International Latin Samba Technique by Shirley Ballas

[@rayhchow]

What a fantastic teacher! I once spent 20 years to learn dancing and manged to dance latins as if they were foxfrot. (To run true to form, my 20 year of learning was on and off, on and off ----- mainly off, the longest 'off' period lasting 8 years.) I was fortunate enough to learn this video of hers 11 years ago. I call hers "the dead on pistol method" because Micky Mouse did this, Micky Mouse did that, "Bang' , Micky Mouse was dead ! But how is my latin dancing today? Just fabulous, believe it or not I understand that one guy became a US professional finalist after being her student merely 6 years earlier. I could do much better. Had I been able to get direct instruction from her, I would only need 5 years to be recalled in competitions, domestic or overseas.

[@yvestazdevil4916]

Shirley Ballas, an ex world champion, a world authority in International Latin Style. She is far from being nobody. She is not teaching Brazilian Samba and she does not claim to do it. She is teaching International Style Samba, and she is very good at it. Good like being the coach of several world champions. So let’s not mix things here.

[@wizipitz9161]

@Latino M. If you're having a hard time trying to understand new dance, other dance or whatsoever dance then read first and understand what they're trying to explain. This is Ballroom samba not your brazilian samba which to you is new. Maybe your ego got hurt because all you know is your brazilian samba and nothing else.. Same thing in soccer. You''re not the only country playing that game but other countries as well.

[@latinom.1574]

Since you want to call what you are teaching samba, would you mind to give some explanations for the use of this word? What do you understand by this word? Do you know the afrian origin of it, and the history of its developments in rio de janeiro jornals, to refer to poor class parties? Also, whats the elements that makes it a version or at least a new approach or account of samba? What is the contribution or the relation to real samba music and culture? In your teaching is there any study about brazilian-afro origins and the demands of samba swing? Or you just teach whatever without further explanations and without care to who are you fooling? Its really curious to see how easy people think it is to be called a "teacher" or a authority of something thanks the self-indulgence of international ballroom culture and their institutionalized ignorance. "when the foundation is fragile, the house will fall"

[@Tr3nchAn0n]

ballroom samba does not even try to related to what you are talking about my friend. Brazilian samba comes from Semba. s.e.m.b.a. a very very old dance. Ballroom samba may have at one point came from Brazilian but like tango and many other dances, have grown apart in both time and distance. a dance is a language and they have dialects and accents that change with time. that's what we have here.

[@Tr3nchAn0n]

globalcoupledances the original semba was a partner dance. semba meant belly to belly.

[@Tr3nchAn0n]

globalcoupledances doesnt hurt my feelings what you believe. i learned this from an old semba dancer in Brazil.

[@maisymorris7506]

Clearly you know nothing and didn’t watch or listen. Shirley is amazing