The Cross Body Lead

The cross body lead in salsa is one of the foundations steps. A lot of the patterns are based off of the cross body lead.

What is the cross body lead? It is basically the exchange of positions between the lead and the follow - like a 180 degree change. It is completed in 2 bars (counts 1 through 8).

Here is a tutorial from "expert village" which is very detailed:


Make sure you perfect the cross body lead early on as it will help greatly when learning more intermediate patterns.