The often-requested men’s styling for salsa dancing has arrived! Once you have a solid basis for your cross body leads, the next step is to be able to do variations of it. In this salsa video, we teach ways to spice up your salsa by adding style to your cross body leads. Anthony will teach you how to do a monkey move and a hook step into a cross body lead, and at the end how to add a shimmy. For the ladies, see the sister video with ladies’ styling, taught by Julie.
Credit of the “Monkey Move” goes to David Stein from Majesty In Motion.
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Why are you performing On 2 in contrast to the other Videos ?
Greetings from Germany, Andreas
We have been doing On1 videos for a while since they have been considered in the beginner / intermediate category. For advanced dancers, we assume that you are proficient in converting between on1 and on2 timing (or vice versa) and therefore prefer to perform the move on2. Doing it on one type of timing reduces video length while allowing us to pack more information.
Awesome video! I saw the title and said in the back of mind, “Yes! Finally, something for us!” I also loved the monkey move and I plan to use it. And although I was able to follow the video just fine I’ll have to agree with Andreas in that it was weird to see it only On 2. But if this is how the advanced videos go that’s fine with me. Julie – Looking great as always. And one more thing…what happened to the facebook comments that you did with the cha-cha videos? I really like posting comments that way. Thanks and keep it up!
Greetings from Abilene, Tx!
We consider that at the “advanced” level, dancers should be able to switch any pattern from on1 to on2 or vice versa. This way we can reduce our shooting and editing time and pack in more information.
Cool video, I dont how to dance really but this video shows some steps..