Comments on: The results of the “Spin-Olympics” at the DC Salsa Congress http://addicted2salsa.com/dance/the-results-of-the-spin-olympics-at-the-2008-dc-salsa-congress/ Salsa dancing videos and lessons to get you salsa dancing for free. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Walter http://addicted2salsa.com/dance/the-results-of-the-spin-olympics-at-the-2008-dc-salsa-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Walter Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:02:37 +0000 http://addicted2salsa.com/?p=679#comment-1092 My money is on Emily for the gold. Luis was going of balance a lot more than she was. That said... they are spinning on carpet ! ! ! Guess I still have a couple of years of practice ahead of me. Tom, I'm relatively new to salsa but I do it the same way as I learned martial arts. 1 move, so 1 eight count, at a time. And then... repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. I must be getting old though. I remember learning a lot quicker when I was doing martial arts. My money is on Emily for the gold.

Luis was going of balance a lot more than she was.

That said… they are spinning on carpet ! ! !

Guess I still have a couple of years of practice ahead of me.

Tom,
I’m relatively new to salsa but I do it the same way as I learned martial arts. 1 move, so 1 eight count, at a time. And then… repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.

I must be getting old though. I remember learning a lot quicker when I was doing martial arts.

]]> By: Tom http://addicted2salsa.com/dance/the-results-of-the-spin-olympics-at-the-2008-dc-salsa-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Tom Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:40:18 +0000 http://addicted2salsa.com/?p=679#comment-1091 Do any salsa dancers do something akin to what i've seen trampoline folk do - which is a 'mimic off' - It's like the drinking game where you change numbers to an action or a word - In this case the 1st trampoliner would do one move, then finish. The 2nd would do the 1st persons move, then add their own. Slowly you basically build up a pattern of moves, getting longer and longer. Has that been tried in salsa - competitively or just informally mucking around, for fun but also to build up the memory needed to learn turn patterns. You each throw in one move after the other. In the trampolining - you could see that whilst some were better at an individual move, the competition levelled the field - you could gostraight into another move (with a mambo in there say for every time you've gone round). Kind of a way of overwhelming the learning process, to see if you can speed up the rate at which you can get a process down. Do people use mnemonics, or songs or whisper under their breath whats coming up whilst visuallising the next move, if they're learning a turn patter? or try and chunk it into 2 or more bar sized move pieces? Do any salsa dancers do something akin to what i’ve seen trampoline folk do – which is a ‘mimic off’ – It’s like the drinking game where you change numbers to an action or a word – In this case the 1st trampoliner would do one move, then finish. The 2nd would do the 1st persons move, then add their own. Slowly you basically build up a pattern of moves, getting longer and longer.
Has that been tried in salsa – competitively or just informally mucking around, for fun but also to build up the memory needed to learn turn patterns. You each throw in one move after the other. In the trampolining – you could see that whilst some were better at an individual move, the competition levelled the field – you could gostraight into another move (with a mambo in there say for every time you’ve gone round). Kind of a way of overwhelming the learning process, to see if you can speed up the rate at which you can get a process down.

Do people use mnemonics, or songs or whisper under their breath whats coming up whilst visuallising the next move, if they’re learning a turn patter? or try and chunk it into 2 or more bar sized move pieces?

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