Salsa (obviously) bachata, reggaeton, merengue.

I know that many salseros don't like merengue, but I'm one who likes a good one thrown in every couple of sets.
My favortie types of salsa are PR salsa and the NY sound from the 70's. Of course I like the usual suspects: El Gran Combo, Eddie Palmieri, Sonora Ponceña, Larry Harlow, Willie Colon, Wayne Gorbea, GSR, Roberto Roena, Bobby Valentin...etc.

Here in LA most of the larger salsa clubs don't play a lot of the music I like. Another reason I prefer the smaller, less well known clubs is because I seem to like the music better. They simply play more of the suff that I like to listen and dance to.

No. I've never performed or competed and I don't expect that I ever will. I'd much rather see two bad ass social dancers than a coreographed routine.

Of course there are exceptions. I love watching the Eddie Torres dancers; my brother in law dances for Eddie. Also Plan B, Mario B's team. Mario and Rudy are great guys and fun to hang out with when I'm in NY or they're here in LA.

The one couple that I absolutely love to watch though are Tito and Tamara from Puerto Rico. I love their style.

Soy Boricua, 'pa que tu lo sepas!!!
Just in case you couldn't tell from my screen name.

I was born and raised here in southern Cali but I love traveling to NY, Puerto Rico, and Miami.

Many people assume (incorrectly) that since I'm Puerto Rican that I've been dancing salsa since I was a child. Growing up in the LA area with such a small Puerto Rican/Caribeño population meant that salsa music/dancing was pretty hard to come by. Since neither of my parents were into the music/dance I gravitated more towards hip-hop music. It wasn't until I was in my early to mid 20's that I became really interested in salsa music/dancing.

I started dancing socially during the summer of 2001. Initially I started dancing On1 like most people here in LA and then in 2004 I learned how to dance On2 with Bernard Martinez and his wife when they moved here from NY. Since then my preferred style of dance has become NY On2. During my last trip to Puerto Rico during the congress of 2004 I also learned how to dance the Puerto Rican 2. I can't really explain my preference for On2, that's just what I prefer. On most songs I just feel the 2 and the 6 more than the 1 and the 5. With that being said, I usually let the song dictate the beat I break on. Since Colombian salsa is very popular here in LA, there are some songs where I do feel the 1 and the 5 more than the 2 and the 6. That's due to the fact that Colombian salsa typically emphasizes the 1 and the 5 and downplays the 2 and the 6.

Stylisically I prefer the NY style of dancing to the LA style. However since most people in LA dance On1, I still dance On1 as well as On2. The way I see it; the more styles you know, the more people you can dance with.

Favorite dance spots: El Cid, Cuban Bistro, and Bernard Martinez' studio

I'm really not into the bigger clubs in LA: The Mayan, Granada, Cohiba's, etc...
I think I burned myself out on them and to be completely honest, I'm not crazy about the LA salsa scene as a whole. The clubs I used to like the most when I started dancing have either closed or changed to the point to where they just don't do it for me anymore. Fortunately for me, salsa isn't my life, just one of my hobbies.
What I enjoy now is finding smaller clubs that not a lot of people know about that have good music and a good vibe.

I'm a big boxing and MMA fan.
Favorite MMA fighters:
Rickson Gracie
Fedor and Alex Emilianenko
Josh Barnett
Big Nog
Ricardo Arona
Mike Bisbig
Paulo Filho
Dennis Kang
Akihiro Gono (gotta love that guy's entrances)
Georges St. Pierre
Diego Sanchez
Joachim Hansen
Yves Edwards
Mach
Sean Sherk
Kid Yamamoto

Favorite Boxers:
Felix Trinidad (even though he's retired)
Miguel Cotto
Antonio Margarito
Marco Antonio Barrera
Luis Collazo
Ivan Calderon
Jermain Taylor
Edison Miranda
Kermit Cintron
Juan Urango
Juan Diaz
Juan Manuel Marquez

I also love bodyboarding. I love the OC beaches for their great breaks. I ride year-round and can't wait until I go to PR during the winter to ride there for the first time.

Another hobby of mine is cigars. You can usually catch me in one of the Long Beach cigar lounges once a week or so.
Some of my favorite cigars:
Arturo Fuente
Montecristo # 2
Partagas
El Rey del Mundo
Flor Dominicana
Joya de Nicaragua
Avo
Sancho Panza
Sosa