This blog was started, because I've come to realize that I've been telling my students a lot of things. Useful experience, lessons that I've learnt the hard way, etc. while teaching Salsa.

All those stuff were never properly recorded. I did write some articles but I guess they were lost in some obscure corner now.

Hopefully with this blog, .... those information/tips can be put to better use.

(also, please pardon my broken English / Singlish.... I prefer to be 'informal' when writing, hopefully people can still understand what I'll be writing. I hope none of these posts sound too obnoxious or arrogant. Do feel free to post your comments as well. :P)

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Remembering the moves - Use modern technology

Many of the more hardworking beginner salsa leads will try to take notes of the moves they've learnt, only to realized a few months later that they can't really decipher what they wrote.

It's difficult to translate action into words.

With Digicams and harddisk storage being so cheap these days, it's definitely more efficient to use modern technology for such purposes.

Get a digicam, with a tripod and you can video yourselves with the new moves you've just learnt! Then you can review it anytime you want later.

Alternatively, these days we can use our phone's cameras since they are so powerful already! Then get a classmate to video you immediately after the class while knowledge is still fresh :)

One Side effect of doing this is that, u'll see how 'ugly' u look when dancing :P
If you take it positively, it should spur you to correct yourselves.

For me, I've chronicled my own progress with such videos. It's a good way to measure how far u've gone and the results of your hardwork!

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