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- **** out of ***** stars Review by Fabio SalsaIsGood
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In my opinion Tomaj is at his best with his beginner material, and this DVD offers the same attention to detail which you also find in his Latin Motion Demystified. Tomaj and Susie may not be flashy dancers, nor the role models you may want to aspire to in your wildest salsa dreams, but the purpose of an instructor is to instruct, not to arouse adulation, and Tomaj fills the role pretty well in this DVD. He analyses the components of the dance very well, dissecting the elements and explaining them carefully. I like his emphasis on the proper position of the body weight, the attention to the footwork and to the hand hold in order to get a proper lead and following technique from the very start.
Of course, take 10 teachers and you will be taught in 11 different ways, so no DVD should be taken as a Bible; if you decide to learn from Tomaj’s, remember that he teaches salsa on1, LA style, which makes his salsa powerful and somehow ‘large’, but if you absorb this material well, it should enable you to dance a reasonable salsa with most people you are likely to meet in a salsa club. The only drawback of the DVD: it is only 30 minutes long.. more material could have been included in it, but, at the end of the day, it is still better to have less than more, if less means accurate material, and more means the quality of the teaching is poor, and this DVD fall into the first category.
(Posted on 3/9/2011)
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