How to Dance Salsa - Shadow Swivels

Hey guys , I'm going to teach you some really cool moves .

These are some shadow swivels .

So the shadow swivel is where the guy is behind the lady .

She's my shadow and she has her hands out to the side and she swivels very nicely right in front of me and then I spin her out of that and we finish .

So learning how to do that first , you need to know how to get into it and how we get into that .

She's in normal salsa hold and I'm going to do an underarm turn with her in the underarm turn .

I switch into the handshake hold during the underarm turn and then I slide my left hand underneath and she's going to offer her left .

Ok .

So let's do that much again .

So we're in a normal dance hold .

I spin her handshake hold , I offer my left underneath with her already spinning .

You're going to bring that left arm all the way over and it's going to automatically just hit mine .

So once it hits mine , I'm going to actually take my right arm and open her up into another spin .

Instead of her spinning , she's going to know just from doing this in practice that this is the handshake hold into swivels .

So I use this hand and I kind of stop her , I spin her more here , but I stop her there and then I can just stand back here and have her swivel around .

Now , what I like to see the ladies do .

I like their head to be nice and straight looking , straight forward and stand as tall as they possibly can .

And as she's doing that then she's going to get a lot of motion in her hips and her waist , going back and forth there .

Nice .

And she wants to press really wide , take your arms really wide out and press on me .

OK .

So when you first learned this as a guy , I want you to just keep your legs nice and tight and have your arms out there and have her spin herself .

You don't have to really help her .

I can just stand here with my arms here and she knows to swivel , I'm not doing anything to help her , but eventually , I mean , I could help her and I could look better by twisting as well .

That makes her feel a lot better .

Now , let's have you go and step to the side a little bit and let me tell them what I'm doing , what I'm doing .

I have my arms out there and when I want her to go on that side , I take the rib over on the other side .

If you're in a competition , you want to actually come all the way up on to a point .

Pull that hip up and stay up nice and tall .

If you're just club , you can keep that nice and low .

Put it into your hips , put it into your ribs .

And when I put her back on the other side , I stick my rib over there .

So it's rib , rib , rib , OK ?

Competition it's up really tall and you get a lot taller and more rib motion going upwards with a spiral going back .

So you going to come back in front of me so you can't really see me doing it .

But having the beautiful lady in front with me , barely doing that behind , that has good synergy .

So you're going to start out going this way over over .

We both look up .

So now let's say we're done with this .

How do we get out ?

She stays over on that side , on her right side with her left foot though .

And I take both arms above her head and I spin her out of it and then I bring the arms down , placing I'm still in handshake , hold at the top , placing her hand in my other .

And if you don't know where it is , just go way up on her arm and then slide back .

OK ?

So let's do that from the top , from the top .

We have both the hands in , we do one spin and the handshake hold , throw the other arm underneath , step back behind her with a 7-Eleven then out as she does her spins and then we spin and we bring the hand down and you're done .

Now , let's add a few different twists to that .

From the top .

I want to get automatically into it .

I don't want you to go over , stop here and then go into the swivels that , that just doesn't look good , especially Sasa .

You want to go crazy fast .

So going really fast , we're here .

We're gonna spin , we're gonna spin and then we're gonna go OK ?

It's gonna be very , very fast .

So for the lady think of two spins for the guy think of spinning with a left arm then spinning it with her right arm .

Now on your second spin , you're going to stop and face that way .

OK ?

What should stop ?

The lady is we need to grab her left hand on that spin .

So we go so fast .

12 , I grab this hand here and that stops her .

Now , I don't want to grab her really hard .

But if you're in a club and if you're with somebody that's new , you're going to have to .

And if you reach over top , reach underneath , you can find her .

So keep on going , keep on going and she'll just run into me on her own and then we can keep on swiveling from there and make it look pretty nice .

Work on that transition a lot and get it to the point that you can go .

12 .

Keep on going right into that .

Very nice .

Ok .

What's going to help for the ladies ?

Don't think about helping me .

Just think about bringing your arm around .

You have that arm styling use it .

So as you spin around here , that arm should be going around .

Look at that , I find it .

You don't have to ever help the guy in the dancing .

He's good .

He'll find your arm .

If he's not good , he shouldn't be trying to smooth .

OK ?

So let's do that again .

We go 12 and then we go boom , boom , boom , boom , then we spin around and we bring it down .

So how do we get out of it ?

I don't like this ending move .

I want to change this .

I always like things to look beautiful as a transition .

So at the very end , whenever she is right here and we want to spin her out of it .

I want you to bring the arms above your head and I want you to do the bow and arrow .

So go and spin her twice .

Take that right arm back behind your head and bow and arrow her out of that .

OK .

So let's do that from the very top , adding the bow and arrow in at the end and that's the whole routine .

OK .

So she goes 12 swivel , swivel as many as you want when you're ready , double spin out behind the head and back .

Great job .

Let's do that one more time .

A little slower just so they can see it .

Ok .

So we go one , two , swivel swivel , swivel , swivel , swivel , one , two and back .

Ok .

So we go one , two , swivel , swivel , swivel swivel , swivel , one two and back .

Good job .