Amazing display of the Original Latin Hustle, this is the way we did it back in the 70's

[@leezap]

I've danced the Hustle for years and always thought that it's NY Hustle. Only recently I learned that it's Latin Hustle as it was the last partner dance invented in this country and by Latinos. I'm glad YT fed me this link and learned about its history. Keep up the good and important work of telling the history of this dance.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Thanks for your acknowledgment, and if you're interested in the complete story, we are creating a documentary based on my book, Rise of the Latin Hustle. Check out the website when you have time. www.thedancinggangsters.com Happy Holidays to you and your family! 🙏😎❤

[@discobean54]

Yeah baby. Love when the bass is so crazy it's just static in the video. I want to be in that place right now, twirling and dancing the night away against the city lights with the warm salty breeze cooling the sweat on my neck! Love it.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

LOL, you and I both! ;)

[@davidalen2590]

I'm enjoying your book Willie! A great read!

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Thank you for the feedback David, it's nice to hear you are enjoying it. Please leave me a review on Amazon if you don't mind. Peace and blessings to you and yours! 🙏❤

[@davidalen2590]

@@WillieEstradaMB Will do amigo. I've gotta smile about your wild and crazy life, but it's easy to do from 3,000 miles and 50 years away! You lived it. Cheers Willie.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

@@davidalen2590 LOL, indeed my brother, life goes by in a few heartbeats. We certainly do have great stories we should share before we depart to a higher plane of existence. lol Thanks for your support, and I look forward to your review. Stay safe and be well. 😎🙏❤

[@davidalen2590]

@@WillieEstradaMB You too Willie.

[@hellskitchen360]

Skills 🔥🔥🔥

[@vieshanblacksloft426]

Awesome times Will .. the Latin Symbolic boat rides were a hit every time gb..Aka D.A. Louie

[@wilfredofigueroa66]

Thank you Willie Estrada for posting this awesome clip with Luis turning it out. Us Puerto Ricans from the Grand Concourse (167th street) use to turn it out at the disco's. I can't get enough of these clips and wish there were more of the late 70's and early 80's when the hustle ruled the clubs. I still have all my albums (over 900 of them) and my turntable and whirl it at home constantly. I just hope to find a clip where the dancers did some awesome spinning like corkscrews and headback spins. The boys turned it out just as fierce as the girls but the true queens of hustling where the boys...barnone! I think Willie you might have been related to my brothers late wife Melanie Merced (rip). She mentioned the Latin Symbolics to me many years ago and stated you were cousins. Thanks again for keeping The Hustle alive with these clips. God Bless You.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Hell Wil, thank you for sharing, and I'm not sure who Melanie is, but I would love to hear more about her. RIP Here is my email so you can contact me and we can exchange numbers. [e-mail] I look forward to hearing from you soon. Un abrazo :)

[@wilfredofigueroa66]

@@WillieEstradaMB Hola Willie, I got my names confused. The person I thought was you is actually Eddie Torres...The mambo king. He was Melanie's brother in law. Awesome dancer and great human being. I will keep in touch.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

@@wilfredofigueroa66 I understand, and admired Eddie very much! Un abrazo

[@olvinfuentes7514]

I'm going to make this go mainstream !!

[@vieshanblacksloft426]

Rip Lou gbu

[@davidalen2590]

Awesome clip Sir! Did you get the "Latin" influence from Mambo dancing? And your timing...was a straight 4 count or what? I'm doing some research and believe your dancing is really sort of original salsa dancing before it was called that(!) differentiating it from Mambo. I've ordered your book btw. Deep thanks for sharing...truly! Also, did you always dance to disco music? Cheers!

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Thank you, David, and yes I grew up dancing the Mambo since I was five years old. However, that is not me in that clip, it's Luis Rosa who was killed in a car accident several years ago. My book will highlight everything you are inquiring about in detail. The influence of Mambo and Salsa, as well as the influence of Swing, are also mentioned. You can hit me up via email if you like. @ [e-mail] Thank you again David, and I look forward to getting your thoughts on my book. P.S. As part of your research you should also get "Salsa Rising" by Professor Juan Flores. There is an entire chapter in there about the Hustle. Professors Flores interviewed me at great length for that chapter. Best, Willie Estrada

[@WillieEstradaMB]

We danced to Soul and Funk, but before that, it was Mambo and Salsa, which we incorporated into just about every dance we did since the early 1960s. The influence of a variety of music was instilled into our form of dance since I was a child of Caribbean descent. My father was my biggest influence from the time when I was a young boy.

[@davidalen2590]

@@WillieEstradaMB Thanks Willie!

[@charlessmith263]

I tracked down the disco track as these hustle dancers "danced" - here - a sort of a quotation to "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow in 1975, discofied around 1977 or so by the disco queen herself, Donna Summer here.

[@DanceJudge]

I hope this dance stays alive. Men should see this video and see how amazing men can be when they do this dance, and with two women? That man is a master !

[@horsluva0758]

Yes!!!! How we used dance in the 70's the best music and dancing EVER!!!! Miss those days!!!!

[@andreaxoxo4034]

WHERE IS THIS PLACE BECAUSE I WANT TO BE THERE!!!! Is there a dance like this every weekend or was it a special occasion??

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Its an annual boat ride we do every year except for the past two years since Covid. This year we are doing something different go to my website to see the flyer. www.thedancinggangsters.com We hope to see you there!

[@vieshanblacksloft426]

It was The Latin Symbolic Boat rides ...

[@musicalsneakersinc.8251]

I love the Man in the Red Shirt - he is like a Pablo Picasso!!! Caruso and more!!!

[@AFRO_KEEN]

Those were the good old days.Lol

[@ladylilo6044]

Yes my time, loved dancing the hustle, best teen aged years 1977-1979 in the Bronx & Manhattan...dancing at the Copa, Roseland, Ipanema, Bentleys, Underground, Fun house, Palladium, Blue Note, Roxy, Fountain Blue, Sidestreet, woooo so many...those were the days!

[@kimmie1957]

Omg yes I was 19 in 1977 is when I started I’m 63 now & love watching it still & I love the music from back then. Went to all those clubs too, I’m from Bklyn . Live & retired now in Indianapolis,Indiana .

[@BobBelson]

Luis and Mary Ann Rosa. Yes, They are NYC Hustle legends.!! I remember them doing Lifts dips and drops on the concrete sidewalk at Lincoln center 20 years ago during a summer dance social just for fun. . It doesn't get more hardcore hustle than that.

[@deescelly1200]

Oh dayummm! Dude's still got it!!

[@MrNativecolor]

I was with the Original Latin Symbolics from 170st Grand Concourse 1975-79.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

MrNativecolor The Original Latin Symbolics was founded by George Vascones in 1972, as a Mambo team. The Hustle was added in 1974 until date.

[@denisemartinez6972]

Beautiful....what is the name of the song that comes on at 2:00. So long still don't know the name.

[@WillieEstradaMB]

Hi Denise, it's called... Pursuit of the Pimp Mobile, by Issac Hayes :)

[@denisemartinez6972]

@@WillieEstradaMB thank you so much!

[@outwiththem]

Something good came out of the Bronx..and we still enjoy it..Tough Rican Dancers...

[@CuirPhotodotNet]

Beautiful...... I almost cried...BRAVO !!!!!

[@Titoroski187]

Donna rocking in the back! Could it be magic!

[@GordonBeckles]

Veronica... you're the fire. ;) You really put the hot in the hustle... lol