Wow! Lots of new people came out for our Intro to Balboa series tonight, which is awesome! Lots of them were leaders, so if you’re a follower, we’d love to have you join us for the last 3 classes. (We’re serious — we’ll get you up to speed on what you missed this week.)

So that was super-fun, and we got to talking about some of the amazing dancers who came before us…which got me fired up to find a few old clips we were chatting about and post ’em here.

I can’t find any decent old footage of Marty Lau dancing anymore, but here’s

The master of the floaty style was Willie Desatoff. Dig this clip of Willie Desatoff dancing with Ann Mills. Love those hovercraft feet! (Bonus of Hal & Marge Takier in the same clip!)