progress as time goes by. I know I will be grateful for that someday!

And I also am making an effort to record the end of my classes so I can review the moves and practice at home.

As for people dancing our combos, I would love it! “Facing the competition” is absolutely not what this is about, the whole point of the website is to share salsa with the community, and I by no means claim to be among the best dancers. Please do share videos! We all have something to learn.

“people who are learning and doing the moves learned in your videos … members of the group can vote on the favorites.” prety funny, I would also like to see the best Anthony&Julie dancing clone. other question is if Julie&Anthony want to face this competition?

I take dance classes in a group setting where there isn’t much opportunity for personal growth through constructive criticism, the harsh truth we need to be able to fully embrace improvements needed to grow in our salsa journey.

I would like to be able to film myself dancing with my partner the moves I am learning from your collection of videos and upload them to you so you can critique me and point out areas of strengths and weaknesses. Then you can suggest tips to improve my moves. This is something that I think people may want to pay for, as everyone who joins your group most likely respects your opinion and would want to hear it….

The other idea I got would be to create a gallery where people who are learning and doing the moves learned in your videos can upload videos of themselves where members of the group can vote on the favorites. And maybe the members can even share comments, tips and pointers based upon what they see in the video (like youtube). It would be a virtual community based on videos and not just a worded dialogue. And if you want to make money on this idea, you can charge the user a small fee to upload their video to the community for review, perhaps.

I think that would be a fun way to foster unity within our salsa community! What do you think?

Although, I would also suggest sending out a survey for upcoming videos. Perhaps you can tally who wants to learn what and go from there..

(B) The main source for all videos is at http://videos.addicted2salsa.com . Currently we don’t allow HD video downloads directly until we find a better mechanism to remove “scrapers” from killing our bandwidth (scrapers are like web robots that show the video on their site while streaming it from our site).

Currently there is ordering on our videos since we only plan what we will shoot ahead of time. It’s not like we have this great organization of what we will shoot for the next two years , who knows, we might be bankrupt by then.

What we will do is organize the videos on videos.addicted2salsa.com to let you know what “we feel” is a beginner, intermediate or advance move – but that is really subjective given the different learning curves for individuals.

Anyways, just wanted to say “I hear you requests, I just haven’t figured out the best option yet given our time and my (very small) budget”.

I emailed you about a similar issue, then found this page, so a bit of a repeat:

(A) I agree 100% with Marco’s comment and jovi’s followup above. Related to this:

(B) I want to download every single video that you have, preferably in HD quality. However, there are discrepancies between the videos on youtube, iTunes, and addicted2salsa. Some sites have different videos or more/less videos.

For example:
youtube playlist: Has 76 videos
youtube videos: Has 42 videos
addicted2salsa: Has 42 videos (I think these 42 videos are different than the youtube ones though)
iTunes: Has 20 videos

As you can see, for example, iTunes only has 20 videos. Can we have it so that at least one location has every video, preferably downloadable and in HD?

Thanks a lot for the videos regardless, thanks,
Seena

The vids are quite progressive now and the phrase “refer to our earlier videos” is mentioned often.

How about a more robust organization of the previous vids. (The youtube stuff especially). Could be just a simple Vid 1-25?

To take it one step further, separate the dance vids from the non dance tutorials.

There is already something like this on the A2S dance vids site but it is a little inconsistent.

Sorry if this one is rough/harsh..I have serious man love for this site, and I was late getting out the door *before* I decided to post.

Maybe more ideas later.

I got this idea from topological maps. High areas of a region are colored white(e.g. top of the mountains) and low regions are dark green. You can see an example in the link below.
http://www.weltkarte.com/europa/spanien/topographie-mallorca.png

So i was thinking it would be nice if there would be a map but instead the hight of the area the color would be based on number of salser@s.
Would be fun to see, how salsa is spread all around the world and where the most salser@s are

more concrete:
1. people can enter their location
2. a simple visualization of the data is presented(don’t need to be as complex as in the example, bars or icons wold be satisfyeable)(google maps api?)
3. integration with Anthony’s point 4 ?