How to Dance Salsa - Bow & Arrow

Hey , guys , I want to teach you a little move that is really easy to learn , but it gives a really cool style and makes the guys look really good .

That's what we like , right ?

OK .

So this is called the bow and arrow .

The bow and arrow is where we turn the girl as we turn her , we switch hands and we come up and come back just like that .

OK ?

So in learning how to do that , you should already know how to do a basic ru turn the basic underarm , turn somehow get there , do your footwork and turn the lady over on her outside side as you turn her as she's halfway around through that , we're gonna switch hands .

So as she goes back there , I switch hands and she shouldn't know any different .

OK .

Look at that new hand .

Cool .

So we're , we're in handshake fold right here .

So practice that a few times .

Get to the point that's really comfortable just switching your hands and don't worry about your footwork at this point .

Now that we're here in handshake hold , we're gonna lift the arms and we're gonna kind of make the window here that we learn in our other moves with that window , we're gonna put our own head through it and walk back .

OK .

So try that from here , try lifting your arm , placing the , your own hand on the back of your head and then walking away .

Now what's really gonna help is if the lady doesn't grip , Kena is making it really easy for me because she's not gripping .

Go ahead and hold on with your thumb .

That's a really bad grip from the lady and grip even harder .

She doesn't even want to .

Yeah .

So now that we're there , she , she doesn't come off and you have to like wiggle your way out of it .

Um So uh work with your partner on that and get to the point that that feels really comfortable .

And now after we have that to add a nice finishing touch to it , the reason we call this , the bow and arrow is , I reach back and I pull quivers out and then I hold my bow up at the end .

So I reach back and get a quiver and I hold my bow up here and then I pull the arrow out and I place it in the bow .

So you'll see me go out and come back .

Cool .

I'm a fierce fighter .

OK .

So let's do that from the top .

So from the top , we go ahead and have an underarm turn , we switch hands in the middle and then we do our bow and arrow .

Great .

Now , what you want to realize is the key point is where to start the bow and arrow as I go around , take a really slow turn for me this time , crazy slow .

So as she turns , we want to grab on right here and go and stop as she's facing away from us , that's actually the point that we want to start bringing arm behind us .

So I'm gonna show you the wrong way .

Go ahead and finish your turn all the way off .

Now that she's here , she sees the hand here and now we bring it up over top .

It's gonna look like two different moves and that's not what you want .

You wanna spin her and immediately put the arm back there .

Oh So let's do that again .

We spin the lady .

We put the arm over top and we spin it back .

Now , what I find is it's nice to already be in one handed hold before you start this .

So learn that mode that I just showed you there , learn that on your own and make that look really good .

But moving beyond that , we want to learn how to already be in handshake hold and somehow get back into the other hold .

So say that we're here already .

I prefer to do and inside on drum turn inside over this way and now we're still on handshake hold , but it's an upside down that doesn't feel very good .

For either of us .

So let's do that again .

So we go all the way around and now at this point it feels very natural to grab that arrow and use our boat .

Now what I see a lot of guys do wrong .

They have this hand down too low .

Yeah , she thinks that hand is coming or she doesn't know what's happening .

You don't want to do that .

We want to come forward this way .

We want to take the hand around and hold your arrow and your bow up really nice and high and that's gonna give it a lot more power and presence .

Ok .

So in that handshake hold , we spin around , we hold it high and we come out nice .

So let's assume we're up from the very , very top .

We spin over , we get in handshake hold , we do whatever we want here .

Then we spin back out , we do our bow and arrow and that's the motion .

So you can now do your bow and arrow on the outside turn or you can wait while you're already in handshake .

Hold and you can do it on the inside turn one more time from the top .

We come all the way around or in the outside turn and it gets us right back or we go around , we put her in handshake hold , do whatever we want , do an inside turn straight into the bow and arrow .

Nice , great job guys .