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Tango and Salsa Lessons
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| Tango or Salsa Lessons
Location: Buenos Aires
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| | Description: In the beginner Argentina Tango classes, you'll learn about tango music, the line-of-dance, the embrace, and tango "walking" - "la caminata". You'll also be introduced to other steps including el paseo, la cadencia, la caza, and la cunita. You'll also learn el circulo, la salida, la resolucion, and el zarandeo. The levels of difficulty continue from there. Its a beautiful dance to watch or dance - and where better to learn than in the birthplace of tango? Salsa lessons start with footwork, and basic dance moves geared towards club-style salsa dancing. Beginner classes are suitable for people who have never salsa danced, never danced at all, as well as people wanting to strengthen their fundamentals. Intermediate classes have a few requirements, namely that people are comfortable with the basic steps and know the open breaks, cross body leads, and basic turns. Both tango and salsa are great ways to meet those nice looking Argentinean guys (and girls!).
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Horseback Riding and Showjumping
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| Horseback Riding / Showjumping
Location: Buenos Aires
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| Description: Beginners will learn all aspects of horseback riding, including handling a horse on the ground and while mounted, as well as the correct way to approach a horse, leading and working around the horse safely, mounting and dismounting, and riding position. Classes will progress to steering left and right, moving backwards, how to canter, trot and gallop safely and easily, as well as how to get your horse to jump over obstacles. Advanced riders will have the option to participate in the showjumping course. Showjumping is a sport full of action, excitement, and dedication. It is a sport where men and women compete on equal terms and champions can be any age to achieve their goals. There are many different competitions in showjumping such as 6 bar, knockout stakes, and the puissance, as well as many other variations including speed, high jump and ride and drive.
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Rock Climbing Course (climbing wall)
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Rock Climbing
Location: Buenos Aires
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Levels: beginner to advanced
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| Description: The rock climbing short course in Buenos Aires is on a climbing wall, having grips for hands and feet, and made of multiplex board with holes drilled therein. In the holes are attached modular hand holds which, along with the surfaces formed to mimic actual rock surfaces (with cracks and protrustions), are used for grips. The wall will have places where belay ropes are attached. Develop strength, agility and confidence in a fun and popular course! |
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Flying Trapeze/Aerial Acrobatics Course
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Flying Trapeze /Aerial Acrobatics
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Beginners are introduced to the equipment, safety and basic skills. Then, from high off the ground, participants will learn to a) do their first swing holding onto the bar with their hands, b) then learn the knee-hang swing (hanging from the bar by the legs), followed by c) the ‘knee-hang catch' where you will swing hanging by your knees and release to be caught by a catcher on another swing. Many levels of difficulty, and a variety of equipment, available.
A safety net is underneath at all times. Though the net is soft to land in, it can be a little rough on exposed knees, shoulders and toes. Also remember that you'll be wearing a safety belt over your shirt and you'll be hooking your knees over the bar, so it's best to wear clothes that fit snugly so they don't get in your way.
Are you ready to fly?
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Photography Course
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Photography
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Ever wanted to improve your photography skills? A variety of levels and topics - from basic to advanced photography, advertising, stock photography, photojournalism and lighting techniques too. Learn about focus, aperture, shutter speed, metering, lenses, filters and many other topics depending upon your level of experience. Develop your own personal style in one of our popular photography courses!
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Windsurfing Course
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Windsurfing
Location: Buenos Aires
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| Description: In this windsurfing course, you'll learn how to stand on a sailboard - typically 8 to 15 feet in length, with a single sail. You'll learn how to tilt and rotate the mast of the sail, as well as tilt and carve the board. Beginners learn sailing, steering, and turning, whereas more advanced students will learn planing, gybing (turning downwind), tacking (turning upwind), jumping, and other more advanced moves. Experience the thrill of sailing and surfing at the same time! |
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DJ - Electronic Music Course
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DJ and Electronic Music Course
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: The DJ and Electronic Music course is held at the SONICA, Electronic Music Institute. The classes are composed of locals and international students alike, creating a diverse and unique atmosphere. The institute is located in upscale Belgrano a few blocks away from the Cabildo Avenue. Learn about sound recordings, playback devices, sound systems, mixers etc., as well as techniques used by DJs to manipulate the prerecorded music, including cueing, equalization and audio mixing of two or more sound sources, including beatmixing/beatmatching. Come give superstar DJ Hernan Cattaneo some competition!
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Sea Kayaking Course
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Sea Kayaking
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Learn the sport of sea kayaking - enjoy paddling on the open waters of the Rio de La Plata. Sea kayaks are small boats with a covered deck and the ability to include a spraydeck. Sea kayaks trade off the greater maneuverability of whitewater kayaks for greater cargo capacity, ease of straight-line paddling, and comfort. Its a great way to get exercise, while touring the city and environs from the water!
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Yoga Classes
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Yoga
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Enjoy an invigorating but calming practice with focus on building strength from the inside out. These classes promote balance, physical health, flexibility and over all well-being. These yoga classes integrate postures, breathing exercises, relaxation and meditation to harmonize your body, mind and spirit.
Its a great way to increase your strength, flexibility and general well-being! |
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Scuba Diving Certification Course
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Scuba Certification
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Don't you hate when you're on vacation and scuba diving is available - but you're not certified? Well, now's your chance. In order to earn your scuba certification, you'll participate in classroom sessions and practice essential diving and safety skills in a pool. Finally, you'll test your knowledge on a written exam and apply your skills during training dives in open water. Classes will learn with a scuba set that is an open circuit 2-stage diving regulator, coupled to a single pressurized gas cylinder.
Upon completion of this course, you'll receive a certification card that identifies you as a trained diver, allowing you to rent scuba equipment and explore diving destinations on that next beach vacation!
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Skydiving Course
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Skydiving
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Choose from a tandem skydive, or a static line or tandem skydiving course. A tandem skydive is where you're physically attached to an instructor by a harness. This allows you the thrill of freefall with the comfort of an experienced instructor. You exit the aircraft in tandem from 10,000 feet about the ground, free fall for nearly 35 seconds, and then descend under a parachute built for two.
A static line accelerated course (jumping out of the plane with the chute opening automatically), as well as a tandem system course (first doing tandem jumps with an instructor, then jumping side by side with the instructor), are also available for those who want to eventually skydive on their own.
So, kick those endorphins into high gear! (hey, you only live once, right?!)
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Kiteboarding Course (kitesurfing)
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Kiteboarding (kitesurfing)
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: The course includes basic kite setup, operation, maintenance, size considerations, and types and operation of safety systems. Learning techniques include flying a small kite on a beach to learn how to control the kite within the wind window. Students will learn to then "surf" by flying the kite toward the water, with the board initially pointing downwind, with the student being pulled up out of the water as the board starts to plane. Students will learn to use their feet to edge steer the board across the wind and edge into the water, which has the effect of acting like a keel. This is one of our more challenging (and exhilerating) courses!
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Theater - Improv
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Theater - Improv
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Improvisational theater or improv is a form of theater in which actors perform spontaneously without a script. Performances or scenes typically follow a general theme and format, often in response to audience suggestions. In all forms of improvisation, the actors invent the dialogue and action as they perform. The unpredictable nature of such a performance lends itself naturally to comedy, known as improvisational comedy. Improvisational theatre can also be dramatic. Improv classes focus on basic skills of listening, clarity, confidence, and performing instinctively and spontaneously. Come experience the creativity, flexible thinking, energy and fun of improv!
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Cooking Course
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Cooking
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: The traditional Argentine cooking program offers courses for both the novice and experienced chef and can be taken alone or combined with any of our other programs. Each course lasts 4 weeks and it includes cooking supplies, recipes, and class notes. Cooking classes are taught in Spanish. What better way to get to know Argentina, then through delicious food!
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Rowing - Sculling Course
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Rowing - Sculling
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Rowing is an excellent low-impact cardiovascular activity. This course is ideal for those looking for a new form of recreation and fitness. Beginner's rowing classes include basic safety and boat handling instruction, as well as basic rowing techniques. Advanced classes include additional on-water practice, structured training workouts on land and on the water, and a focus on racing strategies and readiness.
There are two forms of rowing: Sweep or Sweep-oar rowing, where each rower has one oar, held in both hands. In sweep boats each rower is referred to either as port or starboard. These designations refer to which side of the boat the rower's oar is on. Sculling where each rower has two oars, one in each hand.
Team building, fitness & endurance, and the joy of the open water - what more do you want?! |
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Wine-Tasting Course
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Wine Tasting
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Wine tasting is the sensory evaluation of wine, encompassing not only taste, but also mothfeel, aroma and color. The main aims of the wine tasting course are to learn how to: assess the wine's quality, determine the wine's maturity and suitability for aging or immediate drinking, detect the aromas and flavours of the wine, and discover the many facets of wine, so as to better appreciate it. Focus is on Argentinean wines, and will cover lesser-known malbec, torrontes and voignier wines, as well as more well known cabernets, chardonnays and the like.
To assess a wine's quality, course participants will gauge its complexity of aroma and flavour, determine the intensity of the aroma and flavour, check that the flavours and structural elements (such as acid, tannin and alcoholic strength) are well balanced, and finally see how long the wine persists in the mouth after tasting.
Advanced wine tasting classes will gauge the wine's quality in other ways too, including whether the wine is of high quality with respect to other wines of its price, region or vintage; if it is typical of the region it is made in or diverges in style; if it uses certain wine making techniques, such as barrel fermentation or maloactic fermentation, or if it has any wine faults.
This surely is one of the more delicious and fun ways to get to know Argentina!
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Wakeboarding Course
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Wakeboarding
Location: Buenos Aires
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Description: Wakeboarding involves riding, on a single board, the wake of a speed boat designed to create larger wakes. The wakeboarder is towed behind a boat, or a cable skiing setup, but typically at slower speeds (16 - 23mph) than for water skiing. Beginners start at slower speeds such as 18mph with shorter ropes, whereas more experienced wakeboarders use longer ropes and slightly faster speeds of 21 - 23 mph. The wakeboarder rides a single board, the wakeboard, with stationary non-release bindings for each foot, standing sideways as on a snowboard or skateboard. Unlike snowboards, whose edges taper in towards the center, the edges of a wakeboard are widest in the middle of the board.
A wakeboarding boat is similar to a water ski boat except that the rope is normally mounted on a tower or a pole about 2 metres above the water line and the boat is also weighted and trimmed, with strategically placed large water ballasts tanks, to give a larger wake. It also tends to have the engine placed in rear of the boat rather than the middle. The wake is used as a ramp by the wakeboarder. Steering the board by a combination of edges into the water, the rider can move outside of the wake, then cut rapidly in toward the wake, hitting it and launching himself into the air (as the rope tightens the rider gains speed toward the wake - when the rider goes up and off the wake and into the air the tightened rope launches the rider). Beginners will focus on simply staying upright, whereas advanced course participants will learn to do grabs, spins, and other tricks in the air using the wake as a ramp.
Before you know it, you'll be doing whirleybirds, scarecrows, tootsie rolls and butter slides! |
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