Salsa Dancing Lesson #62! In this salsa dance lesson we show you a sneaky hammerlock hand trick that you can use at the salsa dance club to keep your dance moves fresh! It is performed by doing a reverse copa hammerlock, into a quick hand flip. The song used in this lesson is “El Cazanguero” by Ruben Blades. Enjoy the salsa dancing lesson!

In this salsa dance lesson video, Anthony Persaud and Julie Merrill (addicted2salsa) teach you the reverse “around the world” salsa dancing move combination. This move was taught by one of our favorite salsa dancers from Australia, Oliver Pineda, at the West Coast Salsa Dance Congress 2008. Oliver, and his partner Luda, have been salsa dance champions at the World Salsa Dance Championships several years in a row in the On2 division. If you ever get an opportunity to take one of their Latin dance workshops, we highly recommend it. Check out their site at http://www.latinmotion.com.au/

This salsa dancing video teaches you how to perform a simple Latin knot combination. Knot combinations are not hard, they just need to be executed with precision in order to not get tangled up in each others arms, unless that was your master plan all along!

We’d like to thank a new sponsor to our show, Burju Dance Shoes. Victor and Burju are the famous dancers from the company “Hacha y Machete”. Be sure to check out her shoe collection, it is what Julie wears social dancing.

This advanced salsa dance video lesson will teach you how to perform short but intricate pattern that we call the cross body lead flick lock combo. It is based on the original DPS lock combo from one of our “old school” salsa dance episodes, but made more advanced by creating a DPS lock with a hand flick after a cross body lead. Please be careful with this move as it is advanced and requires good timing to not hurt your dance partner.

The song: “Tu Con El” by Frankie Ruiz. I also highly recommend “La Cura” - one of my all time favorites.

You have been asking for some hand flicks, so hopefully you’ll enjoy this video! In this salsa dance video lesson, we’ll demonstrate a quick hand pattern that involves advanced salsa dancing hand flicks. Since we consider this an advanced salsa dance move, we’ll go over it a bit faster than our previous videos. The song name is “Tu Con Él” by Frankie Ruiz, and yes, that is sweat on my shirt (it was a very hot day in San Diego!).

For those who are ready to add something extra to their cross body leads in salsa dancing, this video will provide three ladies’ styling techniques to bring your salsa dancing to the next level. Julie demonstrates three cross body lead variations for ladies: “the hop,” “crosses,” and “the booty roll.” Now that the men have their styling video, we have to spice up our dancing as well!

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.

In this episode of Addicted2Salsa Dance Lesson show, we travel a bit to the East Coast in order to show you a very common and popular move to do at the salsa dance nightclub. The first move, which I call the “Cyclone Bounce” for no apparent reason, can be seen in many salsa dance congress on the East Coast. The second dance move is really taking most of the concepts from the The Windmill Combo salsa dance episode and putting a different spin on it.

Well, after getting great feedback from all of you, here it is - a more complicated salsa pattern. It is a very long pattern, so take it in strides and small bites. We have named the individual moves to help you piece the entire salsa combination together. Now, because it is Valentine’s Day (soon) - you can have something to practice with that special someone :-) .Enjoy and if you have questions, please ask it at our forums http://www.addicted2salsa.com/forums/ !

The song used in the episode is “Philadelphia Mambo” by Los Gatos (originally by Tito Puente)