3exuschamp. Have you seen any recent IDSF World Championship competitions and seen what they are doing today. The basic action is still there. but the movement of the hips are being used more than ever before. The story I got about the Samba is that there was a complaint by the competitors that they were unable to do the things they were being told to do in their lessons on the competition floor because the music was too fast. In the above mentioned competition the Samba was played at 56 bars per minute. The Rumba 24 bars a minute. If you are interested some vey recent Latin disks that have come out. The Rumbas are 24 bars per minute straight off the disc. Not that many years ago they were played at 30 bars per minute.The lilt in the Samba is actually a body tick which today happens continuously on every movement.