‘I have two left feet,’ ‘I have no rhythm,’ ‘If I move my hands, I forget what my feet are doing.’ Sound familiar? If you’ve ever uttered these phrases while looking at a dance floor with envy (and a little panic), this article is for you. <\/p>\n\n
At As\u00ed Se Baila<\/strong>, we’ve seen hundreds of people who swore they were ‘lost causes’ and who are now the first ones on the dance floor. Coordination isn’t a divine gift; it’s a skill that can be trained<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n Here’s the ultimate guide to stop fighting with your own limbs.<\/p>\n\n The number one mistake beginners make is trying to do everything at once. The brain collapses. To avoid this, we use the layering technique: <\/p>\n\n It seems contradictory, but looking at your feet is the worst thing you can do for your coordination.<\/p>\n\n Did you know our body is designed to move cross-laterally? When you walk, when you move your right arm, your left foot usually moves forward. In dance (especially Salsa or Swing), we take advantage of this natural inertia. <\/p>\n\n If you try to move your arm and leg on the same side at the same time, you’ll look like an 80s robot. Relax and let the natural cross-body movement happen! <\/p>\n\n Dancing is like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time. To achieve this, in our classes we practice dissociation<\/strong> exercises: learning to move your shoulders without moving your hips, or moving your feet while your hands flow. <\/p>\n\n Quick Exercise:<\/strong> Try to keep rhythm with your right foot while drawing circles in the air with your left hand. Congratulations! You’ve just started training your dancer’s brain. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Sometimes the problem isn’t coordination, but that you’re ‘off-beat.’ Listening to the music (the clave in salsa or the bass in bachata) tells you when to move. If your foot knows when<\/em> to land, your hand will know when<\/em> to go up. <\/p>\n\n Being ‘clumsy’ is simply being a dancer who hasn’t had a good teacher yet. At As\u00ed Se Baila<\/strong>, we love challenges, and we promise that after a month of classes, those ‘two left feet’ will start to get along wonderfully. <\/p>\n\n Would you like to come to a ‘Zero Level’ class where everyone starts from the same place?<\/strong> Tell us what time works best for you, and we’ll reserve a spot so you can see that you can do it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘I have two left feet,’ ‘I have no rhythm,’ ‘If I move my hands, I forget what my feet are doing.’ Sound familiar? If you’ve ever uttered these phrases while looking at a dance floor with envy (and a little panic), this article is for you. At As\u00ed Se Baila, we’ve seen hundreds of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asb-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28902,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions\/28902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisebaila.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. The ‘Onion’ Secret: Learn in Layers<\/h2>\n\n
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2. The Visual Trick: Don’t Look at Your Feet<\/h2>\n\n
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3. The ‘Diagonal’ Rule<\/h2>\n\n
4. Divide and Conquer (Dissociation)<\/h2>\n\n
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5. Music is Your GPS<\/h2>\n\n
Dare to take the first step?<\/h3>\n\n