Salsa Syllabus

I added to and organized my list of essential salsa moves. The idea was to structure them from easier move to harder move and to add prerequisites. I added some patterns too. This list could easily be turned into a salsa syllabus and in fact I structured the level 1 and 2 as a syllabus. Levels 3 and 4 allow for an extreme amount of variety so if you were to create a syllabus you would need to create your own patterns. I ordered the levels 3 and 4 by my personal perception of difficulty. But of course what is hard for me might be easy for you and your students. So this is just a guideline.

As with my list of essential salsa moves, this list is by no means comprehensive. Salsa is an creative endeavor. New moves are created, reborn, and reimagined all the time. But if you master these moves you will be able to conceptualize and execute virtually every partner salsa move under the sun.

	Level / Type	Wk	Move	Abbrev.	Prerequisites	Reason it's this Level
1	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Basic Step	BSC
2	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Side Step (Cucaracha)	SS	Basic Step
3	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Forward Step	FWS	Basic Step
4	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Back Step	BKS	Basic Step
5	Level 1 Concept	1h1	Open Break	OB	Back Step
6	Level 1 Variation	1h1	Guapea		Back Step
7	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Backward Diagonal Crosses (Cumbia Step)		Back Step
8	Level 1 Fundamental	1h1	Forward Diagonal Crosses	FWC	Forward Step
9	Level 1 Basic	1h2	Right Turn, Man's RT, Woman's RT	RT, MRT, WRT	Basic Step
10		1h2	Left Turn, Man's LT, Woman's LT	LT, MLT, WLT	Basic Step, Right Turn
	Level 1 Pattern	1h2	Crossover Pattern (WRT, MLT, then WLT, MRT)		Right Turn, Left Turn
	Level 1 Basic	2	Back Pass	BKP	Right Turn
12	Level 1 Pattern	2	Triple Turn Pattern (He goes, She goes)		Right Turn, Back Pass
	Level 1 Variation	3	Frisbee	FR	Left Turn
	Level 1 Pattern	3	Left Turn Pattern		Left Turn, Frisbee
	Level 1 Essential	4	Cross Body Lead (Dile Que No)	CBL	Basic Step, Back Step, Left Turn
17	Level 1 Pattern	4	Cross Body Lead in a Pattern		CBL, Various
18	Level 2 Variation	1h1	Hammerlock	HL	Right Turn	It's too easy for Lvl2, but it's only useful for Lvl2 moves.
19	Level 2 Essential	1h1	Enchufle	Ench	Cumbia Step
20	Level 2 Pattern	1h1	Enchufle Pattern (HL to Enchufle)
21	Level 2 Varation	1h2	Reverse CBL	RCBL	Back Step, CBL	Might be too hard? Not really a prereq for RCBLIT
22	Level 2 Essential	1h2	Rev CBL Inside Turn	RCBLIT	Cumbia, Enchufle, Left Turn
23	Level 2 Pattern	1h2	Cumbia Pattern		Enchufle, Rev CBL Inside Turn
25	Level 2 Essential	2	CBL Inside Turn	CBLIT	CBL, Left Turn
27	Level 2 Concept	2	3 Small Steps	3SS	Right Turn
	Level 2 Concept	2	Drop Hand Catch		3 Small Steps
	Level 2 Variation	2	Free Spin	FRS	CBLIT, Frisbee
25	Level 2 Variation	3	Skater's Wrap	SKTW	Right Turn, CBL Inside Turn
26	Level 2 Variation	3	Overwrap/Cuddle	CDL, OW	CBL Inside Turn
26	Level 2 Variation	4	Come With Me	CWM	CBL, Left Turn
	Level 2 Concept	4	Sweetheart		CBL Inside Turn
	Level 2 Concept	4	Cross Body Check		CBL Inside Turn	It is a simpler variation of the titanic, so it should be taught first.
28	Level 2 Variation	4	Titanic		CBL Check
	Level 1 Pattern	3	Cumbia Pattern Across Slot		Cumbia
13	Level 1 Concept	1h1	Head Loop/Hairbrush/Haircomb		Basic Step
15	Level 1 Concept	1h1	Double Head Loop / Sombrero		Right Turn, Head Loop
16	Level 1 Pattern	1h1	Sombrero Pattern		Right Turn, Head Loop
	Level 2 Essential	1h2	Cross Body Lead Outside Turn
	Level 2 Variation	2	Walkthrough/New York Walk
	Level 2 Essential	3	Reverse CBL Outside Turn
	Level 2 Variation	3	Wrist Catch (Reverse Windmill)
	Level 2 Variation	3	Wrist Check
	Level 2 Variation	4	Texas Tommy
	Level 2 Essential	4	Basket		Basic
	Level 3 Variation		Windmill
	Level 3 Concept		London Bridge
	Level 3 Concept		Arm Toss
	Level 3 Concept		Gancho (Elbow over her arm)
	Level 3 Concept		Flat Back		Right Turn
	Level 3 Concept		Hook Turn		Right Turn
	Level 3 Move		Swivel (CBL w/ Hook Turn)		Hook Turn
	Level 3 Move		Barrel Roll		Windmill, Come With Me
	Level 3 Move		U-turn		Cumbia, Walkthrough
	Level 3 Move		Copa		Cumbia, CBL Inside Turn
	Level 3 Move		SSQQ Around the World
	Level 3 Move		Classic Around the World (waist wrap pull)
	Level 3 Move		Back Spot Turn / Adios		Open Break
	Level 3 Move		360 (Coca Cola)
	Level 3 Concept		Peddle Turn (Multiple Spins)
	Level 3 Variation		Illusion Hands
	Level 3 Variation		CBL turns with Illusion Hands
	Level 4 Concept		Turning on other beats		Right Turn, Left Turn, Check, Prep
	Level 4 Concept		Arm Block	AB	Spin
	Level 4 Concept		Arm Play
	Level 4 Move		Duck Under Tuck In Tuckunder/Hicabobhead whip
	Level 4 Move		Pretzel		Right Turn, CBL Inside Turn
	Level 4 Move		Rainbow
	Level 4 Move		Butterfly		CBL Inside Turn, Rainbow
	Level 4 Move		Tunnel
	Level 4 Concept		Zipper
	Level 4 Pattern		Abaníco (Large Fan) - Rueda		Sombrero, Hook Turn, WRTon2
			WRT to Skater's Wrap; Enchufle w/ MHook under Rarm; Come With Me; WLT; Guy Steps Under into CBL