CHAT ROOM

If beginners 'grow up' on classes that focus on fundamentals, short sequences that are used to highlight 1 or maybe 2 techniques per week then as they progress that's what they expect classes to be always like.

If however from day one they've only ever gone to classes that emphasise 'routines' then that's what they think is the norm.

We run 6 classes all at different levels and it's only in the top class that we ever teach a 'routine' thats more than 6 bars of music. Even then it's taught over several weeks. All of the other classes focus on 1 technique wrapped in a short sequence of fluff i.e a cross body, a basic right turn, a basic pivot turn, basic spin, a hair comb here, a hand change there. The fluff is always something they should have mastered in previous classes/levels.

On the whole our students don't particularly like going to other 'routine' based classes and if they do the normally select out 1 small section that they like and that's what they practice. (Yes we have asked them :-) )

It's what they've grown up on and it's what they expect all classes to be like.

It's the same with musical tastes. If a person learns to 'poppy', 'cheesy', often non salsa music then that's what they tend to like later on and are the first to complain when a SALSA club just plays SALSA music.
If they learn to quality 'real' Salsa music of a variety of styles then that's what they tend to prefare when out social dancing.