We were thinking of what “skills” we could show off to our guests during our wedding, and we decided to entertain them with a dance. Through recommendation from our friend, Colbert, we found out about Salsa. Jeamie, the instructor from SalsaJay.com had a blog and was termed the Hottest Salsa Community in Malaysia.
Immediately after checking out their blog, Harrace booked us up for private training sessions with the instructors. We had our first salsa class in mid May for a 1 hour session. I was sick with flu that day, but the thought of being able to lose some weight drove me to attend the class no matter what.
Well, i had no prior training in dancing (i’ve got not much skills except being able to talk fast, haha) so it was rather intimidating. However, Jeamie was patient and actually a very fun salsa teacher, who was swaying, and swinging me like a “passionate lover”. I was blushing fast, (maybe i was just feeling hot from wearing too much clothes?) and wished that i too could be performing with so much confidence.
So, what is actually salsa? I did a search online and found some useful background about salsa on wikipedia. There were even instructions on the basic steps, and the turns. It seems that salsa was “spicy” in Spanish, and therefore there should be fast movements and each partner should be moving near to each other. Initially i would spin away (far far away) from my partner and then had to make BIG steps to walk back to my initial positions. I looked more like a robot and cannot seem to sway nor move my body to look as sensual or confident as the instructor.
I preferred the 1 to 1 sesssion compared to the huge class sessions as i had difficulties in catching the steps. Even in normal aerobics classes or other workout classes in the gym, i’m one of those that couldn’t seem to control both my hands & feet simultaneously. In total i only had time for 2 private one hour sessions so far, and i was fortunate that i can still remember the steps from day 1. Next week when i’m back in KL, i’ll be signing on for 2 more hours of private training which i hope after these 4 hours of intensive training, we’ll be able to graduate with flying colours.
The 2nd session had more fast moves and poses so i’m hoping that our wedding guests will be mesmerised with our salsa dance on June 9. As for losing weight from salsa, maybe i’m moving too slowly but i don’t seem to sweat during the workout so don’t expect that you will burn lots of calories off too.
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