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	Just need to to make a comment-- Would everyone please stop attributing salsa on 2 to torres-- Ive been teaching for over fifty years and can assure you mambo on 2 was around before he was born !!
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Heheh. While that may be true, the basis of this chatroom is for people who dance on2 "eddie torres style". However made-up and/or shallow that may be, it's the foundation of this chat forum.

Really, "eddie torres style" is a short way of saying:

• New York moves
• step on 1,2,3 5,6,7
• ladies break forward on 2, gents break forward on 6

I think it was a (failed) attempt to avoid having a group full of people saying "that's not on 2! THIS is on 2!!!"

That said, thanks for the list of names, I'll be looking them up and reading with interest anything I find.

I got the "Dance Salsa Nightclub Style" dvds with Eddie Torres because I wanted to form a point of view on syncopation of the basic step, and found that on2 as I dance it is a lot more refined than how ET danced it a decade or so ago. I assume this is largely due to Frankie Martinez bringing his martial-arts attention to detail and training discipline to the mix.

I agree that ET is probably given more reverence than is really merited by his dancing. I guess his big contribution was the clarity of his teaching and the broadness of his reach.