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➡️ Did you know there are only 7 ways of connecting hands with your dance partner on the dancefloor? That is right! 7!
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So instead of trying to remember 100 turnpatterns, you better remember the 6 basis turns and try them with 7 different handholds. This will lead up to 53 easily excecutable turnpatterns on the beginners level and 40 turn patterns on the more intermediate / advanced level. Add 3 levels of high & low and together that makes almost 100 turn patterns!!!
So men, are you getting frustrated at times when you are doing the same move over and over just because you keep forgetting all the other moves?
And ladies, do you sometimes have the feeling that your dancepartner hardly makes any connection? That he is just not there in the moment?
Well, Those times can be over!!!
First of all guys: There is no way on earth you can remember all the moves that you have learned taking classes. Do you want to know why?
Most men are locked into the Salsa Matrix, looking for their database with all the moves. And men, as you now know... you never had a chance. UNTIL NOW!
A long time ago I started searching for answers and I found something shocking!!!
Fist of all I found that 80% of everything the best dancers are doing on the dancefloor consists out of only 6 turns!!! SIX TURNS! That is it!
The other 20% percent is the stuff that only 10% of the best dancers in the world are doing.
Now I don't know about you but being able to do 80% of everything the best dancers are doing sounds great to me!
Second thing I found is that 98% women care more for fun and connection on the dancefloor than for turnpatterns. This was another shock to me. I was always afraid I would bore my dance partner if I was not able to make her do a lot of moves.
Then one night I decided not to go out for a dance (in that part of my life I literaly went out dancing 7 nights a week). Why did I stay home that night? I think I came to a point of frustration. Going out every night doing the same moves over and over again got me to a point wondering if this was all there was.
I decided to sit down and take a piece of paper and I asked myself a simple question:
HOW MANY DIFFERENT TURNS CAN I MAKE MY PARTNER DO WHEN DANCING?
On the top of that piece of empty paper I wrote a F (female). On the bottom I wrote down the letter M (male).
And then something beautiful happened!
My wish for you is that you will learn these 7 Ways of Holdings Hands together with the 3 Levels of High & Low. It can totally change your live.
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[@ddelruss]

OMG Finally someone teaching salsa the way I visualize it. So great. If you see it as combinations of simple choices you get hundreds of variations without much actual complexity. Thank you!

[@salsaventura]

Thanks Damien. My pleasure!

[@albertbousleiman1449]

that's the best explanation i ve ever seen of how to organize everything mathematically in your head and gives a solid basis. much appreciated!! you deserve a patent for the matrix :)

[@salsaventura]

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[@giovannijake3056]

instablaster

[@j.c.4588]

This is the best salsa video I've ever seen and it's ever been made for students. Thanks a lot for sharing!!

[@Hek87]

I needed this lesson ten years ago. Better late than never. Thank you so much.

[@salvadormatos9257]

Salsa Red Pill goes hard af

[@jimf4754]

great instruction. this way better than all the classes i take that just do choreographed moved. understanding the theory is so much more beneficial than just remembering moves

[@salsaventura]

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[@jeromenancyfr]

So much wisdom in this video, it is just insane

[@salsaventura]

Thanks Jerome...you can find hundreds of more videos at salsaventura.tv/

[@jimparfitt2330]

I like this because this is fits the way my brain organizes information. This is a Gold mine to me. I've never seen anyone teach this way. I'm very right brained and when things are taught in a million disjointed details, It does not compute for me. This is Really Really useful to me!! I'm also a bass player, and when i'm learning a tune I need to hear the whole sound of the tune first! When people try to show me the bass part removed from the song, or go from the beginning measure by measure, I just scream STOP!! My brain doesn't work that way! I need to see/get the overall pattern, not all the variations. The BIG picture. Otherwise my brain doesn't know where to put the information. Once i can hum the tune, and feel the rhythm...then i can just play it, and then my brain fills in all the details; and then i remember it. This is the same sort of teaching.

[@vancouverterry9142]

Brilliant teaching, Maestro! Brilliant teaching! Thank you very much.

[@phamawa]

Man ive been watching your videos for the past 30 mins. Youre breaking it down real well, thank you. Ive been taking classes and this is a great supplement to social dancing and practice

[@kidphillyorg]

Thinking about all the individual turns can be overwhelming but when you break it down into 6 basic turns, 7 ways of holding hands, and 3 height positions, it makes things much easier. To know I can turn her in any hand position takes pressure off and allows room to experiment and connect in the process having a different level of confidence knowing I can finish the move through one of your basic paths. Thank you for making these videos! Greatly appreciated!!

[@salsaventura]

Hi, you totally get it! Please check out more at salsaventura.tv/

[@mikeymeals]

SIMPLIFIED!!!! I LOVE THIS GENTLEMAN (And your elegant lady partner, Vanessa, as well)!!!! Good Lord, Senor Ventura, where have u been all my dancing life?!?! I hope to meet you in person some time soon somehow some day!! Wow!! How I could not 1 plus 1 together is beyond me - same footwork but different hand holding - "OH DUH LIKE HELLO", I say to myself LOLOL!! And still keeping it to the basics actually, just adding twists here and there - oh man, you are THE best I've seen on KZbin for this!! I sincerely thank you!!

[@xavierfernandes5349]

Absolutely loved it. You guys have made it so easy for us to understand and learn. Best Salsa foundation video I watched.

[@edwardschisamo3865]

Hi I'm from Tanzania thank you for your tutorials it's real help me to get different techniques and different moves..thank you so much

[@davidwelty7760]

This systematic approach has helped me more than anything in a long time.

[@ngocanh252]

Oh my God, I love you, I love you, I love you thousand times!!!! Is there any thousand-time-like button?!?!?

[@salsaventura]

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[@NOLAWAGAINSTIT]

@@salsaventura is the lifetime deal dvd's,or digital access or both?

[@foyanqingyuan6062]

Coming back a year later to try to get this system in my head. Only recently learnt the reverse cross body. So now I finally have all these turns. Iay even go dancing tonight

[@jamestimkey3770]

I am starting to teach a beginner course in Salsa in two weeks. I needed an organized way of teaching the moves. This video along with “6 Turn Pattern System” is all that I need for this lesson.

[@salsaventura]

Great to hear. We also have a special teacherscourse. If you are interested. please sent an email to [e-mail]

[@eehargis]

Love it! Simple, effective and intuitive! Superb teaching skills.

[@kidphillyorg]

Found a local dance partner and had a focused practice using some of your beginners videos and there was a moment where the light completely turned on!! These dance moves aren't so hard! But also realizing, women can only follow (and feel comfortable following) a man that knows what he's doing. Giving subtle cues and focusing on her happiness and safety while treating her with respect and connecting with her emotionally. Yes, your videos taught me this much and I'm still just watching the beginners videos.

[@salsaventura]

Great to hear! Keep it up!

[@LaChuletaDeOsler]

shit this is the best teacher. basically is giving the student AUTONOMY.

[@memoranda1]

Sir ..... I wanna thank you so much....just made my life in dancing a lot more easier with this system.....and without making it complicated ....thank you so much....i like my salsa simple not complicated

[@salsaventura]

You are more than welcome!

[@TheMyEighties]

The best salsa instructor on the web

[@salsaventura]

Hi Arie, thank you so much for the compliment!!!

[@abdoulayeniang6731]

Best tutorial , thanks you

[@tombrown8218]

Very Nice! Intelligent, simple, perfect demos! Many Thanks!

[@salsaventura]

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[@capowable]

WHOA! This video and the previous open up to many possibilities. Thanks a whole heap.

[@pietromicali3936]

Bravissimi ❤️

[@eltiojando9360]

Thanks for such detailed explanation.

[@alexe1868]

Awesome explanation!

[@profesional1931]

Wow - you made salsa so digestible. Thank you

[@salsaventura]

Hi, thank you! Have you checked out the 6 turn pattern system yet?

[@krambodance3377]

Great stuff :) Simply and effectively explained! Sharing it with my students, right about now!

[@2dogstwodogs458]

Love your assistant she's very good!. thank you!! Beautiful and simple teaching!!

[@johnsammers]

Great videos = beautifully explained and demonstrated.

[@Adnan-fi6fu]

So helpful!!

[@salsaventura]

Thanks! And my pleasure

[@K05H]

The Six Turns x The Seven Hand Positions x The Three Levels. The Salsa Matrix is real!

[@salsaventura]

Salsaventura • 1 seconde geleden Hi, thanks! Truly appreciate it! You can find more videos at salsaventura.tv/

[@kasibert9166]

After dancing for a while I noticed myself what youre showing, that most of the figures consist of basic movements. Very nice to see you teaching it, thanks a lot! Greetings from Germany! :-)

[@morrykrispijn559]

Hi Kasi, thank you so much. Happy to see that you can recognise what you found out yourself.

[@RonieSaleh]

Very rare to find someone teaching variations in this amazing way! I have same Variation/Creativity - Mindset when i teach Kizomba, Bachata & Foxtrot :)

[@theseus780]

Amazing Video!

[@fortun777]

I just love this, very mathematical

[@nateo745]

These systems are Genius..... Thank you so so so so so so much

[@salsaventura]

My pleasure!

[@Juoa794]

This is amazing!!! Thank you so much for helping me understand the building blocks.

[@salsaventura]

My pleasure. Please check out more videos at salsaventura.tv/

[@tetyanapolt-lutsenko6143]

Super! Danke!

[@jimparfitt2330]

OMG that is Brilliant!!! I love it!!

[@nooahchannel]

Nice video. Amazing, thank you so much.

[@delfinmaldonado1845]

Best instructional Salsa turn video I have ever seen. Awsome

[@salsaventura]

Hi Delfin, Thanks a lot. Highly appreciated. Please check out the full Salsaventura structure on all levels salsaventura.tv/ Greetings, Morry Salsaventura

[@mariovalentinbanuelos8727]

Left-right to hip level leads to an awesome move if you call her all the way back instead of wrapping your hands around her. It feels somewhat like a left turn.

[@d3laysmaya]

Best salsa teacher so far

[@salsaventura]

Hi, thank you so much for the compliment. Truly appeciate it. Please check out more at salsaventura.tv/

[@flaviosilvio5154]

Excelente

[@the-web-scraping-guy]

Brilliant

[@FitToDance1]

You are a genius! This and your 6 patterns video clicked in my brain! Wow! Thank you!

[@madesteve1]

So appreciate your clear and articulate instruction. Thank you so much

[@asclepius3117]

Terrific explanations. Gem.

[@K05H]

Not gonna lie, I already had the six turns and the seven hand positions but combining them wtih the three levels (low, medium and high) has got me thinking. I now have a formula for mixing the moves I am already comfortable with while adding in newer moves on the spot. Thanks and subscribed.

[@salsaventura]

Salsaventura • 1 seconde geleden Hi, thanks! Truly appreciate it! You can find more videos at salsaventura.tv/

[@woodyks7490]

I love your videos , just 1 thing that would make them better is to set the camera up a little closer, there is to much wasted space on the floor in front of you guys . Thanks for sharing your great knowledge

[@salsaventura]

Hi, thank you. Great tip! The video's are mostly filmped in 1 shot using only 1 camera. On our platform Salsaventura.tv you can also find some close ups when ever necessary.

[@jpj77263]

The grey rain-curtain of endless dance moves rolls back, and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it: Six turns, seven hand positions at three heights, and beyond, an open dance floor under a swift clave.

[@strahinja95]

Great video! Me and my friend were thinking about making a matrix for the figures. For example: if you are in this position you can do x, y, and z. If you do x then i, j, k, etc. I was wondering if you maybe have some thoughts on that idea? What also came to my mind was the idea that you could rotate the girl to the certain side, or that you could rotate yourself, so that you can have the rules you can use to instantly know what you can do with the hands while they are all tangled up in a certain way. I think that it would give salsa even more spontaniety coupled with the idea in the video that you taught us, as opposed to the classical way of learning figures, and then executing them as a unit. What do you think about it? I have yet to explore that idea

[@salsaventura]

HI Strahinja, I actually do have a Salsaventura matrix. With exactly what you want. Please sent me your emailadress to [e-mail] and I will sent it to you.

[@salsaventura]

About the second part: I also have a system for guys while turning the lady. You can find it all at salsaventura.tv/

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Wow. I have been asking the same as what you want for years in vain! I just don't call it matrix. I love language, so, seeing salsa as a language, what teachers have been teaching me is full sentences, but no one learns a language by learning full sentences. I want to know salsa's syntax, i.e. its rules, what you call the matrix. In these two videos (this one and the one about the 6 basic turns), the teacher teaches some important verbs and nouns, but not how to combine the words into proper salsa sentences. For example, sometimes the teacher says you can do this but doesn't teach how to properly finish the whole sequence. Maybe this time finally I find what I am searching for? May this be taught analytically instead of just internally after years of instruction and practice?

[@deogratiashabiyambere4894]

WOOOOOW great instruction from Geneva Switzerland.

[@salsaventura]

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[@fndthousing]

Does this apply to Cuban Salsa?

[@Fine_Mouche]

4:56 : thanks to you i now know how to do hammer locks to my crush in dance party XD

[@jcespinoza]

Woah! This blew my mind! Thanks!

[@salsaventura]

Salsaventura • 1 seconde geleden Hi, thanks! Truly appreciate it! You can find more videos at salsaventura.tv/

[@stefansava]

FINALLY!

[@Narriz]

wow.

[@sheldon.j.cunningham3620]

If only I could Super like👍🏾

[@salsaventura]

It is much easier than you might think. Please check out www.salsaventura.tv. If you don't like it you will get all your money back. No risk ;-)

[@robertlesaca4776]

Excellent.

[@salsaventura]

Thanks Robert!

[@Fine_Mouche]

6:00 Theoretically there are 6 * 7 * 3 = 126 possibilities

[@salsaventura]

Almost, not all combinations work but you are close

[@kenny9239]

You really open me up. Thank you :-)

[@salsaventura]

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[@salsageordie]

Peeking thro the gap in the curtain . I can see my audience 1 day i will be ready . Thanks for this explanation .

[@med4yar446]

Amazing video, simply explained, love it

[@salsaventura]

Thank you! You can find more video’s at salsaventura.tv.

[@felipehoyos2521]

7 ways of holding hands: 1) Left to right 2) Right to left 3) Parallel 4) Right to right 5) Left to left 6) Right to right up, left to left down 7) Left to left up, right to right down

[@batdude811]

Dance instructors should teach how to construct your own dance routines rather than prefabricated ones that you will forget.

[@salsaventura]

Totally agree! That is why the 6 Turn Pattern System was quit a discovery for me personally. If you combine the 6 Turn Pattern System with the 7 Ways of Holding Hands you will soon find out that about 5 of the 7 handholds work in an easy and comfortable way. 6 turns x 5 handholds make 30 options! If you add the 3 Levels of High and Low it adds up to 90 options in total, each giving you a new option to continue. This helps our students to, as you mentioned, escape from prefabricated moves and come to improvisation as soon as possible.

[@batdude811]

@@salsaventura Learning to lead or follow your partner is another essential issue which can get neglected. So the hand holds times the turn patterns and you get an excellent groundwork on which to build variations and develop them. You must remember there are many other movements like the Copa, the additional elements like ganchos, head and neck loops and hand flicks. You will be interested to know that I had come up with the 7 hand holds and a similar system when I considered becoming a salsa and Latin American dancing teacher. I wanted a better method than regurgitating routines I learned in classes. Since then I refused to attend classes and became a self-taught much better dancer myself. Going to classes was just a waste of time. I also learned more in less time. I used to watch KZbin videos of top salsa dancers ( Oliver Pineda, Julian Cogordon, Nery García etc) and broke down the moves they did. However that was way more advanced.

[@salsaventura]

Hi thanks for your response. The copa, the reversed copa, the spiral turn, in & out and the Reversed CBTI and the Take here for a Walk & Turn are part of the 6 Turn Pattern System #2 that can be found in our Advanced levels. All Ganchos, Head and Neck Loops and Flicks are additional moves that can all be found in the combinations we build from the basic elements. Becoming a better dancer is a process that is different for everyone. I like to say that the 'best teacher' is that teacher that fits best to your stage of learning, depending on where you are in your process. I totally understand that you came to a point where you could learn from the best dancers just by watching them. That ability normally takes quit some time. Most people are helped by a structured and clear system and a clear explanation of the move. One student gets triggered by seeing a move (visual oriented), another one needs more the explanation (auditive oriented) and another needs to feel in order to understand a move (kinesthetic oriented). As a teacher you should try to use them all in a class so no one is left out. Lots of teachers are teaching in the way that THEY learn, assuming everyone is the same. So if you ever go out there and teach please remember not everyone has that capacity to watch and copy ;-). I am very happy for you that you came to that stage!

[@phamawa]

Great point. Especially some of the routines you learn in class will just throw some ladies off (since theyve never seen it before). Plus, we all want to get to that improvisation level, ultimate flow state and your suggestion would make it easier.

[@joachimrissler5534]

Not necessarily your own routine - but the most important thing you need is A) the fundamental experience of doing different techniques B) you should learn how to dance a routine since you have to learn how to do those transitions and then C) you tear it apart: as in instead of doing this you can do that or that or that or that- this step C indeed is really underrepresented in classes - I learned about this for the first time in private lessons -- but I do believe that the general understanding is unfortunately not that much part of many instructions - although specific bits and pieces are really interesting and broaden your mind what's possible with a certain handflick for example .. - so if your a leader on the dance floor try to shake your routine up with simple things and be experimental.. the more crazy things come through the experimentation by itself - but ladies safety comes first ... - so don't try something on the dance floor you can't pull off that puts people in danger that's not cool but for anything else have fun and do experiment

[@bobpatra1618]

you got my money

[@salsaventura]

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[@Hek87]

Take the red pill.

[@salsageordie]

This is dynamite . The fog has lifted i can see the road ahead .

[@salsaventura]

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[@krultorwaru121]

They way you hold your hands during spin looks bad.