Cuban Salsa: Coca-Cola Triple
This is one of my favorite social moves because it is both advanced and easy. It works with a surprising success rate with a broad spectrum of Followers and it creates good flow and momentum.
A good Follower can turn left or right, 360 degree, starting on any step, but it is a tradition to mostly start on “2”, “5” and “7” for left turns, Coca-Cola, and on “1”, “3” and “6” for right turns, Vacilala.
When doing a Coca-Cola Doble turn, it is most common to start the first turn on “5-6-7” and the next turn on “7-1-2”. This is a difficult double turn very few Followers master. It is possible to continue with a third turn on “2-3-5” but that is for only the strongest Followers. In this tutorial we are looking at a much easier Coca-Cola Triple.
For some reason right turns are mostly done in clock-wise motion and left turns in counter-clockwise motion. It makes the turns more difficult on a curved line because they must be more than 360 degrees. I often do turns opposite of the motion making them much easier. Both right and left turns are now only 270 degrees on a curved line.
Coca-Cola Triple
In this tutorial we will focus on an interesting variation of Coca-Cola Triple that makes it so easy that it is realistic to do in social dancing even with intermediate level Followers that haven’t done it before. It helps a lot if the Follower has forward walking on each and every step as default. If she has a tendency to take back-steps, here in there, she will destroy or reduce flow and momentum, making it much more difficult to do Coca-Cola Triple.
The first Coca-Cola is done in counter-clockwise motion, the two additional Coca-Colas are done in clock-wise circular motion:
- DQN con Coca-Cola on “5-6-7”, 360 degrees, on a straight or slightly curved line.
- Coca-Cola on “2-3-5”, 360 degrees, in front of and around the Lead, clock-wise motion.
- Coca-Cola Light on “5-6-7”, 270 degrees, around the Lead into Rodeo.
Enchufla or Coca-Cola
I use Enchufla con Coca-Cola a lot and that was how Coca-Cola Triple one day came to my mind. Why not do the traditional DQN con Coca-Cola on a straight line to signal that the Follow is not going to continue around the Lead but back again in front of him and then to continue with Enchufla con Coca-Cola.
Then it occurred to me that it was easy to replace the Enchufla with Coca-Cola giving us three Coca-Colas in a row. If I use the handhold I normally use for Enchufla then that is what I want. If I change the handhold during the first Coca-Cola to two fingers pointing down, it signals to the Follow that I also want the next figure, the figure in the middle, to be a Coca-Cola left turn.
Variations
I prefer to make use of the momentum created to continue the three Coca-Cola figures into Rodeo. But the Lead can also pivot the Follow into CaÃda position or he can replace the Coca-Cola Light with a 360 degree Coca-Cola and lead the Follow into an outside turn, another 180 degree, like the beginning of ExhÃbela Inverso and then continue into Rodeo adding another 90 degree or continue into the last part of ExhÃbela Inverso.
Three Coca-Cola turns in counter-clock-wise motion on a straight line or around the Lead, is only for top-dancers. But starting counter-clockwise and then go clock-wise makes Coca-Cola Tripe relatively easy.
In clock-wise motion it is also relatively easy to do four or more Coca-Cola turns after one another.
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