What would you tell yourself as a beginner?

The same thing I told myself as a beginner dancer. " this is movement and the only way to get better is to debit and get it to a point that it's muscle memory, it's not going to happen a day... You didn't get good at basketball in a day or a year so keep plugging away.... That's what I told myself and I followed it.... I Kept going and as I got more comfortable and felt that my basics and fundamentals we're getting stronger I started taking more classes.... Personally I did not social dance outside of practice socials until I felt comfortable executing about ten to fifteen turn patterns..
 
You should have started an year earlier.

Your 1st experience wasn't the greatest, overcoming the fear of approaching women, and dealing with that dance partner.
Take up Salsa 5 years ago, after I stopped with Ballroom and not wait until last year.
 
Salsa Student said:
I think it's pretty common that novices think it'll be easy to dance and that beginners need to be convinced that they eventually will be able to.
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Really? I thought I knew how to dance at the start, and getting a dance from everyone the first time and not the second told me that my ideas of dance did not jibe with them. So I learnt the conventions and now I am back to being way out there and now since "I know how to dance" it is ok. Well some things have definitely improved since then so, what makes the difference? What would I tell all beginners?

(1) Do not just learn move but work on partnering - knowing where your partner is and you are and knowing how to suggest change is important. A move is just a tool to learn that. Partnering in a class/structured setting.

(2) Start social dancing right away. If you are unsure with salsa practice with merengue or bachata or whatever is easiest. What you learn in one dance can be applied to another. Dancing with different people helps you to learn how people will respond when they have no idea what you are going to do (unlike a class). So, partnering in a social setting.

So it is partnering, partnering, partnering.

(3) Just listen to the music. Being familiar with the music helps. I always listen to the music when I am learning a new type of dance and it has helped me every time.


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RobotLion said:
Don't do it.
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Personally I absolutely love dancing salsa - I think I may had started with different expectations than you did.

I can now move like I never thought I possibly would, have better muscle control, better musical understanding and appreciation, and far more friends than when I started.
 
1. Join Salasforums :)
2. Timing.

I already was member of local equivalent of salsaforums with some great posts like here when I started dancing. Though I don't remember pattern monkeying being discussed on it. From the start I was never into patterns.
 
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