I think the point is being missed here.Learn the basic steps and practice them regularly. But in a competition you don't need to be holding hands. Use your imagination. This is typical of what we see on the competition floor. Rumba. Basic New York Oh my God another New York and yes here comes the Spot Turn Everybody and his dog knows what the next move will be. So instead of the old faithfull Hand to Hand lets do a press line and a few hip movements. Play around with the timing suprise people by using different alignments. But within this do the correct shaping of the feet and so on. Look at your partner,look away and then back again or anything else you can think of that will make you more of an interesting partnership to look at, and in the main be different to all the others on the floor.