Can someone walk me through this step?

granrey

granrey

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Please see video below and watch the combo at 18 secs by the guy with tank top.

I find this very common in dominican style. I do not undestand how you can do an open break motion like this without falling down. It seems they use the other partner body weight to keep the balance.


It starts with what it seems an open break but rather than breaking "on one" with the left foot back and the girl with the right foot back.


They both send their feet forward ( a kick motion). On beat 5, he kicks with right foot forward instead of backwards.

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Try this:

I. Stand on your left leg. (put all your weight on it, to a level you can raise your right leg off the floor without falling).

II. Tap with your right. (like they do in the video): gently put the right leg forward: Just touch the floor wit hit, do not shift weight to it (stay standing on your left).

Is there any reason for you to fall?

III. Now try doing what they do here, in 0:05~0:07

Next Excercise:

1. L: Step (in place).
2. R: Step (in place).
3. L Step (In place).
4. R Tap (Forward).
---
5. R: Step (in place).
6. L: Step (in place).
7. R Step (In place).
8. L Tap (Forward).

This is pretty much what they are doing in your video - except instead of stepping in place, they travel.

For On2 dancers:

1. R Tap (Forward).
2. R Step (in place).
3. L: Step (in place).
4. R Step (In place).
---
5. L Tap (Forward).
6. L: Step (in place).
7. R: Step (in place).
8. L Step (In place).
 
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Dissonant Harmony said:
Try this:

I. Stand on your left leg. (put all your weight on it, to a level you can raise your right leg off the floor without falling).

II. Tap with your right. (like they do in the video): gently put the right leg forward: Just touch the floor wit hit, do not shift weight to it (stay standing on your left).

Is there any reason for you to fall?

III. Now try doing what they do here, in 0:05~0:07

Next Excercise:

1. L: Step (in place).
2. R: Step (in place).
3. L Step (In place).
4. R Tap (Forward).
---
5. R: Step (in place).
6. L: Step (in place).
7. R Step (In place).
8. L Tap (Forward).

This is pretty much what they are doing in your video - except instead of stepping in place, they travel.

For On2 dancers:

1. R Tap (Forward).
2. R Step (in place).
3. L: Step (in place).
4. R Step (In place).
---
5. L Tap (Forward).
6. L: Step (in place).
7. R: Step (in place).
8. L Step (In place).
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What really amuses me is calling it mambo and breaking on 1. It's essentially no more than a forward and back basic with a half turn .

The tap used was very common in old school and also the "kick " action .

Common steps used back when were ; Crossover breaks L and R ( new Yorker ) back spot turns, kick with cross swivels, separation break with U/Arm turn and of course, CBL .
 
granrey said:
Please see video below and watch the combo at 18 secs by the guy with tank top.

I find this very common in dominican style. I do not undestand how you can do an open break motion like this without falling down. It seems they use the other partner body weight to keep the balance.


It starts with what it seems an open break but rather than breaking "on one" with the left foot back and the girl with the right foot back.


They both send their feet forward ( a kick motion). On beat 5, he kicks with right foot forward instead of backwards.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1541187512578390&id=170688509628304
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There is nothing going on at 18s. Or you mean at 8s?

This way of stepping is typical for dominican bachata, but actually not much different in cuban salsa or even NY style salsa or kizomba.

Trick is just that you should be transferring weight from one foot to another very fast on every step, so that you use that foot to move somewhere (avoid falling) and other foot is automatically relaxed from the floor
It's probably main reason, why those dances here in europe look differently, because people do it much more slowly, spending too much time on both feet, and trying to compensate with some styling to make it look similar, resulting in funny looking dance with fake body movement

Try practicing standing alternatively on one leg only for a few second in balance, changing quickly to another, than stay at that leg a few seconds and repeat.
When your body becomes comfortable in doing that at place, then try doing steps the same way, and finally try dancing that way
It's actually simple once you get it
 
vit said:
It's probably main reason, why those dances here in europe look differently, because people do it much more slowly, spending too much time on both feet, and trying to compensate with some styling to make it look similar, resulting in funny looking dance with fake body movement
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Fully agree though it is not just in Europe given what we see in videos.


vit said:
Try practicing standing alternatively on one leg only for a few second in balance, changing quickly to another, than stay at that leg a few seconds and repeat.
When your body becomes comfortable in doing that at place, then try doing steps the same way, and finally try dancing that way
It's actually simple once you get it
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Otherwise known as merengue. The salsa danced in the video, though not of high standard, is basically three merengue steps (1,2,3) and a tap or kick (4) repeated for 5678. The timing looks a bit ....
 
sunsoul said:
Nice video, Live2. Do you have any more like that up your sleeve?
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:)
Thanks @sunsoul. I think a number of us have been contributing to the thread on old dancing videos. I am not sure I added this specific one there simply because this was mambo while I always concentrating on salsa videos. But I think there is even a pachanga video there. http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/wanted-film-of-back-in-the-day-dancing.8327/

The specific video above is part of a trilogy. Here are the other two on cha and from mambo to cha


 
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