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8 salsa combinations/routines Levels 1-4 & 11 merengue steps [45 MINUTES in length] (each combination of steps/routine is demonstrated in a very easy-to follow format) *After you learn all the individual steps from Video 1&2, this video is great in learning how to put patterns together into different combinations SALSA COMBINATIONS Combination #1: Basic Step & basic Turn Combination #2: Pivot Turn & Cross Body Lead Combination #3: Cross Body Lead with a turn, Rope Spin … More >>
#1 by Francis Monroe on June 3, 2010 - 8:37 am
This video is best when you learn from Josie Neglia’s Dance Hot Salsa Videos 1&2 which break down every pattern count-for-count.
This video is great because it teaches leaders how to put a few steps together in a sequence to create flow.
My boyfriend memorized all the 8 combinations and uses them when we dance in the club. He liked it because he used to always get stuck when he danced in the clubs. He didn’t know which step to do next so he would do the basic step over and over again until he remembered the next step. This video changed alll that! He learned these combinations (5 or 6 patterns put together) and now he looks SMOOTH!
I definitely recommend this video to leaders especially.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on June 3, 2010 - 10:45 am
As a beginner I am now taking salsa lessons and still very disappointed with this video. As per this tape if you’re a beginner stay away. Good instructors always count “1,2,3,,5,6,7,” while showing you the exact steps/footing. As an instructor Jose Neglia doesn’t even know how to count – she says “quick, quick, slow,,quick, quick, slow”. Not only is that really bad instruction, she furthermore often loses the tempo when she says “quick, quick, slow” which confuses the beginner even more. One more thing, she instructs the dance steps very quickly “quick, quick, slow” then demonstrates it very quickly. If you are a beginner there’s no way you’ll enjoy this tape.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on June 3, 2010 - 11:39 am
This video was a huge dissapointment for me. I want to learn salsa, but this video does not break down and label the steps. Sure, it teaches you great combinations, but when I teach these combinations to students in my physical education classes, I won’t know the names of the steps. If she had told us the names of the steps and broke them down for us, this video would have been great.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on June 3, 2010 - 12:24 pm
I read the reviews of this video and then bought it anyway because I’m not a total beginner and thought I would be bored with a lot of simplistic breaking down of moves and easy patterns. I was wrong! This is too hard for beginners of any level, even if you already know the basic step and a few turns. Most of the combinations are really complicated, and they provide only brief instructions.
The meringue section is a little better because the patterns are short and a lot easier to catch onto, but they offer no instruction for that section, just demonstration.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Salsavideoreviews.org on June 3, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Salsa & Merengue 1-2-3 is a video of Salsa combinations from basic to advanced. This video is better viewed after you have learned the steps in her Hot Salsa series. Please note forms/ patterns/ combinations like this are used to teach you how to flow from one move to the next without a break. Please do not use these patterns in a nightclub as many other people also know these patterns & they will may laugh at you. Please note the tempo of the Salsa music in her videos. If the music is faster remember to speed up the moves. I have read comments on the message boards about people using these forms to different speeds of music. The idea is to use these forms then change then to suit the music. Mix the forms up. Josie also includes some basic shines. Josie uses the same pattern to teach as her Hot Salsa video. Josie then teaches the basic Merengue techniques.
Rating: 5 / 5