In the process of dancing, the audience doesn't pay much attention to the dancer's arm movements. Generally, the focus is on the feet and body of the dancer, but as a good dancer, your arm movements must be coordinated with the dance movements, otherwise your arm will become a key point for the audience to judge your level. Generally, Latin dance textbooks or Latin dance teachers have pointed out that when dancing Latin dance, the arm swing is natural, in fact, it is also natural for dancers, and it swings beautifully.
For beginners, you don't need to practice swinging your arms. You just need to know where one or two arms you didn't join in each dance step are. If you learn the movements correctly, your arms will naturally look right. If you don't dance correctly, your arms will be forced to be uncoordinated. If you dance correctly, your arms will naturally stretch to the right position to keep the balance of the dance.
Beginners of Latin dance usually learn the swing of the teacher's arm at the same time when practicing the basic dance steps, because the teacher's movements are correct and the arm swings in place naturally to look good, while the new students' movements are uncoordinated, so it is naturally difficult to swing the arm well. For example, when practicing the basic steps of rumba, beginners can move without arms. Just stretch your arms to both sides, retract slightly, keep this posture, and focus on the action essentials of legs, feet and hips and the coordination of your body. When you master the essentials of the movement very skillfully, and the swing of your hips and the rhythm of your body are very accurate, you will find that your arms will swing with your dance movements, and at this time, this swing is natural swing. If you are practicing the hip swing in rumba, then the natural swing of your arm is the most characteristic swing of Latin dance. Once you master the feeling of this swing, you can completely increase the amplitude of this arm swing. But this swing should not be too big. It's too big to look good. I often see many people's arms swing greatly, which is forced, not because of the movement of their hips and bodies. This is very ugly, because the swing of their arms is not in harmony with the movement of their bodies.
In Latin dance, when the arm is not taken by the partner, or when both hands are released, there are some movements. Your arm is just to coordinate the balance of your body, so you don't have to pose. And some movements will have special arm movements in order to finish better and look better. For example, when dancing the new york step, two people's free arms should be opened backwards and upwards, and when they are opened, there is a feeling of swinging back. The movement of this arm is integrated into the dance steps, which is generally emphasized.
For example, if you are not proficient in Latin dance routines, your arms will naturally not swing and your posture will not look good, but don't worry, as your routines become more and more proficient, the kung fu under your feet will become deeper and more stable, and you can dance with ease. At this time, it is time for your arm to give full play to its role. You can swing your arms at will, as long as it conforms to the dance style and posture. Even if it is a dance, every time you jump, the swing of your arm can be different. Of course, the swing of the arm must not affect the balance of the dance steps. It's time for you to use your arms freely.
But for dancers with poor physical coordination, swing arm training is still necessary. The general Latin dance teacher will also lead the students to carry out some swing arm training. The swing of the arm must be generous, and the main point of swing must be to use the body to drive the big arm, the big arm to drive the small arm, and the small arm to move manually.
When many people swing their arms, only the big arm is moving. Arm and hand are like inanimate objects attached to arm. Although they are also moving with their big arms, they are not moving. This swing arm method is very wrong and ugly. It seems that the elbow is swinging and even the forearm is folded back to the shoulder position. This swing is very wrong.
When the arm is swinging, the correct way is that if the arm swings, then your forearm must rotate by itself when it moves with the arm. When your hand moves with your arm, your hand must also rotate itself, just as the earth revolves around the sun, so does the earth, and the moon revolves around the earth, so does the moon itself.
Another wrong swing method is that the arm is not open and the elbow is about to stick to the waist. At this time, the swing is also very stiff and generous.
I have also seen a forearm that only swings its arm, but the forearm is rigidly tightened from the shoulder to the body, and the orchid finger is held in the hand. The forearm swings beautifully by hand, but it looks uncoordinated and generous as a whole. Of course, you can see how some teachers and dancers wave their arms, but you should also have a choice. Don't learn an ugly swing. There are many beginners who don't know what kind of movements are beautiful and what kind of movements are ugly. It is impossible to learn from anyone. First of all, you have to pass the aesthetic barrier of dance.