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Bachata Database (1348 Moves)
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The Ultimate Bachata Database with 1348+ Moves!
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Tips on how to use this website:
Clicking on the images makes them bigger
The difficulty of the moves are shown in 2 ways:
Their border-color (green beginner, yellow intermediate, red advanced)
The numbers (1-6) in the left bottom corner of the GIF-s
If you set up a username (takes 5 seconds, email-address is not needed), you will be able to mark moves as "Party 🎉", "Now ⚡", "Next ❯" and "Favorite ♥" - for example on which moves you want to focus while social dancing (Party) or which new moves you want to learn soon (Next)
Most moves have a Source-link linking to the original video (often a tutorial on YT)
If you have any feedback, ideas or issues, please let me know for example via FB-Messenger. Thank you very much!
Future plans:
EMAIL-NOTIFICATIONS: Option for email-notification if for example 10 new moves are added
MUSICALITY: A subpage helping to understand and improve musicality (work in progress)
TIMESTAMPS: Adding Timestamps to Source-video-links to find the specific move easier in a long video
Changelog:
v6 -- since 2024 june
v6.0
MULTI-TOPIC: So far just Bachata-moves were allowed on the site. Version 6 is multi-topic, which means there are pre-set topics (for example: Bachata, Salsa, Kizomba, Fitness) which all have a "dedicated" page with moves/exercises/etc.. Your registered account works for every topic, however many things (like uploads, moves-lists, categories, etc.) are of course different.
The goal is to make a huge, Reddit-like website - but with moves/exercises/etc. instead of posts.
If you have a topic-idea or -wish, let me know and I will consider it :)
Sooner or later bigger topics (which have like 100+ moves/exercises) will get an own web-domain (but his won't change anything regarding usability/functionality of the site)
MULTI-KEYWORD SEARCH: So far the search-feature was very limited, as it allowed searching just for 1 word (like "pretzel" OR "headroll") - searching for multiple keywords (like "pretzel headroll") resulted always in 0 found moves. From now on however, you can finally search for multiple keywords!
v5 -- since 2024 march
v5.1
VIP-MEMBERSHIP: Without donations BachataSteps.com wouldn't be possible. So from now on users who donate at least $20/$40 get a VIP-upgrade as gift, which has many-many advantages. For more information please click here now
EDITING/DELETING OWN MOVES: Finally users (VIP-members) can delete or edit their own uploaded moves. At the moment following data of a move can be modified: Move's Name, Dancer's Name. The following data can be changed soon: Visibility, Source-Link, Type (Combo, Step etc.)
PROFILE & SETTINGS: Finally users have a profile-page, where they can see a few information about their account, and set some settings (more settings coming soon!). Here is your "Profile & Settings" page
VIP-UPGRADE VIA INVITATIONS: From now on, users (who are not lifetime-VIP-members yet) can invite other users and get a free VIP-upgrade for it! More infos here!
v5.0
REDESIGN: The site got a complete redesign to make it more professional and user-friendly
PASSWORD: User-accounts are now protected via a password, to make them more secure
LADY-STYLE: 2 new categories arrived: Lady-Solo and Lady-Couple. You can find all Lady-Style moves here
Filled out fields (move's name, dancers' name, etc.) get saved if an upload fails. When you retry the failed upload, the fields get prepupulated automatically with the saved data
4 new buttons help you to move the green start-marker and orange end-marker in the video-editor, which makes trimming videos (especially on mobile) much easier
The "Source-Link" and "Dancers' Name" fields show you suggestions to type less
v4 -- since 2023 december
v4.1
VIDEO INSTEAD OF GIF: From now on, all moves are shown as video (.mp4) instead of an animated image (.gif). This has multiple advantages:
The website got 85% smaller (so the mp4-files are approx 85% smaller, than the .gif-files used to be)
Higher quality (despite much smaller filesize)
Higher resolution (despite much smaller filesize)
Videos can be paused (GIF-s can't)
Videos can be slowed down (GIF-s can't)
v4.0
AJAX-LOADER: In Version3 of the site all moves loaded at once, which made the site extremely slow. Version4 works now in a much smarter way, as it loads always just a handful of moves via AJAX
OWN USER-UPLOADS (for selected user): From now on, users can upload own videos/moves. Via the simple video-editor on the site, it's even possible to cut and crop the video. Users can also choose if their upload should be private, unlisted or public. Public uploads appear on "User-Uploads"
v3 -- since 2022 march
v3.7 -- 2023 november
OWN NOTES: Now users can write own, private notes to every move
v3.6
MOST IMPORTANT MOVES: The website contains almost 600 steps - because of this, you find now a "Start here! 🚀"-button in the top navigation bar. This list contains just the most important steps, which every leader absolutely must know! (categorized based on difficulty)
FILTER: If at least 2 moves are shown on a page, you can filter them - and show just those, which are for example "Difficulty: 3" or "Mylevel: Moderately"
VIDEO-VERSION: Starting with Move#578, all new moves will have a "Video🎥"-link pointing to a video-version (.mp4) - this video-file can be downloaded, slowed down, looped, etc. (and it has a higher quality, than the GIF)
TEMP. RANDOMIZE MOVES-SORTING: Clicking the button in the right bottom corner of the page sorts the moves on that page/list randomly (just as long as the page is not reloaded)
TEMP. REMOVE TEXTS/BUTTONS: Clicking the button in the right bottom corner removes the texts/buttons from the moves to focus just on the images (just as long as the page is not reloaded)
v3.5
MYLEVEL-TRACKING: You can now mark moves based on how well you know them already: "New", "A bit", "Moderately", "Totally", "Too difficult", "Don't like it'. Plus a MyLevel page, where you can see the moves categorized based on those 6 categories
RANDOM MOVE: Clicking the button in the bttom right corner of the page shows a random move from that page/list
ALL I KNOW: If you categorize the moves with the MyLevel-Tracker, on the "All I know"-page you get a list of moves you categorized as "I know it totally" or "I know it moderately"
FIX MOVE: Clicking the "Fix 📌"-button for a move gives it an orange background-color and bringst it to the very beginning of every list where this particular move is being shown. Plus, at the top of the page (in the navigation) you find a "Fixed 📌"-button which lists all fixed moves
v3.4
2 CUSTOM LIST: You can now mark a move with one of the 2 "MyListXY"-buttons to be shown on the new "MyListXY" subpages. You can even rename these 2 lists. NOTE: If 2 custom lists aren't enough for you, contact me to get more.
SHARING LISTS: You can now share any own lists with other people (they can see the moves you saved in that particular list, but not edit/change/remove them)
FULL-SIZE ALL GIFS: Clicking the new button "Full-Size Gifs" (or the icon in top right corner) makes ALL move-gifs as big/wide as your screen, so you can easily scroll through all gifs like on Instragram. This feature works best on mobile (portrai view).
TOP10: Clicking the button "Top10" in the navigation at the top shows the 10 most popular moves on the page (based on how many users saved them into their own lists)
v3.3
PARTY: Feature to mark moves as "Party"
DOMAIN: This website finally got a dedicated domain (BachataSteps.com)
CHANGELOG to see what has been done on the website and what new features are planned
v3.2
REGISTER: New visitors can register a username themselves
SEARCH: Visitors can now find gif's which contain a specific move (like Hammerlock, Shadow, HipRoll, etc.) easily
v3.1
Other users can use the website too, but just if I create a username for them
SAVING MOVES: Feature to mark moves as "Practice Now", "Practice Next" and "Favorite"
LAZYLOAD for images, so just those moves load which are already on the screen
v3.0
SQL-DATABASE: 3rd version, made as a new website, which uses an SQL-database for storing the moves
v2 -- 2022 january
v2.0
2nd version, just for myself, made as a website which contains the moves inside the page as a JavaScript code
DIFFICULTY: Moves are sorted based on their difficulty (1-6)
INTRO: Seeing all moves which can be used in the Intro of a song
SPECTACULAR: Seeing moves I personally find spectacular/fancy looking
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MISC. FEATURES:Miscellaneous advantages
Number of custom, renameable moves-lists
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Number of moves in a listThe amount of moves a list of yours can contain (lists like 'Party', 'Now', 'Next', 'Favorites', 'MyList01', 'MyList02')
100
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Number of own notes to movesYou can write own notes to as many moves
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Controlling access to a shared-list (planned - on request)When you share a list of moves, you can set the usernames which are able to access that shared-list. Useful for teachers who share their moves with their students, so the students aren't able to share the list with other non-students! Plus, this way you can revoke access from students who stopped going to your classes
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OWN-MOVES FEATURES:Advantages regarding uploading own videos/moves
Upload File-SizeThe max. size of the video-file you can upload
300 MB
700 MB
Upload VideoFile-DurationThe max. duration of the video-file you can upload (in minutes)
5 MinutesMin.
20 MinutesMin.
Editing own movesAbility to modify own uploaded moves (title, visibility, etc.)
Deleting own movesAbility to delete own uploaded moves
Multiple Moves from Same UploadAbility to create multiple moves from the same video-file without reuploading it again and again
Final move durationThe max. duration of the final move you create out of a video (in seconds)
20 SecondsSec.
75 SecondsSec.
New Private/Unlisted moves per monthAmount of new private/unlisted moves a user can create every month [public uploads are not limited]
10
Unlimited∞
Failed upload-conversions automatic retry (soon)When the conversion after an upload fails because of server-issues, the website retries it automatically every hour and notifies you when it's done, so you can create a move out of it
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If ANY form of cheating is detected, the inviter will NOT receive his VIP-upgrade AND will be banned from ever getting a VIP-upgrade for invitations.
button in the right bottom corner of the page sorts the moves on that page/list randomly (just as long as the page is not reloaded)
button in the right bottom corner removes the texts/buttons from the moves to focus just on the images (just as long as the page is not reloaded)
button in the bttom right corner of the page shows a random move from that page/list
icon in top right corner) makes ALL move-gifs as big/wide as your screen, so you can easily scroll through all gifs like on Instragram. This feature works best on mobile (portrai view).