Sometimes we get so fixed in our ways we loose the ability to play around with the timing. Rumba on your own try this. Walks taking 2 bars of music. The LF is free. A Cucaracha to the Left and one to the Right. The LF is free. Step ahead on the count of two with the LF , across the body with the RF on 3 and complete a Spot Turn to face in the opposite direction.LF is free to step on 4 1. Another Spot Turn with which the beats used are a normal Spot Turn. LF is free to start again except we are stepping forward on the LF on 4 1. If we have kept the correct sequence we will now do the whole thing but with our first Cucaracha to the right instead of to the left. The two groups should take 12 bars of Rumba music. If it doesn't then make it fit All the rules of a Rumba Walk must be observed otherwise the practice is useless.. That is as Katarina on Slavik's DVD insructed Feet turned out. No gap between the thighs, not even enough to push a cigarette paper through. As Richard Hearn says. From the front only one leg can be seen. Also learn to have complete isolation of the upper body from the hips. That's where one of those frames can be a great benefit. I was one of those who became so fixed in there ideas. I always thought a Spot Turn, the first step had to be on beat two.
Spirals I thought had to be on 4 1 untill I went to this teacher who would use whatever beats suited the group being taught.Spirals on any beat other than 4 1 really threw me for a while. Doing the first one on 2 (get a move on there) and the second imediately afterwards on the normal 4 1. didn't come easy.This can be why to follow the steps from a demonstration is so difficult. They change the timing most of the time. Has it been noticed how a Closed Hip Twist to the Fan Position takes two bars of music. Now watch the champions take four bars with all the shaping and acting over the extra two bars. Which brings me to our teacher telling us that in the Latin style at the very least 60 per cent of the dance is pure acting.Lets here it from you lovers of Latin.
( the greatest style by far )There is far too much Modern here.