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Your most helpful tip for me was to learn that I don't have to bring my foot back to neutral position or home position. It definitely looks better, not so robotic. Thanks a lot!

I have been salsa dancing for 10 years and teach beginner classes from time to time. Being knock-kneed and pigeon toed, I've always struggled with my balance. I have worked on turning my feet out and it really helps a lot. No teacher has ever specifically mentioned that so I really appreciate this.

YOU have a gift, I now understand the " why" to the basics and made so much sense...thank you.

To me acknowledging that there is no 'right' and 'wrong' was important to see that everything needs to be put into context with purpose. Each of my teachers has a slightly individual style and Iearning from different teachers, I get sometimes confused why they do steps a bit differently - like passing through the middle for instance. I realise that dancing gives you a lot more leeway in positioning your feet compared to a karate kata. Arguing the pro's and con's of different styles helps me to form an opinion and gain a little confidence. Thanks.

No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 are the most useful points for me because nobody had ever explained to me about them so specifically. Many thanks Robin, you are the best !!!

Thank you for sharing these tips. All of them are useful for me. At age 65, I challenged myself to learn salsa for the first time in my life. After three years, I am enjoying the process. I have followed several of your very well done videos. They have been of great help.

Thank you. It was ALL great advice. Probably, most helpful for me was the posture advice and the ‘passing’ of feet. I’ve watched a number of videos on basic Salsa and yours has been the most helpful. Thanks again. Greetings from Australia.

Aha!! #1 and #6. Amazing how we never stop learning the nuance of salsa. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise.

Dance on two lines. That's one I haven't heard before. Thanks for the videos. Really great work you're doing to help us get better, new and experienced alike.

I've just started dancing, and Salsa has always been my dream. This video was superb! Especially the "chill with body movements" 😂 I felt so called out. Thank you! Such a wholesome content.

Your teachings are a bliss 🙏 your last tip is what I must work on the most 👍

Just went to my first lesson yesterday in a helluva long time, so I was searching for videos on breaking down the fundamentals. Great tips I can use right away. Especially liked the feet out for turns and hip movement, pass through the middle, and importance of the "why" behind not only these tips but life in general.

Bro,you’re doing a great job. Thank you 🙏🏼

This is a good explanation! Thank you for your video!

Easy to understand with good tips. Great video class for beginners.

Definitely the basic step saying for to be more smooth like a walk opposed to coming to the center really great tip!

I'm trying to learn salsa. Saw quite a few videos. This shows everything nobody else was teaching and I needed help with. Excellent teacher and content. I use the same philosophy when teaching martial arts. Thank you so much brother! I am saving this and will be referring others to this channel.

The first tip on its own is huge, great video thank you.

I just started learning offline in India and thought of checking if my instructor taught me well, so I got to know few good points especially with reason. Thank you! You just got a new subscriber.

all of your tipps are great.....love it. Thanks so much

Such a great video! ❤ Clear and to the point ❤❤❤

Oh my gosh! I love you. This has been do helpful!

Great learning video, easy to follow with great tips.

Great round up of the important basic stuff

Great breakdown all excellent points thanks

Great, my friend! Thanks!

Thank you so much. Blessings ❤

Thank YOU 🙏 Answers so many questions !!

Excellent presentation. Makes sense! Thank you!

Thank you for these tips !

All important and great tips, spot on!

I think the most radical tip for me, is the one regarding dancing on two lines instead of one... makes so much sense...

nice video great information for beginner dancers thanks a lot

Robin !! My men Thanks for the video 💪🏼👍🏼

Thanks so much! This video really helped 😁

Hello Mr. Dance Dojo. Details on your video are highly appreciated. Thank You for sharing it with all of US!

Great 👍🏾 tips 🕺🏽

Thank you for the valuable, helpful TIPS. Clear instructions.

I’m extra new. All the tips were very helpful. Thanks!!!

Wonderful, thank you very much !

You are a great teacher, thanks for all the videos. If I had to choose, I'd go with #5 - chill out :)

Wonderful tips!

Absolutely wonderful

Ive been doing the find one series with spectacular results as a musician, no one had ever told me what to listen to before, and still trying the dance move part at the end so I liked the quick quick slow rhythm, because it was slowed down and of course there was a wonderfull explanation

Very very helpful! Thank you

As someone who is just starting out, all 6 tips were the best advice for me. Thank you so much.

Really good tips Thank you

Excellent and very helpful tips

I totally agree with your "why" word.

The top we found most helpful was the leads shoulders movement and well as the feet pointed slightly out! The H moment was the way you stacked your wordsMeaning the arm is a connection to your partner we knew that but sometimes when you hear things differently you have that aha moment that confirms What you were thinking thanks a lot thanks a lot. We have been searching for KZfaq tutorials that actually explain the why why not or what’s better and break it everything down and yours I think is the winner keep up the good work thanks🙂

All the tips are so helpful, especially turning your feet out and dancing on two lines. Dancing on one line looks so hard!!

First tip. Thank you👍👍👍

Oi @ Robin Campbell. Solid tips amigo! I really liked the ‘turn out your feet’ and ‘pass through the middle’ tips. I’ve been dancing for a long time and i never even thought about those 2 very helpful tips! Thank you sir and keep this channel rocking man. Best salsa dancing channel hands down. 👍💪🙌

Great explanation... I believe staying on the toes and feet out stance

Thankyou!!

Very good tips. I'm a beginner, and It's been interesting to experience different instructors' teaching methods. So many expect true beginners to learn intermediate moves.

Thank you this is a huge deep into the details. Yes only way to build a strong foundation !

Wow it's really helpful Ur advice

Thinking dance, love it

Excelentes consejos!! Todos fueron súper útiles y me ayudarán a coordinarme mejor con mi pareja de baile. Muchas gracias Robin

Great video

I’m from GDL Mexico thank you your video it’s been very helpful, I’m practicing !!! 👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏽

So happy I found that channel

Love it

how to go smother through the steps forward and back was helpful, andl liked that and the others too!

Excellent

I learned a salsa at the line dancing class at our 55+ apartments. The teacher is good with this group, partly by letting us just have fun while moving. From you I especially liked learning to step through the middle. I was sorry to hear you say to quit swinging those hips so much. I really like that. But I will try to slow that down. You said that part comes later. I wish I could see what that looks like when done correctly.

The posture tip is so important! It is very difficult to follow a leader who hunches. especially in bachata, they tend to bend me in uncomfortable positions that would otherwise be fine if they just had the right posture themselves. In Salsa it's not as uncomfortable for me but the signals are still much weaker with a hunched posture.

Posture and formation has been the best tips 💡🕺🏽

Ah ha! I was swiveling my hips too much! Thanks!!

thanks you all was beneficial to me you are awesome

Thank you for this video! Could you do a video in the near future on shoulder movement in relation to weight change in the basic? I haven’t been able to find much on this and I’m trying to not be discombobulated looking doing my basic but also not keep my upper body disengaged 😅

Thank you I already knew how to salsa I just needed brushing up because I haven't in a while and my gf is going to a wedding and everyone has to salsa 😅 so here I am

Hey Robin! Joeline here and yes I am still around. :-) Body posture is getting my main attention right now. About a year a ago, I noticed my body posture was not good. Just a few months a go I realized I should tackle it, because of the benefits. I turned to my local gym and explained my issue. They gave me excercises and now I actively train my upper back in order to improve body posture. I see many people with the same problem without knowing it. The benefits are numourous. First, my primary reason I do it is that a straight back creates stability, both in body movement and yes, TURNS! In normal life it means you will have less back issues. Secondary, it makes you look good and more confident. As for looking more attractive and get asked for a dance, never thought of that one since I am the one who usually asks the lady for a dance. ;-) All in all, my aim are the primary reasons.

Love this 💖 3 aha moments! 1.I need to chill with my body movements 😂 2.Not stopping in the middle with my feet, and 3. Spreading my feet out! //beginner with a capital B 😁👍

Great tip on posture

Why? As soon as I heard that I know it was going to be a good video. You nailed it. It is probably the child in me but I always want to know why something is like that. If an 'expert' (often so called) can not explain it it is clear (s)he has no clue what (s)he is talking about. Even without doing all the counting and just explaining the pitfalls I finally get the basic step. Believe me I have watched over 4 hours of basic videos so far and was none the wiser. None of them looked or felt right. Great video. Excellent, Thank you.

as a woman,I am so happy you mentioned the 5th one! Do you have a video about the different salsa styles? As i travel in different parts of the world I often get a bit confused as I see in some places dancers either start on a different tempo or with a different foot/different direction. I would love to level up and be prepared for all of them.

gracias mucho señor

my boyfriend is colombian and a great dancer and im the most horrible dancer ever 😂 i always wanted to learn to dance but i was told that i couldnt and i really now want to be able to dance with him. so this video was great. the posture of the feet and how to step fastly, the overstep and knowledging that wveryone has their own style of dancing, all great and helpfull tips ! 😍

This dude is good

Thanks for this video, there some really good tips. Can you suggest any good exercises or tips to improve/correct posture?

Pass through the middle 🙌

I like your approach and this is just a FYI note. I’ve been teaching dancing for over 50 years. In the beginning like everyone else in Arthur Murray’s, I was a pattern teacher, because that was the norm. About 20 years ago I realized there are actually only 6 Major Movements and 4 Elements that make up the construct and influence 95% of the dance patterns that one would do in the two categories of Smooth and Rhythm dances used in nightclub social dancing. The movements being Walks, Chasses, Hip Roll, Breaks, Syncopated Chasses and Rocks. The Elements being Frame, Momentum Control, Turning, and Musical Style. This 6/4 Combo has some interesting influences on one’s speed in relationship to how fast someone learns to dance. Here are some fundamental consistencies. The primary difference between Smooth and Rhythm dances besides Frame and movement around the floor is almost all Rhythm dances have Hip Roll and Smooth dances don’t. Turning in almost all of the Rhythm dances are the same, but different from Smooth dances which are also the same within the category. Momentum Control is probably the most influential Element in either dance category, but follows a very simple rule. Every movement has a beginning and an end. Momentum lives between those two points. What I’ve just stated is a concept to be accepted or rejected. Nothing is black or white. When I teach Breaks, for me it’s a leverage movement using gravity rather than force to execute the change of direction. For example by placing the foot in front on a forward Break without momentum or weight, then rolling my hips, then placing the foot behind me then rolling my hips, I’m letting gravity do all the work of changing direction. This only works if I’ve stopped my momentum from the prior walking Movement, hence all movements have a beginning and end. In most cases the pattern method of teaching was a very successful business model created by Arthur Murray 100 years ago. Unfortunately it has a tendency to make people just Salsa, Swing, Waltz, Tango, West Coast Swing, Bachata dancers, instead of just dancers. A Break is the same in every rhythm dance. Learn it properly for one, it should the same for all. Making dancing more simple would be nice.

I am guilty with exciting hip shaking. Thank you so much

Hi ! Thank you so much for the video. I Have a question. Why always we star ti dance whit left foot.

My dogg was a better Salsa dancer than I. The only tool he used were squirrels in a tree. Me? The Entertainment Staff in MX Resorts eventually gave up on me. Merengue too! Lol. Hopefully this video will break "body-memory" embedded from decades of ballet and Jazz training.

This is a great video for students AND teachers! As a new teacher, would you teach these tips before you teach the basic steps?

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Tip 4 is a style issue. For Cuban style, you have to close on 3 and 7 as bringing the feet together allows one to accentuate hip movement. Feet sliding by is better suited to cross body style.

Everything is great 👍...but while explaining due writing bag comes its covers ur feet movements...which can't be seen...so for bigginers it's tough to see ur feet movements

Great tips but I'm curious how my dance instructor will feel about these changes.

Pass through on basic.

What are the shoes that he's wearing?

Do you have a studio in NJ?

When i watch any video or attend any Latin nightclub/ dancehall. They're doing salsa... but it looks nothing like salsa basics. And im sure is mostly because of the speed, but still it frightens me 😅

Pass through…

You forgot the sunk knees basic that some beginners do, lurching forward and backwards 😀

Hi, How do I get rid of the words, please, because I can't see your feet?