When Your Salsa Shoes Catch Fire
I was buffing the bottoms of my salsa shoes after a night of dancing when (I kid you not), a spark flew out from where the metal bristles touched the sole. I’VE MADE SALSA FIRE, I thought! I’ve tapped into some type of alchemical formula that’ll make me a Scissor! (On a more logical note, what on earth are they coating the floors with at some socials?)
You can go to a serious salsa website for some solid advice- but here are two things that they might not tell you: There is a science to finding the little red shoes that’ll take you to… ok, not Kansas…let’s say take you through a pleasant salsa odyssey. For us girls, doing it right means fighting the little X chromosome demon that would have us select a shoe based solely on its beauty. Yes, salseras, like most things in life, you need to go a little bit deeper and the first word of caution is don’t go for stilts. Remember what your goal is here first-most: to dance. Salsa heel heights should be approached in intervals. At the same time, it’s salsa. You gotta look good. So don’t go for Dutch clogs. Salsa is also a lesson in sexing up your image (and movements off the dance floor).
Gripping: Balancing while doing grated steps and elegant triple turns means you need to glide and stick. Make sure you regularly scrape the alchemical dust off the bottom of your shoe once and awhile or you just might wind up setting the place on salsa fire, because apparently the floors are coated with fairy dust. Oh, they also say to go for a snug size…
IMAGE and BALANCE… Dorothy will have nothing on you.
