Ok, I still don't know too much about this sub hopefully it's appropriate to post this here. For this post to make sense I'd have to mention, I was an elite pro in my early twenties, now that I'm in my late thirties I'm just a top pro. I've salsa danced with ( totally guessing here ) maybe 10-15 thousand women over the years. I've basically seen it all and have noticed a few patterns that reminded me of this sub. Things women in the salsa scene do that don't make sense unless you're familiar with TRP. Here are a few:

 

( also you should prob know that the salsa scene has many rules. It's a different world. Basically you ask a girl to dance, she either says yes or no. You dance one song, say thank you, move on to the next. On average good dancers dance with 20-30 girls / night. Her rejecting the dancer or accepting the invite is a very big deal. The usual excuse is "I'm tired", "I don't like this song", "my feet are killing me" etc. But if a dancer the scene considers the best asks her it doesn't matter if her feet are bleeding she'll jump up with a smile and grab his hand. There are many reasons a salsera will reject or accept an invite, I'm not gonna get into it here but respect is a huge part of it. Might be relevant to mention that on average depending on the club and my mood I get rejected about 5% of the time or like 1 in 20 but I've had nights as a pro where it would be like 60% )

 

things I've noticed that will only make sense to TRPers  

Sometimes two guys ask a girl to dance at the exact same time. Sounds weird but it happens more often than you think. Here's the weird part. The rookie will usually realize the other guy is a pro or an advanced dancer and he'll pull back his hand and awkwardly say something like "I'm sorry" ( the scene is packed with beta nerds ). Now the pro in this situation realizes that for that rookie getting to dance with this beginner follower is a big deal and the pro couldn't care less so in a very relaxed and confident manner the pro might say "you two dance, I'll dance the next one" and he'll instruct the girl to dance with the rookie. Here's the weird part. If he does that, it's next to impossible for him to score a dance with that lady again. He can be the smoothest / most confident guy in the world and not only will she reject him, she will treat him like sh*t. I've seen this scenario play out many times and have been on both ends of it myself.

 

Here's one more. Very often two girls will be in the middle of an intense conversation on the dance floor. Usually because they don't want to appear desperate like they are standing by themselves waiting to get asked to dance. So the unwritten rule is a good dancer can grab either one of them to dance and they'll immediately say bye to the girlfriend and will follow him to the dance floor. Sounds rude on paper but it's part of the salsa scene. Here's the weird part, if you grab her to dance and she begins to follow you then you decide to be the nice guy and you go "no rush, you guys talk let's dance the next song" and you let her go back to chatting with her girlfriend. Then the next song not only will she turn you down she will talk to you like you're a beginner. Like you're trash. It would be very difficult to get her to dance with you from that point on.

 

The reason I'm posting it is these two scenarios are true 100% of the time. It's like some sort of law of physics. You'd think once in a while there would be an exception but nope.

 

There are many more little examples like this but I'll stop here this thing is long enough.