How to Dance Salsa - Yo-Yo - Salsa Hand Tricks

Hey guys , we're going to do a little bit of yo yo styling .

So the yo yo is a move that you can do .

You can use it in salsa , use it in any of your Latin dances really ?

And as a yo-yo , you have the arm extended out there and then I really twist her and she yo yos into me and then she goes right back .

Cool .

So now let's talk about how to do that and just a few different things that are going to make it look really nice .

So as a guy , I want to take the hand here and I make ac so I go see .

So if you look at that , it goes see , OK .

And instead of just pulling her straight to me , that's going to feel like a yank on the lady .

We don't want to yank her .

So with that c there , I pull her to me , then I go in a little circle and she reads that .

Now as a lady what you want to do once you get right here , take a deep breath in and that deep breath in is going to make you feel really close to the guy I breathe in too .

And now to pull her back , if you see my hand here , we aren't using her thumbs at all .

She has her shoulders down .

I have my shoulders down .

I don't throw her out there .

I do a backwards , see this time .

So I take the hand over at first and then I pull it back to me , it's her job to go out there .

Now , what I like to do with a beginner is take them out there , get to the end of the sea and nudge them over there because I don't like them to stand on this foot here and she's doing a great job with that .

She's not standing on this foot .

So let's do it the wrong way .

She's coming in , she's here and as she goes out , I'm not going to nudge her over .

She still stands on this foot .

So at the end I want to push and thg it that nice line all the way up to the end of her .

Cool .

Let's do that again if we pull in and we go out .

Ok .

Now , I like to see at the very end of it , we take the ribs as the guy out to the side , we point that inside leg down , we take the hip and we pull up .

Now the lady is going to do the same thing .

She's gonna have her right hip pulled up .

Look up as we do this she's gonna have her right hip pulled up , pointing on that right toe and then she's going to take the ribs over to the left .

So whenever I push her , it should push her out into this line here .

So this is definitely exaggerated .

And if you don't want to have it exaggerated , come back over to me and you can just stand up even taller .

So we get up really tall and then we go there .

Cool .

Let's do it again .

We're here and we're there .

Nice .

So adding on to that , I like the lady to have a little bit of arm styling .

So as she spins into me , let's not get your left arm stuck in this , take your left arm over top of this arm .

So go ahead and bring that left arm over top .

There we go and keep on coming .

Keep on coming .

Now here at the end um that frees this arm up to do all kinds of cool stuff .

You can place it on my cheek here all the way up to me or she can place it on her own head .

So go and place it on your head .

Nice and there's all kinds of stuff you can do there , your normal arm styling that you know , you can do right there .

You can also place it on your hip .

So over on your other hip , that one over there and kind of take it up your leg .

I didn't see it , but I assume it looked good .

Cool .

And now let's go ahead and spinner back out and once you're out there , throw the arm out , but then bring it back into yourself .

Yes .

So let's do that one again .

You're going to bring the arm over , top , over top and do one of your arm stylings and then go back out , back to the head .

Nice .

So I like how she's throwing it out , but I don't want it to come back .

Now .

This time , I'm also going to have her look out that way as you take the arm out , look out over there .

So let's practice that , look out but then look back at me and bring the hand .

Yeah .

OK .

You ready know that's the Yeah , cool .

Let's go again .

That's good .

So if we stand up a lot taller , it will really help out to make sure that we just have our balance really well and you can go slower too when we first learn it .

So keep the arm down .

We go 123 and 456 .

Nice .

That's some great yo , yo arms selling for you .

This is a very common move in all your Latin dances .

OK .

You ready ?

We go boom , boom , boom , cool .

OK .

I like that didn't happen .

OK .

You ready one ?

OK .

The arm has to go on top .

OK .

You ready ?

Yeah .

Oh Let's go again .