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Setenta Complicado is the Mother of all Complicado, probably the first Complicado at most dance schools, and really the only one you will ever need, if you only have the time for one. There are more videos of this move on YouTube than of almost any other Cuban Salsa move. Don’t underestimate Setenta Complicado. Even many dance schools get it

Setenta y Dos con Giro is the “official” name of this move but most dancers think of it as Setenta y Dos. They can not imagine the figure without the Giro. None of the three videos below use the Giro as part of the name. It is implied. The Gancho hooks can be made simultaneously or one by one, and

Setenta y Dos is like Setenta y Uno except that it ends with an arm hook to both arms, Gancho (hook). For some reason Setenta y Dos is seldom used in its basic version of just adding an Enchufla and the two arm hooks to the Hammerlock. It is almost implied or has become a tradition that when we say

Setenta y Uno is a short move, the Hammerlock plus one more count of eight consisting of Enchufla and Gancho, an arm hook. Sententa y Uno is not that interesting by itself but the move is used as the start of several other moves like Setenta y Cinco (75) (one of my favorites), and the Gancho arm hook is part

Setenta con Alarde is sometimes just called Setenta. Some instructors prefer to use it as the very first figure they teach because it is slightly easier than the real Setenta. The Alarde can be done to Lead or to Follow. Since Setenta is three counts of eight and Setenta con Alarde only two counts of eight, the variation can come

Setenta, meaning “70” in Spanish, is most likely the first real move you learn in Cuban Salsa. For that reason it is considered beginners level, but you could just as well call it intermediate. It really is one of the signature moves of Cuban Salsa, likely to be called in any Rueda de Casino, and very many Leads even at