Hey guys, Happy New Year.
I hope that you guys get to enjoy the New Year with friends,
family and loved ones and I just want to wish you happy New Year and that we hope that this year we can help you in your bachata even more.
This video is going to be a little bit different.
There's two things that I want to do in this video,
one is to explain the philosophy of data that we do to address things like,
oh, but I learned from this person to do it like this from that person to do it like that and why it can be different.
And also I just want to sort of introduce myself a little bit more so that you guys know me a little bit more and why I started this in the first place,
what what my, but my goal is and I just generally found that if I knew my favorite Youtuber a little bit more,
I I just feel like okay that I like that,
I like that channel more. Let me just start by introducing myself.
My name is Kevin um,
I started bachata a couple of years ago and it's been one of my favourite hobbies and probably my favourite hobby ever.
I've never been into something as much as this.
And um, in 2019 I started,
I had the idea, okay,
I want to register this name social dance bachata and at the time I didn't really know what I was gonna do,
I wasn't able to teach.
I was not good enough to teach.
I didn't know what I can contribute,
but I knew that I really like social dancing
So let me just take this name and make a website or something like that just so I can talk about it.
The reason for that name is not random.
First of all,
we just love bachata.
I personally I only dance bachata and Brazilian zouk and Brazilian zouk if you don't know it's full of body movement.
So if you see if you see our videos like body rolls,
head rolls, stuff like that.
But the difference is Brazilian Zouk is like 100% the dance is all about that.
And that's what we like because sometimes there can be misunderstanding. There's Dominican bachata,
There's modern bachata and the sensual bachata which is what we are.
we are mostly close to sensual.
Not so much modern or traditional.
I'm not saying that we will never teach that,
but at this time of recording,
we don't think that we're qualified enough.
We need to learn more about traditional bachata to be able to teach you.
So that's the bachata part and we just love bachata.
And the social dance part is um well in Sydney at least I know that a lot of people join because
they see a latin show salsa bachata show and then.
Oh wow, that looks cool. So let me take classes so I can learn this and show my friends.
Um so there's one section of students who are like that and there's another section who's just there to social dance and that's what we are,
we just love social dancing,
we don't really do performances,
we just love social dancing and that's all we do.
And the difference is while performance,
you kind of need like more flashy moves.
but the reason that we don't sort of tend to go that way is because we ourselves we don't really do performances.
So what it's important to us is the social aspect social dancing is like learning a new language so that you don't have
to learn from the same place.
If you know about bachata,
then you can dance together. That's why our tagline,
is dance with anyone anywhere
And we want to emphasize on two things,
we want to emphasise on how the body works,
understanding how the body naturally reacts when you do this when you do that,
how is it supposed to move?
And we want to utilise things like momentum,
energy, counterbalancing,
so to make the dance as smooth as possible,
so as a lead, it's important for you to sort of know how the body works,
how physics work,
how gravity works, how momentum works,
and for the follower,
how to be more sensitive to these movements and how to make your movement more full,
more fluid. And this is also a different thing.
some people,
prefer a certain amount of force,
but this is important as well because you're gonna see,
but they teach it like this,
that person teach like that, we're teaching different is because at least for the teachers in this channel,
we prefer minimum force,
as little as possible,
that's still leadable and that comes from knowing how the body works and using momentum to our advantage as
a lead to create a movement and as a follow how to make the movement full,
you know, fluid and round and look and feel good.
So that's the difference because some people,
um and it's it's not right or wrong,
it's just different. We prefer to be as soft as possible.
Some people require a little bit more,
but the reason we teach certain things a certain way is because that's our philosophy.
I'm not saying that it's right or wrong,
it's just different outcomes.
And lastly, I don't know if you guys can tell,
but we don't, people in this channel,
we don't teach bachata full time,
we have our day jobs and we just do this because we like it so much.
And so, you know,
personally, for me, other than my day job and this,
I have like other things as well and that's why sometimes just even one video per week can be challenging because I just have a lot of commitments.
We we can't really do dancing full time.
I don't know if you guys know, but in Sydney,
Sydney is one of the cities with the highest living costs.
And dancing is not really um something that generates a lot of money.
And so, and we're not expecting to make a lot of money out of dancing anyway,
so we just do this because we love it.
So when you guys,
you know, comment when you guys share the video and subscribe things like that,
that's really meaningful to us,
because that's how we can tell that we are providing value online.
So yeah, it would be great if you guys can,
like, share comment and do all of that stuff,
you know, so that we can grow and then we can teach more people.
Um but yeah, that's basically what we are,
that's what we're, that's where we're coming from,
and this is why we teach things a certain way.
And um yeah, so the next video will be back to tutorials and um just regular tutorials,
but also a lot of you have requested how to create a connection that feels nice in the dead.
So, the next video will be about that,
which is next week.
So with that,
I want to thank you for watching this video all the way until this point.
I will see you in the next video and please do all that good stuff.
Like comment, subscribe and I'll see you next video.