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1. Introduction: It can be quite overwhelming
to be stepping on the dance floor without even
really knowing how to dance. It was definitely a feeling
I experienced years ago. And the truth is
learning how to dance. It's not nearly as hard
as many believe it to be. Everyone. I'm Donald cook. I made a series on YouTube documenting my progress
on shuffle dance. I used to be absolutely
terrified of dance floor. I was just awkward, stiff, and even in my high
school dances years ago, I was absolutely just too embarrassed to break
out of my shell. But about a year ago,
I finally decided to spend some time
learning how to dance. But over the past year, I've built myself up to
a point where I could say that pretty good. And by following
through this course, you will learn
everything I know, but the fundamentals you need to know broken down step-by-step, but also tips, tricks and follow along sections provided to you. We'll start off with the most
basic shuffle dance moves, then go over some common
questions later on, Linux on my favorite
variations in a style that's easiest
to understand, follow the instructions
and advice given in this course can get used from
a complete beginner point. Someone who can confidently
shuffled downs. So let's get started.
2. Learn to do The Running Man: Hey guys, glad to have you here. This lesson is all about the first fundamental shuffled and snow that you're going to
learn called the running man. The Running Man is to remove the fundamental move that ties together everything
related to shuffling. Because it uses
shuffling your feet around a basic footwork, gets you used to
time your steps with the rhythm and also
just looks pretty cool, especially for how easy it is. So learning this move is
really worth your time. They could only be one when
we take away from this, I want it to be the running man. Even just this move alone makes it look like you
know how to dance. So without further ado, let's go ahead and
learn this move. Let's just get started. You'll notice that the
first thing you see here is three pieces of
tape on the floor. These three things represent
each plane that you can land during the running man or to
an outside, just like this. One on the inside.
Just like that. It's only three
different places that each foot can be on
during the running man. Just three hopeless
simplifies things for you. It's the first thing
I want you guys to do is just take a step
forward like this. You find yourself
in this stance. Usually it can be any foot. But for this tutorial
and teaching, you guys, go ahead and say the right foot, right foot forward,
left leg in the back. And this stance in this dance doesn't have to
be too wide or too narrow, a skewed into this
position right here. So if you're gonna
be in the middle, basically what's going on here is you're gonna take
your right foot, which is your front
foot, and scoot it back. Just scooted back. They're used to
that food it back. Your left foot, which
is in the back, there's gonna be scooping up, scooping into the
middle like that. What's going on here
is you're going to combine these two
movements into one, the scooting back
your right foot and scooping up the left foot. That leads to this movement. You can think of it almost
as like a little jump, a little hop that helps you
guys hop into this position. You keep doing this over and over again. It'll
get really simple. So try to send me a
couple of you, alright. Up. Go back, go back, up, go back and off. Pretty easy, right? Not
that hard. Pretty simple. We just did this
easy little step. Good enough for the position. We're pretty much halfway through limiting
the Running Man, somebody to different movements. Now we're gonna move
on to the second step. So now, what's your
disposition in the middle? Want you to take your left foot, which is the one that's
upward right now, you're going to drop
it down like that. And as you do that, as you
drop this left foot down, your right foot, you're
going to scoot back again. So just like this, this foot drops down, this one goes back again. Like that. I want you to try
this with me a couple times. You're in this position, then
the middle dropped down. Disposition middle, dropdown, position in
the middle, top-down. Now you're in that same
stance again, right? Except your feet
are now swapped. You're now pretty much learned both of the movements
and the running man. Here on out, you're doing
the same movements again, except with the lake swapped. Let's start from the beginning.
Let's make things simple. We'll start from the
beginning, right here. That stands for
right foot forward, left foot back,
boon to the middle. And then we just dropped
down to that same stance but with the feet swapped.
Hope that's simple. It's not what do
we do from here? You just do this again. We just go right back
into that middle part. Now we take the left foot
and now this one back. Now they're ripe fruit
is a walnut scoops up. So we just learned
earlier, gloom. We just did earlier except
with the lake swapped. Now what we're gonna do
this drop-down again? Yes, just drop down again. Once we do that,
that's the full cycle. They're running man. Good stuff. Let's just try and do
this one more time. School food. Let's go through the full cycle. Let's get this running man, hash into our brains That's really absorb it and learn it. So right foot forward,
Bernardo stance, scoop up, drop down. And I went the same thing. We are swapped, skew
club, drop down, the entire running managers
doing this little movement, this little cycle
over and over again. When you practice, I
really want you to just get used to this foot
work, make it natural. Wanted to keep doing it
over and over again until it feels easy and
natural to you. And to the point you
don't really have to think about it so much. Just keep doing this
over and over again. It's quite simple. As you get better at it, as
it becomes easier to do. Make it faster. Let me show you guys what that
looks like from the back. Hopefully that helps you
guys out if you're confused. Don't worry too much
about your form. Just get you to this
foot, work this into your head. Get used to it. The front view,
hopefully that helps. You just turn the running man. Good job. Now we're gonna do is
we're going to spice it up, going to
get used to this. We're going to add, do
this alongside music. Speeded up a little bit
again to this rhythm. So basically the running
man when you're dancing, every time you dropped down to the stance side of the
drum, the beat of the song. And this part is in-between. The beat of the song
goes like 1.2 and 3.4. Let's do this alongside of song. I'll pick one with
a slow rhythm. Follow alongside me. So we can just get used to doing the running man to
the beat of the song. Once we do this,
things will click. You'll know what
it really means. I could do the Running
Man and the star. 123. Let's start 1 and 2 and 3. 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1 and 2
and 3 and 4. And boom. You able to follow
along with me there. You just learned Running Man. You just learned how to shuffle. You can officially say that
you can shuffle dance. That was a bit
slower than what you would usually dance to. It a little bit
awkward to do that. It's like you kinda wanna
go a little bit faster. But it's just starting out. But they're pretty
good temple to do things that you won't
get too confused. You won't stumble on
your feet too much. Let's go ahead and move
on to a faster tempo. We can't keep up no pressure. That's alright, so
keep practicing and maybe you could catch
up to this eventually. Right? Okay. Okay, so follow along. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 3 and 4 and 1. 4 and 1 and 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3. Again, we can't
match that tempo. Let's keep practicing, man,
you'll eventually get it. Cool. I want to do that while talking. So that's it, that's
the Running Man. It's a really versatile move is the foundation of everything. Shuffling. You just learnt how to do it through an awesome, you just made every other
dance move on this list a lot easier because you know
the foundation for all of it. Thank you and see you
in the next lesson.
3. Perfecting Your Running Man: Let's go over some tips to perfect a running man to
make your formula is good as possible if you haven't got down this basic footprint
yet, this basic cycle. Don't worry too much
about these tips. But if you have nice tips of
how you make that look good, you can look snazzy,
I guess move with it. Alright, so the
first thing I wanted to go over is to keep your Foster just
relatively straight. Give me back straight. Won't be swaying forward. We're leaning back. They'll make your
Running Man look goofy. Check this out. If I'm
like leaning back. It looks kinda
weird. I'm leaning forward looking at my
feet the whole time. Then it just doesn't look right. Straight back, straight than it looks
great. It looks effortless. It looks good. If you're just starting
out, if you're just learning, that's alright. Look down at your
feet a little bit. You're trying to see if you're
doing the right movements. But to make sure your feet
are on the right places, that's okay, that's alright. But if you get
used to this, what do you becomes a natural? Want to start leaning, you
wanna start heating up. We want to start actually
looking forward. Start and stop with lying. I'm looking at your
feet so often. But a second tip to make your Running Man
look more smooth, to look more like it's
actually shuffling. Not be hopping around so much, but you get past
that beginner stage. You want to actually keep your feet pretty close
to the ground like this. Actually shuffle your feet. You don't want to be
actually hop in that much. It's now look kinda weird. Like if you're
doing it that way. Like I'm really bouncing
around, let's kinda goofy. But if you keep your feet
close to the ground, it looks more like you're
actually shuffling. It looks it looks effortless. By the end of the
day you want to find your own unique style. There's a lot you can experiment with all shuffled dancing, especially with the
Running Man and running that is a
very versatile. You actually liked
the bouncy look and you could actually
do that on purpose. I feel like dancing
or something hard and actually stop around, bounce around a lot like this. I don't believe you
just said often unless I'm listening to
something kinda hard. But you do whatever the heck you feel like doing at
the end of the day, dancing is about
self-expression. And a bouncing around
is how you wanna do it, and it's how you feel
like doing it naturally. Feel free to do so wherever
you feel like whatever you enjoy doing the most while doing the running
man as overlooked, but what will look the best? So other people, if you're forcing yourself to do something you don't
really like doing. It's a little off. But I'd like to say that for beginners, keep your feet close
to the ground. Your posture straight. Make it look effortless
and make it look good. Alright, so before we move
on to the next lesson, the sculpture is
simple variation. You can apply it to
your running man. If you are still struggling
with your basic Running Man, haven't mastered it yet, you can skip right past this. Don't worry too much about this. So this will make
some moves down the line a little bit easier
if you learn this right now. And it's called the
kicking running man. Basically what we're gonna do is while you're doing
the running man, when you'd land but
your front foot you're kicking out heel
upwards just like that. Look just like this. Isn't physically add some style to your basic running man. You just Running Man. There are also some
other things you can do to play around with
your running man. Some things that
look kind of cool, you could throw in there. One of those things is just to kinda like move
around a little bit. We turn a little bit. Why
would you be running man, even go in circles? So something like this.
You might run them out. I feel like just moving
around like this. She starts kinda
diagonally pointing most eat while I'm
doing the running down, turning around a little bit. Don't worry too much
about these things. So if you haven't got good
at the Running Man yet, but when you actually master the running man becomes
natural to you. You can start playing around
with the Running Man. Am I doing things like that? Well, my favorites is
turning in a circle, so I'm just doing
the running man. Let's just start turning. Again. If you haven't got good
at their hunting men yet, you analyse gonna be
kind of difficult. But once a rolling out
becomes natural to you, it's something that
you can naturally do without thinking too much, is durations are a lot of fun. They actually come
quite intuitively.
4. The Class Project: A subdued, we're gonna be talking about the class
project right now. And while it is optional, I want to see you as
much as your guys as progress as possible. I really want this
to be an experience where you guys learned
something new. And aside from just
watching the content, want you guys to put this into practice and learn
some new dance moves. You can just write
about your progress down below if you wish. And if you feel comfortable, you could even share a video or image of your
dancing down below. And if you do decide
to share a video, you can ask any questions to me about what you can improve upon, how it looks and I'll give you the best advice that I can. I won't judge you. I've promised you probably
will dance better than I did when I was
a complete beginner. Trust me. I also feel that taking the time
to practice before sharing that experience
with others can be a big step and actually
taking action, a setting off a chain reaction and actually practicing more often and really improving
the skill of dancing. But if you don't feel
comfortable or just completely optional, and either way, I thank
you for watching. So that being said, I'll see you guys in the
next lesson and Peace out.
5. "What do I do With my Arms?": Yeah, so one of the
biggest questions I had as a beginner shelf flu was, what on earth do I
do with my arms? Like What do I like?
What I actually do? Like I'd actually get the fabric down and watch the tutorial
is learning the moves, are start shuffling for my little progress video.
And that'll be due. I'll be doing this. I didn't know what
the **** do my arm, so they would just be sitting there doing absolutely nothing. It was kinda sad. I have no idea what to do with my hands during that dance. What do you suppose
to do with them? But you guys don't
wanna go through that because I'm the
best teacher ever. And I'm just going to
tell you some tips, some actual concrete
examples that you can steal and copy on what
to do, but your arms. Now we're here, they'll change the scenery and I'm going to show you what to
do with your arms. When to start off with using the running man as a template
for these different chips. So let's do this. I'll tell you the first thing
you can do with your arms. Especially the best while
doing the running man. And the so basically, while doing the
running man is to move your arms like you're running. You're running.
Now, running man. That works perfectly.
It's great. Step. You basically have your arm extended
like you're running. This super-duper like
characteristics, something, nothing super unique. But as a beginner, this looks pretty good and
it's pretty easy to pull off. You won't get nervous
doing this only dumb. But look how look correct. And if you're just
starting out, you're like, Oh my God, I don't do my arms. I'm so bad at dancing. If you're just doing
the running, man. I mean, is you have
your friggin you have your arm out like this. So that works out. As you progress. You get more comfortable
with your foot work. You get more confident, thinks it a bit easier for you. You could snap it
up a little bit and make it look sick as heck. So just doing this,
you can have a little bit more of a
little chilled out, little arm, a little
snazzy arm like this. Can get crazy with the arms. You can even fill them out, extend them a little bit like you're just
floating around. Looks a little bit
silly, but it can have a little bit of a stylized, unique motion to it like this. You can even do it
normally like this. The exaggerate, how
far your arms go out. Again, this can look
a little bit unique, little silly, but it
can help you stand out. You can get crazy with it.
You can smile a little bit. This. Even when you're
doing it that way, you can actually widen
your stance a little bit. It feels kind of natural to
widen your entire composer. Just take up space. Vgb, a dancer, you crazy. So that's the first
thing you can do. Basically, just timing your arms with the running
man like a running. And when you feel
like being snazzy, when you feel more confident,
you could exaggerate it, be snazzy would do whatever
the heck you want with that basic foundation that just timing it
with your running. Finally got the Running
Man. Move number two. What to do with your arms
is this little motion. Basically it's kind of like
a normal dance, right? Just doing this thing. But you combine it with the Running Man. So it should look like this. Check it out. You can even just doing this. You can do a little bit of that. I don't recall this. I
don't have official name, but I liked doing it. I do like doing this.
My favorite ones to do. It just looks really chill. And you don't see it that
often what the running man. So I like I think it's
like my little thing till I like it. It's a little bit unique. How many people do it? So feel free to steal it
from me. I want minds. So thirdly, here's the
last little concrete thing you can just steal
from this list is to do a little
bit of this motion right here while doing
the running man. Might be like
that's kinda weird. Why is that on with
the Running Man? Actually fits kinda
well, so check it out. That's it. Let's kinda cool. I don't want to say about it. So yeah, as you would
think, ideally, the best way to do this is to
combine all three of these. You're running man, he's
just doing whenever you feel like doing them
never comes to mind. Whenever it feels snazzy just at the moment, something like this. Together you can just put just a running man
alone, do a lot. And really it can look
like you know how to dance and you're comfortable
in your own skin. That's why I really advise doing the running man because
they're running man. So he can do anything
with your arms. It's sick, especially if
you know the variations and stylistic tips I told you
earlier in the course, combine it with these
different arm movements and you're just
running man alone. You really, how long your
arsenal with dancing. You can get really far with it. So hold that really
helped you guys out. We don't have to
worry too much about what to do with your arms. Were just starting out. This
time it with your arms. Basic normal, a little motion. What's that becomes
pretty easy for you. Can really branch out, do a lot of different
things with your arms. And just not worry about how you look because you urinate, you have your own,
your own unique way of expressing
yourself or dancing. And these tools are just taught. You can mix right in steel for a little bit
as you get used to them. Snazzy it up yourself. Dance like no one's watching, but people who are watching, but they'll think you're super cool because you can shuffle, is I taught you and
you'd be unstoppable. Thank you guys. I'll see you in the next
lesson. Peace out.
6. Wearing Shoes VS Socks: Hey, so a common question I get from people who
are starting to learn how to shuffle is dual
wear shoes or socks. And well, the answer
to that is first, wear shoes, but also it depends. The reason why I say that
shoes are the go-to option is because when you go to
events like parties, weddings, etc, what
exactly are you going to do if you only know how
to dance wearing socks? We're going to slowly
take your shoes off one by one handedness. Some stranger in the crowd, the whole DOM for you, and then start dancing. I won't judge you
if you do that, I'd gladly hold your shoes. But the thing is, it
can really throw you off if you only know how
to dance wearing socks. And then you step
into a real-world situation with shoes on. And there's also the case
where some moves like the kicking running man almost require you to be wearing shoes. For the kicking running man, you're going to be
kicking your heel pretty forcefully onto the
ground on each step. So it would actually hurt
when wearing only Sachs. I've tried it. It's
kind of annoying as for the surface or
flourish and dance on, I'd recommend a hardwood
floor if you have one or just any kind of
flat surface is fine. Slightly harder to
dance on something like concrete because it's a
little bit more on groupie. What else shouldn't
throw you off too much? As for carpets, carpets will fail you off the most
because they have the most. Grip your feet on the slide
across them as easily. But if you're already
kinda good at shuffling, then it will still look good. Shuffling will still look good. It won't be thrown
off very much by it. Only if you're a
complete beginner, I would recommend staying
away from carpets as much as you can
when wearing shoes because your feet will slide across as gracefully
in those scenarios. So if you're in the middle of some serious practicing session, I recommend wearing
shoes. Hover. Does this all mean
that wearing socks is a forbidden practice
and that you're a big loser if you wear socks, because that's not
the case and still some scenarios were wearing
socks is completely okay. I mean, most of the
skill that you will gain from dancing
and socks is still going to switch over to when
you put shoes on and wearing socks also make some
moves kind of easier, like the Running Man, e.g. and also moves like the t-stat, which I'll be teaching
you next lesson. Because in the T step,
your feet usually are pivoting very closely
to the floor, which means that because
the stock has less than grip compared
to the shoes bottom, you slide across a floor
a lot more gracefully. If you also just chilling
at home and you hear a bob Come on and you
want to start shuffling. And you're not in
the mood to find your shoes and
slowly put them on. I mean, there's nothing wrong
with dancing right there. And then, I mean, I do it sometimes for most scenarios and
serious practicing, I'd say wear shoes because it is the most Robot
application of dancing. However, if you're just
as vitamin or maybe if you're learning to T step
for the first time, e.g. wearing socks is
completely okay. Thank you so much for
watching this lesson and I'll see you guys in
the next chapter.
7. The T-Step - Travel the Dance Floor: Welcome to the
second major lesson of the shuffled dancing course. We'll be learning how
to do the T step, which is an integral part
of shoveled dancing, pretty much a traveling dance move that
looks pretty smooth. I feel like this
is just as simple, if not even easier
than the Running Man. There's actually only two
steps to this movement, so I hope that's
encouraging the here. This is actually one of
the movements that's easier to do wearing
socks and shoes. If you, if you're a
complete beginner, I would actually
say it's okay to learn this for the first
time wearing socks. And as you get
used to this move, you can actually switch
to using shoes in. I'm learning how to
get used to this move. Wearing the shoes. Like I said, there's only two different steps and
there's movement. If you had the first 50 per cent out of the way super quickly, it's gonna be using, trust me. So to start off, I want
you to get into position. The first thing I want
you to do is to stand. Normally. I know that's super hard. It's really hard to
staff to get done, but I know you can do it. Yeah. So just stand normally. No money your business and from here, take your right foot and
rotate it inward like that. Take a close look at that. Hopefully you don't
get tripped out. I don't want you to get used to rotating it the wrong way. And in this example, since we're starting off with
our right foot, right foot is turning towards
the left, just like that. Easy peasy. That's half of the first step
done with second half is combining this with raising
your left foot like that. So raise your left foot up, raise your knee up like that. Just to hip level.
Nothing crazy. As you do that. You want to
invert this foot like that. You get used to
that room and back. Boom, boom. Used to that until this
isn't too hard to pull off. So you definitely
understood everything by now because you're
a smart person. And what I want you
to do from here is to tap this foot
on the ground. Now, there's leg is lifted up. In this case will
be all left foot. Just tap it down like that. I'm just a light little
tap and won't be stamping. It doesn't have to be a
little delicate touch either. Just intuitive, little
easy task. To complete. The second step, we're going
to Ebert the foot now. And by that I mean, rotate
the foot outwards like that. In the first step,
we wrote it inwards. For the second step, we're
going to rotate it out. So right foot is going
to rotate to the right. So boom, that's the
full second step. We went from this to this. Combine that all together. Tap an outward rotation
of the other foot. Boom, boom, boom. Not too complicated at all. I trust. You've got the hang
of that. Wants you to combine these two things. The one movement, so
we're standing normally, just chilling, boom, boom. During this slowly
is actually going to be harder than
doing it fast when you actually do this
faster once you've mastered doing this slowly
and you start doing it fast, you'd be like, Whoa, this
is actually super easy. So once you've done this, at least once, congratulations, you just don't have the T step. Even easier than
the Running Man. You did your first T step and the running man was
nothing deny 900 t-stat, but he stopped was a
piece of absolute cake is the best cake you've ever had
and you had a piece of it. You might be like, well
actually the cake has no filling if someone
is missing from this. Well, due to faulty step, to actually do it correctly, you have to do it like in a cycle they do over
and over again. So boom, tap it down. And from here, we're
going to actually just do the first
step over again. Raise that foot up and
rotate that foot inwards. Boom. And then we just do
the second step again, tap and Alberta rotation
and the other foot. Then we just do the
same thing again. Boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom. Just get used to them. Or don't worry too much
about your upper body. Just yet. Don't worry too much about how smooth
or form looks. Just make sure that
you're getting that. Raise and tap. Raise and tap, raise and tap. You should be traveling. If you're doing this
correctly, you should be traveling to the other way. It should be traveling
in the direction that the foot is tapping in. Traveling, you're
doing it wrong. If you aren't
traveling, you probably aren't doing the
rotation of the foot. Once you start traveling and doing this over and over again, then boom, you actually
got the T step down. At this point you
might be like, Well the lesson length is
longer than right now, How's, what else is there to do? Well, I'm gonna
give you a few tips on the T step on how to perfect it and then make it look even better
than it really is, and how to avoid
common mistakes. First things first,
practice the other side. You want to, but you
want to be able to do the other side as well. You don't want to be
stuck to one side for the rest of your
life because that's just what if you want to
move the other direction and that's just
something you should remember once you
master one side, push them legs, and just do the same thing
on the other side. This is same exact concept. This left foot will
be rotating inward, raising in this football raise up and rotates outward in a tab. First things first,
I want you to keep your upper torso
pretty straight. Straight as you can.
Just like that, once you do avoid this
leading to decide if you can. So don't be doing this is
you're gonna be thrown off balance is going to be
really difficult to do it. You might get a small
urge to want to do that, but if you do that, you're going to
probably fall over. And it also doesn't
look very good. Lean to the side a
little bit is fine. But I do recommend that unless you're going for
a personal style, just keeping your body
is straight as you can, is the best way to go. So next, I want you to avoid any unnecessary rotation of
this upper torso like this. Remember you're like, well how
does my body even do that? But this twisting, we will look more like this while
doing the T step, you might even know you're
doing it. Stupid nest. This mistake actually
even makes move easier, which is why people make
a habit of doing this is the thing I actually
did the most as I twist my arm and upper torso to, to aid with the tapping of the foot and the
traveling and the movement. We're going to notice that as
you do this, first of all, if your upper body looks less composed as all over the place, because you're twisting
around all over the place. You're kinda off-balance. And your legs start swaying
around and all these weird directions because your body is twisting all over the place. Avoid that if possible. I would just starting out and you kinda have to do that to complete the movement.
That's fine. Just avoid, avoid as much as you can as you get better at doing this movement
and the footwork, minimize the twisting torso. This doesn't mean
no arm work at all. It just means the torso
assumption and be like, if your arms are just doing
this simple like that, show that your challenge
to add some flow to the movement. Really fine. So does next tip is a
little bit different. It's more something
to keep in mind. My hope that move click in
your mind a little bit easier is that when you're inverting
the foot on the first step, you will notice that
when you bring this foot inwards like this, you're up on your
heels for a second. You're rotating on your heels
when you rotate inward, if you're on your toes and there's something
wrong with you, you're gonna be on your
heels while you do this. And when you evert the foot, when you're rotating
outwards like this, you're actually on the balls
of your foot for a second. Just know that when you do this, you're on your heels
and for this moment you're on your
balls of your foot. So that's something's
just remember just in case you somehow doing
that in opposite order. So what a t step on his own. It's pretty simple,
not too hard. It's just two steps.
I got to teach you guys some additional
movements so you can actually increment the two-step to the rest of your
shuffling dances.
8. T-Step Transitions/Variations: So first off, hello, enter into the t-stat
from a running man. Like entering a
running man from a normal stands still
is pretty simple. You just hop out into a running man stance and then go through
with the movement. But if I just stand
here and I start off my grand dance routine
in the circle of a club by just raising my foot up and doing a
t-stat Kahn Dom home. So how do I enter the T
step from the Running Man? Before we do this?
While teach you guys an important term that I
use throughout this course. And I call it the
in-between step. Usually when you're doing
some kind of shuffle move, in this example,
they're running man. The in-between step is the
portion in between the steps. So this stance here would be the actual stepping
portion of a running man where my legs step on the floor when I
raised that foot up. And how 1 ft on the floor. This is what I like
to call it in-between step because it's the portion
in between the steps. So this is called
the in-between step. So let's apply this to how I got into g step from a running man. So while doing the running man, I'm at the in-between
step from here. Instead of going through
with the Running Man and hopping forward
and landing like this, I'm going to actually
kick this foot out to the site and
begin my T step. So from this portion on the in-between step of a running
man, it could be any part. But for this portion,
I'm going to say my right foot on the floor. My left foot is up. This part of the running man. From here to evidence you step, I'll take my left foot and tap it to the side
just like that. Tap my left foot to
the left like that. While I do that, just do
the two-step normally like rotate my other
foot outwards. Boom, like that. So slowly will look like this. Boom. And I could just entered it
to the rest of the t-stat from here. Boom, simple. Once you start building
your running man up, you get better at a two-step kinda know how to transition. Now I'm pretty intuitively, especially after I explain
that to you step-by-step. So if it seems a little
bit hard to pull off now, I want you to work in
those groups separately. And if you have mastered it, if it is still
hard, I want you to practice this transition slowly. So boom, boom, boom, so slowly. And then do this slowly. And as you get better at it, you can speed it up. And just speed it up just
over and over again. You speed it up. I keep saying never looked
down at your feet. But remember that
if you're learning something for the first time, as long as you stay conscious of the fact
that you're keeping your head down for
practice. It's okay. Look down at your feet while
learning something like a transition and make sure
you're doing it right. And then want to
get better at it and it's not as hard to do. Then you start practicing again. Looking up and forward. Second thing I want
to teach you is how to transition from the T Step, the T step, but switching
sides. How do you do that? So let's say you're just
doing your T step normally. My left foot tapping for it. And as example, like I taught you guys from the
beginning of this lesson. In this portion, instead of just continuing to
step one under T step, I kinda hop into almost an in-between step of
the running man. So instead of just preparing
to do the two-step, It kinda hop into like I'm
about to do the Running Man. I'm like a hub in
this in-between step. It's actually pretty similar
to the one and the T step. But you want to have
the mindset that you're about to
do a running man. And from here, you actually go into the running man stands
for just a second like that. So this is what it
will look like. Boom, boom, boom. And then I just kinda hop here like I'm bothering
my running man. Then plot my foot down, like I'm doing the running man. From here, I raised
my foot up and I prepare to do the T step. So now I invert this foot, rotate it inwards, and I
raise this one like that. Then I do my two-step
on the other side. It's gonna be hard to pull
this off if you haven't practiced the other
side of the T step, you can't switch
sides of the T-cell, but we can't do the other side. Once you've mastered both sides, the two-step naked practice to transition of linking
the two sides together. Whole thing should
look like this. Faster, will look like this. Boom. I just so skilled. Like I'm
just such an amazing teacher. There's one extra move on to
teach you in this lesson. It's a variation of T step. I just call it the
spinning T Step. The way I do it,
I almost call it like a helicopter because it is a helicopter is
basically the two-step, but you turn in a circle. So don't worry too much about
this just yet after you are only a beginner and
you haven't even done the two-step
or mastered it yet. Let's worry about this later. Don't stress out about this. But once you've
mastered the two-step, know that you can turn a circle that while you're
doing the moves. I said just traveling
in a straight line to the side like you would
in a normal two-step. I'm going to be twisting my
body in a circle like that. So easily twisting
my torso like this. And the direction
I want to spin, but I'm traveling to the left. You actually feel it's more intuitive to spin my body
to the right like this. And then boom, boom. Like a lot of moves
will feel weird slowly, but once you do it fast,
it won't feel that bad. I like to do it as I like to do the Running Man, the
two-step transition, but then turn a circle and
even just for the fun of it, except my arms out like this, like a helicopter man and
it just looks like one of the coolest moves and know
how to do all up together. It will look like this.
Lonely. Want you guys to stress out about
learning this just yet It's common advanced
move almost. Maybe as you watch this course and get better along the line, they could return to this move later and learn this special helicopter spinning
t-stat move later on. But that's what the T step, That's really all I got to teach you guys. It's pretty simple. Move in theory. Just these two
steps over and over again. As you apply the tips I
gave you in this lesson, you can really make your
T step look floaty, elegant and it will become
one of those moves. You can just peacefully use the glad across a dance floor. That's it for this lesson. Thank you guys and I'll
see you in the next one. Pisa.
9. How to Time Your Steps With Music - BPMS: I do the talking about BPMs, or rather the beats
per minute of a song. This term is used to find how fast the songs
written really is, just like the name suggests, and it's a total
amount of beats per minute of a song, e.g. let's say you're listening
to an electrode dance song, maybe it's fast pace, so it has a BPM of around 120. This kinda beat is
usually super quick, and if you want to
shuffle all alongside it, you're gonna be almost sprinting
in place at this point. It will take complete mastery of a certain movement to
be doing it at 120 BPM. So now let's say we're
listening to some kind of romantic, slower paced song. Maybe it has a BPM of 60. This is usually too
slow to shuffle to it. It will look awkward
if you just start shuffling to the beat
of the song because synchronizing your
steps with the song gets 60 beats per
minute is going to be too slow to give that sense of momentum that makes
shuffling look cool. So the BPMs of every song
are very important if you want to dance alongside it
because the BPM is dictate, the pace are gonna be dancing. I guess if you want,
you can just ignore a song's VPM and just dance
or whatever speed you want. But typically, dancing
in sync with the songs. Beats per minute is what makes the shuffling movement
look satisfying. What makes it fun to do. And when you're doing
something out of sync with the beat of the song. Something we'll see MOF to
onlookers and even yourself. And most cases you'll wanna dance alongside the songs BPM. So how do we do that? A lot of cases people are
intuitively able to just dance alongside the songs
BPM, they can hear it. Here. The rhythm,
get a feel for it and start dancing in
sync with the beat. So if you're doing the
running man alongside a song, it'd be landing your
steps on when that base hits on every
beat of the song. However, in some cases, people aren't
intuitively able to understand how to do
this and that's okay. I'm going to quickly explain it. I didn't briefly go over it in a running man tutorial section. I wanted to get to
the Running Man and scaling them down as
fast as possible. So right now I'm
gonna go ahead and explain this a little
bit more in depth. If you wish, you can
skip over this lesson. If you can already
intuitively do that. So, like I said earlier, music most often uses a four count system to keep
track of the song's beat. So it would go something
like 12341234. However, we usually also count the rhythm and
drums in between each major beat
and the count that you would add an end
in-between the numbers. So 12.3 and 412 and 3.4, and it sounds kind of silly
account that way, but we do. So applying the
system is shuffling, mix it a bit more easy
to keep track of. Basically instead of the
beat of the song or county, we're going to be
counting the steps that you've shuffling, dance move. So let's look at the
running man, e.g. on actual stepping
portion or the Running Man where you land with
both feet on the ground. That's where we
count on the number. So 12341234, but on the in-between
step or the Running Man, that's when we hit on the end. So 1.2 and 3.4, 1.2 and 3.4. So basically, when
you listen to a song, you're gonna be doing
your steps in sync with. So let's go ahead and
see an example of that. Because to move like
they're running man is continuous cycle. We just keep doing
this forever and ever as long as you wish. And for every movement
variation going forward, the count applies to
pretty much every time you make a movement
during the dance. Okay, So this sounds really annoying to keep track
of when dancing. Who wants to count
on their head or out loud forever when dancing? Well, I only really
consciously use this system when I'm learning something really
new and confusing. Or back when I was first
learning and how to count to keep track on
my Running Man, e.g. if you have to count, you really will only be
doing this as a beginner. You will need to be
counting to keep track of each individual step and make sure it's in line
with the music. But trust me, when overtime, as you get really used to
the movement and you're able to do it without
focusing so much. You can intuitively time it
to each beat of the song. You won't have to be counting the songs beats in your head and aligning your steps with it. It will just come very
naturally if it isn't yet, just be patient, just
keep practicing. And I promise you,
you won't have to manually annoyingly keep
track of it anymore. Okay, So what actual BPM
should be shuffled to? What's the best range of
BPMs for shuffle dancing. Okay, so let's start off. In my experience, my favorite
BPM to shovel too is and then 110 to 120 range. Ideally, right out of 115
because 15 is very fast, but it's still slow
enough that you can still make out most
of the movements. You can see what's going on
and it's satisfying to watch. It is quite tiring to
be dancing that fast, but that's a sacrifice of shuffled dancing
at faster tempos is that while it looks really cool and it's fun
to do it that way. You'll get an a breadth
fairly quickly if you haven't built up endurance and
practice over time. And that's a quick side
note, don't ever be hard on yourself if you can't
maintain a pace, it does take a lot of time and practice to be able
to consistently dance at faster rhythms without getting tired
insanely quickly. So just keep noted that if you wanted to go for a longer
shuffling session, I usually dance slower than that because you will just
tie yourself out way too quickly if
you're dancing at 120 or 115 ppm for
an hour straight. So something to remember, 120 bpm is doable, but it's usually
very, very fast. It feels like you're
sprinting in place almost. If I do like a song enough, I will dance at 120 BPM. But I usually avoid it for alumni practice because it's
just a little bit too fast where it's almost not really worth how tired I can get throughout the
session this way. So, yeah, 120 bpm usually avoided unless
I really liked the song. If it's like 130, I mean, maybe you can keep up
with it for like 10/22, 140 BPM and above is
practically undoable. It's just way too fast. And even if you could
do that at that speed, it just wouldn't really
look that good because you can barely tell what
the person's doing. So let's go back down at 100 bpm is also one of
my favorite things. And dance at 100 bpm is without recommend most
beginners to dance that once you get
accustomed to move and auto-focus so much, then
you can start challenging. You start with
vitamin with 100 BPM. Once you get really
good and you can start following that page
without much difficulty, then you can go to 1109 dB PM. Nine even PMS wanted to move, start looking kinda
weird because it's not exactly fast enough. It still shuffleboard. You can still dance to that BPM. We'll look a little bit off,
almost feel a little bit off because you'll wanna
go a little bit faster. But the good thing about 90
BPM is that it's a lot less tiring and 110 or even
100 because it's slower. If I'm really tired,
I'll put on a song with around the 90 ppm range. As for ADB PM and lower 80, just listen liquid
anymore because at 80 it will just feel so slow. You know, it's only
like ten, less than 90, it will feel really
slow and you'll just want to keep going
faster than that. Yeah, I don't work
your mind ADP PM, unless you're learning
something new and want to dance at a slower tempo. So anything under ADB PM, I just wouldn't recommend
it's not shuffled bowl. It won't look good
and won't feel good. You could technically
is still sync your shuffle step to the
beat of the song at ADB PM, but it's going to look off. Here's a good little piece of helpful information you can actually use in a
few situations. And it's that you can
actually dance that double or half of the BPM of
any given song. What I mean by that is let's say a song as that like a BPM of 50. This is unsharp wobbles
just way too slow. It won't look good.
It's no flow. So it seems like okay, you can't answer the song. But if I were to dance
at double the beat, so instead of going
at 50 PPM as double my entire pace and land w
minus steps I would normally, this means I'm dancing
at 100 bpm instead. Now it actually looks good. You can actually enter a flow and you can actually
dance like this. Let's say a song like 200 BPM. This is way too fast. You're not the flash, you
can keep up with that. So we cut it down to 100
bpm, which is half of it. And this works out greatly. Hubbard is not met
many songs that are gonna be that fast of a BPM. So there's not many situations that you can use this button, the ones that you can, well, now you know. All right, so how do we actually
find out the songs BPM? Well, it's actually
super simple. I don't have some
crazy tip for you. All you have to do is
just hop on the Google, type the song's name, and then put BPM right
up to it and she'll get the piece of
information you're looking for a fairly quickly. The only scenario where
this won't work as if you pick a song that's
really, really obscure. And then in this
case it might not be documented BPM
anywhere on the web. However, even in
some cases where I pick a pretty obscure song, this hasn't happened to me. In the vast majority of
cases. You will be in luck. But yeah, that's it
for this lesson, you should now know
how to correctly dense long silent music's
timing correctly, and hope you found
that very useful. Thank you very much for
watching and I'll see you guys in the next lesson.
10. The Charleston Shuffle: Hey guys, In this
lesson we'll be learning how to do
the Charleston dance. This is once again another
foundational move. This is probably the last
super important thing I'll be teaching you in this
course, everything else after. It's still important,
but they're mostly variations and just sick
moves you can do to just expand how much variety you have in your shuffled
dancing arsenal. With that all being said, let's just get right into this. First we're going to
get into position. And the first thing
I want you to do is put your feet into this
kind of the position. Basically you're just putting your heels together like this and rotating your feet
outwards should look. So from here we're
going again to the Charleston step
position to do that. Take your right foot and
cross it over your left. It's going to feel really weird, but you want your
right foot to still be rotated outwards like that. So your right toe
should be pointed to the right like that and your left toe should
be pointing to the left. Still going to
feel really weird, even for me right now, it feels unnatural
because when you're not dancing and just kinda
chilling in this position, it feels really weird like your body doesn't
naturally want to do this. But trust me, when
you start actually dancing and moving in and
out of this position, it's gonna, it's
gonna feel fine. So right now you're in this funky position
to begin the dance. Now, you want to
take your right foot and you're going to put it right here in
the middle like this. You're going to hop to this position while lifting
your left leg up like that. So from here it should
look like this. Left leg lifts. Right leg travels just tomos where you'd be normally
while you're standing, extend the left
leg is lifted up. Your legs are
crisscrossed like that. It's almost like the
running man when you're hopping up like this, except your right leg is
traveling diagonally. It's gonna be kinda weird. I feel similar, but it's
not exactly the same thing. Alright, so you're
here. Now what your left leg is lifted up? Right foot is on the floor. Take your left leg and
plop it right here. Just crisscross it right over
your right leg like that? Left leg over the right. And from here, your right leg is basically just travelling backwards and everting
that foot again. Just like that. Boom. This leg is traveling
diagonally like this. And this right leg is diagonally going
backwards a little bit. So it's like you're in that
crisscross position again, except the legs are swapped
from where we started. And to complete this cycle, we're going to just
take this left leg and put it right back in
the middle like that. Diagonally move it. The
right leg lifts up. Just like that. And they complete the cycle. You just do the same
thing to the right leg. Criss cross it over and
chocolates, left leg back. Boom. Just like that. Now right there as a full cycle, the Charleston movie isn't
actually that complicated, but what makes it hard to do, it makes it hard to
even understand for beginners is how
weird it looks with the feet just constantly being rotated outwards and Cris
crossing over each other. Just remember that
every time you learn in this
crisscross position, every time you land here, your feet should always
be pointed outwards. Might be confusing
because the legs are crisscrossed. But
take a look at this. Left foot is always
pointed to the left. Your right foot is always
pointed to the right. You're in-between the steps. They're always pointed
forward like that. But when you land the
pointed outwards again, it's possible that
you may really struggle to get this
foot to stick outwards. Like maybe when you
get into position slowly you can do it. But when you do the
dance, you'd like, just don't wanna do it. It's just too fast
of a movement. I know it might be
kind of annoying, but you just got to
keep practicing. Now, it's every time we'd land, just think about making
this feat go outwards. And as you keep doing
this over and over again, as time goes on you want and you won't have to force it as much. But the thing to note here is to not scrutinize your
form too much. Because I find that sometimes
when I'm going into faster rhythm or maybe sometimes I just kinda forget
for a little bit. And as I formed, what kind of
break down a little bit of the feet won't be
pointed outwards as much as they would
be in perfect form. But I find that if you're
still having a good time, if you're still a
little bit loose, as long as if you did
pointed outwards at least a little bit,
don't feel bad about it. It will still look good. It's those you've got the basic fundamental pattern
and the movement down. It's still going to look good. To worry about
perfecting a super, super sharp crisscross
pointed feet. It focused on progressing
that over time. So aside from that,
let me just give you some more tips to improve
your Charleston from here. So next you may overlook
or may not know. So just like the
Running Man, you want, you want your posture
to be stacked up straight and you want
to be mostly looking forward or at least not looking down if you're
focusing super hard, I find that I'm not perfectly looking straight
ahead every time. It's kinda like my
eyes darting around or slightly looking
down and that's fine. But don't ever just be looking at your feet
like this while dancing. It looks kinda off. And people will be like,
oh, what's his head down? None of this, none of
this, none of that, none of this weird fallen over thing else you will fall
into your back probably. I know I keep saying in a lot of these different dance moves to keep your posture straight. But it is something I really want you guys to
remember for a lobbyist, different moves because
the center of gravity, if you're leaning back or moving forward for most
of these dances, it really does
throw off your form and it actually makes
it even harder. And it also doesn't
make it look as good. But the reason why I
keep emphasizing getting different in different moves is because some of
these moves out you don't require the
straightest back. So I'm moving to actually
lean back a little bit. So for certain moves, want to distinguish
that from you guys? Running Man, two-step
and to Charleston. Your back is mostly
straight moves. I'll be teaching you
in the future what you actually move your back in a
slightly different position. So just letting you guys know another thing you can add to
your Charleston and might make it easier or may make it harder depending
on your own style. For some people, it
helps that while doing the Charleston there, here and the lift your leg
up at an angle like this. Instead of just doing
it a little bit. I mean, you kinda have to do
this at least a little bit. Some people like to really
exaggerate this and this helps them as they land already be in this everted foot
position of the legs pointed outwards and just really exaggerates that
pointed feed even more. And also helps with
land that way too. If you want to do, if you want
to focus on that as well, just add that through Charles.
You can go right ahead. It's doing this. For me. It
feels a little bit weird. I don't I could do it
all the way like that. If you want, you can add that into your Charleston
receiving makes it easier, or if you just like
the look of it. This is not really
that common mistake. Some people don't land on
the balls of your toes. For the Charleston, you really, and for all of these different
things you're landing on the balls of your toes
is really helpful. Because from here I can just, I'm already in the balls
of my toe and I could just bounce out of it like that. You don't want to land
completely only on your toes. If you don't like, only be on your tip toes, but you want to have most
of the weight on your toes. From here, you can just use
that calf muscle on spring into position and
keep going with it. If I'm lending on my heels, mostly on my heels,
It's not going to really work out for me. Check this out. I can't really
hop out of it very well. So this is not exactly
that communism mistake, but it is one that
some people make. So that's you try to avoid that. It's going to just be a lot harder and look a lot worse if you're landing on mostly
your heels are flat footed. Alright, final little extra tip wanna do with your arm
ensuring that Charleston. So kind of like the
running and you can just do the running motion. That seems to work out for the
most part, just like this. But something I find
is that something a little extra you can do with this move that looks kinda good. And he might not really
know what is the kinda just due to circular motion with
the arms, just like this. For the Charlson, it
looks really cool for some reason then basically
it will look like this. You could also even sway your torso to the side
just a little bit. I mean, if you do
it excessively, you're going to
lose that balance. But it's enough for
the Charleston, if you really want to
be really feeling it. Almost lean as you land
on each leg like this. If you lean a little
bit too much, it gets harder to rotate
your foot outwards, but something you can do once you get better,
you get comfortable. It's really feeling
the movement. Just some extra tips from
you guys because you don't know what to do with your
arms and upper body. Alright, congratulations dude. You just learned how
to do the Charleston or at least watched
how to do it. Which is a pretty complicated
for the most part. So good stuff. After this, we'll
be learning some of those variations I told you
about for the Charleston. So my favorite variations for any of the dance
moves on this list, because they just look really cool and really fun to do it. We'll be learning just
that next lesson. And I'll see you guys there.
11. Charleston Variations: Man, this is one of the
fun parts of the course. We're going to
Charleston variations. These right here is
one of my favorites, especially because
they look really cool. Most of them aren't
that difficult to do. And if you already had
a Charleston down, you can probably learn most
of these in session are to. First off, we have
the crisscross, or some people call
it the diamond. It is probably the easiest
Charlson variation I know, but it's super fun
to do and it looks pretty impressive
for how easy it is. So to teach you this, I
want you to start off in the normal crop
Charleston step position. A little crisscross right
in the middle here. And what you're
gonna do from here is hop out to the side, just about shoulder
width and maybe even a little bit wider from here. And from this little stance
here you're going to hop back into Charleston step, but with your legs swapped from before you
hop into position. So let's say, so now
from my right front of my left, hop into position. Now my left will be
in front of my right. And that's the
entire crisscross. Just keep doing that over and over again to
transition into this. You're just doing
your Charleston. It from here. Hop out, boom. And you could just continue
Charleston too if you want. Like that. If you know how to do
the Charlson already, this is pretty easy. It's I feel like
it's even easier than just doing the
Charleston normally, but knowing the Charlson
beforehand and getting used to this little
criss-cross will make the crisscross so much easier. So hopefully you
got that all down, or at least the concept, because we're moving on
to something that expands upon the crisscross and it
can make it even cooler. But it's its own
separate move to and it's basically this
toe to heel movement. I don't know what
it's called, but it's what my favorite things to do. So do what you want to start
off with the crisp glass. So Let's say we're doing
a Charleston and hop out. From here. They do this. You basically
wanted land instead of, uh, instead of being in
a normal stance, you want to land with your
toes pointed inwards. And from here, you want to
point your toes out like that. You just use your
heels for a moment. Do that, then turn them
back inwards like that. So crisscross, boom, boom, boom. Back into the crisscross are back to Charleston
if you want. The entire movement.
You don't have to go too crazy with the
toes just a little bit of a enrich rotations enough to really get
that affect the silk. And it just looks, these are two separate
movements and you can just switch between
them if you want. And just, just so seamless man, everything just works out. Okay, so now we've got
the traveling Charleston. This is fundamentally
just a normal Charleston, but on each little hop, you go forward or backwards depending on where
you want to go. If you already know how to do Charleston won't be too hard. So basically on each little hop, we're just going forward. So I'm wanna do,
when I'm doing this, I might just go forward
a little bit like this. From here. Put the Charleston back down. But I went forward at the
same time instead of just normally staying in place. Forward, just like that. So Charleston forward,
forward, forward. You can switch this
up if you want. Maybe on the in-between
steps, you don't go forward, but on the steps
you do go forward. Do it that way if you want or you can just every
single hop you can go forward. Like that. Same thing goes to
go in backwards. So maybe I want to
switch going backwards. Same thing except by just
hop backwards instead. Find this is slightly harder. It gets a little bit weird
to be going backwards, but as you keep your balance, think about the
stand-up straight. We'll be fine. Just like that. Boom. Deliberations done
already. He was not sick. They're not that
complicated either, especially as you're ready,
go to Charleston down. It's gonna be like a
piece of cake for you. But lastly, we have one more
final Charleston variation. I'll be teaching you
for this lesson. And I will say it's the
hardest of these four. It's called, I call it
a kicking Charleston. Basically kick while doing
the Charlson with your feet. And you sweep your
leg at the end there to really
exaggerate the effect. Alright, let's do
this step-by-step. So I'm doing my Charleston
and I feel like doing the kick in-between step. Instead of putting my
foot down like normal. I'm going to kick it
forward like that. So boom. Just do it as much as you can relating to your
own flexibility. Don't do it, you don't have to. Some people haven't seen in flexibility can get
really crazy with it, but it was weird to just do a little subtle
kick like that. So boom. You can also, while
doing the kick, your foot that's planet down, can also evert the foot like you're doing normal
Charleston at two. So boom, foot everted, then returned from here
with your leg forward. The second step after this is
just to return here again. From here, you get that stroke. You just put this leg
backwards like this. So like that. Boom. Then back to the in-between step
than a complete it, you can just resume at
Charleston. Foot back down. That's the whole
kicking Charleston isn't exactly a dot complicated. But what makes this hard as that balancing on 1
ft the whole time, especially at a faster rhythm, might be kinda, kinda mind
almost follow up for a second. So you really got to
practice this slowly. If you don't hurt
yourself or fall over, just do the step-by-step. You might only want to work
on the soup at the end too. You can just put it
here and that's fine. But if you really want to
exaggerate the effect, get the best effect. You can. Swoop it like that. And it looks best.
Just like that. It's difficult to
concentrate on doing that. I felt that's the hardest
part to get down. I would recommend doing
the first three first just for some motivation,
some encouragement. Get more bang for your buck when Marbury agents with less effort. And as you get better and
better you could work on it's harder ones
like the kick, especially that swoop,
pretty difficult. But that being said, that's all for all four variations
for this lesson. And you just look at me all through on
congratulations man. 9-node the crisscross,
the total Hill, move, the traveling Charleston
and the kicking Charleston. You guys. In the next lesson.
12. A Stylish Bonus Variation: What's up, bro, today
we're going to learn a bonus Charlson variation. Should it be pretty
short lesson? The reason why I consider
this a bonus variations, because although it looks
cool with Charleston, you can pair this with
the running man as well. So it's not unique to
the Charleston thing. So it goes just like this. So it's a pretty cool
looking move and it actually is quite simple. But I'll teach you the
step-by-step so that you don't make any common mistakes. So to enter it, Let's start
doing our Charleston. So doing the Charleston, when you get into
the in-between step, will look kind of similar to the Charles and in-between step. But in this position
wants you to raise your foot up and get ready to tap the heel into
the floor like that. So basically it will look similar to the Charles
in-between step, which is just this, except
a foot that's raised. Be more in line with our center. And we're going to
move diagonally to the right like this. So we're going to
have this foot in the air here, pretty much flat. So we can get ready to tap
it down into the floor. Boom, boom, Charleston. And enter to this
variation like that. So this is a transition
point and now we're going to start
this variation. So for this example, my right foot is
on the floor and my left foot is in the air. I want you to take
your left foot and tap it down diagonally
to the right. So not just in front
of me like that. There's gonna be
moving to the right. Shift your whole body in this
direction too if you want. So just like that. Boom. Right now I'm not
facing all the way to the right instead of
an angle to the right. So in-between the front and the right at a
45-degree angle. So now we're going to shift
our entire body to the left. Just like this. Boom. Now I'm 45 degrees to
the left like that. Not all the way. A little bit to the
left like that. So Charleston,
transition point, boom. Now all the way to
the left like that. From here, the next step is to transition right back
to where we just were. So boom, boom, boom. That's the entire move. So it should look like
this. Just like that. So after we land here, shift there, and
shift right back, we just return back
to the Charleston. So go back to the
in-between stuff. I left foot will be in the front from the
ending of the movie. And the next step after we're going to just
take this back to the middle and lift
up our right leg. Boom, and just carry on with the Charleston or how you can even go back to
the running man. Just like this. Although I'm breaking
this down step-by-step in case it is confusing. If it is intuitive for
you to just return to the move and you're just
able to return back, just think of it that way. So that's it, that's
the whole variation. The concept of self is simple, but I remember I made a lot of mistakes with this move
without even knowing it. So I'm gonna give you
a few tips so you can avoid those same
pitfalls I fell in. A common mistake is not really shifting in one
direction enough. You might just do this. And it still looks kinda cool
when you do it fast enough. Like if you did it wrong
or might look like this. Like it doesn't look bad, but it just takes away
from the movement. It looks a lot better when I shift my full body
in that direction, including the back leg, but adds a lot of dimension
to the move as compared to just kinda like keeping
the foot in place. So it's not going
to just point n like flare around like that. It still can look cool, but doesn't look nearly as cool as shifting your
entire body like that. Even nowadays, I sometimes
make this mistake if I'm not thinking about it or
I'm going really fast. So just be better than me
and don't make this mistake. The second tip is more
of a mindset that might make them feel better, is to keep most
of your weight on the foot and the back. So e.g. the way I do it as I put my
left foot and the front, am I putting them
back as a right? So I'm kinda leaning back on our right foot
just a little bit. So you can kind of push yourself
into the next direction. Do this multiple
times if you want. But I usually only do
it a few times before I return back to
a different move. Somebody went a
little deeper with this variation than I
did with the others. But I think it's
worth the extra time because it looks really cool. It's quite impressive. It adds this element is speed
that you're dancing. It's also good to know some
extra tips for this move because it's really common to
make mistakes on this one. That'll be it for this lesson. Good job following along, and I'll see you in the next
lesson on the next step.
13. The X-Step: Hey, do today every human
learning how to do with the extent it is quite
a popular shuffle move, but it also looks really cool. Despite how cool it looks, it's actually quite simple and easy if you already
learned everything else. I taught you so far I'd like to Charleston and some
of its variations. This particular move
should be a piece of cake. Before we get started,
I want you to remember the kicking
running man. Remember that. Well, there's a reason why
I taught you how to do that really early
on in this course. And that's because
learning that transfers really smoothly into knowing
how to do the next step. Because the next step is basically just a
kicking running man. Well, what the legs
having diagonal movement. So let me show you real quickly. This is the kicking running
man from the front. This is going to
be the next step. See the similarity. It's basically
just the same move except instead of kicking
my leg down forward, I'm pivoting my
leg and my hip as well to a diagonal direction. So I want you to
practice the kicking running around with me
for a little while. Hopefully you've
already practiced it, but if not, that's cool. You should be able to
get it fairly quickly. It's just do the
running man slowly. Tap your heel onto the floor. Your front foot, which lands
on the stepping portion, is kick the leg up. Just kick the foot upward
so that the toe is pointed upwards and the
heel taps into the floor. So she looked like this. You wanna make sure
you're wearing shoes for this else is gonna kinda hurt. So make sure you can get
this at a normal speed. Here we move on. Okay, so now we're going to add
that diagonal movement into the kicking running man. This is what will make
it turn into an x step. So let's just enter the
Running Man position together. So assist, start doing
the running man slowly. And at this point on
the in-between step. For this example, my
left foot will be on the floor and my right foot will be lifted off the ground. In this example, let
me tap our heel down. So just going forward, take this right foot
and tap it to the left, your left hand side, so
your right foot diagonally travel to your left
side. Just like that. While I do that,
I left foot also travels diagonally to the right. So like that. So get used to that. Were up here and we end up here. Here's might be confusing. So here's a back view. We start off here
in the in-between step and we end up here. We noticed that
the big difference here is that unlike
the Running Man, you kinda have to hop
from step to step. Whereas on the running man,
you can get away with more of a shuffling approach where your feet stay closer
to the ground. So this is step one. Step two, we're going to enter
the next in-between stuff. And to do that, we're going
to basically get into the position of the normal
running man in-between step. It's the same exact position
and we end up here. However, getting
there will feel a bit different since we're from
a different position. So basically, we're
going to take this right foot and we
went back to the middle. And we're going to raise
up the left foot while we do that, just like that. So step one, step two, step three, it's
just like step one. We're going to take this
left foot that's raised up and travel it to the right. Boom. From step three, we're
going to enter a next in-between step by
taking your left foot, hopping to the middle portion and raising up the right foot. So, boom, boom, a step forward. I'll show you a full
cycle really slowly. And from here in-between
step, step one, step two, step three, step four. Just like a lot of other
moves, this will feel really unnatural and awkward. And doing it slow from spot to spot would be like hopping
and don't be like weird, but when you speed it up, a flow is a lot better. It feels more like
you're actually entering a flow rather than this weird hopping around
goes just like this. 1.2 and 3.4 and 12.3 and 4.12. So easy peasy. However, there is one thing
you should know about this move before we move on to the tips tennis that move
is actually quite tiring, especially compared to others. I mean, all the shuffling
is pretty tiring, but this one's always spend them on animals tire of
things that do for me. And the reason for
that is because compared to other moves
like the Running Man, you're hopping and actual
jumping of the feet. It's a lot more exaggerated in this movie as compared
to the Running Man. And the Running
Man, you're kinda just you can hop around, but most of the
time you're keeping your feet pretty
close to the ground. It's actually shuffling
on the EX step. It feels more like you're
jumping from place to place. It still fits in
really nicely and combines really well with
other shuffling moves. But the nature in
which you travel from step to step a little bit different and it gets
a little bit tiring. So you get tired really
quickly while doing this. It's pretty normal, so don't
feel worried about it. Okay, So let's move
on to those tips. The first thing I
want to tell you is that to not forget about hips. Remember Tim also align your hips with your
legs when you do this? Because one of the
biggest mistakes I made when I first learned this was not involving my
hips with the movement. And because of that
whole dance looked kind of lacking in power. It just looked kind of like you could just tell I
was kinda of an amateur because the whole body is
disconnected from my legs. But once you involve
a lot more movement. So you'll notice that
aligning your hips with your legs as well
as his machine to touch the movie that makes this move as much energy
as it radiates. Okay, it's up to don't forget to lean back
just a little bit. Don't be leaning back excessively because that way
it just looks kinda goofy. Having a little bit
of lean back where you are expressing herself, opening up your body a
little bit gives us move. Like I mentioned
earlier with the hips, more power makes you look more open and also will feel
a little bit better. Another thing that
might help is to think about keeping most of your weight on your leg in
the back on during the steps. So I want this leg to be
doing most of the work. Well, this leg is barely
really even on the floor. If I don t think
about doing that and if I want to keep
most of the weights, my front leg, it's gonna be kinda it's not going
to work forward. I'm gonna be like falling
off balance really easily. So it's kind of different to the Running Man where
you keep most of your weight on both legs until you jump back
up on one leg, on the next step, It's like you gotta be on that back leg. I forgot to do that. That's one of the
differences why it's moved feels really different. You know, it's
mechanically really similar to the Running Man. However, before we go, there
is one more variation I want to teach you That's sort
of unique to the smooth. And then it's kind of
a repeating motion of your front leg
during the next step. So it looks like this is just what we're gonna do
here is hot for a second. But just lift up
the leg in front. Then we're going to hop again
but smash this leg down. Boom. And then continue
on with the next step. Just know that during
this variation, as you raise your leg up, you could optionally turn your body inward like this
to emphasize the movement, to really add a bit
of dimension to it. And then after that, you just, you just return back to the next step and go
back with your move. The cool thing with
this variation is I'd like to commonly pair it with the variation
I taught you last lesson. And it looks, it
will look like this. So just like that, it
looks really cool. I feel like the
combo of these two, It's one of my favorite
combos there is, because you can just do
it with the Charleston. And it works out. But I feel like it
looks really cool with the EX step because
we're pretty much already in the next step
position when you enter this really Paris nicely to add that variation of turning your whole
body and everything. But you could also just
do it normally like this. I thought I'll teach
you that specific combo because it's just one of my
favorite ones to pull off. Just something to remember
though, is that even if I don't teach specific
combo in this course, you should still
experiment and try out combining different
variations together. Most fun thing to
shuffle dancing. When you're finished
with this course, I made sure to experiment
with different combos, combining different moves into different variations
because you'll have to strictly only do the associated variation
with the one I teach you. That's the fun part
about shuffling is that most moves you can mix together. So there aren't really many
variations for the EX step, but there is one more
I'll be teaching you in the next lesson. Let's not unique to the next
step because it's a concept that can be applied to both the Running Man and Charleston. You'll see. Anyways, good job for sticking with
me through this far. You got yet another really amazing looking move
in your arsenal. And aside from that, I'll see you guys in the next lesson.
14. The Repeat Step Variations: I do the same about
the repeat step. Reason why I made this
a separate lesson from the corresponding
movements is because I thought I could group them all together for you guys here, learn a Meta skill that you can apply to a lot of
different things. So you repeat step, what does that exactly? So when you're doing
a foundational moves like the running man, Charleston and human
technically the next step, while you're doing the movement, you go backwards for a second. So check this out
by running man. Instead of just putting the movement and
going along with it, I actually go backwards a
second and add some variations. So easy way to do
it. So I'm here. And instead of going
forward, actually go back. So it should look
like this, like that. Instead of just going forward. So just like that. So let's go over the
step-by-step one more time. The money man. I mean, the in-between step
where one leg is down, one leg is raised instead
of going through with it, instead of putting the
foot down forward. Completing the running man back down this way, it
goes forward again. To say that I go back
to where I just was, instead of going
through with the cycle, it can look really
cool if you're just doing the
running man normally, going down a repeat step
every now and then. Just like you know how to dance, if you really spice things up, a one trick pony, just doing the running man cycle forever. You can throw a little
repeats up in there. You can even repeat it a couple times when you get
better at it like this. Charleston has one of the moves that makes it a
little bit tricky. So let's go over to Charlson
version of this just in case you can't do
it intuitively. So I'm doing my Charleston,
boom, boom, boom. I'm on the in-between
step now when Lakes down on legs are raised up
instead of going forward. But that leg back, right here, right here in this ligase, ligase down goes forward
instead of backwards. So just like this, only read about this
is that it does do unnatural for Charleston. Running my version
is pretty easy, but to Charleston and
Dusko, kinda weird. Not carry that momentum and
scroll backwards again. But it's really got
the Charleston down. Won't be that hard to do. Just keep doing it
over and over again. So I'm here. Couldn't get used to that. You can
continue with it. Okay, Onto the next step
version of the repeat step. This one's a little bit special. It's actually different
than just repeating itself. It's kind of harder to
do it in my opinion, compared to the Running Man
and Charleston version. But it looks like this. It's kinda weird
because it's not really exactly repeating
the step again. It's cobble, whole new
variation on its own, but it still looks
like a repeat step. And it's why I've put
it into this lesson. So to do it while you're in the next step on the hill,
kick movement of it. Instead of returning
to normal part. Like you would with the
other repeat steps, you just put your
heel down like this. You write lakes and go down.
And this makes them go up. So instead of actually
returning here, you just put your foot
down, waffle fears and diagonally like this. Then you can do it
again like that. So keep the heel up again and kick this lifted leg
back down like that. So that's the next
step, repeat step. It's almost like a
double EX step rather than a repeat variation of it. But yeah, it does
look pretty cool. But also common, the most confusing compared to those two. But you'll get it down. You got this far, hasn't stopped. Now. That's all the repeat steps
that have for you guys today. Really sweaty right now. That's totally harmless room. But we got through it. We didn't learn how
to do them repeat steps because we're not
really complicated, weird one with the EX step, but we did it. In our next lesson. We got some more variations. This time we're returning
back to the running man. But I saved this one for this
later part in the course because these are
some of the more advanced to Running
Man variations. A move that you probably
know pretty well by now. But they all kind of harder
to do, really spicy. So my favorite variations to do. Hence why they're kind
of more advanced. I'll see you guys then. Thank you for being my students.
15. Advanced Variations: Moonwalk, Kicking Variations...: Everybody, good to see you. Today we're going to be learning some more Running Man
variations, some advanced ones. I'm super excited to do this one when we're doing the
moon walk, shuffle, some tweaking variation,
a backwards running man, and one bonus variation. At the end. We'll be starting off with a clicking variation
on the Running Man. And it looks like this. I really like this one. This one just emanates. Power, just goes with the
beat of the song really well. If you know how to time it,
it actually is quite simple. It's quite easy and you can't
really do a running man. Wanting this variation is
gonna be pretty simple. So to do this, you want
one leg to be jumping leg, one leg to be kicking
leg for me also, my right leg is jumping leg, which means there'll be
planted on the floor, jumping around and my left
leg will be the kicking leg. Ideally, in a perfect world, you'd want to
practice both sides, but let's say you wanted
to dominate on one side. I want to pick
your stronger leg, the leg that's on the floor jumping around
because it actually takes a bit of strength and balance to be jumping
around on one leg. And your other leg
will be the one that keeps me stronger ligands. The right leg or weaker
leg is the left leg. So how do we get into this? So basically on the
in-between step of a dance around
the Running Man, on the in-between step, right here, in the
middle section. From here, hop your right leg backwards or a lake that's
going to be on the floor. Hop it back just like that. It's all you gotta do is
just hop back like that. Now we're going to
add some kicking into that while you'll hop back. Kick it back like that. Boom. Just kick it back. That's it. Step after this. Hot forward again. Lakes is gonna be
in the middle here. Then to round it off, take your leg on the
floor, hop it forward. Like this. And not just one goes forward. And as we hop it forward
on this last part, we're going to kick this
leg back just like that. Donkey kit. Boom. So
she looked like this. Then after that kick, you just go back
to the middle and you can either go back into the running man or you can just do the whole
thing over again. Going into a cycle of kicking back according
to the middle, go into the front,
going back again. You could do that as
many times as you want. As your leg jumps back, your leg will be
kicking forward. And as your leg
it jumps forward. Leg will kick back. And that's it because
moves already looking pretty spicy bathroom, even spice it up some more, just flip or some
spice on that move. Instead of just going with
the movement normally. I almost delay it. Like it looks really
cool when you delay it, but you're still going
to time it correctly. So I almost skipped the part where I bring
my legs in the middle. But when I hop forward again, then I bring that leg back
around really quickly. So it should look like this. If you notice, my leg on
the floor isn't really even hopping forward or backwards that much is
a very tiny little hop. You pair this with
the right beat, you person with the right
moment in the song. It looks absolutely amazing. One thing to note though, about this delayed version
of the move is that because I'm not
bringing my leg to the middle on the middle
part of the steps. It's kinda hard to
travel so much as you would usually during
the actual hopping. So usually if I just
bring it in the middle, I can have a little bit further. But when I'm delaying,
it's really, really hot. And
that middle part. So those scrutinize how
far you're hopping, not trying to long jump here. Don't do that. It can be a
little small hops and that's okay as long as the basic concept
of the movement is being done correctly, listen matter how
far you're hopping, you don't have to be
doing under that. Can be small or hops
and that's okay. Second on this list
of variations, we got another variation
for the Running Man. They like to call this
the subtle cooking variation because it's
thought as powerful, but it's a more chilled
out version of the kick, but it still looks really cool. It's still worth learning. Let me show you
what it looks like. So let's move is quite similar to the one we just learned, except it isn't quite
as bombastic is the one we did earlier
with these kicking your full body movements. It's more of a
standing up straight. And just doing this
with your feet. Setting this one up is
a little bit different than the donkey kick
because it's not as simple as just entering it from in-between the
steps like this. Don't enter from this position, you enter from here. So how did we get there? When you're doing,
you're running man. Instead of skipping to the next step in
doing this from here, instead of landing,
normally you want to land with this left foot
off the floor already. That's how you're going
to get into this kicking. So I'm here in
between the steps. In this example. My left leg is on the floor, my right leg is in the air. When I land, I plot
my right leg down. But my left leg is up. It's close to the
ground but it's not exactly on the
floor right Now. From here, kick your
left leg forward. Just like that. Boom. Just like the donkey
kick variation, this first step when I'm kicking forward, I'm hopping back. Right leg is hopping back, while this left
leg kicks forward. So boom. So you might be
thinking that this is going to be the same
thing as the Zaki kit. Know, this version, there isn't a hop
in-between from here. Instead of hopping to like a
middle part and doing this, I just kick back already
in hop forward so that the next step after that is again kicking
forward and hopping back. What I like to do is instead of just continuing with the kicks, like doing this over
and over again, I like to hop out of this
and transition back to the Running Man on this
last forward kick, the second forward kick, and the third step
of this movement, we're going to
actually hop out of this land into a running man, likes this, and then continue
with the Running Man. So it will look just like this. I'll do it slow step-by-step
to understand it. Running man, land like this. Landing 1 ft down on one leg in the back but not on
the floor. Actually. Kick forward, kick back. Then as I kick forward, hop out of it into
a running man. As I'm kicking and hopping
out at the same time, I'm landing and to a running
man stance like this. And from here I just go
continue with the Running Man. And that's it. That's how I like to incorporate this move to my Running Man. Six tough man, that's already two whole new movements down. Both of them, the cool
kicking variations that you can cooperate to
your Running Man seamlessly. But now we're gonna
be learning one of my absolute favorite dance moves to do ever. I'm impressed a lot of people. It's one of the things
people asked me about the most when it
comes to shuffling, everyone thinks it's the coolest Running Man
variation out of the bunch. And they're breathing it today. And it's called the
moon walk running man. Knowing how to do the
Running Man already, which you should know by now. This can be super helpful in learning how to do
this moon walk variation. This move will be a little bit confusing because it's going
to conflict with habits. You already know what
they're running, man. But knowing that you've
made it this far, you apply both to get
this in a day or so. This is what it
should look like. Yeah. I very much recommend you practice in the area
with a lot more space. And I have right now, you can avoid doing
what I just did, but I'll teach it to
you guys here anyway, even at the risk
destroying my TV, because I appreciate you guys and you deserve to
know how to do this. So, just like these
other two movements, is best to start out
by learning this, doing the running man. So while doing the running man, you transition into this move. You're doing,
you're running man. Just like these other movements, we're going to enter from in-between the steps or
the in-between step, right here in this example, are right foot is planted on the floor and my left
leg is in the air. And from here, instead of just planning normally
like a running man, we're going to
actually land with our back foot pointed
at the floor like this. So from here, just like always, my left foot, which
is in the air right now we'll learn forward. My right foot wall will
go back like usual. The standard landing, my
right foot flat footed, like you always do
in a running man. This time, your right
foot ball land, what the toe pointed. Your land just like this. Just like a normal running man, except this foot
in the backyard, which in this instance
is my right foot, is pointed at the floor, the heel is pointed
at the ceiling. So we've got used to
just practice with me over and over again. Land. But with the
toe on the floor. Land what the floor
and land the floor. So that's the first step. From here. Take your left leg, which
is in the front right now, and slide it backwards. So align it with your right
foot is boom, just like that. Boom, just like that. Doing something slowly at
the beginning, step-by-step. Everything we've learned so far, just toast two steps. Running man, slowly. Boom in between the steps. Land with the toe
pointed at the ground. Now left foot slides back. Okay, so step two is done. We're here with the right foot still pointing at the floor and the left foot has slid back to to catch up with
the right foot. So what I want you to
do now is to switch the feet. Switch yourself. So this right foot is
pointed down like this. Now hawk and switch
them like this. Boom. Right foot is now the
one that's flat footed. And the left foot is now
pointed out the floor. Now this third step, the third step is to take this left foot and
Bobby switch the feet, bring it back like this. Boom. So that's the third step. This is where the
second step is that. This is the third step. This is the second step. The third step. So just like that. So I invite you to practice
this third step with me. Get used to this because this is the part where when I
first started learning, I get tripped up on the most, I'd be doing this,
blah, blah, blah, and that's just what
I do at my feet. I wouldn't know
what the **** do. I really want you to get good at this right foot to point
out the floor and you switch and bring the left
foot behind you like that. Okay. So that's the third step. The fourth step is to, you might have guessed the
right leg and slide it back, just like we did with
the left foot earlier. So boom. As we already practiced
this kind of movement and shouldn't be too
hard to get down. Boom. And then the next step
after this is just restarting the cycle over again. And from here we're basically going to just be
switching the feet again. But now the right foods in
the back and you just slide this left foot back, switch. Swift room and I'm
gonna hit my stuff. So once you get to this point,
then you start switching. It's just a cycle of doing
the moon walk over and over again as many times as you would like until
you want to finish. Everything we've learned so
far, step-by-step, slowly. I'm going to write in math
at the in-between step. That right foot behind me, what the toe point
at the floor slab? My left foot back, switch slider back,
switch, slide it back. Keep in mind that how far you
put your foot behind you. It's up to you actually, it's actually all
about style and both, both longer steps and shorter steps still both look
kind of cool in my opinion. If you're short on room, you
can do these shorter steps. Just don't have a
good mood walk cycle without crashing into crap
and you have lots of space. Go ahead and just take these longer steps to really travel across
the dance floor. So that's all up to you and
your own personal style or circumstances. So there's one more
thing we're going to go over before we can save. We learned the moon walk. That's question is, how do
you even end the moon walk? Okay, so you've got two options. First option you got is
you slide back here, any part of the cycle you want. You basically just slide here. Maybe you pause
here for a moment and then you just walk off. You're like, okay, that's
my home done guys. Everyone's applauding. You wave, you smile, and then you walk off. And that's it. That's the
first semester first option. So it looked like this. The second option is what
you wanna do if you want to continue dancing
after the moon walk. And it looks like this. So it looks kinda cool, right? But what exactly am I doing? So at this point, whereby the slide towards
the foot on any leg? It could be any
any leg you want. We're sliding towards that foot. Now at this point, when
we slide back as we, as this foot catches up
with the other foot here. I hop like this. When I'm doing here is this foot that's here planted flat-footed, topping off the ground. Now I'm just taking this foot here that's pointed
at the floor. Now I'm just going to point
it into a step like that. Could even land like this
with the heel on the floor. You're doing a
kicking running man. So I like to do it usually. Then you just continue
to run a marathon here. So like this shouldn't
be too hard to pull off, especially if
you've got both the moonwalking done as well
as the normal running man. You just jumped out
of the moon, tripped. You just jumped out of
the moon. Walk here. Here, hop hop into a running man step to be even
a normal one if you want, but I like to point
heel up like that. And then you just continue
with the running man. Like that. Great job if you just
follow along with me throughout that entire moon
walk tutorial section. When I first learned
that they were super difficult and you made it
through these concepts. So congrats, be sure
to keep practicing every individual step
of that moon walk because it is a little bit
complicated for beginners. So get used to point that toe up every time
we'd land behind you. Get used to this movement. As you land that foot
behind you keep, just get used to point that
toe up over and over again, as well as a switch
portion here when you switch the feet
around used to that, just keep getting
used to doing that. Rewatch the tutorial as
many times as you want because it was I remember it
was super confusing for me. Don't put too much
pressure on yourself. Take a step-by-step,
they get slowly. You'll notice that when
you practice things step-by-step individually, then tied together, you'll find that it's not
that hard actually. It's just confusing to watch. But with that being
said, good job. And we'll move on to the
next iteration in this list.
16. Advanced Variations 2: Backwards Running Man, and a Bonus Variation: So before we go over that
last bonus variation, we have one more funding
than variation to go over. And that's going to be called
the backwards running man. It's exactly what
it sounds like. It's just a running man, but the moves are reversed. So it should look like this. So before we actually
learn how to transition the running man into the
backwards Running Man matures. You heard it a movement
from just a standstill. Even before that. Let me teach you guys this simple movement that
wanted you guys to get used to before we actually do the
backwards running man, not move is just kicking
your leg like this. You do this to Stan normally. This is going to
help you get used to the backwards running man
who when we get to it. So all standing normally, take your right foot
and take it up and then bring it in a circle
towards a backward circle. You got used to that. Let's keep doing the cycle. And then as you
get used to that, he left leg and do
the same exact thing. Boom, towards me, up and towards me.
Like a little circle. Almost. Don't really bring it in a circle
backwards like this. Just bring it towards you and
once it reaches this point, bring it down like that, and then start the circle again. I trust you won't have too
much struggle with getting that simple movement down.
Backwards running man. So this will be the
first step from this standstill to standing
normally basically wants you to take your
left foot and top one to that 1 ft onto that left
foot like this, like that. Just hop up onto the left foot. Notice that as you do this, if your right foot should
almost naturally end up here, it says you're
hopping onto 1 ft. The other foot just kinda lifts up off the floor like this. You'd almost think about chicken your life foot forward
just a little bit too. So, boom, boom. So that's step one in
this movement for now. So moving on to step two, but I want you to do is hop forward with
your left leg now. And as you do that,
the right foot is going upwards like that. So this is like almost like
the in-between step of the running man says
it's going backwards. This foot here is going forward. This food isn't going up. So hop left foot forward and take the right foot and bring
it towards you like that. So boom, step to
hop and forward. Bringing that leg towards you like we did in a
circle almost so, boom, like that. So step three. But we're gonna do
now is we're going to switch the leg
that's on the floor. Take the right foot from here
and plop it down like that. Now you're going to
notice that this leg is just naturally lifting
off the floor now. So boom. You can almost kick it
up manually if you want. So just like that. Now, like we did before, forward this right foot like that and bring this
towards you like that. Boom. From the beginning is
going to be like this. Boom, boom, boom, boom. The rest is just so we just
learned it, but in the cycle. So switch these feet again. Left foot goes down
rapidly in the air. And then we'll do what we
just learned in a cycle. So 1.2, 3.4, just like that. So before we actually learn
how to transition this into the running man and
wants you to get used to doing this movement. Maybe a faster speed. You want to basically be able to do this dance, move on to zone. So basically speed this up. So first you could do
it slowly like this. You get better over time. This might take a
while depending on the school level or just
your own unique style. So moves, you're gonna
be harder or easier. No professor and yourself over
time make this go faster. Audience that the faster you go, the easier it is to
maintain the cycle. It's going to feel
a lot more natural. Because the physics, let's integrate this into
our Running Man now, the concept through it
is actually simple, but the practice and practice has always been
tricky even for me, because we were fighting
against physics here when we do the Running Man into
the backwards running man because we're basically
taking all this homeless forward
momentum with her legs, suddenly switching it
completely backwards. So this is the reason why I taught you the
kicking variation. First, I want you to get into position for the subtle
kicking running man. We're doing the running man. At this point we land with 1 ft in the front and
1 ft in the back, actually lifted off the
floor for a second. And instead of
going through with the kicking running
man like this. Instead of doing
that, from here, we're going to actually kick into the backwards running man. How convenient that I taught you how to do this already high. So boom, boom, boom. Just like that. Just like this. That's a really fun
and exciting part about shuffled dancing, running all these
different variations, all these different
dance moves and finding all these little
synergies in between the steps where you can combine
even moves together or other different moves
makes other one's easier. And you just see
this experience, all these moves,
you got snowball. Here's just keep getting
better and better. Design this course in a
way where you can find all these different
little connections at these dance moves, how to each other,
how they're running moves earlier in the course can make leather one's easier, or Redwood to combine
different moves together. That's what's making
this course really fun for me to teach to you guys. And I'm hoping you guys
are getting a lot of value out of this. In many ways. That's the backwards
running man. Asks for the technical footwork. That's it. That's all you really
need to know and do to move correctly. But there is one vital
tip I gotta give to you guys before we move on. And that is that
you want to lean backwards while doing it
backwards running map. Unlike normal running man, you can't really move
forward while doing it. You can, but it's just gonna be, you're not going to emphasize the full moon for this movement
by just doing it with a straight Back. For
your own unique style. You can do that if
you want to really emphasize just your footwork. Who but I find is that
leaning backwards really emphasizes the backwards
nature of this movement. Where they're running,
man, you're just leaning forward doing it normally. Suddenly you switch into this backwards
cycling of your legs. And now you're
leaning backwards. It's emphasize how do you just switched to physics up around. And leaning backwards demonstrates
that kind of coolness. And a second tip is how
to transition back into the running man from the
backwards running man. To do it, you're gonna be doing the backwards running man. Here. You bring your leg
towards you like this. From this section. They're just bringing
it down like this and switching legs like normal. So don't do this. Switch
back to the running man. Wants you to do is
from this section, bringing the leg down backwards
behind you like this. So see that entering back into the normal running man,
physician, normal step. So boom, boom. And from here I can just go back into the
normal running man. So just like this, slowly, I'll do it
slowly for you guys. So that's all I'll
be teaching you guys for the backwards running man. We'll be moving on
to the fifth and final variation of this lesson, which is what I like to call
the hip twist variation. As far as I noticed, no official name for
this dance move, but I just call it the hip twist because that's
essentially what it is. You're just twisting the hips. And it's actually,
the reason why I call it a bonus
variation is because, why do I commonly associate this move with the Charleston? You can technically do it with the Running Man and even
with the next step as well. So this is what it
would look like. As you can see, you can
associate this move with the trust and the
running man even next step. That's why I like to call
it a bonus variation, but I do like to teach it
using a Charleston because it actually compliments
the Charlson the best in my opinion. And to entering it from
the Charleston is also the easiest as far as
my experience goes. And that's how I learned
it. So cysticercosis things up because learned just
using the Charleston. I'm doing my Charleston step at this point at the in-between step because it's where you
entered the move instead of just going through
with the Charlson step in criss crossing your legs. Come here. You want to take this leg
here that's lifted up and twist the leg forward. Boom. It looks kinda goofy
when you do it slowly. It feels weird when you
do it step-by-step. But when you add
these altogether, it actually looks really cool. So that's just part
of this first step, the complete this first step. You want this foot is planted on the floor to actually
invert forwards, you rotate like this. For the foot needs to
rotate inwards like this, while this hip twist
forward like that. So like this. So after that first step, the second step is to just return that
an in-between step. But you want to emphasize
this hip twist. You want this to go
backwards a far amount. But as you comfortably can don't hurt yourself doing this, even just a subtle
amount is cool, but just kinda
emphasize by turning this outwards now, boom. As a second step. As you do that foot
on the floor again. So this foot, Hebrew,
it's like that. Step one, step two, boom. In. Step three is you have
two options as step three, you can either return
to the Charlson normally by putting your foot
in front of you like this. Or you can put it behind you. Like you're doing a repeat
step or the Charleston almost. So you can either do this or
you could return like this. So step-by-step, the form
movement goes like this. That's for the Running Man. It's pretty similar at the in-between step
where the Running Man, you basically do the
same exact steps. So boom, enter the
in-between step. And instead of going through
with the Running Man, I just twist those hips and I can just return it
back to the Running Man. That's what the next step
is, the exact same concept. So doing the next step, between step, just do the hip twist and I can
return to it like normal. That's five entirely
new variations for shuffled dancing moves
you just went through, you just learned all
these different concepts. Even practice a little bit. Good stuff man.
Yourself on the back. I know it's kind of
cliche to say that, but you really know,
you did a good job. I definitely tell you some of the harder variations
in this course, like the moon walk variation and even the backwards
running man. So be sure you practice the
movements in those steps, step-by-step, slowly as you get used to them, speed them up. I know I keep emphasizing
that same exact tip, but it's because
it's so important, it's the entire foundation of how I learned how to shuffle dance the steps
slowly, very slowly. And as I got used to them, as I became more confident
that I was doing it right and doing it correctly, then
I would speed it up. Am I going to be tripping over
my legs anymore because I made sure to do each step
slowly and mastered them first. So that's the greatest, biggest tip I can
give to you guys. It's so simple, but some people
just skip over this tip, not realize why they're
not making progress. So don't forget this. Without being said,
we're gonna move on to the next and final
lesson in this course, we're doing the
SpongeBob shuffle has quite a fun name and shuffle itself is also a
fun dance to do. So. Can we teach
that to you guys? And I'll see you there.
17. The Spongebob Shuffle: Welcome to one of
the final lessons of the shuffled dancing chorus. It's been quite a long journey, but he made it here. So good job for
getting this far. I'll be teaching you how to
do the SpongeBob shuffle. It really has nothing
to do with SpongeBob, but that's what it's called
for whatever reasons. So we're going to
just roll with it. Unlike everything else we've
learned so far to SpongeBob shuffle works and
side-to-side plane, where you move
from side to side. Whereas the ones you've
learned so far usually work in a forward and
backwards plane. So I decided to lay out the
tape again, make this simple. This will be a good visual aid, and while this may
look a little bit confusing the first
time you see it, it's really quite simple. And by the end of this tutorial, this MOOC will be pretty
easy for you to understand and it shouldn't take
you too long to get it. Alright, so let's go
ahead and get started. First thing I want you
to do is to go ahead and stand on one
leg just like this. Where does tutorial? I'm
going to start off with my right leg on the floor
and my left leg raced. First thing I want
you to do is put this left leg behind your right leg like
this a little bit. Bend the leg behind your
back one just a little bit. Not like all the way. A slight amount like this. Here. The first step is to kick
this leg out to the side. And with your leg on a floor, hop out to the right. So right leg hops to the right while your left leg
kicks this direction. So boom. So we're travelling from
the middle of this plane to the right side and
your left leg is kicking out and
extending all the way. Okay, Boom, first step done. The second step now is to get this left leg and place this onto the middle
of the plane now. So boom. And there now your
right leg will be placed behind your
left leg like this. So now we're here
on this left leg, right leg bent and raised. And the third step is like
you've probably guessed, we're going to hop out
to the left now while kicking your right leg,
extended like this. So boom, that's step three. I'm like a little
bit wobbly right now standing on this
leg would trust me, when you're actually
doing this up to speed, balance isn't really a
big issue. For step four. We're going to hop right
back to the middle, onto our right leg like this. And this is gonna be
the exact same position you started in before
we learned how to do this move that right
there is a full cycle of the SpongeBob shuffle and turn. It should look just like this. Pretty fun moved to do overall, I must say only complaint is that it does take a bit
more energy than a lot of other moves because it really hopping around more
so than shuffling, but it's still a really
good move to add to your arsenal of moves you
can bust out at anytime. It's really just hopping
out to the side. If returning back to the middle, hopping to the other
side and back again. And every time he
returned to the middle, after hopping out to the side, you will switch the
leg, you land on. Your first few attempts
at doing this. You might accidentally try
to hop back on the same leg. But know that every time
you jump out to the side, you're going to
take the leg that's kicked and land on
that kicked leg. My first time doing
this, There's a little bit
confusing and try and hop back on the wrong leg
and it was tripping me up. So if you get tripped
up the first few times, don't feel bad, it's normal. But you'll get the hang of it, especially if you've
learned everything else, just move will be one
of the easier time. You'll have learning
something because you've had so much experience just getting confused and
living to break past it. Moving over some
few simple tips. I'm not gonna spend
too much time on these because there's simple. And you probably heard
some of these tips are ready from past, have
shuffling moves. First one is to keep
your back straight. I don t think this will be
a mistake most of you will make because it's
quite intuitive. You're not going to
fill any urge to lean forward or backwards. Just a straight back
while you do this, it's completely what you wanna do and what will fill
the most natural. And ask for a
swaying side-to-side is gonna be just like a
t step where you don't want to go too much to one side about your
lean over and not a T so that we can actually get away with leaning a little bit. But on the SpongeBob shuffle, you will want to
pretty much have almost no lean at, at all. Because when you do that, it actually throws you off balance because you're
hopping to that side. So it makes sure to avoid
that because if you do that, you're probably
going to fall over. You do the move just
like I did right there. As for tip number two, recommend starting off with smaller hops and smaller hubs. Where do you want to
do most of the time? Because since you don't
travel as far between hops, you can really crank up to speed on the smaller hops
because you can land so quickly and it
takes less energy to jump shorter than
it is to jump further. If you want to jump
further, then you can. Nothing wrong with that. Just takes more energy and it actually takes
a bit more time. So I'm faster tempo. So you want to practice at a
fast tempo like 100, 1,020. It's gonna be a lot harder to do large hops because of the time it takes to actually travel to the hot end to actually
jump that far. So I'd only preserve
longer hops for a more experienced shuffling and for someone who knows
what they're doing. Okay, third tip, what
to do with your arms? I have a few examples you can
just copy or steal from me. The first one is to spread
your arms out on each hub. And as you jump inwards
back into the middle, you just kinda bring your
arms in at the same time, it's quite an
expressive movement and aligns really well with
what your legs are doing, which is jumping in and out. So as I jumped out,
I extend the arms. And as I jump in words, I
bring the arms back in. Boom. Just like this. You can really
experiment with your own version of the hand movements. It can go really, really wide, or just more of a subtle
version of this move. So something subtle,
super crazy. Second thing you can steal is if you want to be
a little bit cocky, if you want to have a
little bit of attitude to your tensing, maybe if
you like the look of it, you can go ahead and transition to sticking your hands
in your pockets. During the movie, I've
seen people do this a lot. It's quite popular. And I do it too sometimes
because just funny, it looks cool and it's
a good way to show off. So just like this, first off, I'm going to teach
you how to transition into the SpongeBob shuffle. And doing this as
actually quite intuitive, in my opinion, it's
not very hard to do. She didn't give you
too much trouble. And just like every
other transition, you want to transition
into it on an in-between step of another move. So commonly you'd be
doing the running man. And as you raise into
the in-between step, you pretty much in position
for the SpongeBob shuffle. And maybe you can modify it by doing it in a
standing position by erasing up here with one
leg behind the other. But honestly, when you first transition into what you can do, don't even have to
start off that way. You can just be normal
running man in-between step, then kick out to the side, and then from you, you can
do your SpongeBob shuffle. The same thing where
the Charleston, It's not really a
complicated difference. Just doing the Charleston. And as you raise
up and in-between, step that foot already up. So you just kicked to the side and started SpongeBob shuffle. X dot is the same
idea doing my x dot. And as I get into
the in-between step, just kick out to the side. And you're good. Transitioning out
of this bunch of shuffle has style to it, but you got to have a bit
of a feel for it too, because they will feel
a little bit funny the first few times you do it. And what I like to do what
I think looks the best for my style is as I kick
out to the side, the moment land down through
this leg and this position. So during the movement,
right when I land here, I hop out of the
sponge off shuffle. I just jumped out
of this. So boom. Into any dance I
want to land into. Usually for me, I
like landing into the Charleston because we just jumped and bring those legs together back into
the middle plane. Just like this. Doing this, doing the shuffle. Boom, back into
the initial for I want and I just carry
on with that shuffle. Show you the running man, e.g. SpongeBob shuffle. Boom,
until the Running Man step. You just land into any
step of any dance. If you want to start
continuing into, you're just going to
carry the momentum of landing in two to transition. So instead of just
hopping back into the position to continue with
the sponge, I'll shuffle. I'll just hop right back into any kind of dance I
wanted to continue doing. So, boom, Charleston. That's it, man, that's
it for this lesson. And as for concrete
step-by-step tutorials on shuffled dancing and moves, That's about it for this course. I'm really happy you followed
along with me this entire way and getting
into this at first, really confusing skill set of dance moves can be pretty hard, but managed to stick through and get down to the bottom of all
these different concepts, now learned a really
strong foundation and the most popular and most important shuffle dancing moves. By learning these movements, you now have a lot of options. When you dance, you can really surprise people,
make them smile. You won't get bored
because you just keep having a lot
of different moves. You can pass out and you're going to have a
really good time yourself. And of course, there's also the personal
achievement of learning something as difficult
as shoveled dancing. So that's all I have to say
for this particular lesson. And I'll be seeing you guys in the final lesson right now.
18. Final Thoughts: Awesome stuff. Do you made it all the way
to the end of the course? Not every concept for the
major shuffling jazz moves and achieved a lot of variety in your foot work. You
can ask, switch it up. Now, bust the mood. Congratulations, forever. I'm assuming you
haven't mastered every movement on this list. There's quite a
lot here to learn. And maybe for some of
these you only watch the tutorial in
practice it very much. And in that case, I want
to give you the best, most practical tip I can
leave you with is when you practice in Newark
confusing move or just something
you're struggling with. Practice. Each individual step, slowly, ease into each movement
slowly doing things fast. It's a lot harder
than doing them slow. I'm sure you've figured
that out by now. But the biggest mistake I
made in the past was just seeing a movement done and
trying to do it in real time, right when I saw
it in failing over and over again as when I actually did the move step-by-step just
entered each position, every singular steps slowly. I was able to get
them moved down. And by slow, I mean, doing
it in a way that's so slow, it would take 50 times
the amount of time to do it only once or
they wouldn't do it. That's low. I'll be
like Okay, LinkedIn, 50 times slower to
25 times slower. And then once I could
do it that way, ten times slower, five
times slower and so on. Having just a little bit of patients actually
makes you learn a lot faster as well as prevents
you from making bad habits, from doing the move too fast
and wrongly the first time around and every time you master and move on to the next, this, whenever somebody
confuses, you go right back to the
lesson in this course, analyze the movements, watch each step slowly as
many times as you need. Remember the tips and advice. I give. Nobody hard on yourself. If you struggled to get a
few of the movements down. When I first started, I
was absolutely terrible, had no control over my body and it was very,
very frustrating. But once I stopped
putting pressure on myself to improve
super-duper quickly, and I just let myself take my time and do each move slowly. My Progress really exploded. If you want to share your
progress with others, you can participate in the
class project down below, you can write about your
experience or if you feel comfortable even share a video
or image of your progress. I have faith that if
you haven't already, it will be dancing your heart
out and events and parties, making others smile and having a great time yourself
wanted to say, thank you guys so
much for watching, intending this course
and choosing me to be the one who taught
you some new dance moves. I wish you luck in
your journey going forward and I'll see you guys around. Throughout my coffee. You can forget that.
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