No matter how many of your videos I watch, I still can’t get over how clear you make things, even for a complete beginner. Thank you!

Hello Professor Egils. Greetings from Brazil. My name is José Carlos Lima. Tomorrow I'm going to start learning this routine with my partner. I have no words to say thank you for you huge generosity in teaching your knowledge, for free, to all of us around the world. I started learn dance almost 3 years and I never danced in my life. I must tell you that I'm not young but I just don't care. I decided that this is what I'm gonna do and keep on learning for the rest of my life. By the way I am a professional musician: Violinist, Singer and play eletric and classic guitar and music teacher. I must say that your rhythm and musicality is very good. It makes me think you have a music formation. Any way, if you will need help in any subject you do not understand in any style of music, I will be more than happy in helping you. Thanks a lot for your classes.

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

+zecalimazeca, thanks for appreciating our dance tutorials. Unfortunately I don't play any music instruments, but I still love listening to music and of course dace to it. Wish all of us enjoy both music 🎶 and dance 💃 movements!

Thank you for teaching Cha Cha dance! I love it!

Excellent ! I love how you demonstrated slowly! I can dance now with Cha Cha Cha. My favorite dance!

@suwanneechin7166

7 жыл бұрын

Blanco

@julietclairecolon9287

3 жыл бұрын

sher mo lungs?

Good practice for me and my friend,Thank you.

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

Always welcome

Best video I've seen for introducing and teaching this dance. Amazingly easy presented this way. Can't wait for our dance contest at the next fundraiser "Neon Nights" - April 6th, 2023. #TrainBuildSucceed

There is so much to learn in regards to the terminology alone! But truly so many other pro's who need to teach amateurs like on DWTS or in dance studios could benefit by observing your teaching methods. You have a very calm way of teaching. When we amateurs are learning it is so important to get the very basic arm movements and basic foot placement right before we can even begin to learn the steps. In my humble opinion I see people who learn a dance but don't have those basic shoulder, arm, hand ect. placements and it looks...well...incomplete. Well done!

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Edith Paul thanks, I'm very pleased to hear that you like my teaching style and methods. I think that ballroom and latin dancing technically is difficult enough and therefore we need as clear and easy description and demonstration of movements as possible. Thanks for your appreciation! Egils

@etowarmichael5822

7 жыл бұрын

Rumba music

Thank you egils for this amazing tutorial👍👍👍👍👍

I'm very grateful for this video. now i can teach my husband's students cha cha... thank you!

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sheila! Wish you to enjoy your and students Cha Cha!

Cha Basic Steps for Beginners - Basic, Check and Solo Turn

This is the best cha cha basic steps tutorials for beginners. Thank you so much for posting this video. I am a total beginner, learning the cha cha basic steps and your instructions are so easy to follow.

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

+tonytim1000, thanks for feedback 👍 Wish you to enjoy your dancing!

@tonytim1000

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am sure I will. I am already starting to enjoy it.

Excelente aula. Congratulations!

I love your videos! They are so easy to understand! I searched for this because I need to dance as a school requirement, but now I am starting to get really interested with dancing :)

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad you are interested in dancing. Wish you to enjoy learning and practicing!

I'm doing this for a homework and you are such a good teacher

@EgilsSmagris

2 жыл бұрын

Wish you to enjoy your cha cha cha!

@julianangela8842

2 жыл бұрын

@@EgilsSmagris t48 y e6t

Very nice and simple thank you

I also use this to teach my students, thanks for this Sir Egris, easy to understand and learn. gratitude and admiration rom Philippines, More power!

@EgilsSmagris

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel for appreciating this video. Wish you to enjoy teaching your students!

thanks for a normal explanation

Thank you for the great instruction! I'm slowly getting more confident in my dance moves with your help :) Your partner is great too.

@EgilsSmagris

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for feedback. Glad our video helps you!

@fredrickmottram8956

Жыл бұрын

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I really like the way you teach 🌹

Hi Egils your dance instruction in this video is excellent for the complete novice. It would greatly improve my learning to dance if the other tutorials were delivered at the same pace and with similar instruction about the when to turn and move etc. I find the 1234 count difficult to follow, I have viewed your instruction video about the step and music beat but I am lost as to when I should turn and move in different directions. The other cha cha videos are much faster compared to the instruction on this video. A full cha cha dance routine with this style of instruction would be most welcome by many and not just myself, I am sure. That said, I found your videos to be the best on-line tutorials by far, but beyond the first cha cha basic cha cha video the other a little fast for the complete beginner.

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

Hi, Frank, thanks for your feedback and appreciation. I will put your idea to my future plans for Cha dance routines and figures. Best regards, Egils

Thank you, it really helped me much!

thank uu , we are currently using this tutorial as our guide in classs

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

Wish you to enjoy you class!

Hermoso cha cha cha

ty this really helped me out i had to learn cha basic steps for school dancing lesson and this really helpped me out

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

Really glad this video is helpful! Wish you to enjoy your cha dancing!

Thank you! I enjoyed this immensely 🤩🥳 I will try to do my basic with more love ❤️

Wow this is Acually very good I do cha cha dancing !!!!!!

Excellent - great teacher!

Have a nice day, teacher. I'm practicing cha cha cha from your video now.

@EgilsSmagris

6 жыл бұрын

Great! Enjoy your Cha Cha practice.

Wonderful to have found this tutorial, its the best, thank you so much.

@EgilsSmagris

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Richard, glad you found our video helpful! Egils

Teacher, your method of teaching is not very difficult for beginners. From your video i can move my legs and my body. i love how you do it.

@EgilsSmagris

6 жыл бұрын

Really glad you learned from our video! Enjoy!

Very good. I am going to learn this.

grazie, molto esauriente

Just discovered your channel. I haven't cha cha in forever and the way you teach basic is great

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Joel, happy you find our channel helpful! Egils

Very good easy understand, thanks or teaching.

Thanks again Egils. We pushed back the carpet and worked through most of this video last night (watched it 50 times!). Hoping to get the whole routine down by this evening. Getting the hip movement correct is my main problem. Great vid. Thanks again. Cheers Dom

@EgilsSmagris

4 жыл бұрын

Wish you good practice and enjoy your cha cha!

thanks sir♥️!!!

Excellen, thank you for your demonstrated, I will keep watching your next video .

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

+Kim welcome 👍

Thank you, very good lesson.

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

+Pieter H, thanks

Thanks for the video lesson

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

😉

Excellent

Thabk you.

you're a really good teacher👍👍👍 very clear.. it's just that i'm sooo bad😭😭😭😭😭

Thank You Very Much sir, We need this in our Activity

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome, glad you find this video helpful!

Wow! Thank u a millipn

@EgilsSmagris

6 жыл бұрын

Welcome

Gracias!! You aré great..

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Rorenu thanks!

Bravo ❤

Hey Egils! Thank you very much for the video! I have one question that troubles me lately and hope you could help---in Cha Cha basic side step/side close side, the count 4 (the first side step) is it one bent knee and one straight knee or 2 straight knees? I saw videos that side steps are 2 straight legs and also videos that show only count 1 is two straight legs. I'm very confused. Are they just style differences?

Thanks sir!! It helped me so much!!!

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

Dean, welcome!

@matteoamistoso834

5 жыл бұрын

Egils Smagris it helps me!!

Hi, yours videos are great, and very useful, thank you.

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeca Begović 👍thanks!

hello ....Englis, just been watching your wonderful videos... there is so much to learn but you make this so easy .... thank you ... Happy Dancing ....

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

Hei +Nick Reena thanks 😉 we always try to make things clear and easy. Hope you find as much fun learning as we making videos! Egils

@reenasinghable

8 жыл бұрын

thank you...

I want dance Cha Cha,,

Good for school

is a very nice

@TheMarlxxx

7 жыл бұрын

Angel Prado

SOoooo ....Good

Gwapo moo

Egils, when you trained for Latin competition, what exercises did you use to get yourself up to perform at the tempo speed of Cha Cha and not loose form, technique or style?

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Dancer2016 Adobe Sound & Music Tutorials, I suggest to dance in practice whole routine in different speeds of music. But before competition just warming up and dance competition without thinking, just feeling movement.

@samuelandrews1032

7 жыл бұрын

Egils Smagris , Waltz

Question: What did you do to get your body-legs-feet to move with the tempo of Cha Cha without loosing timing and co-ordination? If I slow the Cha tempo down a bit, I can keep up, but when I get to the standard tempo for Cha, I loose timing with the tempo and find it hard to keep up. The difficulty is moving into the forward check step and back and the back check step and forward (steps 2 & 3) during the basic figure. I tend to end up loosing speed at those steps. Is it because step 2 is not a full weight step?

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Dancer2016 Adobe Sound & Music Tutorials, thanks for very good question. When we change time by playing faster music, we also have to change amount of movement otherwise we struggle to be in music. And this includes lesser weight transfer in checks. You are right on count 2 especially in check forward there isn't full weight transfer. Egils

@Dancer-ms3me

8 жыл бұрын

Thank-you. That information made a big difference and yes, now I can stay with the beat and actually work the sequence with more musicality and flow. I also watched a few other videos of world renowned Latin dancers as "Michael Wentink" and "Max Kozhevnikov" (2 of my favourites, love their technique and style), and watching them shows the same thing you said.

@EgilsSmagris

8 жыл бұрын

+Dancer2016 Adobe Sound & Music Tutorials 👍😉

Great video. Shame about the sped up bits on the demos.

We are learning this for school thnx bro

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome Xavier!

@xaviercabral6827

5 жыл бұрын

Please add me on fb

@xaviercabral6827

5 жыл бұрын

Can you please go the Philippines and teach us to dance thnx again plz add me

@xaviercabral6827

5 жыл бұрын

Why you not reply

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

Yes please apply to friendship fb

4:09

4:08 dance

4;06

4;09

Hello, what happens with the music?...

What is the title hat?

@EgilsSmagris

5 жыл бұрын

No Frills Salsa by Kevin MacLeod

kāds no RV3G?

@EgilsSmagris

4 жыл бұрын

RV1G

how can you move your body while stepping

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

+Conie, thanks for question. We start move body before stepping and finish after stepping. Hope it helps. 😉

@mateabogdanovic330

7 жыл бұрын

Conie Jandog You roll the bottom of your foot and move your hips

What is the song title?

@EgilsSmagris

8 ай бұрын

No Frills Salsa by Kevin MacLeod

Whats the title of the song

@EgilsSmagris

4 жыл бұрын

Music in this video is ​"​No Frills Salsa​"​​ by​ Kevin MacLeod​. Another you can use is ​"Estoy Nervioso​"​ by Sr. Privado (c)

Not as detailed as Salsa which I'm having trouble learning. Probably try Latin Cha Cha very soon. If your single guys, women love a man who can dance!

4:08 eee

I don’t know

Kung teacher namon nag himu video paryus ni. Tapis kamo ma view. Damu pa views ya. May kwarta pasa.😂😂

@charmeduardminguezsalvador2120

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahha saot yah gid para sa grades 😂

PE pa

ano po music nito?

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

Music is always in descriptio: No Frills Salsa by Kevin MacLeod

@EgilsSmagris

3 жыл бұрын

Music is always in descriptio: No Frills Salsa by Kevin MacLeod

My dumb ass shit will do this for the sake of my fuckin grades in school😭

Gitiuryp

are you father and daughter

@EgilsSmagris

7 жыл бұрын

Genius, no we are not. Just dancing together.

Music keeps skipping. Bad edit

Not for beginners

4:06