Saturday, June 10, 2006

Men who salsa

There's an amusing thread on the Salsajive forum about the types of men who salsa:

Type one: The shy ones who like a structure and stick carefully to what they have learnt and do jobs like computing. They feel comfortable relating to women without having to engage in conversation. They often get quite reasonable at dancing because they work hard at their moves but never take risks.
Type two: The extraverts who like to have a good time and enjoy salsa being a bit different. They like to experiment with moves and have a laugh. They can be a real pleasure to dance with.
Type three: image conscious, they know they look good and tend to dance mainly with the attractive women and do lots of close in moves or extravagant footwork.

Not sure which category I fall into - I probably used to be 1 but am now more 2 (I'm more of an extrovert dancing salsa than I am the rest of the time).

One of the posts in the thread also mentions Type 4:

Type four:- Those who see salsa purely as a means to get up close and personal with a girl... so they go to a few beginners classes then describe themselves as experts - and insist on picking on unsuspecting beginners and throwing them around the dance floor (usually off time) - before throwing them into a dramtic dip whereby she bangs her head and see's the light so runs off to warn all her friends! lol

I think we all know the kind of person they mean - although there are only a handful in Cardiff they've managed to put quite a few beginner women off salsa (and they give the rest of us older men a bad name).

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