Seriously! The only problem is that I don’t have anybody to go to lessons with. I am pretty sure I can find a place that teaches it, but is it a bring your own partner type of thing?
Tell me your experience in learning this wonderful looking dance! What made you want to learn it, who taught you and was it worth it? Is it a good place to meet women? Or is it in your experience that most people come with somebody?
Most salsa lessons I’ve been to are not “bring your own partner” type things. So you don’t have to, I would say, unless the lesson listing or flyer specifically indicates that. Some people will bring a partner, and then depending on the teacher and the class format, they either dance only with each other or end up dancing with others as well. I’ve been in lessons where we switched partners after every new segment. I loved taking salsa. It’s probably a bit harder for the man than the woman - the man needs to know what he’s doing because he leads. Seems like it’s at least a good potential place to meet people. Good luck! (with the dancing, I mean…ok, good luck with the women too.)
Thanks for the luck. I have found a few good places, one looks promising, it is a swing dance club here in KC. They teach Salsa, but also Tango and other dances. Some of the prices range from 5 dollars a lesson, to 200 dollars for an 8 week course. I doubt I can get my friends to go, but seriously, they are sticks in the mud, it is like pulling teeth just getting them to go to a decent club or event.
I was seeing a girl, but we agreed it wouldn’t work out. She worked way too much and just simply wasn’t interested in doing things. Certainly not learn Salsa. I was just worried that it wasn’t something one could go do alone and meet people.
Alas, the strange yet hauntingly beautiful langauge of the Salsa is unpronouceable by human tongues.
Salsa is really fun but like tesseract mentioned, it’s harder for the guys. My GF (before she was my GF) taught me how to dance all the popular dances (Salsa, Merengie(sp) and Combia(sp)). Very good way to get a work out (you sweat like a big in a crowded club!
Many dance clubs here will have free lessions prior to the club actually opening. It’s a BYO date though.
Most dance studios can work around people who show up partner-less for lessons. Often, that means you’ll end up partnering with the instructor, which really isn’t all that bad of a thing.
My husband and I took mostly Swing lessons, but we had a few Salsa lessons mixed in there–I loved going dancing, and miss going to clubs (other things just have kept us really busy as of late).
It is more difficult for the guys to learn than it is for the girls, because not only are you learning the moves, but you have to get down the concept of leading. An instructor of ours once said, “Feminism has not reached the ranks of ballroom dancing.” Most men of our generation have not grown up with partner dancing, and are often uncomfortable with leading. You will be the one to set the rhythym you’re dancing to; you will be the one who will spin and dip your partner. Your partner, as long as she knows the steps and can follow your lead, shouldn’t have to do anything else but dance–a great lead will allow a lady to take a ‘mental vacation’ for 3 minutes while you spin her out on the dance floor–it’s your job to make her look like the most graceful creature on Earth. How’s that for pressure? 
Learning the steps is pretty easy. You can usually get those down within a few lessons. It’s the learning to lead that’s tougher, if you’ve never done any form of ballroom dancing.
That being said, chicks love guys who can dance. I’m definitely one of them. Go for it! And when you learn, come out to L.A. and we’ll hit the Conga Room.