You have learned the basic figures of salsa in PART 1 , it's time to do a little more, to complete the path and become a basic level salsa dancer.
As soon as you feel sure about the figures learned in this second module, you just have to move on to the third and last module in which to learn: Salsa Intermediate Level. (this is the english version)
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In the next parts of the course we will use the basic figures and steps already learned, combining them with different sequences and different configurations of the hands, introducing the various types of grip.
Basically we will see how to expand our repertoire by applying what we have already learned .. and in the meantime we will consolidate the steps of the basic figures learned so that they become familiar to us.
In this part we will see everything that is possible to do with the basic grips in double crossed grip.
The rule is very simple.. Which hand is above? Well, that's the direction you can turn (man or woman).
Example:
- Right crossed grip above: a man or a woman vuelta can be executed.
- Left crossed grip above: an enchufla or a left vuelta can be done (we still have to see this).
Starting from the right crossed hold above, a vuelta (a turn to the right) can be performed, by both the man and the woman.
In this case we will see that of the woman. There are no special precautions for this figure. Look for men to give the same commands as in the vuelta, at the same times, don't anticipate the lap.
Starting from open position.
- Vuelta man with exchange of hands behind the back
- Cross in right grip with right
- Vuelta woman right with right
- Female charge and cross grip left with left
- I maintain the grip of the hand in charge and before the cross ends I bring it back in front of my face of the woman
- Lady's Vuelta in cross grip
- At the end of the lady's Vuelta the man throws the right hand of the woman; the woman favors this launch by making an embellishment
- Load man left and cross
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
Let's anticipate the Media vuelta (man's half turn to the right) in this small variation of the sequence just done.
We will practically combine the first two figures:
Start from open position.
- Average man vuelta with exchange of hands behind the back and cross
- Woman vuelta right with dx
- Woman charge and cross grabbed left with left
- I maintain the grip of the hand in charge and before the cross ends I bring it in front of the woman's face
- Vuelta woman in crossed grip
- At the end of the lady's Vuelta the man throws the right hand of the woman; the woman favors this launch by making an embellishment
- Load man left and cross
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial of this variant:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation in italian (so just watch the moves)
Let's try to resume other previously studied figures:
- Enchufla or Peek a boo (optional)
- Woman vuelta with exchanging hands on 3
- Cross right with right
- Woman vuelta right with right, where on 3 the man also takes the hand left. This is how the two-handed cross grip vuelta comes out
- I hold both hands and execute a cross with a man's charge
- Still continuing to hold the right hand I make a right cross with the right where on 7 I exchange hands to return to the initial grip ( left socket, standard)
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
We take the opportunity to review the Dile que sì and the launched Vuelta.
Start in open position.
- Woman Vuelta thrown
- Dile que no
- Dile que sì
- Dile que no with hand change (right-right)
- Catching the left hand: Two-handed Woman Vuelta
- At the end of the Woman Vuelta we throw the right hand and with one load left on the man let's do a dile que no
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
In a left cross grip above, the enchufla can be performed.
Remember that the left hand will usually lead.
It can be finished in various ways:
- releasing the right hand and doing a man's cut with the left
- holding both hands, thus arriving in a right cross grip above
- with a double man's cut
- with a sombrerino (we'll see it later)
Video tutorial Enchufla in cross grip (in italian, so just watch the moves).
The peek a boo can also be performed from the left cross grip above.
Here too, as in the enchufla, the guiding hand will always be the left. Therefore, in the tension that the man gives to the woman between time 3 and time 5, only one hand, the left, or both, at the discretion of the rider, can be involved.
Peekaboo video tutorial in cross grip (in italian, so just watch the moves).
In this exercise we will start with a cross grip and repeat these figures in random order:
- Lady's Vuelta
- Enchufla
- Peek a boo
- Cross body
Never let go of your hands; you will notice that with vuelte and enchufle you will continuously exchange the position of the two hands which, however, will always remain crossed.
Often do cross bodies between one figure and another.
Video tutorial for this exercise:
- Explanation of the exercise (in italian, so just watch the moves)
- Just the demonstration over music
There are several ways to change the hand to cross grip (i.e. switch from grip with left hand on top to grip with right hand on top), we have already seen some of them, let's see them:
We did this as a preparatory exercise in a previous lesson.
A woman's charge is executed on tempo 1 with the hand above, catching it on tempo 3 under the other hand.
Obviously while performing a basic mambo.
We have already verified that with turns to the right or to the left the cross grip is exchanged.
Recall that enchufla and peek a boo are equivalent to a left turn.
And remember the rule of the hand above: in the cross grip the hand above tells us where we can turn (whether male or female), right hand I turn right, left hand I turn left.
A conjurer's grip.. Men, drop the hand of the lady above onto your arm and then bring it back underneath. Magically you will have swapped the grip.
Obviously the lady does not expect it, for this reason her hand left on her arm will tend to fall down (obviously, however, you will also have to give it some downward force when you drop it).
Video demonstration of grip snapping.
For now we don't even know what the Sombrero is.. we will see this mode of exchange grip in the next topic.
OPTIONAL: Sequence not included in the program because a bit redundant, but do it yourself if you want.
Start in closed position.
- Dile que sì
- Dile que no with exchange of hands on 7
- Woman flips also taking the left hand on 3
- Cross body
- Woman swings left and hands exchange in crossed grip
- Woman swings right and cross body with the left
- Swings man left and dile que no
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
Start in open position, left cross grip above.
- Enchufla with breaking catch at 7 (then exchange)
- Peek a boo
- Cross body with breaking catch at the beginning
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
OPTIONAL: Sequence not included in the program because a bit redundant, but do it yourself if you want.
Start in closed position.
- Dile que no
- Vuelta dama with exchange of hands at the end
- Cross body dx with dx
- Vuelta dama where on 3 I also take the left (crossed grip)
- Enchufla with breaking grip on 7 (therefore exchange)
- Peek a boo
- Caricia lady dx and cross with left
- Charge man left and closed cross
Repeat in loop.
Video tutorial for this sequence:
- Demonstration over music
- Explanation italian (so just watch the moves)
The sombrero is nothing more than a double kick from a cross grip.
It is a very comfortable way to loosen the cross grip.
So far we have used various ways to release the cross grip, with hand throws and single sedges.
Above all, we remember this sequence from the right crossed grip above:
- Load right woman and cross body with the left
- Load left man and cross body
With the sombrero we will be able to enclose these two figures in a single one, making load woman and man at the same time (and then usually closing with a cross body).
Attention!! They are sedges.. and as such they do not imply any rotation of the torso, they must be performed in front of the partner, we must be able to look him in the eye; to obtain this frontality of the bust you will have to release tension on the shoulders and arms so that the elbows can drop and the kick can be performed without implying a rotation of the bust.
Video tutorial: Introduction to the Sombrero (in italian, so just watch the moves).
So let's list the 2 main types of sombrero:
Or simply The Sombrero. The most common one.
It starts from the left cross grip above and performs:
- Right load on the woman
- Left load on the man
Usable only in jazz salsa and certain more complex figures. Or you have to at least be able to do this sombrero while maintaining the basic mambo step, without implying anything else.
Here's what to do starting from the right crossed grip above:
- Female left load
- Male right load
It is the most common sombrero and can be performed in any figure where we finish with the left cross grip above.
Try it:
- After a mambo base
- After a cross body
- After a grip split in the last part of the base
Or in the more classic way: After a cross grip vuelta (see Sombrero in line).
The most classic way to get to the sombrero.
It will be enough to perform a vuelta woman in crossed grip and finish with a sombrero and cross body.
Video tutorial: Sombrero in line.
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