How To Salsa Dance: Back Break Step

Step 1: Basic Footwork

To start you place your feet together with equal weight on both feet. Now move your left foot backward about a foot or two, placing your weight on this foot. Next, keeping both feet where they are, replace your weight onto your right foot. Now bring your left foot back to it's original position next to your right foot. Repeat this now in the reverse, starting by moving your right foot back, replacing the weight, and bringing it back together with the left foot.

Dance instructors like to call this out as, "Left foot - back, replace (the weight), together. Right foot - back, replace, together."

Step 2: Natural Opposites

The leader (usually male) will start off with his left foot. The follower (usually female) will do the natural opposite, so she will start with her right foot.

Step 3: Done.