Senior Instructor & Club Administrator; Kimmy was the first teacher to join and be trained by Stuart, and has been by his side for the last 7 years!

Kimmy has always loved to dance, and was looking for something else to replace nightclub “dancing” which was becoming less enjoyable, when a friend dragged her along to her first Salsa Club.

Much to her surprise she loved it immediately, and she was an absolute natural.

6 months later Kimmy met Stuart at a Salsa Weekender. Stuart happened to be looking for someone to train up as a teacher at the time, and although Kimmy had only been dancing 6 months he saw a lot of potential in her.

Before the weekend was over Stuart approached Kimmy, and asked her if she would like to be trained by him as a teacher. Although Kimmy hadn’t thought never about teaching, she immediately said yes!

When Kimmy went along to one of Stuart’s Beginner classes for the first time she was very impressed, and somewhat surprised,  by the quality of the teaching and how much the students were able to learn & progress in a very short time. It was immediately obvious to her how well structured the class was, and everyone seemed to be having so much fun!

Being Stuart’s first Trainee teacher, Kimmy had the longest and toughest journey of all, seeing as there were no other team members she could turn to for support. After 6 months of hard work, training and assisting Stuart, she was finally given her own Beginnner class to teach in January 2003.

As Kimmy had some experience outside of his own training, Stuart encouraged Kimmy to provide input to the future development of his teacher training program, and she has assisted in the training of the trainee teachers that followed her.

Also, being Stuart’s most senior teacher, Kimmy shares some of the responsibilities for running the club nights and takes the leading role when he takes a rare holiday, etc. Kimmy has also partnered Stuart at a Pontins Salsa Weekender, and taught Ladies footwork & styling.

Kimmy has a special knack of spotting precisely why students are not ‘getting it’ and explaining it in a way anyone can easily understand. She also tends to ‘say it as it is’ and reminds her students that “it’s ok if we don’t all look like champions… we can all look good just looking like us!”

There is also nobody who believes in ‘Salsa SOS’ and what the club stands for more than Kimmy, and she feels proud to be part of such a special team.

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