This chart is very encouraging to me, a salsa novice. It wasn’t until I started taking lessons with my wife that I realized how awful I was as a leader. I have gone from being unconsciously incompetent (really bad and I don’t know how really bad) to consciously incompetent (still real bad, but now know how bad, and am willing to do something about it). The chart helps me see that I just need to be patient, deal with rejection, work really hard and give my skills a chance to grow. So there’s hope for the Gringo.

Thank you for this site. Every Dante needs a Virgil to guide him out of Salsa Hell. The videos have really helped me (and my wife).

Let me know your thoughts!

How can you compare two different things, namely leading and following? It doesn’t make sense to say – certainly at the end – that leaders eventually become much better dancers than followers. They simply have a different role. In any case, irrespective of that, if one checks out youtube and sees the complete body control of the good female dancers, one knows enough.

Anyway, there should be something different on the Y-axis.

My suggestion to men and woman (especially) is be patient with lesser dancers we were all rubbish at some stage.

I’ve just begun to delve into leading slot-style, as well, at my dance team practices. The mind-bending is palpable but it’s fun, and once again, the change in perspective is great for getting insight into even the things I thought I was comfortable with/good at before.