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How to Get Really Good in Salsa |
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Taking Salsa Classes: When, where, how?
 Whether you’re wanting to improve your social dancing or perform at an
International Salsa Congress, you must take a combination of group
classes and private lessons in order to learn better technique, new
moves, styling, spinning technique, and a myriad of tips that only
through instruction can one ever learn. Find a local class you enjoy
and stick with it until you feel ready to move on to the next level.
You may have to try a few until you find the right one for you. But it
is imperative that you are in a class at your level, be it absolute
beginner or intermediate/advanced. Resist the temptation to jump to a
more advanced class before your body and your mind are ready for such
high-speed roads. As an instructor, I’m often surprised - although
after all these years it has become commonplace - to see a beginner
dancer try to get into a much more advanced Salsa class, only to drop
out in the middle of the month because he/she could not keep up with
the material. Do yourself and your ego a favor and try out the class
first. Ask the instructor if you can sit and watch one class - most
instructors will say yes - and then decide if it’s for you. Learning
how to dance, at any level, is like learning how to speak a new
language: it takes patience, lots of practice, great instructors,
someone to practice with, and then more patience.
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