Salsa for Fitness: Basic Step - Women's Fitness

Salsa Step 1: Basic Step - part of the women's fitness video series by GeoBeats. Sarit and I would like to demonstrate the salsa basic step. The basic step is made up of rocking and walking. So we have a forward rock, step, walk. Back, rock, walk. Forward, rock, walk. Back, rock, walk. Now it is true that as you advance along, you may hear rock, step, close, rock, step, close. It is not necessary to always close your feet in the close, but that is the basic step. And a little more on the basic step is this. Cuban style indicates that we need Cuban hip motion. The way to create Cuban hip motion is to bend and straighten your legs. The worst thing you can do is try to make Cuban motion, because then you just look a bit broken in pieces. What you can do, just like pushing little buttons on the floor as you roll through your bent leg to your straight leg. Your hip is the top of your leg, and therefore it will rotate, and that would make for a more sexy, sensual looking salsa because you're rotating down below. And that is the first step in salsa, the basic step.