Salsa Underarm Turn Lesson - For Beginners

Hello and welcome to another passion for dancing video today we're gonna teach you the underarm turn .

This is a turn the ladies do .

Uh So let's get started right away with the count and 123567 , another angle .

123567 guys .

All you're gonna do is your basic step .

So you're going to go forward , replace together and back , replace together .

I covered the basic step in detail in our previous videos .

So just go back and watch that , make sure you really get that .

But that's all you're doing with your steps .

The main thing that's different here is that you're going to use your arm .

So you're going to go down and up as you're doing your basic step .

So let's just show that once I'm going to do my basic step and I'm going to go down and up with my arm .

But all I'm doing with my steps is just the basic ladies .

Let's do your step .

Now .

Uh you start with the basic uh but then you have to do a solo spot .

Turn to the right .

So just gonna show it right now and , and talk about lady steps .

So ladies , you go back , replace together and now you're gonna go forward and turn , replace and turn and close .

That's it .

One more time you go back , replace together and forward turn , replace , turn and close .

Ladies .

Let's take a closer look at your steps .

Now you're gonna go back with the right replace right on to your left and close right foot to left foot and then you're gonna go for your turn forward , turn replace on the right turn and close left foot to right foot .

Let's talk about the lead .

Uh So guys , you have a big job here to do .

Uh You wanna make sure that you are giving the lady the correct signal , uh that uh underarm turn is coming up .

Um And to do that , all you need to do is imagine the letter J .

So just imagine the letter J and that's what you're gonna do with your left arm to signal that the turn is coming up .

So let's show it uh at this angle .

So you can see uh again , it's happening with my left arm , guys , we go down and up .

Yeah , and again , the letter J with our left arm and that's the signal for the , for the lady that the underarm is coming up .

Um Once she knows it's coming up , she's gonna want to turn on the next part .

Um So all we're gonna do is kind of support her .

We don't want to yank her and turn her too fast .

Just kind of follow along with her .

So once I did my little J preparation here , she's gonna turn on her own and all I'm doing is supporting .

Um , now which counts am I lowering and bringing my arm up ?

Uh It's on one and three .

So I go down on count one as I step forward and then .