Salsa Dancing Cross Body Lead 180

This intermediate salsa dance video lesson of addicted2salsa ( http://addicted2salsa.com/videos ), we go back to the basics to help you learn how to do a 180° Cross Body Lead with a Turn (*a few others call this the Coca Cola move). We first start off refreshing you what a Cross Body Lead with a Turn looks like and from there add-on the extra dance steps required to do a half-revolution. Getting the 180 degree cross body lead will help build the salsa framework for you to execute the 360 cross body lead - which will show you in a future episode.

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[Blauestieg911]

since when did salsa dancers wear flipflops. (especially w/ socks)

[apersaud]

@Blauestieg911 Those are Gabellini dance shoes if you look closer ;-)

[tallpaulhutch75]

maybe worth pointing out that the girl pushing her left hand up on 1 (in the middle of this turn) isn't just optional styling.

Many of the followers I know aren't used to putting their LH up at the end of a CBL inside turn - in which case this move won't work...

[adamg1202]

The girl is super hott

[leo03737]

I w'll love too dance con Yuly she move's do nice

[ibrozdemir]

what? salsa? sorry i wasnt listenning...

[MrWildbill20056]

@tallpaulhutch75 Of course you do :P I loiter here also haha! Totally agree, there is a bit of a lack of 'go for the shoulder' taught as a rule. People coming from a Casino background usually get this drilled into them far better than the cross body crowd.

I agree, when a follower detects this happening and doesn't find that shoulder in good order, that's a mistake. This piece of styling, I agree is a good way to achieve it though!

[tallpaulhutch75]

@MrWildbill20056 - don't I know u from SalsaForums?! "There are different ways to style this/achieve it" - I totally agree mate. But where I'm from, 85% of the girls aren't aware of the need for "going for the shoulder", and will let you trap their arm by their side with this move over and over again, without realising that it would be better if they got it out of the way. That makes it v difficult to learn to lead this move, if the Fs haven't been taught how to follow it (1 way at least).

[MrWildbill20056]

@chaka1979 This sort of absolute nonsense generally comes from people who are clueless about the dance they are involved in. FYI people were doing 'gymnastics' on the Mambo floor before you were out of diapers. There are grainy black and white videos surviving to this day of Cuban Son and NY Mambo that would challenge the top dancers of today.

So get clued up before you start spouting this crap. This goes for the clueless latins as well. Fortunate the latinos I know are far more knowledgeable.

[MrWildbill20056]

@Dragon34th What? No, I'm sorry. Yoga and Ballet? o.O We aren't ballet dancers. Julie's frame is upright, her shoulders are down, back and relaxed. Our knees, in salsa are always soft, it is part of proper training. Further it's clear that Julie is naturally very well shaped, and I for one enjoy when she exaggerates the pointing of her admirable behind in the 180. Otherwise her frame is totally fine.

Ballroom and Ballet postures are not appropriate to the dance.

[MrWildbill20056]

@tallpaulhutch75 Sure it works, it doesn't work quite the same, but if the follower tucks right in and you get a firm connection with the shoulder blade (and you have a good frame) it'll work fine.

It's not that the follower must 'push her hand up' it's simply that when she feels the hand connect with the shoulder blade as she completes, one way or another it's optimal if she 'goes for the shoulder.'

There are different ways to style this/achieve it :)

[AlwaysEvan]

technically there is no centrifugal force but who cares.. que leccion estupenda!

[SoraChhaitli]

@Dragon34th u mean that she's standing wrong?women should not bend one knee and curve their back?i was actually thinking that it's a part of the Salsa posture!!