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Salsa is a real drug for some dancers. But how is your addiction? And especially, is it too late to get you out? You can assess yourself through the following questionnaire to determine if a therapy is still possible. Write down 1 point for each of the 100 affirmations that correspond to you. If you get less than 50 points, congratulations, you are not dependent.

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100 questions sur vous et la salsa

  1. You remember perfectly your first salsa experience and the date when it happened.
  2. You take a nap at noon because you went to dance the day before.
  3. You stopped the radio because you only listen to salsa CDs.
  4. You ride with the salsa thoroughly in the car.
  5. Even on disco music, R & B, etc., you try to find the rhythm of the clave.
  6. In box, you try your figures with someone who has never try partner dances.
  7. You dream of dancing.
  8. Expenses for classes and evenings are now fixed in your monthly budget.
  9. You say you are going to buy clothes for work while you go shopping for salsa.
  10. Your boyfriend or girlfriend doubt that your relationship is strictly platonic with your dance partner so much that you look forward to practicing every time.
  11. You look at everything related to body movements (classical dance, martial arts, gymnastics) because you want to place a new movement in salsa.
  12. Everything you do brings you back to salsa.
  13. You sing songs you do not understand the words.
  14. You are the only non-afro percussionist.
  15. You practice your turns when no one is looking at you.
  16. You make a discreet no base when you wait or when nobody is looking at you.
  17. People do not know you are practicing when they talk to you on the phone.
  18. You stopped the TV.
  19. You are convinced that you only need 3-4 hours of sleep per night.
  20. You prefer salsa to sex.
  21. Salsa is sex.

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  22. You lost about 5 kg by dancing.
  23. You have searched and found ALL the salsa places in your city.
  24. You start spending more in clothes for the evenings than for your work.
  25. You plan to change work to be more fit to dance.
  26. You are never available on Friday night because you can NOT miss your salsa evening.
  27. You will never have bought enough CDs, clothes or shoes.
  28. All your old friends have forsaken you.
  29. Your old friends do not miss you since you have salsa!
  30. You are debating about how to dance salsa.
  31. You have met new friends (better and more loyal).
  32. Your family and friends do not understand what you are lamenting or enthusiastic about.
  33. You left your boyfriend or girlfriend because it was a brake on your salsa practice.
  34. When you say I need my dose, you are not referring to an illegal drug.
  35. You can not convince any of your friends to come with you.
  36. You start talking at 100 an hour because someone showed interest in your love of salsa.
  37. You went to a salsa congress and had an overload of information.
  38. You were modest and shy but now you fuck it as soon as you can.
  39. You go on vacation and instead of being anxious to visit, you are looking forward to testing the salsa evenings.
  40. You extend your vacation by a few days because you have not tested every evening.

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  41. You watch the MTV Music Awards and do not know any singers because you do not listen to the music anymore.
  42. You spend all day on the Web visiting sites on salsa.
  43. You are trying to lose weight to get into evening clothes.
  44. Your shoes do not last long to do tricks.
  45. You begin to make room at home to be able to dance.
  46. ​​You are listening Marc Anthony with two tears of tears.
  47. You can not imagine life without salsa.
  48. Your pseudos become salsa something.
  49. You are thinking about the possibility of putting salsa somewhere on your car.
  50. You listen to salsa during your working hours.
  51. Everything you write revolves around salsa.
  52. You thank God every day for creating salsa.
  53. You install parquet flooring in your home.
  54. You are arrested (in the street, shops, transports) by people who say you saw you dancing.
  55. The only time you rest in an evening is during thebachata.
  56. You support bachata only if there are few.
  57. You are looking for eternal perfect shoes.
  58. Nobody wants to go shopping with you because you constantly ask if you would be in the evening with it.
  59. You attend a religious ceremony, but secretly you dance in your head.
  60. Having nobody at hand, you dance with an imaginary partner.

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  61. You realize that the only thing you have done in recent months is to dance every weekend and you do not have enough.
  62. You realize that the only thing you have done in recent years is to dance every weekend and you still do not have enough.
  63. For your birthday, you ask for something related to salsa (stages, shoes, clothes).
  64. For your birthday, your friends buy you something related to salsa.
  65. You are reunited with some friends and the first thing that comes to mind is a rueda.
  66. You plan to dance salsa at your wedding.
  67. You had other leisure activities. Before.
  68. You often have back and knee pain due to abuse of figures and shines.
  69. You start wearing t-shirts a size underneath.
  70. You try to pass the virus on to your friends not dancing yet.
  71. In the evening, everyone knows you, it's like your family.
  72. You were at least once completely exhausted on the dance floor.
  73. Your good idea for a first date is in a salsa party.
  74. Paradise is having plenty of space on the floor.
  75. You direct conversations that have nothing to do with salsa and then talk about it.
  76. Your clothes never cease to shorten.
  77. Hell is a place where there is no salsa.
  78. Your password is salsa something.
  79. You competed with another dancer about on 1 and on 2.
  80. You decide that going dancing is more important than revising for this exam.

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  81. You lie to your boss by telling him that you accept this trip to Los Angeles or New York only for work.
  82. Your boss surprised you while surfing salsa sites during work.
  83. You tried a figure of death and fell.
  84. You are convinced that everything is under control now that you only go out 3 times a week.
  85. You have decided that you will marry only one person dancing salsa.
  86. The dancers of cumbia or zouk are one of your black beasts.
  87. Bar owners hate you because you only consume water.
  88. You practice day and night with your boyfriend or girlfriend, then when you go in the evening, you dance with everyone except together.
  89. You become jealous when you see your dancing partner dancing with someone else.
  90. You make a few shines when you wait to go to the toilet.
  91. You have salsa in mobile ringing.
  92. You sing salsa songs in the shower.
  93. You dance with your partner in bizarre places (building hall, road, sidewalk ...)
  94. After a break, you go out to dance.
  95. Your neighbors wonder what the strange music you are listening to.
  96. You will see announcements of dance partners every day on the Web.
  97. You have at least 2-3 videos of salsa lessons.
  98. You were already dancing in your mother's womb.
  99. You do your shines practices early in the week to be cool for the weekend.
  100. "Asi Soy!" Is now a word familiar to you.

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The sum of small efforts gives huge results

@siavach, happy steemian, photographer and salsa dancer

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If salsa is a drug for these people, then are you saying these salsa dancers are complete drug addicts xD

Haha just messing around! Awesome post.

i m addicte my friend .... and it s a good stuff :)

Hahaha the first step to recovery is admitting that you have an addiction :P

good post love salsa

welcome here my friend. if u love salsa i love u :)

Gone through the list, sadly not addicted. But I sure love seeing people rocking away on salsa

Only for the 13th question I love Salsa ;-). Great post

ce soir à 19h00 a rive etoile initiation salsa gratuite et en plein air :) pour toi

Great post! Salsa is love salsa is life, right? :D

totally true florijan :)
are u salsero and steemian too ?

Il y a un grand festival de Salsa à Bruxelles si jamais :-D
Et la salsa peut-être dansée tous les soirs de l'année dans la jolie capitale !
Ps: Tu as oublié de traduire le titre de l'article en anglais ;-)

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