The 6 basic turning patterns of Salsa

Understanding these 6 patterns automatically makes each new figure easier.

Why so many dancers get lost in the tangle of figures

Do you also have trouble keeping track of all the different Salsa figures? Is every new Salsa figure for you a separate figure in its own right that you just have to try to remember?

Comfort yourself, that applies to most of us! After all, almost all dance schools teach mostly figures, where you don’t really have any idea what you’re doing….

Stop figures - start real dancing

But did you know that in Salsa there are 6 basic turning patterns that constantly recur? By this we mean that every so-called figure always consists of 80% of a combination of 1 or more of these 6 basic turning patterns.

As a result, if you know, can and can recognize these turning patterns, with each new figure you have to learn, you actually already know 80% of the figure. You will be able to master that figure much more quickly from then on and eventually be able to keep memorizing it….

Enchuffa in Salsa LA

What are these 6 basic turning patterns?

  • Right turn
  • Left turn
  • Cross body with inside turn
  • Cross body with outside turn
  • Reversed cross body with outside turn
  • Enchufa

Thus all the figures suddenly fall into place

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