This is the beauty of our community, it was the first time we met, and it felt like we had been friends for years. It was a pleasure meeting you @Leroy Windfield PS: Check that fire outfit 🔥

1- How long have you been dancing? I have been dancing salsa more than 25 years. 2- What is your biggest struggle right now? Not real struggle but it’s a key point for me to convince my french community the importance of learning the right foundations. That’s why I think this connection with you and your EM crew will be helpful for that. 3- What level do you believe you are? I am the number one master of MamboOn2 & Chachacha in Paris, france. 4- What do you want to achieve in the next 12 months? Helping my french community to be more full of great students and mambo dancers :) !! This is why I can’t wait to have you in my congress in Paris for the 10e anniversary of PISC (april 2027) it will be dedicated to @Adolfo Indacochea and your amazing achievement!

Please congratulate @Alex y Pamela for wining this month leaderboard! I’ll write you on private so I can get your info to deliver you the EM t-shirts and please comment here who do you want your private lesson with. You can choose from @Eric Mastrangelo @Nathalia Raigosa & @Sarah Koenig

After making the Peformance Challenge post, I started.thinking and feel like the performances and competitions should be seperate. So if you have competed or put together a routine but for some reason never did compete with it, let's put it here. Again, I'll go first. I had the Honor & Priviege of being on Darlin Gracia's first Art In Motion franchise team. This is the Bachata choreo we competed with at the World Salsa Summit in which we took 3rd place.

I want to give a big shout out🎉 and say Congratulations 🎊 to @Alex y Pamela for both of them debuting their solo performances and doing great jobs !!!🔥 Performing is nerve wracking in and of itself but solos are even more so. Apart from that, it takes a lot to post your performance for others to see. We are all family here so we can be vulnerable with no judgement and encouragement here. So that @Alex y Pamela do not feel alone, I"d like to issue a challenge for those who have performed or competed to make a post. I'll go first. The fist video is a performance from 12 years ago at the 6th Anniversary of my old studio. In the sexond video, I had the Honor & Priviege of being on Darlin Gracia's first Art In Motion franchise team. This is the Bachata choreo we competed with at the World Salsa Summit in which we took 3rd place. The third video is near and dear to my heart. It was perforned at Baila Cura, which is held in NC as a fundraiser for Cancer victirns and their families. The gentleman you saw performing next to me, passed within 9 months of that video. This choreo was choreo we were going to compete with at rhe next Salsa Summit but we never got to. Our team was so devastated at how quickly he passed away from multiple myeloma. In the performance, where you see the young lady dancing by herself, that was to honor my friend and brother, Doran Gramajo. I know you're still dancing in Heaven, Hermano!!! 💔 💔 💔