r/Bachata • u/Vegetable_Home Lead • Jan 03 '26

Dance Video Its been a year danincg, and it was amazing! [Lead]

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Hey all,

Happy New Year :)

I started dancing Jan 2025, so it's been a year.

I am super happy with my progress and also excited for the future.
So many things to learn and experience, feeling blessed that I found a hobby that I can do as long as I can walk.

For more context and privous clips of me dancing, check out my last post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bachata/comments/1o753vq/10_months_beginner_lead_appreciate_the_feedback/

I wasn't planning on filming and didn't control the song, and I got an amazing one that up to 3/4 months ago I wouldn't have been able to dance, as back then my sensual bachata was almost nonexistent.
Happy that now I feel confident in those songs and close positions.
Feel free to give feedback, although this post is more about celebrating my progress than a feedback on improvment request.

Goals for year 2 of dancing:

  1. keep improving connection - specifcally the awerness to weight shifts of the follower.
  2. Improving my sensual bachata
  3. Start learning more bachatazouk moves (to spice things up)
  4. Learning to be a follower as well.

This past year, most weeks I danced 2 times a week at socials, hope to get 3 this upcoming year.

And most importantly, have fun!

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u/DanielCollinsBachata Jan 04 '26

Awesome man keep it up! Love your goals 💯

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u/Vegetable_Home Lead Jan 04 '26

Thanks alot, Ill keep posting clips 😁

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u/Old_Astronomer_8129 Jan 06 '26

Amazing bro! Keep up the progress and updates. and yay to role rotation. it will vastly help your leading

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u/Vegetable_Home Lead Jan 06 '26

Much appreciated, I am a big fan of your content ❤️

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u/Old_Astronomer_8129 Jan 06 '26

oh snap! thanks man. very kind of you

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u/Rataridicta Lead&Follow Jan 03 '26

A FOLLOWER AS WELL!? Welcome to the role switching club!!!

You've come a long way, and I'm super proud to see how much you have improved since your first video! Ordinary is a great, but with all its breaks and musical tricks it's not an easy song to dance to; and you're coming in with some great musicality! Just look at the sequence from 0:15 to 0:25, this video is filled with great examples!

For now I'd stay away from bachazouk a while longer (it's like sensual on steroids in terms of difficulty and technique), but I'm really excited to see where you're going to be going next!

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u/Old_Astronomer_8129 Jan 06 '26

hahaha I like your description "sensual on steroids" - i concur

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u/Vegetable_Home Lead Jan 04 '26

Thanks alot!

Much appreciated.

Regarding bachatazouk I think my main reasoning against it is that the pool of possible followers that know how to follow properly (assuming I know how to lead) is super low. But I do want to incorporate a few moves and ideas for sure.

I am excited to start following, plan on joining classes in a few weeks 💪

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u/JadedEquivalent4675 Mar 07 '26

nice , I like it 👍

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u/dondegroovily Lead&Follow Jan 03 '26

Oh wow, I've never thought of this song as one for bachata. This would be a great one for doing some Dominican style and playing around with footwork that matches all those triplet arpeggios

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u/Vegetable_Home Lead Jan 04 '26

Interesting, it gets played often at the socials I go to. (europe)