7 Salsa Inside Turn Variations You Should Know

Can you see the difference between basic salsa turns and their variations? Let's take a look at the cross body inside turn as an example. The cross body lead inside turn is a salsa turn with tons of variations. Today I'm going to show you the inside turn on it's own and then 7 variations you can use in your salsa dancing. Can you see and execute the differences?

00:00 Intro
0:41 The importance of being able to SEE dance
1:03 Inside turn in it's basic form
1:23 Shoulder turn variation
1:34 Hip turn variation
1:47 Free spin variation
1:59 Wrap with a check
2:14 Wrap with complete turn
2:23 Butterfly with a check
2:32 Butterfly with complete turn
2:39 Barrel roll
2:51 Sliding doors from shoulder, hip and free spin
3:21 Outro

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[maj]

This has gotta be my favorite tutorials from you. People could do inside turns all night and still look great. The sliding door is

[arielalberto]

_Excellent dance!_


*1* The dance begins 1:03
Inside turn (closed position) 1:11
Inside turn (open position) 1:18
Shoulder turn 1:24
*2* Hip turn 1:35
*3* Free spin 1:47
*4* Wrap (with a check) 1:59
Wrap (complete turn) 2.14
*5* Butterfly (with a check) 2:24
Butterfly (complete turn) 2:33
*6* Barrel roll 2:41
*7* Sliding doors (from shoulder) 2:52
Sliding doors (from hip) 2:57
Sliding doors (from free spin) 3:03

[whitelily]

I love how the girl turns so smooth towards step 1.

[Hari]

This video is so well done that I keep going back to it over and over every now then. Great job Robin!

[justinvaledon]

You have the best videos. I saw the one where you talked about practicing by yourself and I just practice by myself for 15-20 minutes a day so that's a few songs, and also a great cardio workout but also what helps me is to sometimes just sit with headphones and play salsa and just like I visualize my goals I visualize myself dancing and performing all the turns and patterns. I know it seems weird but closing your eyes and imagining yourself dancing salsa great is like an athlete who closes his eyes before a game and visualizes themselves getting the winning point or winning the game. Visualize and hear people tell you how great you dance and you having fun. Again the law of attraction doesn't just work with getting material things but also helps with things like dancing salsa, it's like practicing in your mind so you develop confidence. Act as if....Thanks again for a great video

[terryfesenko]

Thanks for the 7 inside turn variations and your inspiring introductory talk. I was particularly interested in the barrel rolls because I've often heard the term but never knew exactly what it was. I tested it out on my wife, and it worked!

[kevinlee]

I love your videos. So simple, and they show how the movement is, and how easy learn dance can be.

[yoidoretennshi]

Robin, you are great! When I saw the title of the video, I was afraid that these turns might be rather complicated ones for the intermediate and/or advanced level people, but checking its content, I came to understand that they are not so difficult to learn, on the contrary, easier than I was imagining, and at the same time they look very elegant and fluid, also very beautiful even just to see. Now I'll try to master them one by one and add them to my still limited basic repertoire. Your way of shooting this video is really helpful to learn them : showing all the different turns in one fluid session repeating each one twice instead of interrupting the whole flow for each turn so that we can check more easily and intuitively the difference among each turn's initial moves. Thank you so much!!!

[alanfurlong-drummer]

This is the video lesson I needed, thank you 🇮🇪

[Kalimera]

This is perfect and very much appreciated in these dark times. Thank you for helping spread some sunshine.

[ushanishchal]

Thank you so much for this. This is so helpful. Other day while dancing lead was trying to do butterfly turn and I had no clue lol

[gegomez]

This was very good, clean and simple 👏👏👏

[elenaalferrano]

Lo vi y me interesó inmediatamente....gracias

[geovannyrodriguezmendes]

Q buen video
Exentes pasos
Saludos desde Cartago Costa Rica

[shawnantunes]

My new favorite dance YouTube page!! 💪

[PeacePrototype]

Awesome material! Similar movement pattern, different feel and execution. Do you have a similar video on the outside turn patterns?

[einfachvali]

Damn! The best spent 4 minutes of my life 😱Love this quick tutorial!

[elinannestad]

great teaching, it really helps to organise like that. As a follower I just don't think while dancing but I would like to understand and this really helps.

[songowen]

very good modes thank you very much i truly enjoy watching

[victoriac.attorneyatlaw]

I wish more men could lead like you! It makes it so much easier on the woman :-)