Learn To Salsa Dance

As you learn more about learning how to Salsa dance, you’ll eventually come across a variation of the inside turn called a Frisbee turn? If you’ve never heard of it before or are having troubles perfecting it, check out the video below explaining it very simply and thoroughly. Keep practicing until your Frisbee turn looks awesome!

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As a dancer, you probably understand the importance of strengthening your ankles, but what sort of exercises can you do?

Exercise 1:

While standing, cross your legs, one foot over the other. Now slowly raise yours yourself up onto your toes and then slowly bring yourself back down again. Now cross your legs with the other foot in front and repeat. You can repeat this exercise several times or until your legs get tired. It’s great for the calves too!

Exercise 2:

Stand on one foot and slowly raise yourself up onto your toes. Try to keep yourself balanced for 20-30 seconds and repeat with the other leg. Consider using a stool or chair if necessary until your balance gets better.

Exercise 3:

Stand with your feet parallel, or with toes pointing directly to each side of your body and perform a demi plie. Go down into your knee bend and rise up as far as you can on demi toe then straighten your legs and slowly lower to the floor.

Repeat this exercise in reverse now by rising up as high as possible on demi toe, down to demi plie very slowly lowering your heels to the ground and then straighten your legs. Perform this exercise 5-10 reps or more depending your needs.

Try all three of those exercises and see if one of them works best for you. You should have strong ankles in no time!

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An article I came across just recently brought up a great point that I never really gave much thought, which is suffering hearing loss from frequenting loud salsa night clubs.

If you’ve ever been to a salsa dance night club, you know that the music can often get fairly loud. So loud that you can’t hear to well for the rest of the night. Of course, your hearing is back to normal the next day, but the long term effects aren’t so temporary.

The more often you suffer this temporary hearing loss, the more permanent damage you’re creating for your ear drums. If you go salsa dancing often, you should probably consider wearing some ear plugs.

Ear plugs don’t have to ruin the night for you either. You can pick up some musicians earplugs for fairly cheap, which are designed to soften the loudness without muffling it. Depending on the price you want to pay, you can find them in various colors, including clear, and even custom fitted.

So the next time you go to the club for some spicy salsa dancing, grab those earplugs and save your hearing, or else you won’t be able to hear the music that you love to dance to.

You can read the original article here.

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