Intro to Salsa Dancing – Part 1

hi welcome to watchmojo.com my name is
soldered yard check and I’m your host
for today I’m going to teach you some
ballroom dance steps with the current
hot ballroom dance craze and all the
reality shows namely Dancing with the
Stars couple dancing is once again cool
dances such as tango waltz Foxtrot Samba
rumba salsa merengue and paso doble are
not only cool but a lot of fun so today
you’re going to learn a little bit of
salsa so i’m going to show you three
salsa basics and I have Dave here my
dance partner that’s going to help us
out a little bit the first basic step
we’re going to do is the forward back
step the second one is the side brake
and the third one is the back brake so
we’re going to do a demonstration and
then I’ll break it down for you so here
we go forward and back we do quick quick
slow and quick quick slow one more time
Rock step together and rock step
together the second basic step is slight
break so we go quick quick slow and
quick quick slow again quick quick slow
and quick quick slow and the third one
is the back brake this one’s a little
trickier you’re just going to take a
very small step back and open up your
shoulders just a little bit Dave starts
with his left going back and I’m going
to start with my right foot going back
here we go rock step and center Rock
step center now what we can do here is
also let go of one hand so Dave’s going
to let go of his left and i’m going to
let go of my right we go quick quick
slow quick quick slow again quick quick
slow and quick quick slow