I'm salsa dancing side-to-side, but everybody else is going forward and

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back. What gives? I learned how to dance salsa in New York about 10 years ago, and the way I learned it, we went side-to-side. I moved down to Florida and just went out dancing for the first time in a few years, and everybody was moving forward and back. Now, I'd seen this in NY, but here it was EVERYBODY doing it, and I was the odd man out. What gives?

I had a girl I asked to dance ask me what "style" I was dancing, and I had no idea what to tell her. Any help? Anyone know where the whole side-to-side thing is from? Puerto Rican/Dominican/Cuban? I'm just a gringo with no clue.
 
Salsa dancing has many moves to it. Side to side , back and forth, cross frontal, half beat skip. I used to teach in California. If you check out some of the you-tube salsa tutorials you will see for beginners start side to side and later move to doing more front to back. But side to side is still needed for side stepping when your partner spins and vice versa.
 
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