We have a great salsa lesson explaining hand and arm styling for the ladies for their salsa dancing. We are trying something new by doing a ‘zoomed-in’ view of the hands. Hopefully this gives the ladies more salsa movies and techniques to improve their dancing. The next lesson will focus on how to add hand and arm styling to turns.

This salsa dance lesson video will show you a few salsa dance moves that take a few of our salsa “wind themed” moves, like the windmill and cyclone bounce, to make a small quick pattern. For a more elaborate explanation of the Windmill salsa dance move, check out addicted2salsa episode #42. For a more detailed explanation of the Cyclone Bounce move, check out addicted2salsa episode #46. The song used is “Reflexiones” by Tito Rodriguez Jr.

Anthony Persaud and Jocelyn Rosero will teach you another intermediate salsa dancing move that will get you into a left sided hammerlock position. This salsa dance move is called “Pass Behind the Back” lock since you actually travel in similar fashion to performing a “Coca Cola Salsa” move with your partner, but end up on the ladies left slot size. From there, you can perform any of the other salsa dance combinations that you know. The song used in the video is “Guarare”.

This salsa dance video lesson will encourage you to add multiple spins in your salsa dance patterns. A lot of dance follows like spinning, and taking your regular moves and adding double or triple spins in them will make them seem ‘new’ and more complex. This simple pattern will have your follow doing a double spin followed by a third free spin in place.

Here is a short salsa dance pattern to get you gives you something different to do after a double handed in-n-out (copa) salsa dance move. After an in-n-out salsa move, you can keep both hands near the follow’s shoulder, and flick the hand into a hammerlock. From there, you can proceed with a simple reverse cross body lead. We called it “Patternito” as a play on the phrase of ‘Short Pattern’ because I ran out of creativity. Enjoy!

And now something for the ladies! This salsa dance video will provide the ladies a few styling tricks when social dancing with a good lead. Jocelyn will show the ladies how to take advantage of specific dance cues from your lead in order to perform clean salsa styling. Using this in your social dancing will help you enjoy playing with the instruments in a song much more enjoyable. As a note to leads, you do not have to fill in an entire song of back-to-back patterns. Always remember to leave some room for the ladies to style and enjoy the salsa song.

In this salsa dance lesson video, we teach you how to dance the famous DPS lock combo but on the New York / Puerto Rican “On2” timing. In addition, Jocelyn explains some of the dance styling that the ladies’ can perform even when they have both arms behind their back.

In honor of our 5 year anniversary since we started http://addicted2salsa.com on August 30th, 2005, we decided to teach you the short stride salsa combination move that has become very popular on YouTube. However, given that we have new fans that don’t dance On1, we are teaching it on the On2 (New York / Puerto Rican) timing. I’d like to also introduce our special guest addicted2salsa co-host, Jocelyn Rosero. See if you can spot her “wink” at the beginning of the video!

This salsa dance move is composed of doing a simple hand juggle (which looks like you are doing uppercuts when boxing) in front of the follow, then quickly leading a ladies’ left turn into a basic reverse slingshot. Take your time with the move at first so you don’t injure your partner! Enjoy!

This is a short reference video on how to perform the cross body lead 180 that we had shot previously. The video will take you through the steps on how to do the cross body lead 180 in salsa dancing for on1 counts. This salsa dance video is from Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa

I realized that most salsa dancers are not doing enough footwork when social dancing! This quick video lesson will teach you the basic salsa slide footwork which is most commonly used by Puerto Rican band members as they sing at a live concert. (You can use it social dancing as well!).

This salsa dance video lesson will teach you how to dance the salsa cross body lead with turn. Using the “Cross Body Lead in Salsa Dancing” video, this will help you add a salsa left turn for the ladies in combination with a cross body lead. This reference video is from our salsa iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa.

This short salsa dance video will teach you how to do the basic salsa dip. Normally salsa dips are done in the end and are usually NOT recommended for crowded salsa dance night clubs. We kept the salsa dance lesson short since there are several salsa videos out there with the same content. This mini lesson is from our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

This salsa dance video will teach you how to do the basic right turn and get you started salsa dancing quickly. We had a very old salsa dancing video lesson explaining this, and thought it was time to modernize the salsa dance video quality. We kept the dance lesson short since there are several salsa videos out there with the same content. This mini lesson is from our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

This salsa dance video will teach you how to do the basic cross body lead dance move to salsa dancing. We had a very old salsa dancing video lesson explaining this, and thought it was time to modernize the salsa dance video quality. We kept the dance lesson short since there are several salsa videos out there with the same content. This mini lesson is from our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

The official salsa dancing application for addicted2salsa and learning salsa dancing on the go! This video walks through the salsa dancing application named Pocket Salsa for iPhone and iPod Touch. We will be adding more videos and rhythms in future updates to the application! Enjoy!
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This salsa dance video lesson teaches the basic steps to salsa dancing. We have done this salsa dance lesson video before, but we though it was time for a modern update. We had a very old salsa dancing video lesson explaining this, and thought it was time to modernize the salsa dance video quality. We kept the dance lesson short since there are several salsa videos out there with the same content. This mini lesson is from our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

This short salsa dance lesson will teach you how to do a simple Butterfly spin move in salsa dancing. This move can be chained together with other spin or stop moves, like the Cyclone Bounce. This also contains a promo video for our new iPhone and iPod Touch app called Pocket Salsa! You can find more information about Pocket Salsa on our website: http://addicted2salsa.com/pocketsalsa .

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!

This salsa dance lesson video we teach you what is called the Salsa Swing step or the Lazy Turn. It is a small variation of the Lindy-Hop or Swing dance basic step adapted to salsa dancing. It is a great move to use when, as a leader, you are still thinking which set of dance patterns to perform next.