To a degree, I'm a little embarrassed posting this particular blog, BUT, I have no idea as to how you really meet salsa women. Being thoroughly addicted to salsa, I go to clubs six nights a week to get my salsa groove on. Man, I see my share of beautiful women on the dance floor. There is nothing as beautiful, stimulating, and intriguing as seeing a woman, gracefully moving to the music, adding those special steps and girations, that attitude, that smirk, that skirt/dress flying in the wind as she does a "cross body lead" or solo, etc. Damn, they are sexy!!!! But, how do you get her "slowed down" so that you can really talk to her when the beat of salsa in the background remains constantly driving.

In my neck of the woods, in the R & B clubs, they would "slow it down" every now and then, and play a Whispers, Barry White, Miracles, Teddy Pendergrass, etc. (come on, you know what I'm talking about)to change the tempo. That was your opportunity to move in on a sista, grab and hold her tight, and try to throw your conversation at her. If you were truly smooth at it, you could syncopate your speaking with the slow, melodic beat of the music playing in the background.

Unless I'm missing something, YOU CAN'T DO THIS IN SALSA. Salsa never lets up. Some friends of mine, including Tony, have told me that the Bachata and Meringue (sp) allow you to get close to your partner and to speak to her, but to me.......these are still too fast and don't have THAT beat that syncopates with the intonations and the rhythm of my verbalization and conversation. I've seen and been told of different "dips" that you can do in salsa that allow you to be "close", but hey, after you make a move, bring her in close, 123 567, spin her out, the closeness is gone. It is a far distant cry from the closeness that stems from a 9-minute, Dell's "Stay In My Corner", dance.

Maybe, I'm way off track; maybe its just me. Perhaps I'm the only brother out there that finds himself attracted to salsa women and would love for the "beat to slow down" so that he could bring them in closer and talk a little". Hey, maybe women who dance salsa ONLY want to dance salsa and nothing else. Maybe they don't want to be bothered with men who want the music to slow down so that they can get to know them better. Like I said earlier, maybe its just ME!!!!!!!!!!!