Learn to dance today! With our help and guidance you can… It only takes a couple of days to learn to dance the basic steps of many different styles of dance. Take for instance Salsa dancing: within an hour and with the proper instruction, you can learn to dance the fundamentals of this hot and spicy Latin dance!

And once you know the basics, it’s only a matter of short and sweet time before you get to know the rest. We definitely recommend trying some instructional videos (check out these stores: DanceCrazy, SalsaDanceDVD, or The Dance Store) as well as taking some group classes.

Once you get a little comfortable with the basics, bring your skills out to the clubs and ballrooms of your choice… A real experience like this will help you feel more acclimated and “in your element” when going out to dance socially.

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Learn how to dance salsa dance with this amazing step by step system that teaches you how to dance salsa. It’s totally progressive in nature, covers a massive 3 DVDs, and is beyond anything else you’ve ever seen on the market. It’s the silver bullet you’ve been looking for, and right now, Amazon.com has it on a Major sale (like, a really, really, major sale).

These DVDs have helped countless people master salsa dancing, but what really makes the special is their incredibly detailed and step by step instruction! They are designed for people, like myself, whom needed understandable, clear, detailed instruction, with practice and music. They are fantastic (and they have a complete money back guarantee). Get your set now on Amazon for a great price, here, SalsaCrazy Beginning (and Intermediate too) Mastery System. I have no idea how long this great deal will last, and Amazon might end it at any time.

I want to tell you about our upcoming Salsa Cruise, but I don’t want to minimize the importance of the great deal above for our DVD set. So let me say just one more thing. This is the DVD set I wish I had when I was learning how to salsa dance. It would have made learning so much easier, since it breaks down the dance far more than any other instructor (or DVD set) that I’ve seen. I see countless people whom struggle with learn how to dance, and these DVDs will help you beyond your wildest dreams. Why? Solid basics, a lot of repetition, clear instruction, detailed instruction, close ups of various tips and dance steps, and more. They are designed to help, and they do.

Ok, do you have the SalsaCrazy Beginning (and Intermediate too) Mastery System? You got a great deal (thank you Amazon!). Now it’s time to put those moves into action on a … dance cruise! Yes, a dance cruise. A great vacation, usually 7 or 8 days, to exotic ports of call. Every day, dancing, learning, dancing, eating, dancing, drinking and exotic ports of call (ie Adventure). Did I mention dancing? These cruises are an exceptional dance vacation. I wanted to tell you about our next one, since it’s something special.

Our next dance cruise is to the Mediterranean, for 12 days. This won’t appeal to everyone. It’s long, it leaves out of Venice (no, not Venice beach), and it’s bigger, grander, and more crazy than most of our cruises, but if you’re looking for adventure in the Med – this is your cruise. You can see it on our site, http://www.SalsaCruiseCrazy.com. It may be out of reach for some, so rest assured, we have our regular Caribbean cruise in the works for early 2013, but if you have the time (and yes, money), this cruise is exceptional. A real treat!

Hope you grab the DVDs on sale, and hop on board our next cruise. You’ll want to at least visit the website and get on the email list so you’ll be notified of future events and cruise.

Here’s some of our other Amazon DVDs!

And now, SalsaCrazy Advanced (for the Advanced dancers there, or high level intermediate):

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After 10 years of dance cruises, this one still managed to hold some fantastic surprises, and will go down as one of our best cruises. It’s amazing how not just our group, but also all of our instructors and event managers, have really perfected the art of dance cruising. I really had a great time, and yes, I (SalsaCrazy guy), am looking forward to my next cruise.

Our next cruises are in October, and while I will not be onboard those events, I recommend them greatly. The first is sailing with Juan Gil (on a 12 day adventure through the Mediterranean), and is one of the most massive, exciting, and downright adventurous cruises we have ever offered. Twelve days going SalsaCrazy in the Mediterranean? How great is that. Yes, you can register for that one now, http://www.SalsaCruiseCrazy.com (and more details at bottom of email).

The second cruise, with Francisco and Stacy Martinez (7 Days to Mexico), looks to bring back the memories of our many fantastic cruises to Mexico, and sets sail from the West Coast (which is a little closer than Venice, Italy – for the cruise above).

Yes, both of these are SalsaCrazy Cruises, yes, you can book both of them with our partners, DanceFun, and yes, you’ll get some special deals for saying “SalsaCrazy” every other word. Check the website for specifics, or feel free to call in at, 405-282-8989 (or toll fee 866-326-2338) – but don’t forget to mention SalsaCrazy!

What cruise will I be attending next? When is my next Salsa Cruise? I have my eyes set on the early 2013 timeframe for a return to the Caribbean, and I hope to have details on that cruise available on our website within a week or two.  Unfortunately, I can’t be on all the cruises (without a clone), so I have to pick and choose my cruises.

But, if you want a dose of SalsaCrazy, or just want to master your salsa dancing, there’s a great way to do it with our dance videos.  We have a whole series of dance videos available, both on our own websites, or on Amazon.com (you’re choice), I’ll link to my favorites below:

Learn to Salsa Beginners 3 Pack (On Amazon!)

Salsa Dance Mastery System (Includes 3 pack, plus intermediate, On Amazon!)

Bachata Dance Mastery (3 Pack, On Amazon!)

Yes, even a Ballroom Dance Mastery system, we affectionately call the Wedding Dance Mastery System (but really, it’s the ultimate primer to Ballroom Dance). Note: Even thought it’s April Fools, this is not an April Fools Joke – this product is amazing, and it really does exist!

Plus many more, you can see our full schedule over at http://www.DanceCrazy.com, or on the SalsaCrazy.com Dance Video store (Full money back guarantee – you’ll love these DVDs). So take us home with you – we want to come over.

Oh, and consider a salsa cruise as your next vacation choice! We have the following websites for a singles cruise too. Hope to see you onboard!

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Take a look – there’s nothing else like it!

Our Wedding Dance Mastery System!

DanceCrazy.com announced the addition of a complete Wedding Dance Mastery System to its stellar line of instructional dance videos and DVDs. Over five years in the making, this step by step approach to your wedding dance is an an incredibly detailed and complete guide to your first dance.

“After so many of our friends were getting married, and coming to us for dance instruction and last minute, frantic, aid, we saw a need to develop this type of all inclusive mastery product”, says Evan Margolin, President of DanceCrazy.com. “It’s difficult enough to plan and execute a perfect wedding, the bride and groom needn’t worry about yet another think – like their first dance.

Spanning an enormous set of five DVDs, with over eight hours of instruction, and a massive question and answer section, spanning every question imaginable, this DVD is perfect for those whom want to have a truly fantastic wedding dance, and not stress over what should be a fantastic experience.

“The DVD system is designed to be incredibly step by step, and leaves nothing out”, says Margolin. “We covered all the bases, and the questions we’re always asked, about everything from wedding songs, to what dance style should I perform”.

DanceCrazy’s Wedding Dance Mastery system is now available at, http://www.WeddingDanceCrazy.com

About DanceCrazy.com:

Founded in 1996, SalsaCrazy.com is dedicated to offering the finest instructional dance videos on the market. By using a tested and proven method of fun, step by step instruction techniques, the videos available on DanceCrazy.com leads students through a carefully planned series of exercises on their path to becoming accomplished dancers. The library of videos covers an extensive range of dancing styles that allow students to comfortably enjoy a new world of exciting people, vibrant nightlife and incredible music. or an extensive range of instructional dance videos designed to show anyone how to dance, swing dance, waltz or perform other popular dancing styles.

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Hey folks, welcome to the SalsaCrazy Mondays Top 10 list! This list is compiled by DJ Jeremy, look him up on Facebook and say hello here, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002590009287

Each week we will be posting some of the fantastic music we play on a weekly basis in San Francisco, at our SalsaCrazy Mondays clubs – Salsa Dance Mondays!

We have packed salsa dance lessons each and every week, and our salsa dance classes are on multiple floors, covering various skill levels.

Every week, after class, we only play the best classic and new Salsa, Bachata and Timba songs for our huge crowds. Yes, it goes til’ 2am, and is completely full all night long. These are actual songs we spin, and we’ll try to update this list on a weekly basis. We actually play NEW music (one of the few salsa clubs that actually search out new artists on a regular basis here in the states) each and every week.

If you’re ever in San Francisco, come pay us a visit, and dance the night away. We’re a fun, social, and welcoming crowd. It’s every Monday, classes at 7, dancing at 9:30, on two floors, until late. Not in San Francisco? You can still check out our amazing salsa dance videos.

Ok, no more idle chatter, here’s our latest TOP 10!

1) Si Tú Me Besas (Single) — Victor Manuelle
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/busco-pueblo-deluxe-edition/id486982717

2) Lloraras — Oscar D’Leon
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lloraras/id264069556

3) Con Todo — Fruko y Sus Tesos
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/discos-fuentes-salsa-all-stars/id75628591

4) Via — Al Delory
This song is unavailable on iTunes! But you can hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71W5PkBGls

5) Promise (feat. Usher) — Romeo Santos
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/formula-vol.-1/id471342193

6) Vattadoch — Los Dos y Companeros
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/salsa-guerrilleros/id480632461
Brand New – SalsaCrazy Mondays!

7) La Economía (Single) — La Excelencia
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/la-economia-single/id492490784
Brand New – SalsaCrazy Mondays!

Regalame (Single) — A&C La Banda
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/regalame-single/id497948007
Brand New – SalsaCrazy Mondays!

9) Para Vivir Nuestro Amor — Gerley
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gerley/id492816824
Brand New – SalsaCrazy Mondays!

10) Pincesa Mia (Single) – Jalil Lopez
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pincesa-mia-single/id501754462
Brand New – SalsaCrazy Mondays!

Support these fantastic artists if you can. Some of these folks only put out a single song and you may never hear from them again, so make sure to grab these tracks while they are hot. We’ll be changing this up each week based on our crowd response. Let us know what you think of these tracks, and if you have any suggestions for fantastic songs to play for a massive salsa club, we’d love to hear ‘em!

In San Francisco, try out latest club. Have you been to Taste Fridays? Friday was INCREDIBLE. Capacity crowd at Cafe Cocomo! Every Friday, come listen to the best Salsa bands around and dance on Cococmo’s massive dance floor! Find out more: http://www.tastefridays.com/

Don’t forget to sign up for our SalsaCrazy Mondays classes! learn to dance Salsa each week, and dance with with a great group of people who come to SalsaCrazy Mondays from all over the world! Find out more here: http://www.DanceSF.com/.

And…you can hear all of these tracks and more on our SalsaCrazy radio station…check it out!
http://www.live365.com/stations/salsacrazy?site=web

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For me, Salsa Dancing is a uniquely social experience, grounded almost entirely in the passion of the music. When I started dancing, it was before the creation of dance teams, troupes, congresses, and the entire economic models those things created.  Salsa dancing has come a long way since then, but at it’s core, it’s still an immensely popular social dance.  The goal and purpose of the salsa dance videos were to share the passion, but also create a real step by step system that allows you to dance with anyone, anywhere, anytime, to any music, and still have a great time.

Chances are that you, reading this right now, stumbled upon salsa dance at a local club, dance studio, or even a ballroom. Perhaps you heard the music, fell in love with it, or just found yourself dancing late at night when an as yet uknown latin rythym came on that spoke to you.  That led to dance lessons, perhaps private lessons too, and a fantastic (and sometime arduous) journey of the beginning salsa dance student. It can be tough, and I found my friends sometimes dropping off, and not reaching the level of a “social dancer”. How could I help?

How to Salsa Dance, with a progressive 5 dvd system, that takes you from your very first steps and coddles you forward to intermediate levels. It’s very basic at the start, very clear, with a fair amount of repetition, also done with music, to really help my friends internalize it. While it’s not easy to learn how to do any dance, with the Salsa Dance Mastery System, it allowed more of my friends to make the leap to becoming a social salsa dancer. For many, it was the missing piece of the puzzle – the practice, repetition, and step by step coach, that they needed to really learn how to dance.

And yes, years later, I can say with a humble heart, it really worked. Tons of my friends salsa dance, and rarely a day goes by that I don’t hear how this system has helped someone learn to dance salsa. How great is that!?  If you find yourself at a plateau, or you find yourself struggling with learn to dance salsa, give the Salsa Dance Mastery System a try …

How about you – how’s your salsa dancing journey?

Find it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/SalsaCrazy-Presents-Complete-Mastery-Package/dp/B000ICLS88/

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That was a really cool video made for the song, friendship and music are always the best.

A myth to weight loss is that you can "target lose weight" on a specific area of the body.. this isn’t true. your body loses weight systematically. Your thighs just happen to be one of the last places your body will start losing weight, preceded by your stomach.

Let me breakdown the science of weight loss.. if you know how your body loses weigh, then you’ll know why your exercises work or don’t work.

A calorie isn’t an actual physical item… you can’t look at it with a microscope or anything.. it’s a unit of measurement of energy.. specifically

1 Calorie (AKA a kilo-calorie) that you see on your nutrition facts, is a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure …

Calories come from everything. Vitamins, fiber, carbs, transfat, etc.. Most of the stuff that gets converted into nutrition for your body doesn’t affect your weight gain.

So what’s the enemy? Carbs are the enemy, specifically sugar based carbs, this is where 90% of the calories come from in most of your carb based foods. (Dietary Fiber, if i recall correctly, does not get absorbed by the body, but digested)

Carbs are what gets turned into fat if it’s not used up, not calories.. Carbs are just full of calories.

If you are looking to lose weight, the basic idea is to eat a low carb diet, and work out at the gym. (consult your doctor first)

Once your body runs out of it’s temporary storage of energy, which consists of meals you have eaten in the last 24 to 36 hours, it will turn to 1 of 2 things into energy depending on the exercise you are doing… Muscles or Fat..

If you do cardio (aerobic) based exercises, you will begin burning fat for energy.. If you do resistance based exercises (anaerobic) then you will start using your muscles for energy (which is part of building new muscles)

You might want to look at something called "ketone urinalysis sticks" Ketone bodies are created when your body burns fat for energy, and can be tested by these sticks you urinate on. They will turn a purple color. The darker the purple, the more ketones you have, and the more fat you are burning. This is a good way to know if you are burning fat or not.

The other things you might have been told to worry about other things on foods, such as the "Trans fat" and "partially hydrogenated oils". Contrary to popular belief.. eating fat does not make you fat. What it does do is make your blood pressure higher because of cholesterol build up.

Carbs are the enemy with weight gain. If your temp storage of energy isn’t used up, it will get converted to fat.

Carbs are found in fruits, starch based foods, and of course our favorite.. Sweets..

Veggies and meats are little to 0 carbs.. If you see Dietary Fiber under carbs, you can eliminate that from the carb total.. it’s carbs from sugar that are the bad guys. Dietary Fiber carbs is digested through the body, not absorbed.

So the first goal is to deplete your temporary energy storage. If you are running on the treadmill, this will probably take 20-30 minutes. Especially since your body is used to it. Once your body gets used to doing a specific exercise, it gets used to storing energy specifically for that. you don’t want to stick to just 1 exercise, you’ll never get anywhere after awhile.

Once you’ve depleted your temporary storage of energy, anything you start doing after that is gonna use your fat for energy if it’s cardio based (aerobic based) exercises.

Make sure to also drink water. Besides hydration, water is the catalyst used to convert fat into glucose, which then converts into ATP, or the energy molecule. (Ketone Bodies are a side affect of this that leaves your body through urine, this is how most of the used weight leaves your body)

Your muscles are built by destroying old muscle, and creating new muscles. So as you begin breaking down old muscle, your body uses protein to build new muscle. Don’t overdue muscle training, when your temp energy reserve is used up, you can start doing more damage after while than good.

So summary.. Low carbs diet, variety of different aerobic exercises, and devotion!

Don’t be worried about "Weight" specifically either. Start looking at your body. While doing this type of workout and diet, you will be gaining muscle and losing fat. So if you see you’re still at the same weight, your probably gaining muscle and losing fat. Muscle weighs more than fat, so don’t worry if you might see your weight rise. Don’t worry about the number, look in the mirror and see if you notice it.

It will take about 2-3 weeks to put your body in exercise mode, where you might start noticing fat being taken off… After about a month and a half, you should notice that you are melting fat off for awhile. You will get to a point as well where you will level out for muscle building and weight loss. Most of the time, people are happy with this area. Just maintain exercising and eat good and you’ll keep the pounds off. If you get to your target fat level, and you don’t want to lose anymore, start eating carbs again (but not too many) and continue working out. You will put your body in a stale mate and you’re body type wont change that much.

Hope this helps!