Most certainly not true. Even if you start on 1, if you know the conga, cowbell, clave, or bass dancing on 2 should take little time to transfer. Muscle memory under duress is another thing, but in general if you understand any of the important instruments, or if you can count, you shouldn't have much trouble at all. Also, mambo and dchachachá (in that order) came out of DANZON from Matanzas, born from the Habanera. It was danced on the second beat _and comes from 15th century Contradanse from England and France). Son did not have clave at first and adopted the Yambú clave from Matanzas and Havana. The Mambo steps however were iriginally danced on the 1 and have little resemblance to son and later what NYC dancers called Mambo.

My observations show that your are right to some extent: original On2 dancers have less difficulties with learning On1 than vice versa. One of the reasons could be that On2 forces you to be more concious of the music. BUT there's no problem to be originally On1 dancer and later to learn On2 if one has enough motivation. I became so obsessed with On2 after the first class (I had two years of On1 dancing at that moment), that it seemed really easy for me - not because it was actually easy, but because I liked it so much. Many of On1 dancers in my city are just too lazy and afraid of difficulties to learn another style of the same dance, unfortunately. They lose a lot of fun )

True. I started and learned on2. Within a fee seconds I could switch to on1 and already do turns while the women dancing on1 could not do that and were very confused

Thank you Emilia! 😊

Your question shows that Maria makes a mistake asking you to count. You better go to a live performance and copy what the musicians are doing with their feet

Thank you for your comment. Yes we are going to add more videos about timing and musicality. Please subscribe or visit our page SalsaClassesOnline.com 😊 We had a great weekend where we were talking about musicality. We are agree that this is something super important

Katie Da Silva that’s so great to hear!!

Thank you Caroline! 😊 Please let us know if you are interested, you can visit our NEW website, SalsaClassesOnline.com We have more videos and you can join our email for more videos like this! 😊

Thank you

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching. Good to hear that this video helped you! If you want to learn the fundamentals of on2 and make the transition from on1 to on2, we highly recommend our Salsa Bootcamp Online. You can find it here SalsaClassesOnline.com/courses 😊 Joel

ProAntismus makes sense. I done salsa la for nearly 2 years. Started doing cuban circular.

This answer is correct.:) Some might say #4 is Puerto Rican On2, no?

Some might say that. However, elite mambo dancers (whether they understood or not) were dancing on2 (leaders left foot breaking forward as the first step, 234-678) since the 1940s and all throughout the Palladium era. Puertorican, Jewish, African American, Italian...regardless of their nationality, if they danced, they were dancing Mambo. There is no reason to label it as "puertorican" just because one does not know the history or because they decide to dance it backwards.

What do you mean?

Of you refer to what we learn at home with family, we just called home style 😊 At leat in our case.

gokblok from experience, old salsa songs specially from the 60's (when they were still called guaguanco) and the 70's are great to dance on2 and on1. Modern salsa, specially the romantic/slow one, where there's not much emphasis on the percussion section I find it easier to dance on1. Also s I've seen for beginners is way better that style of salsa to learn on1 than to learn on2. Fast salsa songs for many people are easier to dance on1 than on2.

"Feel" is totally subjective, but in general, music based off of a 3-2 clave feels "right" when danced with an On1 timing. Music based off the 2-3 clave feels AMAZING when dance to Mambo timing (234-678 On2). In order to express themselves, latin music composers (like Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, etc) would also change claves (sometimes multiple times) within the same song...so either you learn to switch timings, or you can dance Salsa On2 (which is basically a hybrid of both). Tip: Whether there is a actual clave being played or not, you can tell which clave the composition is based on by listening to the bass (upright or guitar). Generally, If it accents the 1 beat, it's 3-2. If it accents the 4 beat, it's 2-3

lol! that is true. everyone should continue to learn about dance and music including djs and instructors. there is so much more out there than commercial music. come to NY!! :)

Hello Ann, do you live in NY? We will have our musicality workshop in November. Also we have an online school - MySalsaOnline.com that has a musicality section as well as turn patterns, footwork, tips, technique. We also do LIVE webinars where you can ask questions! Please check our community out - MySalsaOnline.com

If you're a follower, don't count. Feel where he is leading you. He leads you fwd, step fwd. He leads you back, step back.

In a few words the break step is the one you step either forward or back. As you notice when we do the basic are some steps that are in the middle but 2 of those steps are left forward and right back. Those 2 steps can hit on the first beat and you will be dancing on1 or hit on the second bit of the music and you will be dancing on2. Let me know if that make sense. For more videos like this please visit our website SalsaClassesOnline.com 😊

Eddie Torres style is called "New York Style" because 1)The home of the Mambo, which Eddie Torres brand is based off of, is NY 2)Eddie is from NY and his career as an instructor and performer was based in NY 3)All of the students he taught (and eventually became instructors) originally learned from him in NY The original name (as it was branded by Eddie Torres in his instructional videos) was "Salsa Night Club Style". In the late 90s, the only place you ever saw "Salsa Night Club Style" was NY. Now, with the help of his students-turned-instructors and the proliferation of Salsa Congresses, it's EVERYWHERE. Thus, to call it "NY style" is slowly becoming non-sensical. A more accurate naming convention would be "Salsa On2" Eddie started out dancing Mambo in the night clubs, and still can dance true Mambo timing at a high level, it's just not his brand. However, Salsa Night Club style is NOT Mambo. "Salsa" (during the mid 70s-90s) was predominantly danced with breaks On1. Eddie added mambo styling ( i.e. "night club style") to salsa by keeping the 123-567 COUNT (which is the SAME as "Salsa" On1), but moved the break step from 1 to 2 (taken from Mambo). Then (for reasons I have yet to discover) reversed the ladies and mens directions. However, all of the styling and technique is inspired by Mambo by his own admission. Hope that helps ;-)

@mavargas solo que a veces empiezan con el izq atras y otras con el derecho adelante y eso me confunde, me refiero alm hombre

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I agree, but many people need to know about theory...