Quote: (11-10-2014 01:24 PM)Dalaran1991 Wrote:
OP, I'll get back to u with some details when I have more time. I'm doing a recollection of my salsa game anyway.
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I have been in the salsa and bachata scene for 10 months - having limited success but can see the social circles multiplying and more bang opportunities. It is definately a slow playing game . Question: I am thinking of starting up Kizomba to round things out - not hell bent lessons but casual intro lessons and more relaxed pace. Do you guy find the Kiz chicas more DTF than salsa ones? I like the dance - very close holds with hot and avg woman
Yes, slow game is the only way to stay insane if u wanna game in salsa. As for kizomba it's a bitch to learn for guys. It's awesome if you have a flexible and cute partner, but it's suffocating if she is fat and smells. Beggars aint choosers, but at least in salsa/bachata you can control the distance how close you wanna be. In kiz you need to really throw ego out of the window if you wanna learn quickly, because all girls who aren't ugly looking will be swept up as soon as people smell a kizomba song coming up.
Also the technicality of kizomba is totally different from salsa/bachata. Forget what you learnt, it's useless. In kiz it's the upper body, breathing and rhythm that do all the work. JJG knows more about this than I do.
I don't really know anything about kizomba; however, by watching it, I can see that there are some bachata-like moves and in my thinking the moves of one dance can be incorporated into other dances... but sometimes to learn another style of dance, you need to attempt to embed yourself into the teachings and style of that other dance in order to get some of the subtleties and the differences and to be able to apply those moves to your leading the girl.
I personally believe that you should focus on the kinds of dance(s) that that you believe that you are going to be able to employ and to practice. If you see some social circles in which you want to attempt to enter through such kizomba dance, then all the power to you take lessons and apply it and maybe even you may become very actively involved in those circles... yet I think that you will also be able to apply some of the styles of Kizomba to other dances, if you decide to exit that kizomba social circle.