Shuffle Dance Masterclass – The Foundations (Level 1)

1. Introduction to the Class: You like to dance confidently like this? We all started from the beginning. Welcome to the shuffle Dance Master Class the Foundations. I'm floor, floor shuffles and Instagram. I'm an artist and I've been shuffling for more than four years. My aim with this class is to teach you the foundations of shuffle dance so you will be able to learn the basic moves and concepts in a professional and organized manner. These foundations are the most important things of shuffle, and you will use them forever. I will explain you in detail the basic moves like the running man, the T step, the Charleston, the diagonal, running man, the criss cross, the B, and W step, and also some spins and glides. I will also show you how to transition from these moves and cool combos that you can use in your freestyles. I will also teach you a choreo so you can practice the moves, and I will also show you how to add your arms to your footwork. Moreover, I will cover everything that you need to know apart from the dance. I will mention which shoes are the best to use, advice on how to organize your practice sessions, how to prepare your body for shuffling. The warm up and stretching routines that I use myself that I adapted specifically for this type of dance based on my personal experience. These routines are super important to protect your body. If I had known all the things when I started, I would have danced better in less amount of time, and I would have also prevented some injuries that I had to face because I wasn't aware of all the things. So if this is the first time that you're taking a dance class, don't worry because I will cover everything. I will also talk about personal style. The main reason why I fell in love with shuffle dance is due to the freedom that I feel when I perform the moves because I can add my own style to them. So it's an amazing way to express myself as an artist. And you will be able to do that, too. Regarding my experience, I've been teaching for more than 15 years in the arts field. Before shuffle, I practiced other dances in my life like jazz dance and some street dances. But to be honest, I didn't commit to any of them in 100%. But since I started to shuffle in May 2020 during the quarantine, I haven't stopped. Even though I started shuffling as a way to do some exercise during the pandemic, it ended up being much more than that. A new passion that developed into an art that changed my life forever. Shuffle improved my self confidence, my self esteem, and my overall happiness. And besides all this, it's a great workout which tones our body and make us spurn up to 900 calories per hour. It also benefits our health to help us to reduce stress and fill us with endorphins. What more could you ask for now that you're aware of all these things? Are you ready to start your shuffle journey? Bring your shoes because we're getting started. 2. Shuffle Dance Basics: The Differences Between Shuffle & Cutting Shapes: I want to share with you the differences between shuffle and caring shapes. If you're following the shuffle community online, you probably heard about these two terms. Some people consider each style as a different style. And other people consider that both styles are part of the shuffle dance. I have a master in contemporary curating, so I studied history, and I have a personal theory that what we are seeing today, we can call it contemporary shuffle. The same way that in contemporary art, the artists of today are mixing different styles and movements in their art. My opinion is that in contemporary shuffle, dancers are mixing the shuffle dance style with a carting shaped style. We can see that many dancers doing shuffle, they are actually doing a mix of the two styles like myself. And in this course, we will see both. Shuffle refers to the movements like the running man, the T step, and variations of both. It includes spins and glides. Cutting shapes means doing shapes with your feet. So the most popular moves are the Charles Stone and the Gris Cross. While you're shuffling, you tend to move more around the space, but when you're curing shapes, you tend to stay more in one place. Each style has a long history and background, so I will try to do a brief summary here. The carrying shapes style was born with the rave scene in the 80s in the UK and the shuffle style was born with the Melbourne shuffle that started around in the same decade. We can say that the new generations of shuffle dancers from 2010 onwards started to mix both styles. And that was also a time when shuffle dance spread all over the world thanks to the first YouTubers that share their first shuffle videos. In 2011, with the video of the song Party Rock Anthem, the style captured many young dancers all around the world, creating communities everywhere. Every day I'm shuffling. Finally, with the growth of Instagram and more recently TikTok, with the first shuffle influencers and many Dijas promoting the dance in the videos like Don Diavlo and Oliver Heldens shuffle expanded to become the scene that we know today that is gaining more and more popularity every day. So congratulations for joining this amazing community. 3. Basic Tips and FAQs: In this lesson, I would like to talk about the things that I learned in these four years that I wish someone told me before I started to shuffle. First, let's talk about how to organize your practice. It's important to do a warm up routine before you start dancing. It will take you only 15 minutes, and after that, you can start to dance slowly, and then you will gradually increase your speed. This is the best way to protect your body. Also, I recommend to stretch afterwards. I will share with you my own warmup and stretching routines in upcoming lessons. As you know, in shuffle, you will use a lot your lower body muscles, as most of the dance is about the footwork. But actually, not only your legs will be challenged, but also your hips and your core. The core is the connection between your lower and upper body. My recommendation is that apart from your shuffle practice, you should do some legs and also core routines to strengthen your muscles. Also, having a strong core will help you a lot with stability in your moves and in your spins. I started to go to the gym after 2.5 years of shuffling, and I can tell you I wish I started earlier. This is something personal because each body is different. But I can guarantee if you gain strength in your leg muscles, it will be easier for you to perform the moves, and also you will protect your body from injuries. Of course, this is up to you and how professional you want to take your shuffle dance. But I recommend to always be present and hear your body, be conscious about it. So if you feel that you need to rest or if you feel that you need to gain more strength, go to the gym or do some exercise at home, but always you should be conscious about what your body needs. I currently go to the gym three times a week. So one day I focus only in my leg muscles. The second day, I focus in my upper body muscles. And then the third day, I do a full body routine, focusing in the core and also a little bit more in the legs. I can tell you that going to the gym helped me a lot in my shuffle to gain strength in my moves and also to gain balance when I'm doing the spins. Now, something that you might be wondering is how long will it take you to become good at this. The best advice that I can give you is to focus more in the process and less in the final result. Enjoy and have fun learning and don't feel that you need to do the running man well in one day because it will probably take you a little bit more than that. This depends on a lot of things. If you have any previous experience dancing, how prepared is your body and your own learning process. So I recommend not to compare yourself with anyone. I know it might feel at the beginning that everyone is dancing better and faster than you, but each person has a different learning process, and I promise that you will get good at this if you have the perseverance and put the time to practice. I recommend to film yourself the first day that you start to practice, and then compare yourself only with that person, the person that you were yesterday. You will be amazed to see how fast you grow in just a few weeks. Regarding myself, I think I started to feel more confident in my shuffle after the second year of doing it when I started to dance in the streets. But before that, I was only dancing at home. That's only my experience. I was actually not a very confident person before I started to shuffle. And as I shared with you at the beginning, shuffle helped me a lot with that to gain more self confidence. Nowadays, I record videos on the streets at parks. Shopping centers at the beach. I dance at music events, at art events. And I care every day less and less about what others think of me. I'm just focusing in the music, in my moves, in the way that I feel the music. So if you're struggling with self confidence, like I used to do, don't worry because shuffling will help you a lot with that. And the more that you dance, the better that you will feel, and you will feel so free when you're doing this. So it's really fantastic. Another common question is how many days you need to practice. My recommendation when you are starting is that at least you should practice two days a week. And if you can make it three days a week, that will be awesome. The more you practice, the faster that you will get good at this. But remember always to hear your body. And see how it reacts. Please remember not to skip your warm up and stretching routines. You will thank me later. Your body is this base for your mind and your spirit, so you should take care of it. Currently, I practice 3-6 times a week, more or less. As I mentioned before, as I go to the gym three times a week, I try to practice at least a little bit after my routine. And then the days that I'm not going to the gym, I focus only in practicing shuffle. So especially on the weekends, I try at least Saturdays or Sundays to focus only for a few hours in my shuffle practice. I recommend you also, if you can, to practice in front of a mirror. I know probably this is not possible for everyone. I actually dance shuffle for more than two years without using a mirror until I started the shim, and I could use the mirror in the dance rooms. So what I did at that time and I keep doing is to fill myself to fill my practices. You can do that, too, so film yourself and then compare your videos with the ones in this course. That will give you the possibility to autocorrect yourself and keep improving. 4. What Is BPM and How to Count the Beats in Dance: Now let's move to explain what is BPM. BPM stands for beats per minute. It is used to quantify the speed or the tempo of a piece of music. It indicates the number of bits that a song has in 1 minute. It helps musicians and dancers to synchronize their movements to the rhythm of music. As an example, a song with 60 PM means that there are 60 beats within 1 minute in that song. This tempo is quite slow. It actually means one beats per second. Songs with a lower tempo usually have a relaxed feeling, so you will find it a lot in music. A song with a tempo of 100 20:00 P.M. Will be twice as fast with two beats per second. So within 1 minute of the song, there will be 120 bits. This tempo has a sense of energy and movement. So it's the tempo that you will see most in EDM or electronic music, the music that most of the shuffle dancers tend to dance to. I recommend to start to dance with songs with lower PMs. You can actually check the VPM of a song in this link that I'm sharing you here. You can also check and Spotify different playlists that are called slow shuffles. You can also practice just with a metronome and change your VPM according to your pace. So let me show you an example doing the Running Man with different PMs. I will show you here a list of different music genres that have different VPMs. Dancing, the dancers tend to count their movements to stay in sync with the music and execute their movements with precision and musicality. Musicality refers to the ability of a dancer to interpret and express the elements of music through movement. I'm going to talk more about musicality later. While in music, the division tends to be in count of four. When we are dancing, we tend to divide it in count of eight. Most of the music has steady pulse or beat or tempo, so that is what we will be counting along. When we are dancing, we will count 1-8, matching each number with a bit of the music. We're going to use and to count the hell bits between each count. So it will be like this one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. I will show you an example using the metronome. So I have here in my phone, the app of the metronome and I have here 60 PM. So I'm going to play this PM and count alone. One and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. We will use this counting when we start to dance. 5. Freestyling, Combos, Choreography: We're going to talk now about freestyling, combos, and choreography. Let's see what each of these terms mean. When you freestyle, you will try to follow the musicality of a song, dancing with the moves that you already know. You will improvise at the moment. Musicality as I briefly mentioned before, is the artistic sensitivity that enables someone to speak the language of music. It involves the dancer's sensitivity to the rhythm of music. When you are dancing and you pay attention to the musicality of a song, you will hear the silence of a song. You will hear the beats and the drops of a song. For example, it's not the same if you perform the W step at a certain moment in the song when you hear a beat or at any random moment. If you do that move at that beat, you will see that it has a more dramatic look, and I show you here an example. Freestyling is really about filling the music and being able to process it through your body and dance to it. On my Instagram floor shuffles, you will see many of my freestyles, and I show you here an example. Something that I want to mention is that when you're freestyling, you probably make some mistakes that is totally normal. You have just to keep dancing and making mistakes is totally okay because this is how you learn. A combo is a series of steps that we group together, usually two, three or four moves. The good thing is that when you practice a combo, you are actually practicing a set of moves. So when you know these moves well, when you internalize these moves, the good thing is that you will be able to use them. For example, when you are freestyling, a combo can be as simple as doing a running man, a T step, and another running man. I will share with you some cool combos in the upcoming lessons. We can think of a choreography as a combination of combos or moves. In a choreo, you're going to perform a set of moves that you have already grouped in a certain way according to the rhythm of that song to the musicality of it. To create a choreo, first, you have to hear the music, see what it provokes in you. Maybe it's a sad song, maybe it's a happy one. So you're going to think which personality you want to show in that particular song. I will show you a choreo that I created that I have in my Instagram as an example. Looking for a man in finance. Just one. 65? The finos. Just fun. 65. Looking for a man in finance. Just fun. 65? The. 6. Personal style: I know at the beginning, when you're learning the moves, you will feel a little bit like a robot. That is totally normal. It happened to me as well because your body needs to get used to the moves, and only through repetition is that your body will start to remember them. That's why it's called muscle memory. It takes some time for your body to remember them, but you will get to a point that, for example, the running man will feel totally natural for you. So that's the time when you can start to add your own style to it. As I said before, you can do, for example, the running man harder or softer. Shuffle has certain moves that are particular to this style, but also you can grab inspiration from other street dances and add them to your own style. Other styles that go great with shuffle are, for example, hip hop, breakdansHuse, Actually, any street dance will match very well. These dances will serve you also as inspiration for your arm movements. A good exercise to develop your own style is to play some music and start to feel the music in your body, and then you can continue to dance with the shuffle moves that you already know. Another thing that you can do is to learn from other shuffle dancers. So observe the way that they perform the moves. How they are moving their arms. At first, you might be just copying what others are doing. That's totally fine. Even Picasso used to copy the artist that preceded him. But after some time, it's good to start to do your own style. So when you grab information, process it and do something different with that, make it your own. It's common at first to compare ourselves with others, but try not to be so hard with yourself, especially because you are learning something that is totally new for you and different from anything that you have ever done before. We have this horrible thing that we do as adults that we want to become perfect at something instantly, and when that doesn't happen, we feel bad about it. Children don't do that. They focus in the process. They are present in the moment. So try to be a little bit like that, focus more in the process and not so much in the final result and enjoy your present moment. And as I said before, only compare yourself with the person that you were yesterday. Those dancers that you see in Instagram, they probably took hundreds of hours of practice to become this good. So trust that you will get there, too, if you are willing to put the time to practice. So just focus on yourself and expand those things that are unique to you. For example, I tend to smile a lot when I'm dancing. That's a characteristic of me. I'm a very smiley person. So that is something that I added to my own dance. Also, you will see that you will feel the music differently according to the song that you're playing. For example, when I dance to this song of im Biscuit, I look quite angry. When the good comes the bad, the bad comes the good. I live life. And when I dance to the song of Regaton, I look happy and feminine. So it depends on each song, the rhythm, the lyrics of the song. All those things will inspire you and the personality that you want to show in that particular dance. 7. Shoes to Wear : Regarding what shoes to wear, I will answer you this question according to my own experience and what works for me. You can see here all the shoes that I have. So let's start with the bands. You will see a lot of shufflers dancing with them. Actually, the shoes that have flat soles are good for gliding, and they are also good for toes toes. I personally don't like the vans. I feel they don't offer a lot of support. You can see that the soles are quite small. So for me, they are not very kind for my knees. The shoes that I use and that I love are the Nike Air Max 97. I like them because I feel that they offer a lot of support to my knees thanks to this air chamber. I think they are great also for standing on your toes. If I have to say something bad about them, they can be a little bit heavy, and when they are new like this pair, they are not very good for gliding. They become better the more that you use them. I feel that this style offers a very bouncy look to your shuffle. So this kind of flowy look. I feel that when I started to dance with them, my shuffle looked better. And then, apart from these shoes, I also use the Adidas forum bold. You can see that this style is very similar to the Nike Force one, which is very famous among many shuffle dancers. I tried them both, and I think that the Adidas are a little bit lighter than the Nike. So that's why I prefer these ones. I feel that they are very good for standing on your toes as well. These are also good for gliding. They offer quite a good support. And what I really like about them, I feel that they are stylish. So I prefer to use them when I dance at festivals or other events because the ks are more sporty. So nowadays, I'm mainly using these two pairs. If I have to say, I still prefer the nights because they are more supportive. But again, the adidas really do the job. And then I have another pair of adidas. I'm using them for the gym. But sometimes I use them for dancing as well. They are not very good for standing on your toes because the fabric is very flexible. For gliding, they are quite okay. I feel that they are a little bit lighter than these two pairs. So sometimes this is good when you have to perform very fast moves. So for me, this is a list the kind of shoe that you need for shuffling. I mean, a list to have this medium support in your soles. And finally, I want to share this filler ray tracer. I used to use them a lot when I started to shuffle. I don't use them as much these days. They are okay for toe tolls, not the best. Not also the best for gliding. And I will say they offer a medium support, another advice that I can give you that I made a mistake when I bought this shoe that they are a little bit big for my feet. So this is not really good for dancing. Actually, I recommend to buy a shoe that fits you because you need this kind of support when you're dancing, so you don't want them to be loose because this is not good for your feet. It could actually lead to some injuries. So be careful with that. So I recommend to buy a pair that is not tight. I mean, you have to feel comfortable with them, but not to lose. Yeah, it has to be the right size. So if you're about to buy a new pair, go to the shop, check the styles, try them in your feet, see what works best for your feet. I tend to jump a little bit to check the support if they are good for my knees. For now, just pick the shoes that you have at home. Consider what I said to you about the pairs that I have and get ready because we are going to start dancing. 8. Warm up & Stretching Routine: As I mentioned before, it's important to do a warm up routine before we start dancing. We will also stretch a little bit, but it's more just to move our body because the proper stretching routine, we will do it after dancing. I know that you will feel like wanting to shuffle straight away, but be patient. The warm up routine will only take you about 12 minutes, and it's really important to protect our body. I recommend to use a mad for the exercises that we will do on the floor. As you know, in shuffle, we will use a lot our leg and our feet muscles. So it's good to warm these muscles. But as you start to feel more confident with your moves, you will like to also add some arm movements. So that's why we are going to do a full body routine. I have also added some exercises for hip mobility because this is an area that we will also use it a lot. Feel free to add or remove exercise from this routine according to your own needs. You will see that at the end, we will do a routine of four exercises. That one are the champing checks. Then we will do some mountain climbers. Then we will do some squats. I show you from the side. And then we will do some ups. Feel free if you want to have a rest between each exercise of 10 seconds. Or if not, if you're okay, you can do it together as I'm going to share with you. So great. Let's start our stretching routine. We will begin stretching the neck to the sides. Then we will do some circles, alternating the shoulders to the back and to the front. Now the two shoulders together to the back and now to the front. Let's stretch our body to the side. Now to the diagonal, keep your back straight. Don't curve it. Let's go down and do some dynamic stretching to the back. It doesn't have to hurt, so don't push too far. It needs to feel comfortable. Now we will stretch our back. Let's do the same to the other side. Let's continue to the diagonal. And then we go down and do some dynamic stretching to the back. Finally, we stretch our back. Moving forward, we will do some upper body circles to the back, first small, now to the other side. Make them bigger now. Now to the other side. We will move the ankles now, doing some circles on the floor. We change our foot and continue doing circles with the knees. And now with the hips, going back to one side, and then to the other. Et's proceed as we are hugging ourselves. Now we will bring our legs up and down. This is a good exercise for hip mobility and to warm up this area that is crucial in shuffle. We will do ten times to each side. Let's continue with the opposite leg. Now for ankle stability and to warm up our feet, we will stand on our toes, repeating ten times two. Let's go to the mat. We will continue with Angry cat, happy cat. We will repeat four times. Now let's stretch to the front and now to the back. Let's alternate to the front and back. We will proceed with this traditional dance stretch routine that is great for legs, harmstrings, and hips. We will bring our left foot to the front and keep our back leg straight. Now we will place our knee on the mat and bring that foot to our glutes. We will sit down and stretch to the side. We will repeat to the opposite side. We will bring our right foot to the front and keep our back leg straight. Now we will place our knee on the mat and bring that foot to our glutes. We will sit down and stretch to the other side. Now, let's lay down and open our legs. We will bring one knee to the floor, alternating them. Now they chew together to one side and to the other. We will do each exercise ten times. We will repeat the series of chew exercise three times in total. This is another great exercise for hip flexibility. Now run two And now Round three. Let's stand up and do some steps to the side. We will bring our knees to our back. Now running in place, we will bring our knees to our chest and then to our back. Let's do some little jumps on place and now to the front and back. And to the diagonals and the sides. One more time, front and back, the diagonals, the sides and on place. Now, let's do this routine that I showed you before. We will start with a series of 20 jumping jags. Uh, and continue to the sides and the diagonals. Moving forward, we will do 20 mountain climbers. It's important to keep our big straight and keep our alves tight. And now ten squads. Also, in this exercise, our back is straight. The aves should be tight, and we need to feel that we are doing the work with our glutes. We will finish with 20 Obliqhs which are very necessary for cutting shapes. Let's repeat the routine one more time. So we will do 20 jumping jacks. Continue to the sides and the diagonals. Now 20 mountain climbers. We'll keep going with ten squads. And finally, 20 obliges halves. 9. The Running Man/Woman: I hope that you're excited as I am because we're going to start with our first shuffle move the Running Man or Running Woman. This is the most important step in shuffle. Actually, you can shuffle just knowing the running man. So I recommend to really, really pay attention to this lesson, please watch it as many times as you need. The running man can look a little bit complex at the beginning. So please relax. Take your time to learn it properly. And don't worry if at first, looks a little bit complicated. I promise that you will get there. So I want to show you first how the running man looks. So I'm going to show you from the front and then from the side. Yeah. So first, I'm going to do it slowly. And now I'm going to do it a little bit faster. Now, let me show you from the side. F slowly. And now I'm going to do it a little bit faster. I want to mention that I will explain you the technique in detail. So we will cover everything. I will also share with you some common mistakes so you can avoid them. And I wanted to tell you that after we see the technique, we are going to practice it. So we're going to start very, very slowly, and we are going to gradually increase speed. So at the end of the lesson, you will be able to dance the running man with 120 BPM. That is the same PM that you will find in a song of electronic music. So don't worry if today you cannot reach that speed. It takes some time. We talk about it before, so not to worry. Yes. If you need many days to practice at a slow speed, it's totally normal. Actually, that is something good. But I wanted to cover everything in one lesson, so you can rewind the lesson as many times as you need. Just according of how are you feeling with the movement? Yes. So remember, each person has a different learning speed. So take your time to learn it very, very carefully because it's important to know it. And once you get it, you will be able to dance with the running man without even thinking about it. So, I trust you. You can see that I put in the floor three tapes at the same distance each. So I did that, so I can explain you the move better. If you have some tape at home, you can do the same. It's not really necessary, but I thought it was going to be better for you to understand it. So something that I want to mention about the running man, it's why it's so important because it's a move that for me, it's like a safeguard, meaning that if you are dancing and you don't know what to do, you can always do the running man. And you can always use the running man as a connection move, meaning that you can do, let's say, a T step and then do a running man, and then, for example, another T STEP. So you can always use it whenever you want. The running man is great for freestyling. It's also great for oreos. At the beginning, your running man might look a little bit like a robot. It's common. It happened to me as well, but once you internalize it, you will be able to feel more relaxed with the move, and you will be able to add your own style to it. I will also explain in an upcoming lesson how to add your arms to the running man, and you will see that is something that will also change a lot the way that the running man looks. So just to show you an example now, for example, you can do the running man more or like to say more flow or softer, something like this. Or you can do that running man harder, like if you're dancing to a techno song. So it looks similar, but you can see that it's not the same. I know at the beginning of your shuffle journey, you will want to learn a lot of steps, to be able to perform a lot of moves. I was like that, too. But I realized that learning a lot of moves and not being able to perform even one properly, wasn't a good way of learning shuffle. So it's better to learn one move, learn it properly, really, really get it, and then continue to the next move. So in that way, you already internalize one move, and then you're moving to the next one, and then the next one, yeah, that is what I recommend to you. So be patient. You know, you are at the beginning of your journey. This is actually the most complicated part of your journey. Let's be honest with this because you're learning the basics, you're learning the foundations. So it's really, really important what you are doing right now. So think that what you're learning in this course, you will use it forever. And then once you master all these moves, then it will be easier for you to learn new moves. But really, at this time, you're learning something that is totally new. So it's common that it will be harder, yes. So so don't worry if it takes some time. As I said before, we will go in detail with the technique. So really, really pay attention in each move where you have to place the weight of your body. How your feet are landing in the floor, the way that you have to place your feet. So I know it looks like a lot of things, but be really patient with that and pay attention with this because these are the things that make a move to look good or to look not good. Yes. This is where we're getting professional. So something that I wanted to tell you also in every move, yes, you will hear me repeating this over and over again. You really have to have your core engaged, your apps, yeah? It's really important. This is in the running man and in every move, actually, in every dance that you're doing. But we're talking here about shuffle. But, yeah, it's very important because having your core engaged is what will give you stability. If not, you will be like this. So see the difference. If I engage my core, I instantly have my weight in the center. If I don't engage the core, I'm like, anywhere. So this is something really, really important. I will repeat you over and over, so you really have that in mind. Something that I wanted to also share that we will see in the upcoming lessons. So once you get the regular running man, you will be able to also learn some variations of fit. So you will see that in the upcoming lessons. Well, so as I said before, in the running man, your wight should be center. That is important. And you're always going to start your running man from the perch position. That is this one. Let me show you from the side. Yes. Think also this Berth position as a transition position. I will explain more about these transition positions in an upcoming lesson. But you can start to have that into account. You will see why this is a transition position because we start in the perth position. And then we do a step, yeah. We land with our feet on the floor. So see that I'm starting with my right leg because I'm right leg dominant. So see that I actually step with my right foot on the front, and then my left foot that was in the middle is landing on the back. Yeah. Then what I will do next, I will go again to the perch position. Like this. But this time with the opposite leg, yes, I bring my right leg to the middle, and then my left foot is in the perch position. And then I will do the same with the other side. So see that I land with my left foot on the front, and my right foot is on the back. Yeah. For me, the running man, the way that it works, is actually two moves, why two moves. Because one is the arch position. And the second move is the landing on the floor. Yes. This will be with the right leg. Then if I'm starting with the left leg, I just do the same. Move number one, perch position, move number two, landing on the floor. I'm holding myself with the wall because you will see that when you are performing the move slowly, it's actually quite hard to keep yourself in balance. But once you start to do this faster, you don't need to do that. But at the beginning, if it's helpful for you, you can do the same. Just stay close to a wall. So what I just did, I did two running mans because I did one running man with the right leg. And then I did another runningmn with the left leg. Why I'm saying you this? Because you don't always need to do two running mans. You don't always need to do it on the right and on the left. Yeah? For example, you can do just a running man with your right leg and then move to a T step. Yeah? So in shuffle, it's common that we perform the moves on both sides, to be symmetric. But this is not something that is always needed. We tend to do it because it looks good, and it's great for a choreo or a combo, but you don't always need to do that. Another important thing regarding the technique is that see that from the perch position, I'm moving both feet at the same time. Yeah. This is very, very important to have into account because, remember, we do the perch position, and then we move both feet at the same time. A common mistake at the beginning is, for example, doing something like this. Just moving 1 ft. Yeah. So see that my back foot is still in the middle. No, it should be here. And that was a mistake I used to do at the beginning, that I only found it filming myself and watching those videos. So please have into account so you can avoid that mistake. Yeah. So remember, page position, landing with both feet at the same time. Page position, landing with both feet at the same time. Let's go now with the tips. So something important, and this applies also for, I would like to say, most of the shuffle moves as well, that when you're landing with your running man, yes, you're not actually landing with your knees or your legs like this. Yes, you are actually landing with your knees slightly bended. Why? That is the same reason why you're lifting your heel, to be able to perform the next move faster. If you are with your knees like this, it's like, again, you are like, stuck in the floor. Apart from that, when you have your knees slightly bended, you're actually protecting your body. Yes? If you remember when you were at school, the teacher always said, like if you jump, you have to bend your knees. Yeah. Of course, we're not jumping like this in the running man, but it's the same idea. Yes. So always remember to protect your body. Another important thing that I told you before is to lift your back heal. This will also help you to be able to do this movement faster. Let me show you a close up when I'm doing the running man fast. You can also see in slow motion. Remember that only the back heel is the one that we have to lift. The front foot will step with the whole foot. Also, it's important to try to move your feet as closer to the floor as possible, like doing a little jump. This is called micro bounce. The micro bounce gets the illusion of gliding instead of jumping. I will talk you more about this in other shuffle moves. So let's talk about other common mistakes. Some people are doing the run man, like, running. I don't know if I will be able to show you the mistake, but I think people are doing something like this. I don't know. Like, that's not the way you're doing the running man. That's actually running. So please avoid that. And other thing, other common mistake is is not to put the wave in the center, as I told you before. So, for example, let me show you how it will look if you're putting your wave on the front. So it will be something like this. I'm actually I'm actually about to fall. Yes, it's really hard to do it that way. So keeping your core engaged, keeping your waist in the center will actually help you to perform the move better. Great. So I'm going to start to do it slowly. So let's practice, and you can follow along. So remember, we started with the perch position with our right leg. That leg comes forward. The other leg comes backwards. Then left leg comes to perch position. That left leg goes forward and right leg comes backwards. Now I won't talk. I will just do it slowly so you can follow along. Let's start in the perch position. Good. Now I'm going to do it with the counts. So remember that I mentioned the counts before. Yes, how do we count when we are dancing? So remember that it was one and two and three and four. Yes. So the idea is that our perch position will be the. And when we land with our both feet like this, it will be the one. Let me show you so you can understand it. So we start in the end. One and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. You don't need to count. I'm doing this to help you. You will see that you will get more tired if you're talking while you're dancing. So I recommend not to count at this moment, at least. So let's practice again slowly. Yeah, so you can start to internalize the move. So let's go again. Don't worry. I know when you are doing it slowly, it looks kind of weird. It looks very robotic, as I mentioned before. That's common, but it's good to understand the mechanics, yes, to understand the technique properly. And then when you know and you already get this and it's already in your muscle memory, you will do it looking at cooler, yes. So to keep practicing, I would like to bring something that I think is very helpful for this. I will bring my phone that is actually the metronome. So remember we talk about BPM. So the metronome will help us actually to choose the BPM that we want to dance too. So for the metronome, I download an app that is called tempo. You can download any app that has a metronom. So the idea is that the metronome will actually count the bits. So, for example, if I put a PM of 50, we will hear, yeah, the bits. So remember, as I just explained to you, every time we hear the beats, is the moment that we need to land with our feet. When we hear silence in the metronome is the moment that we will be doing the perch position, the ant. The metronome just counts the tempos. But when we hear a song, we will hear a lot of sounds. We will hear a melody. So there's a lot going on. With the metronome, it's just very simple, just a bit, yeah. So it's good at this moment. So the idea with this practice with the metronome, we will start at 50 PM, then move into 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 until we reach 120 because 120 BPM is the standard BPM of any electronic music. We have some music that is slower. We have others that are faster, but it's standard. So if you are able to dance at 120 BPM, you're ready to go to the club. You're ready to go to a festival. So again, don't worry if you need to practice many times, let's say, at 50 BBM, do it as many times as you need. Remember you can rewind the video. You can also play your video slower. You have this tool that you can play it slower at a slower speed. So in case that you need it even slower. So really, really do it at your own pace. See how you are getting the move. I promise you that you will get there that you will get to 120 BPM. But of course, take some time. Yes, you won't get it in one day, yes. So be patient about it. So let's start with a tempo of 50 PM. I'm going to count while we hear the beats. One and two and three, and four and five and six. One and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now I'm not going to count. Let's just hear the bits. Right. Now let's move to 60 Pm. Now, let's continue to 70 VPM. We will continue to 80 VPM. Let's move on to 90 BPM. Great. Let's continue to 100 PM. Very good. Now 110. Almost there. Come, Now, 120. Finally. Let's do it. This was quite fast, right? But great. You did it. You did it. You're dancing at the speed of electronic music, ready to go to the festival, to a show. I know you might be a little bit tired like myself. I feel that the run man is a really great workout. Congratulations again. 10. The Running Man/Woman Variations: So now we're going to see some variations of the running man. So maybe something that you notice is that when I was doing the running man at faster BPMs, I wasn't following this landing. Yes, I was probably landing more like here. Yeah. That is related to my personal style. I tend to do the running man in, I would like to say, small stance. You will see that some other shuffle dancers do a wider stance. This, again, is related to personal style and the way that you like to perform it. Also, I feel that the faster that I do it, my stance is smaller, but this is just the way that I do it myself. So if you like to do a bigger stance, I will show you, and then you see if you like it or not. These are things that you can start to apply to your running man. So let me show you first slowly. So I'm going to be here. So let's try, for example, I will try to do more or less like this that is more or less the stance with the length of my legs. So this will be different for each person, of course. But let's try it first slowly, and then we do it faster. Great. Well, now let's do it a little bit faster. Now, a little bit faster. So you will see that doing the running man with bigger stands, it's more exhausting. And again, this is regarding your personal style, so see if you like it or if you prefer to do it smaller like myself, up to you. But I wanted to share with you this. Another thing that I wanted to share is that remember that I show you the running man from the side. I also show you from the front, but you can also do it from or I would say, facing the diagonal. Yes, like this. So that will be this diagonal, or you can face your other diagonal. So see that the move looks different when you are facing the diagonals. So this is something great that you can also start to add to your shuffle. So actually, you start to move through the space. You can literally do that by starting on the diagonal with your right leg, then going to perch. With the left leg, you're going to look or face front, then you go to perch, and then you're going to the other diagonal with your right foot, like this. Yeah. So you're doing like a compass. You are staying center but doing like this. Yeah. Let me show you a little bit faster so it will be better for you to understand. We start in the diagonal. Yes. Let me do it once again a little bit slower. Great. And now let's do it a little bit faster. Let's increase the speed. Great. 11. The Front Step: So now we're going to see the front step. So you will see that the front step is actually the repetition of the front foot of your running man. Let me show you. So we start in the perch position. We do a regular running man with the right foot. Now we're going to bring the right foot to the perch position. We're going to repeat the running man on the right foot. Let me show you a little bit faster so you can understand it. Yes. Let's do it again. So remember that in the regular running man, you start with the right leg. And then you bring the left leg to perch position to continue with the left. Running man, yes, with your left foot. So in this one, you are doing the regular running man with the right foot, but you're not bringing the right foot to the middle. You're actually bringing it again to perch like when you started, yes, to be able to do, again, the running man with the right foot. Now, yes, you can bring your right foot to the middle to then do the left running man. Yes. So you are repeating the first running man. In this case, with the right leg. Let's try it again slowly. So starting with the right leg running man and the right leg in part position and then repeating the running man with your right. Let's do it again a little bit faster. Again, what you can do, remember, you can actually do the front step and then continue with your left running man. So what you will do will be something like this. You start with your regular running man with your right leg. You bring your right leg to perch, and then you repeat to do the front step. And then, yes, you change. You bring your left leg to perch position, and then you do the left running man. Yeah. So let's do it all together. Yes. So again, one more time. Good. So from there, you can do the same on the left. So if you want to do the front step on the left, you are going to start with the left running man like this. You are going to bring the left leg to perch position. Again, like when you started with the left, fit running man, and then from there, you're going to repeat to do a front step with your left leg. Yeah. So again, And from there, you can do a running man with your right leg like this. Good. Let's do it one more time, doing the front step with your left leg. Good. Great. One more time. Good. If you want, you can actually do two front step with each leg like this. Yes. So it's the same. So you start perch position. Do a regular running man with your right leg. Again, perch position with your right foot, front step with your right foot, perch position with your left foot, regular running man with your left foot, parch position with your left foot and front step. Yeah. Let's do it slowly. And now, let's do it a little bit faster. 12. The Back Step: Now we're going to continue with another step that is the back step. So the idea with this step is the following. So for example, we are starting with a right foot running man. Then we will bring the left foot to the perch position. But instead of going forwards, like a regular running man with the left foot, Theta is that we're going to go backwards with that foot. Yeah. And then we can again, go to the perch position with the left foot. And then, yes, do a running man with the left foot. Yes. So let me repeat it. I start with a right foot running man. Going to perch with the left foot, doing the back step with the left foot, yes. Then left foot comes in perch position. And then I land with the running man with the left foot. Let me show you again a little bit faster so you can sit the whole thing. Great. So once more, starting with the right foot, running man, left foot comes to perch, doing a backstep with the left foot, coming back to perch with the left foot and doing a left foot running man. Yes. Again, God. Once more, starting with the right foot running man. So now we're doing the backstep with the left foot. But now we can do it with the right foot. So to do that, we have to start with the left foot running man. Then we will go to perch with the right foot. Then that right foot will go to the back to do the backstep with the right foot. Then we come back to perch with the right foot. And then we go to land with a regular running man with our right leg. So again, we start with the left foot running man. We go to perch with right foot, back step with right foot, perch with right foot, right foot running man. Again, once more. Great. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Good. One more. Good. Something that I wanted to share is that you don't always have to do the back step after the running man. So you can actually do it after another move. For example, let's say you're doing the T step that you will learn it in an upcoming lesson. So, for example, I'm doing two T steps to the right and then I can do the back step or the same to the left. I do two steps, and then I do a backstep with the left foot. Yeah. I wanted to share with you this so you can see that this is a move in its own, yeah, that it doesn't have to go together with the running man. But I explained with the running man because it's better to understand the mechanics or from where is it coming. 13. The Shaper Running Man: Now we're going to continue with the shaper running man. I show you quite slowly, and now let me show you a little bit faster. Great. So the mechanics of this move is similar to the regular running man, but the only difference will be in the way that we land on the floor. Yes. So do you remember that in the regular running man, we are landing like this with our front foot on the floor. Now with the shaper running man, we are going to land like this with our heel. Yes. So let's remember how was the regular running man, so we can make a difference between the two. So the regular running man, we were starting with our perch position with the right leg, then landing the right leg on the front. And then we bring the left leg on perch position. And then we're landing with the left leg on the front. Yeah. And right leg was going backwards. That was the regular running man. Now, with the shaper running man, we are also going to start in the perch position. But remember that when we are going to land, we're going to land with our heel, yes. And you can see there the right leg. So then we're going to bring left leg to perch position. Then landing with the left leg on the front, at the front. And then right leg goes backwards. And then remember that we can repeat this as many times as we want. So right leg goes to the front, landing on the heel, left leg comes to perch, left leg goes to the front, standing on the heel, and then right leg goes backwards. Yeah. So you can see, you have to just change the feet to the heel and you will have it. We're going to practice now a couple of times very slowly, so you can get used to this move, and then we're going to start to do it faster. So great. Let's start slowly. Great. Now I'm going to count. In case it's easier for you, remember, we start in and and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. In this running man, the shaper running man, we also need to lift a little bit our back foot, the same as in the regular running man. You probably saw that I'm not doing this right now because I'm doing it very slowly. As you probably can tell as well, it's difficult to stay on balance, right? I'm also holding myself with the wall. But you will see that when we start to do this faster, we need to lift that heel to be able to do it on time, to do it at the bit. So let's practice a little bit faster, yeah. Now you will see that I will start to lift the hela. The start. 14. 14 The Shaper Running Man Variation: Now I want to share with you a variation of the same move the shape or running man. So we're going to do the same move, but slightly different. So first, let me show you the shape or running man facing you. Yes, facing the camera. Remember, we start with right foot on our perch position, right foot goes to the front with our feet on the heel. Then left foot comes to perch and left foot goes to the front standing on our heel. Let's do it a little bit faster, but still slowly. Yeah, so right. And now, let me do it a little bit faster. The variation we're going to do is that instead of landing to the front like this, what I'm going to do from the perch position, I'm going to land to the right diagonal, yeah. So then from here, I'm going to come back to center with my left foot. And then I'm going to land to the diagonal with my left foot. Yeah. So right foot comes up. Landing to the right diagonal, left foot comes to perch, landing to the left diagonal. Yeah. Let me do it a little bit faster, just slightly bit, so we don't lose our balance. Let's practice now together. Remember we start in and, one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now let's do it a little bit faster. Great. So now I'm going to share from the back so you can follow along. Great. So remember, we start in and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. Now we're going to do it a little bit faster. And now a little bit faster, too. Something that I want to share with you is that while in the shape or running man, our whole body is facing the front. When we are doing this variation, when we are facing the diagonal, actually, body, my whole body is going to face the diagonal. Yeah, so I'm starting in the perch position in the center. But then I move with my whole body to the diagonal, then coming back to the center, and moving with my whole body to the other diagonal. Let me show you You will see that this makes total sense because it's, like, very weird if I'm just moving my leg and on my body. Yeah. No, that won't be good. So, so that's why I need to move my whole body. Yes, remember, coming back to Sander when I'm in the perch position. Yeah. Let's do it one more time. How exaggerated you want to rotate your body? That depends on the style that you want to give to the move. Yeah. We talked before about style, how we can change slightly move, and it will look different. So I can do this variation of the shape running man like this. Or I can do it smaller as we were doing it. So same move, changing a little bit the style. 15. The T Step : So now we're going to continue with the T step. The T step is another foundational move together with the running man. Actually, these two moves were part of the Melbourne shuffle style. Remember, I mentioned that before when we were talking about the history of shuffle. So those shuffle dancers were only doing those two steps, the running man and the T Step. So you will see that in the T step, we also have many variations of it as we saw with the running man. So you will be able to also expand your T step as we did with the running man. So let me first show you how the T step look. And now, I'm going to show you a little bit faster. I want to mention that I mirror this video, so it's easy for you to understand when you are seeing myself from the front. You can take myself as you are looking yourself in the mirror, yes. So your right leg is my right leg, yes. And your left leg is my left leg. Then I will show you also from the back so you can follow along with me. So the TS step is also a great move to transition from the running man and also to use it in between other moves. But you will see why it's good to transition because in the TS Step, we are also starting in our part position, you know, this position from the running man, yes. I'm doing the running man with the left leg like this, and then you remember we did it with the right leg. Well, in the T step, we're starting with our left leg, in this case, if we are moving to the left. So the perch position goes with our left leg, and then we step with the left foot, and the right foot is the one that moves the hell like this. Yeah. Then we're going to see how we do the movement. But for now, I want you to understand that that, again, we have two moves or two parts in the same move, yes, the perch and the step. Great. So let's practice just that. And also something that I want to mention is that it's great if you can start including your upper body from the beginning of this move because it will actually help you with the move. It will be much easier. If you do just like this, it will be really hard to do it. But if you add your shoulders, it actually help you with that move. Let's practice that. Practice with me, yeah. So let's go. Yeah. Like this. Come on. Great. A little bit faster. Let's practice now from the back. Good. It's important in this move to also have your weight in the center. Because, for example, if I'm leaning to the left like this, see that if I try to do the move, I will start to fall. Yeah. No, don't do that. But if you stay in center, again, engaging your ***, you will see that you will keep your balance. Yeah. So it's important to do that. Let's practice the following now how to do the movement. So let's practice just moving our right foot. Yes. So remember, we have to move our heel and then and then the toe and then the hell, and then the toe, and then the hell, and then the toe. So please practice with me that. Hell, tow, heal, tow, heal, tow, heal, tow. Again, he'll tow, hell tow, heal, tow, heal, tow. Let's practice from the back. We will go slower. Hell, tow, heal, tow, heal, tow. And again, hell tow, heal tow, heal, tow, heal. And again, hell tow, heal tow, heal tow. Good. Now, let's put everything together. So remember, we started in the perch position with our left leg. We step with the left leg and the right heel goes like this. We come back to perch and then we repeat everything. Come back to perch, we repeat. Come back to perch, we'll repeat. I want to mention the following that in the perch position, as you've probably seen, I'm not actually facing like this, facing to the front with my toe. I'm more facing something like this. Yeah. Why am I doing this is because I feel that when we do the step fast, if we put our feet like this, see that we will be covering more space. So it will be easier to move because actually, the T step is a great move to move around the space. Yeah, you don't want to stay in place. If you keep your perched position like this, it won't be comfortable for you to do it. So just have that in mind. So let's do it again, thinking about that. I'm starting, like in the regular per position, but see that we step. We left foot, we come back to perch. And see that now, I'm like this, yeah? Step. Come back to perch. Step, come back to perch. Step. Come back to perch. Yeah. So great. Let's practice a few times. First slowly. Remember, starting with your perch position with your left leg. And now we are going to bring left foot to the floor and the right heel comes out. And then perch position like this, remember what the right foot is doing with the toe, yeah. And we'll repeat. Yeah. Good. Now, let's do it all together. Come on. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Good. Now, let's do it from the back. Six and seven and eight and one and two, and three. And four and five and six and seven and eight. So see that the same that in the running man, the d is the perch position, and the count is when I'm stepping on the floor. So let's do it now in the middle tempo. Yeah, so, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. Now let's do it faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five, six, seven and eight. Now, from the back, I'm not going to count five, six, seven, eight. Good. Remember that you can rewind the video as many times as you want. Yes, if you need to keep practicing slowly, if you want to keep practicing in this middle tempo, if you then want to practice faster, yeah. Something that I want to mention as we saw when we were doing the running man, remember that we started doing the right leg running man, and then we move to the left leg running man. Well, in the this step, we're actually moving with the same foot. Yeah. Like see, we were moving to one side. But you can do the same thing with the opposite foot. Yeah, so well what we were doing was our right foot was the one that was moving our body and the step, we were doing it with the left foot. So now what we're going to do is actually move with the left foot. And the right foot will be the one that is stepping. I know this can be hard, yes, because if you tend to be right leg dominant, it's probably that this is a leg that you will have more power, whereas the other leg could be a little bit weaker or the opposite could be true if you are left leg dominant. Yes. So it could be harder at the beginning to step with the opposite foot. Don't worry if in the beginning it's hard, yes. Also see how is it going for you if you prefer maybe for now to just tea step with your dominant leg and then leave the other leg for another time. Yes, when you feel more confident with your dominant leg, this is up to you. Yes, this is your own learning process. Also, I don't know, for me, if I tea step a lot with the left leg, like, mowing with the left leg, I kind of get tired, really tired because my left leg is not that strong, but maybe that's not your case. Just wanted to mention to take it easy because it's not for you to feel frustrated if this is hard at this moment, yeah. But the good thing in shuffle is that to always try to do the moves with both sides of the body, that will be great. Actually, it will be greater for our body, for our mind, as well, because we are also training the mind. Not only the body, let's just try it. Yeah, a few times, see how it works for you. So remember, now we are going to start in parch position with our right leg. That is the one that is coming to the floor and then left leg moves the heal like this. Then perch Like this, remember the left foot, the toe goes to the diagonal, and then right leg comes to perch and now we repeat over and over. Remember to move your upper body. So now practice with me. I'm showing from the back five, six, seven, eight. Great. Let's do it to middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight. 5678. Good. And now a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight. Remember to rewind this video as many times as you need. If you need to practice many times with a slow tempo, if then many times with the middle tempo, do it in your own pace. 16. T Step Variations 1: A Let's talk about different variations that you can do with the t step. See that we were always tea stepping like this, yes, with the toe. But what you can do also, you can tea step with your foot. You want step with the whole foot. You will be lifting a little bit the hell like this. Yeah. So it will be something like this. Yeah. But see that is different from what we were doing that we were doing like this. Another thing that you can do, you can tea step with your heel like this, yeah? So different variations. So let's practice each of these variations in case you want to include them as different styles of your T step. So let's start with the variation of step in like this. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six, seven and eight. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight. Goal. And now let's strike with the hell. Five, six, seven, eight. And now from the back. Good. Another thing that you can do, you can step to the front. Yes, instead of stepping in the same line as we were doing, you can do it to the front. Yeah, it will be some slides. Great. Or you can also do it to the back like this. Great. So let's try this stew starting first with the T stepping to the front. Yeah, five, six, seven, eight. An from the back, five, six, seven, eight. You will see that more than the front. It's actually the diagonal. Yes, you're not stepping like this because it will be very uncomfortable. You're just stepping to the front, but it's not the middle as we were doing. And now, let's try the one that we step to the back. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. Okay. And another thing that you can do is to instead of stepping, you can do a kick. Yeah. You can do a kick quite low, or you can do a kick that is really high. Yeah. So I will be like this. Low kick or high kick. Yeah. This is the moment when something that I mentioned in the intro is good to work in your leng strength, going to the gym or at home because that will give you some power to do the kick, yeah? So again, up to you to do that, but I really, really recommend. So let's practice first to do a low kick. Actually, this is the only one that we're going to practice because doing many times, the high kick will be very tiring and uncomfortable. The truth is that it's very rare that we will be stepping, like, doing kicks like this. It doesn't look good. It's something that we will do it only one. Yes, for example, let's say we were doing some running mounts and we do a T step and then more running mounds then a T step with a kick, yeah. So it will be in the middle between other moves. I wanted to mention that because you're probably thinking, Oh, my gosh, how am going to do so many steps like with a kick now? For the reason of learning, we're going to do many now, yeah. But remember that you only need to do one in between other moves. But let's practice, yeah, to see how it goes. So, five, six, seven, eight. Low kick, yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. Don't worry if you lose some balance. It's kind of hard, so don't worry. 17. T Step Variations 2: Rocking: Now we're going to continue with the other variation of the T step that is called rocking. Some people call rocking a move, like a move on its own, but it's actually a variation of the T step. It's actually a sequence of the T step. We can say it's a combo as well. Yeah. This is how the rocking looks. Let me show it slowly. Great. So what I'm actually doing, I'm doing three T steps and then I'm finishing with a running man. Don't worry that I will explain everything in a moment. So the idea is that we're going to do a sequence, a pattern of a T step going to the back to the front and to the diagonal. I'm going to say cross because it's a shorter word. So the pattern is the following. Back, front, cross, and then running man. Yes. So let's practice this sequence. From the front. So you can go with me. So, five, six, seven, eight, and back and front and cross and running man. Five, six, seven, eight. Back, front, Cross Runningmn. So the same idea that we did with the T step, but we added that running man. Yes. So let me explain why I added the running man because the idea Do you remember that at the beginning, I explained that in dancing, we count with eight counts. So we just did four counts. We can add other four counts, so we will have an eight count. This is great, for example, to create a choreo. So the idea with the rocking, and this is something that you will see a lot in shuffle dancers that we are going to do. Rocking to the left, and then rocking to the right. Yeah, doing the same pattern, but changing the feet. Remember this is something that we also talk about how common is in shuffling to mirror the moves. Yeah. So the idea will be the following. So we start in the perch position. We got step to the back, perch, front, perch, cross, perch, runningmn then we go also to a perch position but with the right leg like this. So see that I'm actually from here, I'm actually moving my heel like that, yes. And from there, I'm going to start stepping to the back like this. Right? So let me show you again. Pm. Bum. So the thing why I'm doing that movement with the hell is to have actually kind of momentum. Because if not, if I don't move the hell like that, I won't be able to move. Yes. Remember, I explained you before that with the T step, we actually want to move across the floor. So that gives you an extra momentum. Let me show you again, altogether so you can understand. I'm not going to stop, so we start again. Perch. Back, perch, front, perch, cross, perch, running man, perch, B, perch, front, perch, cross, perch, running, man. Yes. So let me show you now from the back. So five, six, seven, eight, Back, perch, front, parch. Cross, parch. Runnmm, parch with the right leg. Back, perch, front, perch, cross, perch, runnim. Good. Great. Let's do it again. Five, six, seven, eight, Back. Front, cross. Running man, B, front, cross, running man. Good. Now let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, B, front, cross. Running man. Back. Front, cross. Running Mm. Now, this is one of the many patterns that you can do. You can actually create as many as you want. This one is quite popular. But another that you can do is go to the back to the front and to the back or go to the front cross and to the front. Really, the amount of patterns that you can create is regarding to your creativity, yes. That is what is good about shuffling that you can really get creative as you want. But let's practice a couple of patterns, so you can get used to them. Let's do now. The one that is back, front, back. Yes, that is quite easy. So let's start six, seven, eight, Back, front, B, running man, B, front, B, running man. Now I'm going to do it from the back. Five, six, seven, eight. Back, front, back, running, B, front, B, running man. Sometimes doing it slowly, it's harder for the thing of balance, yeah. But remember, start doing it faster whenever you can start to add speed. Right. So now we're going to do the other that I mentioned that is front, cross, front. Yes, five, six, seven, eight, front, cross, front, running front, cross, front, runuman. Now let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, front, cross, front, running man, front, cross, front, Run man. Now, let's practice these two sequences faster. So let's do the one that was back, front, back. So, five, six, seven, eight, B, front, back, running man, B, front, back, running man. And now let's do it from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, B, front, back, Runiman, back, front, back, Runnyman. Now, let's practice faster the sequence that was front, cross, front. Five, six, seven, eight, front, cross, front, runiman, front, cross, front, runiman. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. 18. T Step Variations 3: Microbouncing: Now, let's continue with another variation of the rocking that is the micro bounce O micro bouncing. So the idea is that instead of doing the T step that we are stepping with our food, we are actually going to do a micro bounce, yeah, like this. So it's a micro bounce because it's not a big jump. I'm not doing this. Now, that will look not good. So I'm doing this little the micro bounce. So let me show you how the rocking looked with the micro bound. So I'm going to do the pattern that was back, front, cross, and then erima. Yes, so I'm doing that pattern, but with the microbuns. So something I want to mention is that see that I'm going to face to the diagonal because if I'm not facing the diagonal, will be very hard for me to do the microbuns to the side, no good. But if I'm facing the diagonal, see that it's easier for me to move to do that micro bouncing across the floor. Yes. Why we are doing the micro bounce is because it will be easier to move and cover more space in the dance floor. Because with the T step, you actually can only cover smaller space. Yeah. You see that it will be the size of your feet. But with the micro bounce, you can really cover more space, yeah. So let me show you the rocking with the micro bounce following that pattern, five, six, seven, eight. So see that I did the same, I first went to one side and then come back with the other side. I personally like to do the rocking with the microbund instead of the T step. I don't find it so comfortable to do the rocking with the T step. Just I feel like to move across the floor is not that comfortable. I think my legs gets more tired. Whereas with the micro bones, I feel more comfortable. I think it's kind of for my knees. But, well, that's my personal opinion. So probably like more the micro bones like myself. So let's practice first just to do the micro bones. Yeah, let's go to the left like this, starting in the diagonal. So five, six, seven, eight, Great. Now let's go to the opposite side. Six, seven, eight. Quite easy, right? Yeah, not so complicated. So now let's try the pattern that we did before that was going back, front, cross, and running man, but with the microbuns. It will be hard to do the microbuns slowly, but I will show you, yes. So let's go. Five, six, seven, eight. Back. Front, cross. Running man. And now we will go to the perch position with the right foot. But see what I just did. From here that I was in the ranman, I went to perch position like this. Yes, remember that the toe was pointing to the diagonal. And now, what I'm going to do is also move the left heel like this to be now ready to rock to the right with the micro bones like this. Yeah. Was it clear? Let me show it again. Yeah. So six, seven, eight. Bank, front, cross, running man. Perch, move my heel. Back, front, cross, running man. Let me show it all together. Five, six, seven, eight. Good. Now, let me show you front back. Five, six, seven, eight. As I showed you before with the rocking with the T step, remember that we have many patterns that we can do like to go back front and back or go front, cross, front. Really, the amount of pattern is the amount of your creativity. Yes, you can try, you can experiment with as many as you want. But there is one with this particular rocking with the micro bones that you probably are going to see a lot in many shuffle dancers that is like this. So it's going to the back. Then going to the front, but with the hill and then crossing. So, you probably remember when I explained you the T step, I explained you that you can tap also with the hill. So I found it easier to do the rocking with the heel when we are doing it with the micro bounce, because I think it requires more strength when you have to tap with your heel, so it's better to do it with the micro bounce. So let's try. Let's try this pattern. So it will be back, front with the heel and cross with the fit like this, yeah. So I'm just going to say it to make it easier. B, heel, cross. Yeah. So let's try it. Five, six, seven, eight. Back. Hell, front. Run man, B, heal, front, runman. Good. Let's trideF the back. Six, seven, eight, Back, heel, front, runman, B, heal, front. Runman. And something else that I want to tell you about the micro bones is that you can incorporate your shoulders, yes, and your arms, as well. We will have a special lesson for arms and shoulders, but I want to mention this now so you can also start to practice it altogether because again, it will help you with the move. So the idea will be like this. When you're going back, just like this, front will be like this. But when you're crossing, see that my shoulder is also crossing. And then I'm landing on the running man, and I can also open my arms. And you can mimic what your feet are doing also with your arms, yeah. So it will be like pointing to the back, pointing to the front, pointing to the diagonal, and then running man, opening my legs and opening my arms. Yeah. Now let's practice with the arms and the shoulders. And we're going to do the same pattern that we just did. Back, heal. Cross. Yes. So back, heal, cross, runimn. Then back, heal, cross, runimn. Yeah. Five, six, seven, eight. Back, heal, cross, running man. B, heal. Cross runimn. Great. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, Back, heal, cross, running man, B, heal, cross, run man. So don't worry that we will practice more the arms in the lesson that I mentioned. Level two of this course, I will show you more variations of the rocking of the T step, as I mentioned. But, again, it's important to understand the foundations. It's important to understand the most basic moves to be able to try new things and more challenging things in the future. Still, I quite believe that rocking is quite challenging. It took me a while to understand the pattern. I think it's quite complicated on its own. So don't worry if you need some time, if you need to go back to the beginning of the lesson and then practice it all over again several times. Like, that is totally normal. It took me really a long time to understand the rocking. I don't want to say that is more complicated than other moves of shuffling because, you know, this is personal to every person. I'm just telling you my personal experience. So that's why I'm suggesting you to practice several times until you really get the pattern, the technique, yeah. And then you can also expand it. So you can also start practicing only one pattern until you understand it well, and then try the others that we did, see if it's better for you with the T step, with the microbuns, try both. Yeah, try everything, and that will help you a lot in the future. 19. The Diagonal Running Man: Great. Now we're going to continue with the diagonal running man. This move, you might also have heard it as the polypocket or the X step. Well, it doesn't matter the name of the step, but it's important for you to understand that this step is actually a variation of the shaper running man. Yeah. So you already know the shaper running man. So you are halfway. Why I'm saying this? Because when I learn it at the beginning of my shuffle journey, I learned the polypocket so I couldn't relate that the ppocket that now we know is the diagonal running man was actually a variation of the shaper running man that was move that I knew. So why am saying you this Because, you know, this is how we go in the learning process, yes, we learn something. It takes us a while. Then we have to do the same process to learn something else, yeah, all the same process. But if you can associate some things that you learn here with the new thing that you're learning, you actually halfway of your journey. Yes, you don't have to again go 0-10. You are already at five, yes? So it's easier. It's going to be faster, so it's great that you can do this way because I couldn't do that way. And it took me more time, and it was for me, Oh, I don't get this step because I didn't understand the dynamics, I didn't understand the technique. So that's why I'm trying here to do my best for you to understand it properly and that you can get it really in no time because you already know the previous step. Yeah. So hopefully this will help you. First, I want to share this move. So first, I'm going to share it slowly, and then I'm going to share it faster. So, see that I place some tape on my floor. I did I place a middle line and then an X. That's why some people call it the step. So it's not actually a bad name, yeah, it makes sense. Just that, again, as I was saying, if you think, Oh, the step, another shuffle move, you know, and my gosh, so many moves. But then it's like, Oh, the step. The shape or running man, like an X, you know, like, so that's why I mean, call it any name that you want. It doesn't matter the name. What matters is that you understand the technique and that you can do it properly. You remember that we did a variation of the shaper running man in which we were going to the diagonals. So let's do a quick recap so you can remember how was the shaper running man? Yeah. You remember the shaper running man was like the regular running man, but we were standing on our heel, yeah. Then we were going to perch, and then we were doing the same with the opposite leg. Just standing on our heel. Yeah. While in the regular running man, we were standing with the whole feet, like this. Great. So when we are doing the shape or running man or the regular running man, see that our body and our hips are facing the front like this, yeah? A in the same line. When we were doing this variation where we were doing the shape running man to the diagonals, see that we were starting in the perch position, facing front, and then it's like we open to the side, yeah, to the diagonal. Then we were coming to perch, and then we open also to the other side. Pretty easy. Now, with the diagonal running man, what we are doing, we're actually instead of opening the hips, what we were doing when we were doing this variation, we're actually closing the hips, yeah, like this. Yeah. So see that we start at the front and then in the part position and then when we land on the floor, yes, see that I'm facing the diagonal, but doing like this. That little change in the move it's very, very important. Let's explain very, very slowly the technique so you can really understand the move. You start in the perch position with right foot. Then you go to the diagonal. So you are closing the hips, twisting the hips. And a torso is not completely front, not completely facing to the diagonal, somewhere in between. Yeah. Then going back to center. And then to the other diagonal, we left foot standing on the ll and then come back to center. Yeah. So the same as the shaper running man, we are landing with our feet like this, yeah, with our feet in our heel. So I want to explain about how we place our body. Yes. Because in the variation of the shape or running man that we did to the diagonal, yes, starting in perch. Remember, we were moving our whole torso and then coming back to center and moving our whole torso. In the diagonal running man, we are not going to move the whole torso to the diagonal, but also we're not facing completely to the front. Let me show you. So we start in the perch position. We do the diagonal running man, but our torso is going to be somewhere in between the front that will be this and the diagonal that will be this. Yeah. Neither is correct. If you go to the diagonal, it will look not so good. And if you go to the front, you can really hurt yourself because it's like, so uncomfortable to do this. So if I had to tell you, it will be a line in between these two lines. Yes, we can have here a dash line. Yeah. So it will be somewhere in between. Want you to have this into account while you're doing the move, but don't worry too much because actually, when you start to do it faster, you will be that it's something that naturally will happen. And the same, if at the beginning, if you don't have a lot of hip mobility, you can do the diagonal run man a little bit smaller, yes, in the sense that you can do it like this. If that is all that you can do, and that would be fine, yeah. It's fine. Totally fine. Then if you can, when you start having more hip mobility, you can start to open or better to say clothes, more your hips, yes. Do that bigger twisting with your hips, yes. Also at the beginning, I tried to do like this, like I was seeing in some shuffle dancers, and it was a lot. I didn't have my body trained to do that kind of move, and I ended up hurting myself as I already told you. So please learn from my mistake. You don't have to face the same mistakes. You don't have to hurt yourself. You can start gradually, yeah. So that is actually the best tip that I can give you. Something that I wanted to share is that in the diagonal running man, also your weight should be in your center. Yes. Because if you put your weight on the back or on the front, you will lose balance. Important to have your weight in the center. Yes, and again, engage your abs. You should keep your core engage that will help you with the switch. Let me show you. Try to think on this movement of your hip, like a kind of C in a way. Yes, a wave. So see that if you think that you're twisting your hips like this, yeah. When you are facing the diagonal, it will be easier because if you're thinking the move like front diagonal, front diagonal, it won't look very good, but it's more like front diagonal, front, diagonal, front. Yeah, it's more like you're doing like this, Yeah. Try to think in that when you're doing the move. So if you do that, it will look less robotic. So now let's practice several times so you can understand the move. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. You will see when you're doing this slowly, it's quite hard to keep balance. So I recommend to start adding for this specific move some speed from the beginning. Yes, you will see it's actually easier, yes, because you can use that kind of bouncing. For the next move. What I'm trying to say with this is like, see that I'm from here. Like, I use that kind of momentum when I'm in the diagonal to come back to center, yes? Because if you kind of land here and from here, you have to come back to center, it requires a lot of effort. So that's why if you start to put rhythm to it, it will be actually much easier. Yes. So let's do it a little bit faster and you will see what I'm trying to say. Five, six, seven, eight, Now, I will show it from the back. So the same as with every shuffle move that we saw, you can do it on both sides or you can do just one, yeah. You don't always need to do with the right leg and with the left leg. No, you can, for example, do diana running man with right leg like this. And from there, you go to a perch position and then you do a T step, yeah? Or the same to the opposite side. You start with your left foot in this case. Go to perch and then you do a step. Yeah. I wanted to mention this so as you know that you don't have to always do it to both sides. 20. The Traveling Diagonal Running Man : So remember that I mentioned that the idea with the diagonal running man is to have this kind of rhythm, this kind of bouncing that will help you to do the move correctly and faster. So remember that we are not like perch, land, and then perch again, that it was a lot of effort. We were like, perch and perch and and perch and. Yes, right? So why I'm telling you this? Because now what I wanted to share is the diagonal running man moving forward. Yes, we can say also traveling forward. That's the idea of the move. So what we're going to do while we were doing the diagonal running man on places like this. Now, I can actually move towards you. Yeah, so let me show you. So let me show it from the side so you can understand it. So in the diana Runian that we were doing it on the spot, we were going like this, and then to the other side. Here, we're going to use that moment when we are actually just landing, we are going to use that moment as a micro bounce that will move us forward. Look what I'm saying. I'm starting here. I'm going to micro bounce a little bit forward, to start to move like this. Yes. So see that I'm like the idea. You know, when you were probably little, and you were doing like this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. You can actually do that just to get that vibe. Yeah, like No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. So see, it's quite simple. Well, now we have to add that no, no, no, no, no, no, to the move that we already know. Actually, every time that you are going to perform the diagonal running man, every time that you're going to land, whether it's right leg or left leg, you're going to land moving a little bit yourself forward. Yes, on both sides. It's hard to do it slow, but see what I'm trying to say. So from here, yes, I'm moving a little bit forward and then going to perch and moving a little bit forward and going to perch, moving a little bit forward. Yes. So that's the idea to move a little bit forward every time that you do the diagonal running mar. And that is how you can start to move, yeah. So let's practice five, six, seven, eight, and Let's do it again. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. Now I'm going to start from here, five, six, seven, eight, and I'm going to show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and 21. Combo: Diagonal Running Man with Back Step: Now, I want to show you a combo that you can use that is very, very simple. Do you remember the back step? Yes. Remember, let's do a quick recap. So first, we can do a runiman shaper runiman. Then we have to come back to part. And then from there, The backstep again, perch. Shaper runmPerch Bastep. Yes. So that was the backstep. Now, we're going to apply the backstep but to the diagonal runiman. This is the following idea. Let me show you the combo so you can see it. So the technique is the following. First, we start a perch position, diagonal, perch facing the diagonal, bastep, perch with the opposite leg, diagonal, perch, backstep. Yeah. Let me show you from the back. You can practice with me, five, six, seven, eight, and Great. Now let's do it a little bit faster to minimum speed, five, six, seven, eight, and. And now faster speed, five, six, seven, eight. Let me show you from the back to a faster speed, five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight. 22. The Y Step : Now, I want to share with you the step of the Y step. I will keep this name because I think it will be easier for you to understand and remember the move. But actually, actually, you will see that the Y step has part of the diagonal running man, the backstep that we saw with the convoys, but it's actually a move on its own. Why am saying you this? Because you don't have to necessarily do the diagonal runimn and then perform the why step. No, you can do it on its own. Yeah. So let me show you the move, how it will look. It will look like this. A little bit faster. So let's see the technique. So we're going to start in the perch position. So remember when we did the backstep that we were doing like this, we were actually already in the perch but facing the diagonal. Well, you can start from here, but if you do the move on its own, it's more probably that you are facing the front. Yes. So that's not really a big problem because, I mean, if you're facing the front, you can do like this, and it's not that complicated. Yes. So it's fine as well, yes. Let's imagine that we are facing the front as doing this moment from zero, yes, so you can understand it properly. So great. So from the perch position, we go to a backstep facing the diagonal. Then we come back to perch in this diagonal, and then we do a backstep to the opposite side, like this. Yeah. Then we come back to perch and we can again repeat it as many times as we want. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight. BackstepPerch. Backstep. I'm doing it quite small because I'm very close to the wall. So I'm going to move a little bit forward so I can do it a little bit bigger for you to see. So you can practice with me. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight. Now, from the back a little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight. Now, a little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight. So see that we were doing the white step with our left feet because that was the one that we started. But remember, you can do the same with your right leg. So perch position, going to the back step with your right leg. Perch again going to backstep on the opposite side with also your right leg. Yes. So now let's practice a few times with our right leg. So you can also get confident with that leg, five, six, seven, eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. 23. The Charleston: We will continue with the chal stone. The chal stone is a move that is part of the cutting shapes style. So it's a very important move as well for this style. But first, I would like to show you the chal stone slowly and faster. And then we will get deep into the technique. So let's talk about the technique. In the Charleston, our initial position will be this one. You will see that this position with our toes facing inwards, will be a transition position for many of the cutting shapes mob. Then we will get deep into transition positions, but please start to have that into account. So the chal stone, we can think it similar to the running man as two steps in the sense that our first position will be this one. And then the second position will be this one. Yes. So the moment that we left our right leg will be the end and the moment that we step with our right leg will be the one. Yes. So again, you remember that in the running man, the was our perch position and the one was the moment that we land into the ground. Yeah. So here, it's going to work the same. So let's understand what happens at each moment. Yeah. So in the in the end, when I'm lifting my right leg like this, yes. Something to mention is that the more that you lift your leg, the better. This more will look and also it will help you. You don't have to do like this. I mean, you can some people do this. I mean, you can do it if you want. This has to do more with style, but somewhere here will be fine, yeah. So the moment that our right leg, do this, the left leg is doing this, yeah. It's stain with the heel lifted. So actually, in the Charletone all the time, we'll be standing on the ball of our feet like this. This is very important because if you're not standing like this, you won't be able to perform this move correctly, yeah. So first thing to have into account. So that's why it's helpful if you want to practice to do this exercise in the warm up. That will help you to feel comfortable in this position, yeah. So we said, First move. Here, the end. And then as I explained you before, the right leg will come forward. Yeah. Like this. Yeah. But the moment that my right leg comes forward, look what the left leg is doing. The heel is coming inwards. Yeah. Let me show you just the left leg is pivotin doing like this. Yeah. So again, from here to here. So the more that your front leg crosses, the better, also the chalices stone, look, I'm really exaggerating it a lot. But, I mean, you can do it here or you can do it here. It really depends on how flexible is your body. Yes. So don't worry at the beginning, you can just do it here. That's totally fine. But then you can start to try to deepen your chalton, yeah. So again, let's do it more fluid so you can start to understand better this move, transition position, the start, yeah. We will lift our heels. Yeah. Remember, we are going to stand at the ball of our feet from there, lifting our right leg. And right leg comes forward. One. It will be our one. Yeah, like this. Yeah. So also see that my leg that was like here will come like this. Yeah. It will do the same pivotin. Boom. So it's the same that the left leg is doing, yeah? Again, more fluid, and one. Good. So from here, what we're going to do, we are going to repeat everything with the left leg as we're doing with the other shuffle moves. So from here, we have to come back to this transition position that it will be. Now our right leg will be pivoting like this and at the same time that the right leg pivots, the left leg comes up will be lifted like this. Yeah. So from here, to here. Yeah. So again, this will be our A. Great. So remember, we have to do the chew. So the u will be the moment that our left foot comes forward and see that what my right leg just did. Yeah. So my right leg was here. So my right leg did this. Yeah. Also pivot. Yeah. The same. Yeah. Rates. So see, that is a pivot because then I'm coming back to the same position, yeah. So let me explain everything again. So starting in the transition position, lift the right leg comes forward, left leg. The heel is going inwards. Then we will lift our left leg and move inwards the right heel like this. And then left leg or left foot comes forward, and the right leg will again, move the heel to the left, yeah, outwards. So let me show you from the back so you can understand it. And one and two. So do you understand that twisting that the left leg is doing? And you can do this move as many times as you want. Yeah. When I show you at the beginning, I'm going to start close to the wall. So it's always going to be the same. So one more thing that you probably notice is that all the time, I'm also bending my knees. Yeah, I'm not standing like this. I'm bending my knees as many of the other shuffle moves. This is important and you will bend your knees all along the move in your transition position in the one, in the transition, in the two, yeah, always, always bending the knees. So again, That will give you the possibility to perform this move fast. Another tip that I wanted to share is that sit that when I'm lifting my leg, I'm keeping my leg close to the other leg, like this. Yeah. I'm not doing this. No. Yeah. So if you keep your two legs together, that will be easier for you to perform the move faster. It's like when you need to go to the toilet, it's kind of that idea, yeah. So sit So now let's practice with me, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And four. Now, let me show you from the back. So starting in our transition position, and one and two, and three and four. So you see that with the Charleston, I'm actually moving when I'm doing the move, yes. So it's part of the look of the move. Great. Now let's practice a little bit faster. Starting in our transition position, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four. Now from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, Now, a little bit faster, so we don't lose our balance. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. 24. The Backwards Charleston: Great. Now we will continue with the backwards Charleston. Let me show you the move, how it looks. And now faster. And from the back, So in the regular Charleston, you remember we were moving forward. In the backwards Charleston, we are actually going to move backwards. Yeah. So the idea is the following. From my initial position, what I'm going to do is that remember that in the regular Charleston, we are going to lift our feet and that feet will go forward. So in the Bwors Charleston, instead of moving the right foot to the front, I'm going to move the right foot after I lift it, of course, to the back. Yeah. The same. I'm going to do exactly the same, but to the back. Yeah. So let me show you from the back so it will be easier for you to understand. Remember, regular Chalston. I was going to place my feet forward in the backwards, halston and placing my feet backwards. So let's think of the technique of this move. We start in the same initial position. We also lift our right foot the same as in the regular halston. But then the right foot comes backwards. Yeah. So also. From here, we'll come here. Yeah. We'll do the same pivot that we did before. And what is going to happen with the left foot? Let me show you. So it will pivot like this. The same pivot that we were doing. And from here to repeat with the other side, I'm going to also lift my left foot. And then the right foot will pivot, at the same time, remember? And then the left foot will come backwards like this. Yeah. And also the right foot will pivot like this. Yeah. Let me show you from the back so you can understand it better. So from the initial position, I'm going to lift my right foot that will come backwards, lift my left foot, that will goes backwards. Mm. So let's practice a few times. I'm going to start this time from the back because I think it will be easier for you to sit. Yeah. So let's go. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now I'm doing it from the front. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Great. Now, let's do it a little bit faster from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And now a little bit faster even from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. So we're going to have a special lesson of combos, and I will share with you a combo of the front and the backwards halstn. 25. The Criss Cross : Another move that is part of the cutting shapes style is the Kris Cross. I particularly love this move because for me, it's really the easiest move in shuffle in all the shuffle moves. When I started to shuffle, I found that the Crisscross was very easy for me to understand, and I realized that I could start to do it faster in no time. So I was very happy. So I started to do the Kris cross all the time in every choreo at every moment. So and then I started to say, Okay, I have to stop to do the Cris Cross and do other moves. While I find that doing the Running Man fast will take you some time. Doing the Crisscross fast, it will be quite easy, I believe. It was for me. So hopefully, it's the same for you. So that's why I think it's a great move, and I'm happy to share it with you. So first, I wanted to show you slowly and then faster. And now, foster. So now let's talk about the technique in detail. So as many shuffle moves, we also have two parts in the same move. So the first part will be this transition position, our cutting shaped transition position that I mentioned before in the Charleston. So then we will talk more about this position. But you can see that things are starting to get repeated. So from this transition position, what we are going to do is a little jump with our front foot like this. The back foot change also the position. Then I will explain what each of them is doing. And then we come back to the transition position and we repeat with our left foot. Yeah. And from there, again, to the transition position. So like in many shuffle moves, we are going to do with one leg and then repeat with the other leg. Yeah. So remember we can repeat this over and over again as many times as we want. I want to tell you something so you can start to relate what you have learned already with this move. So you probably remember the position of the ch stone that we started. In this transition position, we lift our foot and then comes forward. Yeah. So you can see that is almost the same position. We start in the same transition position. And when we move our feet in the hallow stone, we did that. And in the crisscross we're doing this. Yeah. So while in the h stone, we were doing a step. In the criss cross, we're doing a little jump. Why? I'm telling you that the position is almost the same. Well, because you probably remember that I told you that in the halton you can close your feet or get that halston very deep as you want, yes, you can do the hal stone here or you can do the halves stone here. Well, with the criss cross, it's the same. You can do the criss cross here. Or you can deepen your cross like this. Yeah. So again, how deep you want to go depends on your flexibility and all the things that we talked before. So don't worry that if at the beginning, you can only do the criss cross like this. That's fine. Yeah, it's still the move. So then if you can start to deepen the criss cross a little bit, it will be good. Let's explain in detail what each of these foot is doing. So from the transition position, you can see that my right foot comes forward like this. Yeah. So the toe is facing the right diagonal. And the left foot, the heel is facing also the right. And then I'm going back to the transition position, and now you can see that the left foot, the toes are pointing to the left, and on the right heel, the heel is pointing also to the left. From here, it's looking like this. Yeah. And then remember I'm coming back to this transition position. So let me explain you from the back. So from this transition position, I'm going to do the little jump. So the front foot comes forward and then going back to the transition position, and now left foot comes forward. Another important thing is that as in many other shuffle moves, you are going to be standing on the boll of your feet like this, yes. So your heels will come up. If you don't stand on the boll of your feet, you are not going to be able to perform the move because, for example, if you jump with the whole foot, it's like you will get stuck in the floor and to move from there will be very hard. Yeah. So, again, important to perform the move faster to stand in the bowl of your feet. Something important is also to have the width of your body in the center. Yeah. And again, engage that core of yours. It's important so as not to lose balance. I know it could happen at the beginning that you tend to look at the floor or your feet and be careful with that because that could make you to lose balance and fall. So see that I'm always with my weight in the center. So with that, I can do as many as faster as I want, and I won't lose balance. Another thing that I wanted to mention is that you always need to go back to the same initial position or the same transition position, yeah. So imagine a line if your feet started here when I'm going to the front, I'm here and then I'm back to the transition position. And then from here, I do the criss cross to the back and then back to the transition position. Yeah. So always your feet, your transition position will be at the same place. Another thing that I wanted to mention is that always try to leave a gap between your feet when you do the jump because if you don't leave a gap, it could happen that 1 ft overlaps the other. For example, it could happen something like this. I that I kind of hurt my feet, you know, because I hit my feet. So always try to leave some space like this so your feet don't overlap. Something that I wanted to share with you is that really, when you do this move slowly, it will be more tiring because, like, you start in this transition position and then you have to jump to the front and then back to the transition position and then to the back, yeah, so it's more tiring. But actually, when you start doing this faster, the little champ will be really like a little jump. So it's not that tiring at all, yeah, because you are kind of bouncing every time you go like, front and in the middle, yeah. So it's really you're bouncing, whereas when you do it slowly, it's like you're stopping at every move. If a move has a flowy look, it's really you're not stopping at each part of the move. Yeah, you are doing this all together. But of course, to understand it, at the beginning, you have to do it slowly and stopping in every part of the move. One thing is that you are actually starting with your knees like this. Yes. Your knees are going to be bended, yes. Every time you are doing the jumps. Yeah. So why you need to bend your knees? Because if not, it will look really, really stiff and it will be very hard to perform this move faster. Yeah. So see that I'm bending my knees. Every time that I'm jumping, yeah. And every time that I'm landing. So really, you're going to have your knees straight when you finish the, when you're not doing any more jumps because while you're jumping, you will always have those knees bended. Now we are going to practice a count, slow, middle, tempo and fast. So let's start. You can practice with me. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And five and six and seven and eight. Now let's do the same from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. And two, and three. And four and five and six and seven, and eight. Now, let's do it middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now from the back. So five, six, seven, eight, and one. And now, I'm going to do it fast though now also with no counts, five, six, seven, eight, and now from the back. Five, six, seven, eight. 26. The Traveling Criss Cross : We're going to see a variation of the Kris cross that is the traveling crisscross. So every time we have a move with the traveling means that we are actually moving with the move. So what does that mean? In the regular crisscross, we are jumping, but we are jumping on the place on the spot. Yeah, remember from the transition position, I move my right foot forward, then coming back to the transition position and moving my left foot forward and then back to the transition position. So see that I'm always doing the same on the spot. So now you have to think that every time that you're jumping, you're not only jumping, you're moving forward. Yeah, so jumping forward. So let me show you. From the transition position, I'm going to do exactly the same that in the regular criss cross, but thinking of moving to you. So like this. Yeah. See that I did step forward. A now or a jump forward, better to say. And now I'm going back to the transition position, also jumping. And now I will do the same with my left foot. Also jumping. Let me show you from the back. So starting in the transition position, I'm going to move forward my right foot while I'm jumping. Then going back to the transition position, jumping forward, and then with the left foot jumping forward like that. Let me show you also from the side so you can see it better. So you can practice with me. We're going to go slowly starting in the transition position now, and one and two, and three and four. Now, let's go a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And now going fast, five, six, seven, eight, and one. So I can move forward or I can move backwards. And it's exactly same idea. So how will that work? So starting in the transition position, I'm going to think of moving my right foot backwards like this while I'm jumping. And then with the transition position, I'm also going to keep jumping backwards like this. And then I'm going to repeat with my left foot thinking of moving it backwards like this, while I keep jumping. Let me show you from the back. So from the transition position, I'm going to move my right foot to the back while I jump, then keep jumping with my transition position, and then I keep jumping with my left foot. So it's the same idea. Yes, like we did while we were moving forward. Let me show you from the side, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And now let's do it fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and So the good thing when you're doing the traveling criss cross is that you can cover more space in the dance floor, yes. So it will be great for a choreo that I don't know, you want to do something where you are moving and come back. So it looks really cool, and it's a really nice variation for you to try. 27. The Criss Cross Variation: Now we're going to see another variation of this move of the Kris cross that it will be to do a repetition of the first move of the Cris Cross. Let me show you how it looks. It will be like this. Can you see what I did? I'm going to do it slowly. So I did a double step. Yeah. When I'm jumping with my right leg like this, remember what we did in the regular. We jump first with the right leg, come back to the transition position, and jump with the left leg, doing the same, yeah. But now, I'm going to jump with the right leg, come back to the transition position and jump again with the right leg, like this. And then come back to the transition position. And what I did, I just did the same with the left leg. So jumping to the front with the left leg, coming back to the transition position, and then jumping again with the left leg, yeah, and coming back to the transition position. So it's like you do a double criss cross. We can call it like that if he wants. It's the same move just doing a variation, yes. So instead of doing always like this, with the regular, you're doing So you can see it looks slightly different because you are doing a variation. So this is when these moves start to get richer, that you can see it's not always the same move, doing it always the same way. But actually, you are making it more spicy because you are adding more layers to the same move. So let's practice it so you can get it. So transition position, we're going to start with the right foot coming to the front back to transition position. Again, doing another criss cross with right foot coming back to the transition position, and now we're going to do the same with the left foot. Left foot comes forward, back to the transition position, and again, left foot forward and back to transition position. Great. So let's practice it a few times. Five, six, seven, eight, and Now, a little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight, and. And now we're going to do it fast, five, six, seven, eight, and Great. Let me show it from the back. So starting in the transition position, I'm going to go right foot to the front, back to transition, right foot again, back to transition, left foot again. Back to transition, left foot again. And back to transition, we're going to start slowly, five, six, seven, eight, and Now we're going to do middle tempo, five, six, seven, eight, and. And now we're going to do it faster, five, six, seven, eight, and. 28. The V-Step/Happy Feet: We are going to see now the B step or also known as the Happy Fit. Let me show you the move first and slowly. And now, let me show you faster. Great. You can see that I put some tape on my floor doing two Bs. That's why the B step. Don't worry if you don't have tape at home, but I thought that visually, it would be better for you to understand. So let's talk about the technique of this move. So see that we are starting again in our famous transition position from the carrying shapes. The same position as Charleston, the same position as the criss cross. Yeah. So see that the distance of this transition position is for me, the distance of my hips. So as in the other moves that we saw, the will be the transition position, and the one will be when we lift our feet. Yeah. So let's see what each of these food is doing separately, so we can understand. So basically, the right foot starts doing this. Doing a pevot. Yeah. So the pevot comes from the heel and what I'm doing is I'm lifting my toe like this. Cachum let's practice this pebot. Now, no, no, no, no, no. Quite easy, right? Good. So now let's see what the left foot is doing at the same time. The left foot is pivoting like this. Pam, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pm. Good. So right now, quite easy, right? Well, remember that this happens at the exact same time. So when the right foot is lifting the toe, the left foot is lifting the heel like this. Yes, like this. So I think this will help you to remember what to do with each foot. This is something that helped me at the moment that I was learning this move because at the beginning, I thought like, Oh, it looks like, so difficult. But once you get it, it's like you do it without thinking. So don't worry. Trust in yourself. You will get it. Yeah, even at the beginning, it looks like, Wow, like a lot. But I think with this hint, I think it will be easier for you to remember. So see that what is happening in each foot is the exact opposite. Why? Because when I'm lifting my toe in the right foot, I'm lifting my heel in the left foot like this, yeah. So in the right foot, the heel is standing on the floor and on the left foot, the toe is standing on the floor. Yeah. So the exact the exact opposite. Let's practice a few times just this movement. That will be the count number one, yeah. So we're going to lift our toe in the right foot, and we're going to lift the right heel at the exact same time. So let's go, five, six, seven, eight, and one. I know it's hard when you're doing it so slowly to keep balance, like you can get help leaning yourself on a wall. But yeah, it's difficult to do this slowly. But, well, hopefully you understand the first part. Yeah. Well, the first part that actually we are doing it with the right, starting with the right foot. Now, as in the other moves that we saw, we're going to repeat starting on the left foot. So what will happen now? What will happen is that? The left foot, we are going to lift our toe and we're going to do the pivot with the heel. At the same time that the right foot is going to pivot on the toe, and the right heel will comes up like this. Yeah. So like this. Bm. Yeah, so bam. Let practice a few times this movement and going to do like this. So it's going to be easier. So five, six, seven, eight, and bam and bum bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, dam. As many other moves, we will have two steps. The transition position that will be the end and the first count that is this move. So the transition position will be the end, then will be count number one. I lift the right toe and left heel. And then I have to go back to the transition position. It will be another end and then to the second count, and then I need to go left like this. Let me show you the whole move together and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. A few things to have into account. See that I'm whether pivotin with my toe or I'm pivoting with my heel. So this is one of the positions, and this is the other position. Yeah. So always with my heel or with my toe. The same as in the other moves of the cutting shapes that we saw, we have to have our knees like this, yes, relax, relax. When we pivot with the heel, that leg will be extended and the other will be bended. And then the opposite will happen. Yeah. When we lift our toe, we have to extend the leg, yeah. So that will be the only part that we have our leg extended. Yeah. But the rest of the time or the opposite leg has to be bended. So now let's practice from the front with the counts, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four, and five and six and seven and eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now we're going to practice to middle temp. Five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one. You probably realize that now that we are practicing at middle tempo, it's easier, because we're doing it faster. And now, yes, we're going to do it at speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and. Great. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and. 29. The Traveling V-Step: So now, we're going to continue with the traveling B step. As we saw with the other moves, as we are traveling, means that we are moving across the floor. Yes. So this is the exact same move, same B step, but we are going to go to the right or to the left. Yeah. So the move will look like this. I went to the right and to the left. Let me show you faster. So let's see how does this work. So remember the step. We lift our right toe, and we lift our left il. Now we have to do a step, yeah, with both feet. And now we're going to lift the right heel and the left toe. And also, we're going to step on the floor. And then we keep on repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating. So let's start first with the right foot. So first, we lift our toe. We step on the floor, and then we're going to do the opposite as what we were doing before. So we're going to lift the heel and pivot with the toe. So now we're going to stand on the floor, and then we're going to lift our toe, and then we are going to lift our heel like this. Yeah. So what will happen with the left foot we're going to lift our heel, and then we're going to lift our toe, stand on the floor, lift, our heel, lift, our toe, and so on. Yeah. So always, we are going to do the opposite as we were doing before. So now we have to get the fit together because this will happen at the same time. I have to tell you. So remember, we lift our toe, we lift our heel, we step on the floor, and now we will do the opposite, lift our right heel, lift our left toe, step on the floor, and again, and again, and again and again. Yeah. So let's practice this slowly. You can place your hands on a wall if it's helpful for you in case you feel you're going to lose balance. So let's practice going to the right. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, one. Now, let's continue lifting our right heel and left toe, right, toe, left heel, right heel, left toe. Now, let me show you from the back. So from the initial position, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and Now, what we're going to do is to travel to the left. You remember that in the B step, we lift our toe and then we lift our right heel like this. And now we have to step, and now we have to lift the left heel at the same time that we lift our right toe, we step on the floor, then lift the left toe and the right heel like this, then lift the left heel and the right toe like this, and we keep on going. Let me show you from the back. So starting in our initial position, we're going to go to the left. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and so now we're going to practice to go to the right and to the left together. So we're going to do middle tempo, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and to the left, three, and four. And now, let me show you from the back, we are going to start to the right, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, to the left, three, four, And now, let's do it to the right and to the left, but at tempo. We can do it. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, and from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, one and two and three, and four and 30. The W-Step: H. We are going now to continue with the W step. So you can see that I left on the floor the transition position with my tape. You can do this as well. As I told you before, it's not necessary to do it. I just felt it was going to be easier for you to understand it visually. So that's why I left that position. So first, let me show you how it looks slowly. Now let me show you faster. So the technique of this move, I believe it is pretty simple. In contrast with the step, that was a lot, right. The good thing in this move is that both feet are doing the same, so that is really helpful. So let's see what we have to do. Yeah. We start in this transition position that you already know this transition position of the carrying shape. And then what we have to do is to lift our toes like this standing on our heels. Yeah. So we are pivoting with the heels. You already know this pivot. Yeah. You know it. From the B step. Let's practice. Yeah. So, you know, that pivot. The only thing that now is happening with both feet at the same time, yeah. Both feet will do that, that move. I feel that the W step is a great move to do it at the end of a choreo or freestyling. Or in other parts of the song, when you hear a bit. Yes, when you hear when the song is like naa and suddenly boom and then nanna boom. So if you perform the W step on that bit, it will look more extraordinary. It will look like a surprise for the public. So I think it's a fantastic move. It's quite easy to do once you understand it, and it really looks great because it's like, it gives you this kind of momentum that in a performance is really, really good. So, I believe that once you know this move, you will use it a lot. Because sometimes when you're creating a choreo, you're like, Oh, how do I end my choreo, right? It's like, I don't want to end the choreo in a running man because it looks quite boring, right? I mean, the running man is great, but to end the choreo is like, weird. But with the W step, it's like you give finish to your performance. So it's great when you start to use it. I think that the mechanics of this move are quite simple. It starts in the transition position, and you just open your feet. So not very complex, right. But I feel that the hardest part of this move is to be able to have that balance in your heels. Yeah. And apart from the balance, to be able to open your feet as wider as you can. You will see that some shuffle dancers are really opening their feet like almost 90 degrees like this, which, of course, that depends on how long they have been shuffling, the flexibility of their legs. So, you know, each body is different. And when you're starting when, well, you have to start to get that dynamics that we were talking about. Yes, these dynamics of your feet to acquire that muscle memory. Once you get it, you will be able to start to open your feet wider. Try at least to reach the diagonals, at least to do this. Because if you don't open your feet, if you just do this, it's almost like you're doing nothing. Yeah, it's like it's almost like you're standing in the transition position. So try at least to reach the diagonalsis. And the more you practice, the wider that you can get. So as I show you at the beginning, we can perform this move with just a move, just like this, or we can perform it with a jump. So I feel that when you have just to do the mod, you have to it's really harder because you have to use more the strength of your legs to be able to do this. And when you're doing the jump, it's like the jump really help you to perform. Especially when you're using these shoes. They are great because they have a lot of bounds. So it's really like no. If you're using a very flat shoe, probably will be a little bit harder or you will feel more the tension in your heels. So, well, you already know what I think about these shoes. So yeah, just use whatever feels comfortable for you. So I think it's great at the beginning to practice without the jump. I mean, you can practice both, but really to practice without the jump will help you a lot to get that flexibility in your feet and in your legs. So when we do it with a jump, what we are doing actually is a micro bounce. Yeah, you really know this concept of micro bounce we've been talking about. So it's a really, really little jump. It's not that I'm really jumping. It's just a little jump, yeah? If you jump a lot, like, it will be hard for you to get back to the initial position to do the rebound, yeah, you will get like stack. So just a little jump, yeah. We'll have a special lesson that I will talk about the arms. But I feel that if you start including your arms right now for this particular move will be actually easier for you because your arms will help you with the balance. So right now, what you can do just the same that you're doing with your legs, open your arms like that. So quite simple. There are other things that you can do with your arms for this move. You can open them pointing the floor. You can open them like this, different different things. But for now, just practice doing that. And remember, you have to do this fast. It's one, one, one, one. Yes, it's not one and for your arms, then we will get deeper with arms. But really, try to add power to your arms to them. Tatum Tatum. Yeah, tat um. It's not like ta tum. Try not the arms to look weak because that won't look good. When we start to practice this move without the jump like this, I recommend to have them here, yeah. Because it will help you with the balance. So have that into account when we start to practice. So remember everything that we talk about the transition position, when your feet are facing inwards, you have to have your knees relax. Yes, you have to bend your knees. And the moment that we are going to open our feet, you have to extend your legs. So regarding the technique, you will see that in this move, as in many other shuffle moves, we have two positions. One is the initial position or the transition position, and the second one is the moment that we open our feet. Yeah. So also, we will count the when we are in the transition position. Then when we open our arms will be the one or the count, and then we will go back to and then two or as many times that we do it. In this move, the good thing is that the chew feet are doing the same all the time. So we don't have to divide our brain into chew, like we did with the B step that was like, Wow, whoa, whoa, Wawa. Was a lot. No, this one is pretty easy, right? It's just doing the same with both feet. So from the transition position where we are facing inwards, we go outwards. And then we come back to the transition position. So inwards, awards in out in out. So quite simple, quite simple regarding to that. I believe that for this move, you will use a lot your calves. So yeah, then you can do some stretching of your calves as well. So now, let's practice first without the jump, doing the regular move. And we're going to go slowly, yes. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. When I'm in the transition position, I'm like, really doing like this little bit exaggerated. You won't do that when you're dancing. But right now as we are doing it slowly, it will help you, so as not to lose balance and to have that kind of momentum. So let me show you from the back. Practice with me, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now we will do it medium speed, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now we go from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now we will do it faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five and six and seven and eight. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now let's practice with the champ. And now, yes, you can add your arms to the sky. Yeah, so we do the little champ rumor like that. So we will do chew from the front and chew from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and five, six, seven, eight, and and now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and five, six, seven, eight, and 31. Spins: Running Man Spin: Let's move on to spins. I think spins look really cool in shuffle. So it's great to start to add them to your shuffle. The first spin that we're going to see is the running man spin. So you will see it's quite simple because it's just doing a running man to the size. Yeah. Now we will go in detail. I want you to give you some recommendations regarding to spins. So like in any spin that we are going to do, we need to be conscious to keep our weight in the center. And that is important to keep ourselves in balance, to stay in center and not to fall because one of the most complicated things to do spins correctly is to lose balance, which is quite common. So for that, what will help us is to work in our core area. So doing as, doing plunges, doing any kind of exercise that help us to build some strength in that area. So let me first show you the move. So I'm going to show it slowly and then I'm going to show it faster. So you can see that I'm actually staying at the same spot, and I'm just moving with the running man to the sides. Actually, I'm working here with the diagonals. So what I'm actually doing, I'm doing one runningmn per diagonal, and then I finish with two runnimans facing the front. Let's go in detail with this. So remember that when we were practicing the regular runningmn, we were practicing it first facing the front. Like this, I show you also from your side. But it was just the same. For me, it was my front, yes. But we saw a variation of the running man that was to do the running man facing the diagonal. Yeah. So it was the same idea that instead of facing to the front to you, I was facing the diagonal like this. So this is one diagonal. I can work with the other or I can do the same to the diagonals that I have on my back like this. Or the other. So now, when we are doing the spin, what we are actually going to do is instead of doing I just did like four running months, like one to the right, one to the left, one to the right, one to the left, and then move to the other diagonal. Now I'm just going to do one. So let me show you since the beginning so you can understand it correctly. So I'm starting in the center position, nothing special. And I'm going to start doing one running man with my right leg to the first diagonal. So remember, I always start with the running man in the. So in the parch position, I'm going to do parch position with my right leg, one will be one running man to the first diagonal. Now that I want to do my second running man with my left leg, I'm going to face the other diagonal like this. So I'm going first to parch position, and and then I'm going to do chew with my left leg. Now I'm going back to perch, but facing the other diagona like this. That will be my third step. And now I'm going to do the fourth step to the other diagonal with my left leg like that. Now I'm going back to center. So again, perch position. And now, fifth step will be with my right leg, and then sixth step will be with my left leg. And then I can I can come back to the center position or do another step wherever I want to do. Now we're going to practice it at slow speed, middle tempo, and regular speed. So starting from the front, I'm going to start with my right leg. So let's start five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six. Now let's do it from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six. Now let's do it middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six. Let's do it from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six. And now let's do it at a squid. Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six. Now from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six. First, I wanted to mention that. I just did the run man spin going clockwise. Yeah. So I started in the diagonal, moved to the one in the bag, the other one in the back, and then the other in the front and then finishing at the front. But I can do the same counter clockwise. So the same idea. I will start with my right leg doing a runman to the first diagonal. Like this, and then moving to the diagonal on the back with my left leg. So first, going to perch, then doing the running man, back to perch, doing the other run man with my right leg, back to perch, fourth, running man to the other diagonal, and then back to perch, fifth and sixth. Right. So the exact same idea, I just did it canter clockwise. And you can see that I always started with my right leg. Remember I told you I'm right leg dominant, but you can start with your left foot if you are left foot dominant or if you just want to start with your left leg because let's say you are coming from another move, and now you have your left leg free. Then we will talk later when we talk about transitions and how to combine the moves, but don't worry about that right now. Just wanted to practice with you how it would be to start with my left leg. So let's do the same. First, let's start clockwise, and then we are going to do canter clockwise. So same idea. First running man with my left leg, coming to perch, first diagonal perch, second running man with my right leg. Third running mar with my left leg, perch, fourth, running man, perch, and then fifth and sixth. So same, same idea. Or I can do it counter clockwise. So it will be the same but started in that diagonal so the center position. Now I'm going to perch one, perch, two, perch third. Perch, four, perch, five, perch, six. One last thing that I wanted to share with you is that we can do one running man speed clockwise and another run man speed counter clockwise. So the idea will be the following. I'm going to start with my right leg going 12, three, four, five, remember that we were doing another running man with the left leg pointing to the front. Now my six step will be the running man with the left leg but back to the diagonal. So I'm going perch six, now repeating everything to the other side. So my seven step will be facing that dia gonna perch eight step, facing the other diagona now I'm going to start counting again from one. So perch one, perch two. Perch three. And then I will continue with something else. Yeah. So the idea is that I'm doing like this and coming back. So this is good to practice. This spin is also good if you want to add it to your shuffle. So I think it's a cool thing, but it will help you a lot to do it. So you can practice more the spin. So let's practice one time at middle tempo, doing this clockwise, and then counter clockwise. Starting with my right leg. So five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three. Let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three. 32. Shaper Running Man Spin: Now, moving on to the shaper running man spin. So as the name says, it's actually the same spin that we were practicing, but now with the shaper runningmn. So let's remember how was the shaper runnimn. So remember that in the regular runningmn, our feet look like this was stepping on the floor and in the shaper runningmnO feet wasn't like this. Yes, we were lifting our toe. So let me show you from the side, regular running man. Shaper runimum. So let me show you first, slow and then faster. So the technique and the mechanics of this move will be the same. Yes. I'm also going to face the diagonals. But instead of landing my feet like this, I'm going to land with my feet like that. Yeah. So the same idea. So let's practice first slowly so you can understand it with this shaper running man. And then we are going to practice it middle tempo and fast. So I'm going to start with the first diagonal with my right leg and in shaper, perch. One, now to the back diagonal, perch, two, now, perch three, perch, four, perch, five, perch six. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six. Now let's practice middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six. And now we're going to do it fast. So five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six. 33. Running Man Spin with Traveling: We're going to move on to the traveling running man spin or running man spin with traveling, whatever you want to call it. So first, I want to show you the move slowly and then faster. So what we're going to do, we are also going to use the running man to do a spin. But while in the regular running man spin, we were moving or we were staying at the spot that we were, and we are just moving around like a clock. Now, we are going to travel. We're going to cover space. So we're going to move to the sides. So this spin is going to consist in three steps or three little moves. So let me explain each of them. So first, we're going to start in the central position, the neutral position. And what we're going to do, starting with our right leg, we're going to do a running man to this diagonal to the right diagonal. So what I'm going to do and parch position, and then one is going to be my running man with my right leg to the right diagonal. Now I'm going to do a spin with my left leg like this. And I'm going to step with my two feet together in again neutral position. So now I'm facing my left side. I'm looking at the front, but this was my left side. And now I'm going to continue to spin, again, facing my right diagonal, again with my right leg. And three. So there are two running mans with the right leg to the diagonal, and the middle step is going to be this step where I'm standing with my feet together. As I talked before with the spins and actually with all of the shuffle moves, particularly for spins, it's important to stay on balance, yes, because if you're not on balance when you're doing the spin, you will fall. Yes, you will fall anywhere. Yes. So it's important to keep your weight in the center. Again, remember to engage those ves, your yes. That will give you the stability that you need when you are performing the spin. Actually, this spin will look good if you perform it fast. Yes. If you do it slowly, it will look like three separate steps or three separate moves. But when you do it faster, is when you're going to see really a spin that you are really spinning on the floor. So some important things to have into account. So let's get into detail of what is happening at each sag move. So first, we said, we start with a running man facing the right diagonal. This one quite simple. You already know this move. Then when we are going to spin with our left leg, see that I'm bringing my left leg like this, like in 90 degrees. For me, if I bring it in 90 degrees when I have to spin, Lam, it will be easier in the way that I kind of have that impulse. But of course, you can bring your leg like this in the Flora and you can also spin. I mean, this also has to do with style. For me, it looks quite cooler to bring the leg like this because it's related more to the shuffle style, but you can, of course, also spin like this, yeah. But for me, bringing the leg also help you with the balance with that thing of the impulse that I told you before. So you can do it like this like I'm doing it if you think that it help you as well. That is the first part of this turn, yes. So remember, bring in your left leg and then your stepping on the floor with your two feet together, let me show you from the front, my feet looks like this. Yeah. So this is a little bit smaller than the size of my hips. Yes, they are really, really together. This is important also related to the balance related to stability. So it's important to have your feet together. And see that when I'm doing the turn and when I'm stepping, I'm actually doing a little jump. Yeah. I'm doing a little jump. So again, I'm going to bend those knees. And why I'm doing a little jump because remember this is a spin. Everything happens together. So remember that after this second step, I have to do a runningmn to the diagonal. And again, to have that impulse, I need to jump and do the runnimn, all together. So it's jump and runimn. All is happening at the same time. It's not that I step here and then, Okay, I'm going to do a runman and I have to know. Like, with the little jump that I just did, that will give me the impulse to go to do the third step, the runman to the diagonal, like that. So important to have that into account. So now let's practice first slowly, middle tempo, and then add a speed. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now let's go middle tempo, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now let's do it at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, one and two, and three. Five, six, seven, eight. Regarding your arms, I don't want to get into too much detail right now because I feel like doing a spin and particularly this spin that we are traveling, and we have to concentrate in having this stability, having balance, performing the spin correctly. Probably already, all the things that we've been talking about, there are quite a few things to have into account. So I don't want you to have a lot of information and having to think, Oh, now, what I do with my arms and my legs? And if you feel that it's a lot, that's fine. Just concentrate in your legs. For now, you know, we are going to have a special lesson on arms that we will get into detail. So I recommend that you can practice your arms later with your spins. But just wanted to mention right now, in case you feel it helps you, you can start to add them right now. But if not, as I said, don't worry. Yeah, we will do this later. So the only thing that I want to mention is that when you're doing, you remember you start doing a runimn to the diagonal, and then when you are doing the second move that you step with your feet together on the floor, what you can do is to have your arms like this, yeah. In case that you feel this help you with stability. So just like this and then third step the runnimn. Yeah. So we can practice with the arms. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great. So not that hard. But again, do as you wish if you feel that these arms help you. If not, we will see them later. We will see everything together in the arms lesson. And one last thing, as you probably know by now, with every shuffle move, with every spin, we can do this to the right, and we can do it, of course, to the left. So the technique, the dynamics are actually the same starting to the left hand side. And, of course, if we are starting to the left, we are going to turn counter clockwise. The idea will be that starting in this natural position, facing the front, I'm going to start with a running man to the diagonal with my left leg. Then I'm going to spin with my right leg this time. To, now I'm facing what it was my right hand side. Now it's going to be my front. And then I have to continue spinning to the diagonal on my left with my left leg. Three. So just the same doing the spin to the left. So let's practice slowly, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great, Let's practice two middle speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, let's do it at tempo. Five, six, seven, eight. One and two, and three. Five, six, seven, eight. 34. Little Jumps: H now, let me introduce you to another spin that I like to call this spin little jumps because we're actually going to do little jumps. So I believe this spin is not that complicated because we're actually always doing the same, repeating it four times. So if you understand the position of the feed and what we have to do, then the only thing that can be more challenging is reaching that speed that we need, but if not, it's quite simple. So regarding the technique, you will see that we're going to start with our feet together like this, this central or neutral position. I want to mention that this is the exact same position that we did in the step two of the traveling running man spin. Yeah, that I was facing your side, but it's the same position and the exact same distance of your feet. I'm not standing at the size of my hips, but I'm standing quite with my feet closer to each other. Yes. So this is going to help me with stability. Yeah. And again, every time that I'm performing the little jump, I'm also bending my knees. Regarding your feet, you will be standing on the boll of your feet like this. Same position as what? The Charleston, the Cris Cross. Yeah. So the same position standing on the bowl of our feet. Because the problem is that if we step with our whole foot, it will take us a lot of effort to do every jump. Leh, my gosh. Like, I'm really stuck on the floor, yeah. So being at the bowl of my feet, I'm always ready to jump and do the next step. Yeah. So that is the same happening with other shuffle moves. Also, see that when we are performing this move slowly, it's going to also take us more effort because, like, I have to jump and then jump again. Whereas if I do it faster, it's like every little jump help me to get that momentum for the next movement, yes, for the next jump. So actually, if you perform this spin faster, it's going to be easier. We're going to start this spin. In this neutral position, facing forward, facing your front. So why we're going to start here? Because imagine that let's say you are doing a runiman or two runimans, one runiman with your right leg and one with your left leg, and then you want to perform this spin. Well, you're here, right? So you need to do a little jump to get your feet together. Yeah, that's why we are performing this little jump at the beginning, and that will be our first move, our first step of this spin. Yeah. So first step, facing the front. Second step, I'm going to face my diagonal, yes, my right diagonal from my back. So like this. Two. And then my third step is going to be my diagonal, but from the front. Three, and the fourth step is going to be my front. Again, back to front. I have the fourth step. Something that I want to mention is to see that I'm going to turn clockwise, going to my right. Then, of course, we are also going to do it counter clockwise, like in every shuffle move, but I will explain that later. So for now, just we are turning to our right. Something important, as I mentioned in the other spins, important to have the weight of your body in your center. Again, press those aves that you've been working on them to keep yourself in balance to have this stability, yes. So important that so as not to fall while you are doing the spin. Another thing, I don't want to get too much talking about arms. Right now, as I mentioned before, we are going to have a special lesson on arms. But in case if you feel that helps you, you can put your arms like here, it helps you with stability, but if not, don't worry. Yes. And then we are going to practice more the arms together with our feet. So let me show you again, slowly. So, one, two, three, four. In this move, every time that I'm jumping will be the one. One is when I step on the floor. Yeah, the same with every little jump that I'm doing. As I mentioned before, you can also do this spin counter clockwise, so it will be just the same facing your left hand side. So I'm going to start with a jump facing the front. One, then I'm going to go to my diagonal bat from my left. Two, and then from the front, and three. And then again, last step to the front will be my fourth. Yeah. So again, going to the left counter clockwise, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. So let's practice at three speeds. So we're going to start slowly. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now at middle tempo, five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, three, four. Now, from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, three, four. Now, let's do it at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. 35. Glides: Regular Glide to the Sides: Let's carry on with glides. So first, I'm going to show you the move slowly and faster, and then we will get deep into the technique. So you can see that I change my shoes because the Air Max 97, they are not the best for glides unless they are really worn out, and my pair is very brand new. So I move to my Adidas forum bold. This shoes, you can see that they have quite a flat sole. So they are quite good for glides. These ones are a little bit used, not super used, but they are okay. I mean, the more that you wear them, the better that they will be for glides. Yeah, or, as I mentioned at the beginning, when I was reviewing shoes, you can also wear a pair of bans or any other shoe that has flat soles. But for glides, yes, your shoes will matter, and not only your shoes, also the floor in which you are dancing. So my floor is quite good. So any floor that is kind of a wooden floor, even this one is not real good, but it imitates a wooden floor. So the regular dance floor that you will find in a dance studio will be the best for glides. But of course, we're dancing wherever we can. So probably the same as myself. I was dancing in my terrace, so the floor was irregular. So it doesn't matter. Like, actually, that will be a great challenge. So it's good. But but really an irregular floor, it will be harder for you to glide. So try to find at least a plain floor, yes, anywhere you are or at home. So it will better for you to glide at least at the beginning, yes. Then when you get more experience, you can do this almost anywhere. But yeah, I wanted to mention what is going to make this easier for you. So let's start with the regular glide to the sides. We will see different styles of glides. There are a lot of different glides in the shuffle style. So that's why it's important to have, again, to know really, really well how to do the regular ones. So once you understand the techniques, the mechanics of this move, then you will be able to grow in your journey and and do more complicated glides. So as any other shuffle move, at the beginning, it could look a little bit complex, but the more you do it, the more you practice, the better that it will look at first, for me to get the glides took me some time. So just don't worry about it. Remember, practice, practice, practice until one day, I promise you that it will be like, Oh, a glide. That's great. But yeah, it probably takes a little bit of time until you are like, just doing the glide, like you're walking, you know. But yeah, don't get discouraged about it. Just focus in your process as we talked before. So in this glide that I'm showing you, we are going to move in a straight line. My line, you can see it's horizontal. Then we're going to see that we're going to move vertically. So foot this one. I'm actually starting in, let's say, point A on my left, and I'm gliding my foot to point B on my right. Yeah. So the food that I'm gliding is my right foot. So some things to have into consideration is that to make a glide to look better, we have to really try to glide the food as closer to the floor as we can, yeah. So that's when it comes to shoes and the floor that you're dancing to, yeah. So you can see in my floor, it's quite easy to glide. If I'm dancing in my gym that the floor is very sticky, I will be like, my foot will be really, really stuck in the floor. It's so hard, especially on wet days. Like, the floor there is very, very sticky. So just get away from sticky floors. So yeah, as I was saying, try to really, really glide and move your feet as closer to the ground that you can. Let me show you from the back. I'm just showing you what the right foot is doing. So like that, so, of course, you can see that I'm lifting a little bit my heel. If I'm stepping with my whole foot, well, it will be harder. Definitely will be harder. So you are lifting a little bit. Like, really, this is not the lift from the running man no, it's not there. It's really as closer to the floor as you can be, like, the closer that you can be, the better. So, see that? Yeah, it will be. It will be like for the other person that is looking, it looks like almost I'm gliding with my whole foot. But no, yeah, I'm lifting a little bit my heel. And again, where the weight of my feet is going to be is going to be on this part of the foot. Yeah. So the ball of my feet, yeah. Again, I will be standing not like this, but really focusing on having the weight on that part. That is the weight of your right foot. So don't get confused with the weight of your body because no, the weight of your body in a glide should be center. So you're going to start with the weight on the center, yeah. See that I'm stepping and my weight is centered. And then I glide. And then when I finish, I leaning a little bit to decide that I'm gliding. Yeah? A little bit. Yeah, why I'm saying a little bit because it's not that you're doing this. No, you will fall if you lean too much. Yeah, it's just a little bit. Yeah, because you're finishing there. Yeah. So you lean a little bit. You're actually transferring your weight. Yeah. From here, you transfer your weight to here. Yeah. So that's the idea of a glide to transfer your weight. So think of a glide as three steps. Yeah. So first, we are standing here. Then we will see how we can do a glide from a running man. But first, just think that you're standing here. So first, I'm going to step on the floor or drop foot my right foot to the floor like this. Yeah. Then I will lift my left foot and then place it on the back somewhere here, more or less in the middle. And then third step, I'm going to glide, with my right foot. So you can see that my right foot is the foot that glides, and my left foot is my anchor point. So what is really, really important as the right foot is moving and transferring the weight, your anchor point, your left foot should be really, really stable. So see that my foot is not standing like this. No, it's like this. Yeah, standing again on the ball of my feet. You will see that some shuffle dancers are actually standing like this with the toe, like ballerina. You can do that when you feel you have this kind of stability. But remember, if you stand like this, like when you glide, like I have to do like this and really really have a lot of support in that toe, yes. So again, here, the shoes that you're wearing are very, very important. This is quite a good shoe because the point of the shoe is really thick. So these shoes are quite good to stand on your toes. They are good. But if you're using a very soft shoe, that won't be good. I mean, you can hurt your toes, so you don't want that. Actually, even using the right shoes, if you do this a lot, you can start to feel a little bit not so comfortable on your toes, yeah. And the most important thing is that remember that that back foot is the one that is going to give you stability. So if you don't feel so comfortable to be like here, I recommend to stand like this. I tend to do my glides like this, like, sometimes I do with my toe, depending, depending on what I want at that exact moment. But yeah, definitely, it's harder with your toes, yeah. And more tiring. So, so, yeah. So just practice for now. Placing your feet like this. And yeah, in your back foot, yeah, try to lift your heel the more that you can. Like, imagine that you're using high heel shoes. Yes. So imagine how will your feet look if you're using a really, really high heel shoe like that, yeah. So you have that idea in your mind to think of putting your foot in that position. Yeah. That is the position. This position is also not the common position to place your foot, right? So it can be a little bit uncomfortable if you're practicing a lot of the glide. So again, when you feel tired, just relax a little bit, chill, and then come back a few hours later or on the next day or whenever you can. It takes some time to get used to that position. But for here, you remember in the warm up that we did this exercise, we're doing this. That exercise is great to have that flexibility because actually what it will help you is also to have those muscles over there, to have them really, really strong, that will help you a lot with stability. Yeah. So any kind of exercise that you can do for your ankle stability, that will also help a lot. So just wanted to mention some more things that you can add to your practice. So I want to mention that the back foot should stay in that position for the whole glide. Yeah, so it will be step, step, glide. I stay there. And then from there, you decide what you can do. But think on holding your feet for the duration of your glide. Yeah. You can, of course, do like this, and then yes, your head come back to the floor. But think of holding that feet in that position for the whole duration of your glide until you are moving with the next move. Going to have a special lesson on how to combine the moves. So why am saying you this because for now, I want you to focus when doing the glide and having that back foot like this. But later on, you will see that, for example, if after the glide, you want to do a running man, will have to lower your foot to be able to continue the move. So I just did a left leg running man. So as we are going to see that in that special lesson, I want you to focus now in holding that feet like that for the whole time so you can practice and gain strength on your feet. And then we will practice how to lower your feet to do the running man. See that the duration of the glide could be one and two and three, like two times, yeah. Or the glide could last only one time like this one and two. So you have to be really fast. So it could happen to you if you do the glide really fast that probably you won't be able to keep your food so close to the floor. Yes. Probably you will lift a little bit more your heel, yeah. So if you're doing it slowly, you can control more like that. But if you're doing it faster, probably you have to lift more your heel. Yeah, that is common. Yeah, you will see many shuffle dancers that they are lifting more the heel, so it's not bad. Just it's different ways to perform the same move. And yes, as I mentioned in one of the videos, like, first we have to learn proper technique, and then we can changes a little bit when we are performing a move faster, yeah. Sometimes, you will see this happens in every kind of dance. When you're performing a move faster, you probably won't be able to execute the technique so proper as if you're doing it slowly, yeah, you are going to do some slightly changes, yeah. And that doesn't mean that you're doing the technique wrong, yeah, it's just regarding to what you're prioritizing that in this case, is the speed. So I want to mention that in the glide, your one will be the moment that you step with your right foot, then the will be the moment that you step with your back foot. And then the two will be the moment that you glide. Remember that if you're doing the glide slowly, then it will be one and two and three. Yes. So you will take two counts to do the glide. Yeah. So different ways. We're going to do it slowly for now to be able to practice. And then we can also try it faster. So let's start, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Well, I did quite slowly. So from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So again, quite hard to do it slowly, yeah, for the thing off the balance. So now let's try middle tempo. It will be easier. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now let's do it at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and Now, let's practice doing the glide at one count, yeah. So instead of doing like this, we're going to do like this, yeah. So do it only one count when we glide. So let's practice at middle temp. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. So now let's practice at a speed, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. So I want to mention that the first step is like, I'm dropping my foot like that. Yeah. So I'm here and I'm crossing my foot and I'm dropping it. So then I step with my back foot, and then I glide. Yeah. So thinking that idea of dropping the foot and then glide. One more time. And it's the same with the left foot. Something that I want to mention, and at this moment, I'm sure you will be, oh, yes, left foot, right? Yes. So as in any shuffle moves, don't forget that you can also do the same with your left foot. Yeah. Again, if you're right foot dominant, maybe it's easier for you to start your glide with the right. But remember, it will be really, really good for your body and your brain to practice everything with your left foot. So again, same technique. The only difference is that now we will be stepping to the front with my left foot. And the right foot is the one that is going to be my anchor point, so I have to glide the left foot. So now my table foot is going to be my right foot. Yeah. So great. So let's practice this. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great. Again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Quite hard to do it slowly. Don't worry. Let's sit from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great. Now let's practice at middle tempo with your left foot. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now, let's practice at a speed with our left foot. So five, six, seven, eight, and. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. So we're going to talk later in the lesson on how to combine moves, how to combine the running man with the glide. Yeah. So you will be able how to perform the two moves together. So we'll cover that later. 36. Regular Glide to the Back: Now we will continue with the regular glide to the back. So we're going to do the same regular glide that we've been doing. But now the difference is that we're not going to glide on a horizontal line, but we're going to glide on a vertical line. Yeah. So if I'm standing here facing you, I will be gliding to the back. So first, let me show you the glide slowly and then faster, and then we will get through the technique. So we've been gliding on a horizontal line. I'm going to repeat the glide. Yeah. You already know that glide. So now the idea is that we're going to do the same. But as I mentioned, we're going to glide backwards. So same idea. Remember, in our glide to the sides or our horizontal glide, we just drop foot, our right foot. Then we step with our left foot on the back. That was our anchor point, and then we glide with the right foot, transferring the weight from one side to the other. That was our glide to the sides. Now, thinking on the same idea of transferring the weight, we are going first to step or drop our right foot on the front. Then we are going to step with our back foot, in this case, the left foot, and I'm going to glide to the back, transfer my weight to the back. Note about transferring weight. So as we talk about in all these shuffle moves, our weight should always be in our center. Yeah. So no matter if I'm gliding, like what I just did, my weight is always in the center of my body. What I'm doing when I'm gliding, I'm transferring the weight of my feet. Why? Pay attention. So before my weight was in my right foot, yes, at the front. And now my with is going to be on my back foot. It's still the right foot, but the wave is now at the back, yeah, not at the front when I started, but at the back. Yeah, I transfer the weight. It's like I'm carrying something from here to there. But always the wth of my body is in the center. I'm going to show you from the side. It's not that I did this. And then I'm doing this. Now, you know, I will fall. I always have the weight of my body in the center. I'm always in balance. Yeah, I'm always stable. And I just drop my foot from there to here, yeah. So yeah, I'm transferring the weight. I just wanted that to be clear because I know it could be confusing because it seems like we are talking about weight and everything, but it's not the same, yeah. So hopefully, it's clear now. So let's focus in the technique now. I'm going to show you from the side. See, it's the same. Like, I'm also at my front that now will be your side, but I feel that you will be able to see the move better. I'm also going to show you from the front and from the back, so don't worry. So I'm going to start with my right foot as we always do. So I'm going from the natal position, central position. I'm just going to drop my foot to the front. And then I'm going to place or step with my left foot on the back like that, and I'm just going to glide my right foot. Yeah. So remember a few things that we mentioned before. So with the feet that is gliding, remember that I'm trying to Mow the feed as closer from the floor as possible. Of course, I will have to lift a little bit, my heel a little bit. Yeah, a little bit, because if not, if it's stuck on the floor, like, that will be so complicated, right? So I'm lifting a little bit, but really, it has to be a little that you can, yeah. So the closer to the floor, the better the glide will look because it gives this idea that you're actually, you know, gliding. If not, if you do this, like, it won't look as cool. But remember, also, as we talked before, if you glide really fast, then you won't be able to keep your foot so close to the floor because it takes more time. Remember that it takes two counts to glide slowly, yeah? That's why we are taking two counts. If we glide in one count, it will be just like that, yeah. Second thing that we have already talked before the foot, my anchor point, it could be like this, or it could be like this. I could stand on my toe. Again, that depends on how comfortable you feel standing on your toe. I'm going to show you doing the same glide, standing on my toe, so it will be like that. So, see how it looks. So definitely I need to have a lot of stability here because if this food is not stable, let me show you what happened. Like, I won't be able to glide. Yes, I will fall to one side, or, yeah, it will be m a disaster. So if you don't feel so comfortable of standing on your toe, just remember, try to lift as much as you can, your left heel, in this case, your anchor point. And that would be fun, yeah. But it's important for you to feel really comfortable and stable on this position, yeah, because this is the foot that is going to do a lot of support because remember you're transferring the weight. You're transferring the weight from here. To there. So this foot really needs to be stable. Yes, your foot and your leg, of course, yeah. It's not the foot alone. It's the foot and the leg. Remember to think on that. Yeah, because maybe you're to focus on what the right foot is doing and you're like, Oh, so you fall apart. So first, we're going to practice with the right foot. I'm going to show you on every side, and then we're going to do the same with the left foot as we always do in every shuffle move. So, great. Let's start. So right foot goes to the front. I place my left foot, and then I'm just gliding my foot like that. Yeah. So remember that I have the one when I step my front foot, then the when I step with my back foot, and then two and three. Because I'm taking two counts to do the glide. Yeah. So one and two, and three. I'm pushing with my hands like that. Jeff, I think it helps you also to remember what you need to do with your body, but you don't have to push. Like, you can just slide like this. But I think it helps you with stability as well. So you can add your arms if it helps you as well. So great. Let me show you from the front. So step with my front foot with my back foot, and then I'm gliding. I don't have so much space here. But let me show you from the back. So step with my right foot, then my left foot, and then I'm gliding. Right. The same idea, the same idea that instead of doing it horizontal, I'm just doing this in a vertical line. So remember also this idea that even I'm just changing, like showing you from the front, from the side, from the back so you can see it better. Remember also to do that when you're dancing. Let's say I'm doing the running man and then I'm doing a glide. Well, you don't always have to do that. Yeah, remember that you can also, as you can move with the running man, as we already saw, you can also move with the glide. And that will make also your shuffle to look better because it's not that you're always dancing on the front. No, you're dancing to the side. You can also dance from the back. For a little bit, you don't want really to give your back to the public, but you can for a short period of time, yeah, because that would also, you know, like, you're dancing, you're moving, and then you can just slide and then come back to the front. So do something like this. Like, for example, you are doing a running spin, so That could be something cool. Yes, and then you turn yourself to the front. Yeah. We are going to see how to combine glides and the running man in the upcoming lesson. So check that one. So for now, just focus in the glide in the technique, yeah, so you can do the glide properly, and then you will be able how to do what I just did to go from the running man to the glide. Ready to practice. Let's count. I'm going to start from the side. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now I'm going to show you from the front, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three. Now, let's go. Middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the front, five, six, seven, eight, and Now let's go at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Five, six, seven, eight, and five, six, seven, eight, and Now, we're going to do the same glide, but starting with the left foot. So the technique, everything is just the same, that now, the feet that is going to step on the front is going to be the left foot. Then my right foot will be my anchor point. And then I'm going to glide with the left foot. It could be that this time, starting with the left foot is going to be easier because the foot or the leg that is going to do all the work now is going to be my right leg. Yes. The leg that is going to support me when the left foot is gliding, is going to be the right one. And it could happen to you as it happened to me that definitely my right leg is stronger than my left leg, which is a little bit weaker. I've been working. In the strength of my leg, but still it's work in progress. So well, when I'm standing with my right leg, I find it it's definitely easier, whereas when I'm standing with my left leg, I have to really concentrate in keeping this very, very strong there on the floor, yeah. So try it. It could be that you prefer gliding with your left leg. But as I always mentioned, and as we talked before, Remember, try to exchange feet, try to exchange legs. Not always do with one leg, all the moves because then your body will be on one side very strong and the other side quite weak. So yeah, try to challenge yourself. I know it's challenging to do a move with the part of the body that is not the one that feels more comfortable, but yeah, we have to leave our comfort zone. We have to really try to expand ourselves. Yeah, not only our bodies, but our mind. This is teamwork, so everything is connected. So I recommend to keep trying. Yes, don't give up. So let me show you with left foot from the front. So stepping with my left foot and then gliding with my left foot. And then from the side, left foot, and then gliding and out from the back. Stepping with my left foot and gliding. So let's practice middle tempo from every direction. So you can also practice with me and you will be able to see it better. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the front, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. 37. Shuffle Transitions: Basic Transition Positions: I've been talking about these transition positions every time we were doing the shuffle moves, but I want you to understand them properly. So on one side, you remember we have our perch position perch position for all the shuffle style moves. And on the other side, we have our inverted position, that is this one. For all the cutting shapes moves. Remember that every transition position Counts actually as an and it's not a count. It's an and it's in between the counts. So you remember it was and one and two. And I keep counting. The same with the cutting shapes transition position. So this will be the and one and so, for example, if I'm doing the Kris Cross. So I want you to take time to really dig in every of these transition positions because this is really the basics. This is part of the foundations. So to understand these transition positions properly, it will help you a lot to combine moves to be able to naturally know what you can do after each of the moves that you are performing. So first, let's focus in the perch position. Yeah, this transition position for the shuffle style moss. So let's focus how you can start to combine this mouse that you already know. So for example, let's say that you are doing the running man. So when running man with your right leg, what you're naturally going to do, come back to the perch position. And now what you can do is to do a T step with your left foot because you're already in this perch position, so you just need to T step back to perch, T step back to perch, and I can do now a running man, for example, with the left foot. So you can see, very easy, very natural. We are just doing all the most that you read know, but we are starting to combine them, to think them together. So again, starting in my perch position, one running I did one running man with my right leg. And I come back to perch with my left leg, and now I'm going to do one t step to the left with my left foot. One. So you already know the TS step. If you need to rehearse it, you can go back to the TS step lesson. Now we're just going to focus in combining them. Yeah. So I just did one T step. I'm coming back to perch. I can do another T step. Yeah, now coming back to perch. And then I'm doing a running Man bat with my left foot. It's already in the perch position. Super easy, right? Let's practice slowly. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now slowly from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now let's go middle tempo. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, let's do it fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. So this combining different moves will be a combo. We talk about what is a combo at the beginning in the intro, but we will do more combos in the upcoming lessons. So you can also pay attention to them. And with the same idea, you can do any of the shuffle style moves that you know, combining them with the same perch position. So for example, you can do, let me show you from the side. You can do a shape running in man And then what you can do, for example, a backstepRmember, for the backstep you also needed to come back to perch and then do the back step. Quite easy. Yeah. So let's practice doing the shape or running man with the backstep. So let's go. I'm going to show you from the back first. So shape a running man with right leg. Let me show you slowly. Shape a runnia with the right leg, coming back to perch and then backstep with the left leg. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Now from the front, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. From the side, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. So we're going to practice now at middle temp. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Now, let's do it fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Please don't worry if you cannot do it yet at the faster speeds, practice at the speed that you can for now. That's perfect. Yes. Remember, always respect your process. Each of us has a different learning process. So don't worry. Yes, you will get there to a point that you will dance super fast. But for now, the important things that you can do it, that you can transition from one move to the other, and that's the most important thing. Now, let's keep on practicing a running man with the T step rocking variation. So again, if you need to refresh those moves, go back to those lessons. But quite easy, we're going to start with a right leg running man. Coming back to perch. I remember the rocking was like doing three T steps, right? So I'm going to the T step to the back like this, stepping back, back to perch, T step to the front, back to perch, and I'm going to go to the diagonal, but I'm going to step with my heel. So we also practice the different placements of the foot. And then I'm going back to perch like this, and I'm going to do a running man with my left leg. Going a little bit to the diagonal like that. Chum Quasy, right? Let's do it together slowly. So starting with right leg, I'm going back to perch, T step to the back, T step to the front, T step to the diagonal, and then running man with left leg. Let me show you from the back. Five seats, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. And then, of course, I keep going and going, yeah. So let's do it at middle tempo now. Five, save, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. And now let's practice fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. So now you know with the same idea of using this perch position as your transition move from the running man to the step to the Ttep rocking to the back step or to do a shape or runningmn that has the same technique as the regular runningmn. So I can do also a diagonal runningmn and then, for example, I can do a T step, coming back to perch, T step. So you can see Diagonrunimn, TSTp quite easy. Yeah, it's the same idea with every move. So you can keep practicing and combining all these moves that you already know, yeah. You can do a shaper running man and then come back to perch and do a diagonal running man. Yes, the combinations are limitless. Then you can keep adding more and more. And this is how you build a freestyle. This is how you build a choreo. So remember that I mentioned this also in the intro, yes. The importance is that you can really feel comfortable moving from one move to the other. So that will give you a quit flexibility in your shuffle that will give you this comfort, this also confidence that you can dance for a while, yes. And that will make you feel amazing. So, practice, practice, practice. And now let's move to the other transition move that is this one that I like to call it the inverted B, you know, that our toes are facing inwards. So the same idea that we were doing, think on the same how you can combine the cutting shapes style moves. So for example, if you start in this position, from here, what you can do. You can do a step. Yeah, remember the step. If not, go back to the lesson. I go to a step, then I come back to the same transition position. I can do a W step. Quite easy. I'm in the same position. So let's practice that one. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And I'm going back to the center. Now, let me show you from the back. So I'm going to start again with my right leg to the right. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three. Now let's do it at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So now let's combine the Charleston with the crisscross. So what we can do, we can remember how was the Charleston that we were starting in the same transition position. I have to lift my foot, so I'm going to do a right foot Charleston. Then I'm going to lift my left foot to do a left foot Charleston. And then I want to continue with my crisscross. So remember how was the starting position at the crisscross. Again, what this. So I just did a little jump to go to the criss cross with my right leg. Facing to the front, and then I can, for example, come back to the same transition position. I remember do the same with my left leg. So I did like two criss cross. And then I can go back to that transition position. Again, super, super easy. Let me show you from the back. So remember, I start with my right leg doing one chal stone to the front, then left leg, another halle stone, and then I'm going to do two crisscross. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And four. Et's go now to middle tempo. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, let's practice this one fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, one and two, and three and four. So following the same idea, you can combine the different caring shapes moves that you know and keep practice 38. How to Combine Moves: So we have just seen how to easily combine moles using these two transition positions that you know, the shuffle style transition position and the carrying shapes transition position. But you might be wondering how to combine moves from the shuffle style and the carting shape style. Well, you will see that there are certain moves that kind of help you to transition from one style to the other. So one of these moves is the run man and the other is the T step because you will see that they are, of course, part from the shuffle style, but you can use them as a transition move. Why I'm telling you this? Let's say that you're doing a criss cross, yes? So you remember the Kris Cross. So you end up in your cutting shapes transition position, and you say, like, Oh, what I do next, right? I can do another cutting shape move but how about if I want to do a shuffle style like running man, for example, Well, I mean, you can do that. See, I ended in this that it will be my. So remember, I cannot go to the perch position because it will be again doing an, and it won't make sense in the rhythm of a song. Remember, a song goes one and two, and three and four. So no, I have to directly go to my one. So how would that be? Well, if I'm hearing the, I would have directly to land in the running man like this. So see what I did, I kind of skipped the perch position. So from here, I'm like, here. Let me show you from the back. So from here, I go directly to here. Yeah. So it's that I land directly. So let me show you slowly. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So you can see why the Running Man is a really lifesaver. It would actually look quite cool to do this landing. I do this a lot because as you know, the running man always look good when you are in a hurry that you don't know what I do next, and in the running man. And from there, you can go to the T step. You can do many running mans. You can do whatever you want. So really, the running man will always help you. So let's do it again slowly. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now let's practice middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now, let's do it fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And another transition move that is great is the T step. So, for example, what you can do, you can do a T step after a halston and remember that the halston was inside the carrying shape styles. So you remember the halston you are doing like this. And you are like, Okay, how do I do the T step? So from here, what you can do? You can like this to a perch position. So then C step to the right. Let me show you again. So you start doing two halston, one with the right leg, another with the left leg, and from here, you go to the perch position. Like this, and you go to do a T step. And then you can do whatever you want. You can, of course, do a running man as well. Yeah. Remember, the running man and the T step have the same perch position as the transition position. So you can do the Charleston come to perch and then do the runningmn. Of course, you can do that as well. But I just wanted to share also the T step as another transition move. Yeah. So let's do it now with the TSTp to practice. Also using the T step as a transition move. So remember we are talking about transition moves and no transition positions. No, different story. Yeah. Transition move is a move that you use to go from move number one to move number three. So you use Move number two as a transition move. So let's practice this idea of doing the aliston and then the T step. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. T step. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, let's practice middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And now let's do it fast. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, three. So you can do the other way around. So from the runningmn go to a crisscross. So what you can do, you did, let's say, your running mans with right leg and left leg. Now you have to do the. But instead of doing the perch position, you're going to go to the and from the cutting shapes moves that you remember was the inverted B. So from here, you're going to go directly to the transition position of the carrying shaped moves. And from here, you're going to do the criss cross. Let me show you again. You do your two running mount then from here, you go directly to the transition position of the caring shaped moves like this, and from here, you do your criss cross. Let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, let's do it again at the middle tempo. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, and three and four. So remember, I promise you how to link the glide with the running man. So you will see it's not complicated at all. So, for example, we are doing a runiman, yeah. So another one with the left leg. So two runimens right and left leg. And now I'm going to go to the perch position, and I'm going now to do the glide to the side. Yeah, so like this. So easy, not complicated. And after the glide, I can actually do unima with the left leg that is here. Lana Jeju So that would be actually a combo that I'm going to show you later. So let's practice this for now. So starting with a right leg running man, two running mans, and then I'm going to do a glide with my right leg. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, and three and four and five. Let me show you from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. So let's do it at middle tempo. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, four and five. Let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one, two, and three, and four and five. 39. Arms & Shoulders: The Basics: One of the things that I would have loved, you know, when I started to shuffle is to not only focus in my legs and my feet, but also in my arms and my shoulders. If we forget about the arms and the shoulders, we are actually forgetting the upper part of our body. So it's the half of our body. And you will see that when you start to add your arms, your upper body, your shuffle will look better. It's like your moves will take another dimension. So I'm really happy for you that you are incorporating them right now at the beginning of your journey because that will be amazing. You can grow a lot because you are taking this into account at the beginning. And again, you know, you are setting here right now, your foundations and your foundations are, as I said before, the most important part of your shuffle. So if you understand the foundations correctly, then from there, you can really grow a lot and you're going to grow really in the good way because now we are going to start with some basic arms that are great. So what I would like to recommend you first, learn and move, so focus in what your legs are doing, what your feet are doing. Once you know the move correctly, then start focusing your arms. Yeah. But don't wait a lot of time. So when you think, Okay, now I have the move, start thinking in the arms, yeah. So then you can take the chew together. Because if not, you will know a lot of moves, and then you will be dancing with your arms like this, and it won't look good. So sometimes what happens is that probably someone has great feet movements, but if they are dancing like this, it won't look good. So sometimes a person can have really basic moves, not only the basics, but they know how to move their arms. They have a good posture. So their shuffle will look great, even if it's basic. So basic is not bad. Basic is good. Really shuffle has a lot of basic moves. And if you know the basics and you can add some arms, your shuffle will look amazing. Yeah. Then, of course, from there, you can grow learn more. That's why I will be launching level two for you so you can keep growing in your journey. But really, this part that you are right now, the foundations is the most important, as I say to you many times. So really, really focus in getting the things correctly. So, of course, you don't always have to do something with your arms that would be tiring we are dancing, sometimes maybe we focus only on the feet and the legs, but in other parts, especially at the beginning of a song, that maybe we have kind of a melody. We can do something, yeah, with our upper body and not necessarily have to do something with the feet. Yeah. It's like we are preparing ourselves to start dance and yes, to start shuffling. So that's why we're thinking the arms together with the feet, yeah, but as a group, as something that is going to add to our dance. Something that I have already mentioned to you, I know at the beginning, this could be one of the hardest things, at least it was for me that I was dancing a lot, looking at my feet, and you end up dancing like this. Which is not the best way to dance, yeah. So as I mentioned before, try to yeah. To raise that chin, try to really look up. Imagine that you have a public there or well, whatever that makes you look up. Yeah, that will be good. And remember, yeah, to always push your shoulders back, yeah. Try to be steady, yeah. No, again, not dancing like this. Try to be steady. So again, keep those as strong. So yeah, that will help you a lot with your posture. So remember that in the warm up, we also warm our upper body because it's important that we have our upper body relaxed before we start dancing. And now in this lesson, we are going to focus in the arms and the shoulders. But remember also you have your head, you have your chest, yes, you can also incorporate them in your dance. So again, start with the basics, and then as you start to feel more confident, you can start to add more things to your dance. So some things that are important are the hands. And sometimes we are very focused in the move, yes, trying to think to perform the move correctly. Sometimes we have our hands like this or like that, and that doesn't look good. Yes, even sometimes doing weird things with our fingers. So yeah, this is quite hard, yes, to think on really relaxing that the hands, you can watch some videos of some ballet dancers. So you will see that the ballet dancers are always doing something like this, you know, having their hands really, really relaxed, in a good posture, similar to a model. Yes, pay attention to what models are doing when they are in a photo shoot. You know, they are quite relaxed with their hands. They are not like this or like this. No, that won't look good. So always, yes, try to have your hands delicate, yeah. Always, like, I mean, even when we move our arms, we do something like this that is fast. Our hands should be delicate, yeah, not doing, like, I don't know, something weird. Yeah, try to have them delicate. You can, for example, point with your fingers, like, not to the people that won't be very good. You can point to the sides up to the floor. Yes. That's one of the things. We are now going to see many different ways to use our hands and our arms. So if it helps you watch some videos on some ballet dancers or also contemporary dance is great. Jazz dance, yes, classical dance. Yes, any type of dance that, you know, these dancers have really, really good posture because these people train a lot, you know what to do. With their arms and their hands and everything. So it's great to take some inspiration and apply to your shuffle dance. So something that I want to recommend you, as I already did is to film yourself, to correct yourself. So at the beginning, you probably focus in correcting the mistakes from your feet, from your legs. But then you can also correct your posture, your arms, your hands. It happened to me at the beginning of my journey that I was watching my videos, and I didn't like my dance. And I pay attention to the moves, and the moss were okay. But what I didn't like was my posture. I was dancing like this. I was doing whatever with my arms. It was like my arms were not a part of my body. Like they had their own life. So when I started to focus in my arms, when I started to practice my arms, when I started to also control my arms, to have strength with my arms to, you know, like, if I'm going to open, I'm going to open, not do something like this, like, that is in the middle of the way. So when I started to really, really improve my arms, my shuffle improved. And the moves were the same. Yes, it's not that I did crazy things. No, no, the moves were the same, were the basic, but I started to focus in my arms. And, definitely, that really improve my overall dance. So you will see that when you pay attention to your arms, your dance will take another level. One tip that I like to give you if controlling the hands is quite hard and, you know, you cannot make them look soft. Just close your hands like this. Relax. Yeah. No with attention. Just relax, and you can dance with your hands like this. So you can guarantee that you're not going to do anything crazy with your fingers. And yeah, and that will look good and also will give you stability because you have your hands there with your arms close to your body, so you just move along. So this will be if you want to keep your arms and your hands neutral. Yeah. So sometimes you can do that, and it will be good. And remember that I mentioned that I used to see my videos and I didn't like them. So when I started to do that, just leave my hands like that, my arms, like quiet. My shuffle started to look better, even I was actually doing nothing with my arms. And then when I started to feel more confident, I started to add some arms, move around. But at least to keep them, they are steady. You know, it's going to be good. So let me give you an example. So I just did nothing, keeping my arms there and moving around. So I want to show you different things that you can do with your arms and shoulders. That's why I call this lesson like that because idea is not only to move the arms but also the shoulders. 40. Arms & Shoulders: Running Man: So now that you really learn all these moves that we been practicing a lot, so now it's time to add your arms. So, of course, we're going to start with the running Mm. So I'm going to share with you different things that you can do. So first, we're going to start with our shoulders. So the idea is to do some circles with our shoulders going backwards like this. So practice first feeling comfortable, moving your shoulders like this. You can also move your body like this. So try to feel comfortable with that motion. Great. Once that you feel that okay, it's quite easy, right? Great. So now we're going to add them to our running man. So let's do the running man at a slow pace so we can concentrate in the arms. So one thing that you will notice when you start to add your arms, well, you have to forget a little bit your legs. It's like your legs go their own way, and now I'm going to focus in my arms. Why am saying you this? Because, well, when you start to incorporate them, you have to think, Okay, let's do this circle motion. Yeah. So hopefully now, our legs know what to do with the running man, right? If not, again, if you need to practice more each of these steps, go and practice, and then when you feel that you're ready, start to add the arms. Yeah, always feel what is coming in for you at your own time. So let's start with the running man. Yeah, I'm just going to do many running mans, yeah. So starting with right leg. Then I'm going to go with left leg, right leg, left leg, nothing crazy, the regular running man that we've been practicing along. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one. See what I've been doing. I've been moving like a compass. Remember when we have the lesson of the running man variations. Well, the only variation here is that instead of doing the running man to the front, I'm moving to the diagonal and moving like a compass, just going back and forth, back and forth. Why am doing that Because I feel it's kind of the movement of my shoulders. If I can do it just facing the front. Of course, I can do that. But I feel also it looks quite cool when I'm facing the diagonal because I feel if I have public or someone filming myself or watching the videos, like, in this case, you, so people can see more the movement of the arms and it will look better. These are things that also you can take into account just sometimes certain moves look better if we move to a side instead of doing from the front, yeah, I think the running man is one of these moves that they look better when we are facing the diagonal because from the front, I mean, it's fine, but it's like you don't see much what the legs are doing. Whereas if I'm doing it to the sides or to the diagonal, I think that you can see better the move. So, so great. So let's practice again. Let's practice together. So I'm just going to do the same, just moving around. So this time I'm going to start with my right leg, but with the left diagonal, yes, to the front, and then just moving back and forth as I did before. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one. Do it at the pace that you want, at the speed that you want. If you want to do it faster, do it faster. If you want to do it slowly, do it slowly. And now I'm going to show you from the back. And I'm going to start with the left I go out the same as I did before. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one Good. I think this one is quite easy to do and it looks good. And a similar idea is also doing these motion circles. But instead of doing them backwards, we're going to do them forward. So again, first, practice This motion with me, try to feel comfortable. It's helpful if you have a mirror. I'm looking myself at actually not a mirror, but an artwork. So I'm using the glass of the artwork to see what my shoulders are doing. Great. So once you feel comfortable, we're going to do just the same. The same pattern of the run man moving like this. But now, remember, we are moving our shoulders forward. And also something that I wanted to mention. See that I'm moving my shoulders slowly, yeah, quite slowly, like, at my own pace. No hurries. So I think this idea gives like a chill vibe, so something that you can do. So again, five, six, seven, eight, and one. Something else that you can do with your arms in the running man is actually to move one arm with the opposite leg. Like when we're walking, right? When we walk, we do like this, right? We do the opposite leg, opposite arm, yeah. So the same idea as when we're walking but doing the running man. So how will that look. So I'm going to face you like this. So see that I'm also moving my shoulders. I need to move my shoulders to move my arms right. But it's not like that big motion circle that we did before that was more like this. Now it's something smaller, concentrating and more moving the arms and see that I'm moving my arms at the same pace that my legs, yeah. So if I start with my right leg running man, it will be like this. So every bit, every time that I land with my running man, I also land with my arms, yeah. I also do like this, yeah. So see it again. Great. So again, see that I'm keeping my hands like this. So no complications. You can also leave it like that. It's another thing. Yeah. But sometimes if you leave it like this, weird things start to happen with the fingers. So if you close them, then you can have a guarantee that nothing crazy is going to happen there. So yeah, try it yourself. So let's try this one. Five, six, seven, eight, and one. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and 41. Arms For Other Moves: Moving on to the front and back step. I'm sure you remember these steps that we were the front step. I'm going to show you from the side. So front to step, and now I'm going to do a back step. For the arms in the front step, the idea is that we're going to emphasize that bouncing that we have with our foot. So we're going to emphasize the bouncing with our hand, like if we were actually bouncing a ball. So the idea is the following. And from the side. So in a way, repeating what our foot is doing, but with our hands. And see that I'm following this idea of opposite hand, opposite foot. So let's practice together. I'm going to start with regular running man with my right leg, and then I'm going to do a front step with my left leg. So going to do running man with my right leg, running man with my left leg, and then front step with my left leg and then repeat over and over with both legs. Yeah. So let's start. Five, six, seven, eight. And now, let's move on to the back step. We're going to thinking the idea of dropping something to the back, yeah, like that. So now it will be the same hand and the same leg. So let me show you. So the idea is to do something like this. So I'm kind of also twisting my body a little bit while I'm doing this. Let me show you. So you can emphasize this as much as you want. You can just do like this, facing the front, or you can really move backwards. Different ideas, again, then comes your creativity, what it feels natural for you because as we talked before when we were talking about freestyling, also, you have to move in a way that feels good to you. If you feel like, no, this kind of arms are not good for me well, then do something else. Again, these are only ideas to open your mind, to open your creativity, but keep experimenting. Also, if you want to add other arms, that's great. The idea is that you can make this your own. So with that said, let's practice this pushing backward with the backstep. So, five, six, seven, eight, and let me show you from the side, five, six, seven, eight, and see that sometimes I did more like this, more like dropping something like my whole hand. Sometimes I just did like this. So yeah, feel free to also change. I did it on purpose, so to experiment different things. We are now in this process of experimenting. Then again, you can pick some of these arms. For example, if you want to create a choreo or add them to your freestyle. Let's carry on with the arms in the T step. I have told you before this idea of moving the shoulders while we are T stepping. Remember that I mentioned that if you move your shoulders, it's actually easier for you to perform the step. So now we're going to focus again in this idea of moving the shoulders. And, of course, we're going to move the shoulders and we're going to move our arms as well. So the idea is to move like the arms, especially in this case, the left arm as I'm estepping with my left foot to move the arm at the same moment that I'm moving my feet or my legs. So like that. You can emphasize more the arm if you want, or it could be just here, starting in the perch position. I'm going to the step to the left while I'm moving, my shoulders and also my arms. So see that I keep my hands like this, you know, so nothing strange happened there on my fingers. I can also emphasize this idea of moving to the side like this. Really small detail, but you can see again how you can emphasize more, less. As we've been talking about, it depends on the music, on the song, on that personality that you want to give to that dance that you're doing. So, let's practice this idea. You can practice with me. We're going to T step to the left. So five, six, seven, eight, and Let's do it one more, five, six, seven, eight, and now let's focus in the T step Dvation rocking. So I already mentioned something when we were practicing that move that you can use also your shoulders. So when you're tapping to the back, when you're tapping to the front, and when you're tapping to the diagonal, yeah. So moving your body and repeating what your legs are doing. And apart from moving your shoulders, you can also point what your leg is doing. So it will be like pointing backwards, pointing to the front, pointing to the diagonal. You can directly point like that. I don't particularly like so much to point, but I prefer more to point but without the finger, yeah, doing like that, yeah. So following the leg, that kind of movement is actually called follow the leader because the leader will be your leg, and you're following your leader, your leg. So let's practice this T step variation of rocking doing that motion. So I'm just going to do three T steps to the back to the front, and to the diagonal. And then remember that we close in a runman to the diagonal. Let me show it to you. So it will be five, six, seven, eight, and one. Let's do it again, five, six, seven, eight, and Remember, you can do that rocking with the micro bounce. So with that, you will be able to move a longer distance across the floor. So it will look like this, five, six, seven, eight, and Great. One more, five, six, seven, eight, and See that when I landed in the running man, I did like that, yeah. Something that you can add as well. Let's carry on with the diagonal running man. So it will be the following idea. You remember the diagonal running man. So we will try to do that, yeah. So see that I'm also doing opposite arm, opposite leg. So the idea will be like that. Remember when I explain you the move, I explain to you that we kind of do like a wave with our hips. So that will be the same idea with our arms to do like kind of a wave with our arms. So let me show you that will be easier. Great. Let's practice now together, five, six, seven, eight, and Let's carry on with the arms in the backstep from the diagonal running man and the Y step. I'm sure you remember these moves. So you remember that first we did the diagonal running man, and then we did a backstep and then the Y step was actually doing like two back steps in a way. Because I just needed to go to the other side. Remember, if you need to practice any of these moves, go back to those tutorials because now we're going to focus in the arms. So for these moves, it's the same idea that we did with the back step in the running man. So this idea that I'm throwing something to the floor. You can throw something either with your right hand or your left hand. It doesn't matter. So if I'm doing the back step, you can do it with any of the two hands like this. Okay. But if I'm going to do the Y step after the back step, yeah, so doing like this. I particularly like to do it just with my left hand because I'm going to finish with my left y step. Was I can do it with my right. It will look like this. It's not a problem, but I particularly like to increase the idea that I'm finishing or I'm moving to the left. Even I started, of course, in the right. Another thing that you can do is, of course, you can change hands like this. Again, lots of different things that you can try, that you can experiment. But to make it easier for now, we are going just to keep with our left hand, doing the backstep and then doing the white step. So let's try first only the backstep. So I'm going to drop something with my left hand. So five, six, seven, eight, and again, let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and quite easy, right? And now we're going to add the white step. So we're going to go to the left. So, five, six, seven, eight, and Again, five, six, seven, eight, and Good. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and. See that I'm keeping my hands like this, so nothing weird happens in my fingers. Let's proceed with the arms in the harstn. So we're going to follow the idea of opposite leg, opposite arm. So see that I'm also going to move my shoulders. Again, it all comes together. So the idea is to emphasize that kind of idea of the swinging of the Charlestone. That is particularly what I find that I love about this move, this idea of the mm mm. But again, that's only my style or the style that I want to give to this move. If you don't want to give this swing and look, you can do something more rigid or, again, just keep your arms to the sides. Try to find arms that match your style. So I'm just sharing with you different ideas. Pick what resonates with you. So if you like, you can practice with me. Let me show you first. So I'm just going to move my left arm while I'm moving my right leg, and I'm doing the same. So moving my right arm with my left leg, like this. And again, I'm trying to move the shoulders like this. Great. So just doing like this. Nothing crazy. It just adds a little bit to this swinging look. So we're going to start with the right leg. So five, six, seven, eight, and. So let's do it one more time. Five, six, seven, eight, and So I want to tell you that it's important for you to take some of your practice sessions, just to improve the arms. And not only do it once, you have to do it many times because if you practice your arms just one time, you won't see much improvement. You have to again, practice, practice, practice until you really see that you are making progress. So take those special sessions just to focus on your arms, and you will start to see a big improvement in them. Let's move on to the criss cross. So you can do with your arms the same that you're doing with your legs. So you remember the criss cross that we were crossing our legs. So we can also cross our arms. And then we open. We go to the transition position, and then we repeat with the left leg so we can do the same with our left arm. So you can have your hands like this to avoid problems, or you can also extend them like this. Yeah. That is something that also looks cool. So again, do it and check how your hands are looking and correct if you see any any mistakes. So for this move, I particularly like to do same arm, same leg. But, again, feel free if you want to do the opposite way. But I just feel, in this case, it's easier. So let's practice starting right leg. And we are going to cross our arms like this, so again, right arm, and then we do a criss cross with the left leg and left arm as well. So, five, six, seven, eight, and Great. And now I'm going just to have my hands like that. So, five, six, seven, eight, and. Let's practice now a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and five, six, seven, eight, and Okay. Let's carry on with the arms in the B step. So what I like to do is to move my arms to the side that my toe is pointing. So see what I mean by that. So I'm starting with a B step to the right, so I'm going to move also my arms to the right. And then when I come back to the transition position, and then I'm going to do the same to the left. So the idea with the arms will be like this. Moving to the right, moving to the left. Yeah. So I particularly like to keep the move, so do like this and not to do like this and stop and do like that and stop. I particularly like to embrace this idea. But again, keep experimenting yourself. I will not stop repeating that because, yeah, I want you to also be able to express yourself, to try new things. I think that's really why we are dancing. It's a way of expression. It's an art. So it's great when we can play around with it. And really, it's about having fun, of course. So let's try this idea of moving the arms to the side. So we are going to start transition position and then be step to the right. So five, six, seven, eight, A. Nothing too crazy. Again, I'm keeping my arms like this in this case. So, five, six, seven, eight, and. Again, five, six, seven, eight. I mentioned before some things that you can do with your arms in the W step. I told you that actually adding your arms was going to help you with the balance as well. So remember, doing something like this kind of helps you a lot with the balance. So let's practice the different ideas of the arms. So one will be that one doing exactly what our feet are doing. See that my toes are pointing out. So I do the same with the arms to the sky, yeah, like that. Mar, one important thing in this arms position is to be fast. Yeah. The W step is a fast move. It's like. Yeah. So practice in that strength that you need in your arms because it's not this. So if you do this, it's like you lose momentum, so it won't look good. I used to do that mistake that do the position and then just forget about it, and that doesn't look good. So you have to keep that position for a moment and then just drop it quickly, a, the same as you're doing with your feet. Yeah, you do like this. It's not. And then whatever. So try to have that kind of momentum with your arms. So practice just that. If you need to practice just that, do that, yeah, because it takes a little bit of strength. So so you can do that. Great. So let's practice a few times doing these arms to the sky. So, five, six, seven, eight, and again and again. Good. So another thing that you can do is open your arms like a cross. So you can do that. It doesn't have to be super extended like that. Probably will look a little bit weird. I don't know. So I like more to do it like this somewhere here. So bending a little bit my elbows. So like this. And again, think of having the same momentum. So let's practice, five, six, seven, eight, and. Again, and again, Good. And the last position will be to point to the ground, to the floor. So like this. Yeah. You can actually point like that if you like to point, or if not, just do like this or like this. Again, control on those hands. But if it help you here to point, you can do that. What I don't like to do is to point to the front just in case there's a person, but to the floor, that would be fine. So I give you freedom to choose whatever you want to do with your hands. So, five, six, seven, eight, and again, five, six, seven, eight, and. And again and again. So for the arms in the spins, I told you something that you can do something like this, so to help you to keep in balance. So let's do the runningman spin with traveling. Remember, it was like this. That first I did the running man, then I did a spin with my feet together, and then I did another runningmn. So the idea is that when you do that second step, yeah, first, you do the runningmn and then you do the spin, that's the moment that I'm going to have my arms like this, and then I just continue to the runnium. So let's practice that to keep our balance with our arms and hands as well. So, five, six, seven, eight, and Again, five, six, seven, eight. Great. When you land in the running man or when you start in the running man, you can just have your arms to the side. You can do like this to the diagonal. Again, it's up to you. But the most important part is that part of the balance. Because then if you also learn more spins, having those arms there will help you to a lot of different spins as well. Yeah, it's the same like the ballet dancers do like this where we are doing more like this. But it's the same idea. You to have that control. Great. So one more time, five, six, seven, eight, and and now the arms in the glides. So you probably saw something that I did when I was showing you the glides. So what I like to do, yes, remember that in the glides, we are kind of drawing a horizontal line on the floor. So I like to do that with my hand, yeah. So to do like this. But I'm also doing a line, yeah. So again, I'm just copying what my foot is doing, yeah. Like that. So again, practice alone, the hand if you need to. It's like also cleaning the window in a way. Maybe. Great. So let's practice this idea, five, six, seven, eight, A. Again, five, six, seven, eight, and one more time. And for the glides to the back that we also saw, I also mentioned to you this idea of pushing something. So doing like this. Like this. And I think as I told you before, it really helped you with the balance. It helps you a lot for me with the step, and I think it looks quite cool also. So feel free if you want to do it more like this, or it could be more like here. Yeah. You can also play around with levels. So I'll strike this idea. I'm going to show you from the side, five, six, seven, eight, and again, five, six, seven, eight. And now let me show you from the front, five, six, seven, eight. One more time, five, six, seven, eight. 42. Combos Intro: Et's proceed with this lesson on combos. As I told you before, combos are a great way to learn a group of moves together. And once you learn a combo, then you can drop it on a crystallization or you can use that set of combos for a choreo, for example, that you are creating. I created for you a set of four different combos, and each of them has eight counts. Two of these combos, we are going to use them in the choreography that we will see in the next lesson. To practice this combos, I'm dancing to a song that is called the Ocean by Mike Perry, and it has 90 PM. But of course, you can use this combos for any song that you want. It could be slower, it could be faster. 43. Combo #1: We're going to start with combo number one. Let me show you first this combo number one. And for this combo, we will use the running man, the front step, and the T step. So we're going to start doing two running mans, one with right leg and another with left leg. So first, we're going to start with our perch position, and we're going to do the first run man with our right leg. From there, we're going to go again to a perch position and do a running man with our left leg like that. So let's do that again. We start in the perch position that is going to be our d, and we're going to do running man right leg. Again, perch position with our left leg and runningmn with our left leg. I show you from behind. So we're going to start five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Again, from the front, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Great. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight. And one and two. Remember that if you need to practice each of these steps, again, go to the lesson of the runman. We are going to focus more in doing the combo, yes. Of course, I'm going to do a recap of each of these steps. But if you really need to learn the moves properly, go back to the lessons that, you know, we practice them a lot. So great. So now we have our first two counts. And from there, we are going to do another running man with our right leg. So we're going again to the perch position, the, and that will be the three. Yeah. So another running man with our right leg. And now, what we're going to do is the front step. So you remember the front step, we were coming back to perch to repeat a running man with our right leg. So that will be our four. So let's practice as the three and the four together. So running man, right leg, back to perch. Front step. So remember that when I'm doing the front step, I'm doing the running man and then doing something more like this. Yeah, I don't go completely back to perch just because as a matter of speed, I need to do this move fast, yeah. So we'll look something like this. I wanted to show you from the side when we're doing the front step, yeah. So we first did the running man, then to go to the front step. So the perch position will be something like here, yeah. So it won't be all the way through here to be able to do it faster like this. Yeah. So again, et's practice one more time. So five, six, seven, eight, and running man and front step. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and running man and front step. Great. So now let's do everything together. First, we're going to do it slowly. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Remember, if you need to keep practicing this slowly, just rewind the video as many times as you want. Now, we're going to do it a little bit faster. Yes, this four counts. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And a little bit faster still. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, let's continue with the next four counts. So now the idea after doing the running man and the front step, we're going to come back to perch with our left leg. And now we're going to do two T steps. So you remember the T step. It was this move, right? So from the perch, I'm going to do one T step Come back to perch. Another T step. So let's practice just the two T steps. So perch, T step, perch, T step. You already know this move. And from here, we're going to do. Again, come back to perch to do. Running man with left leg, perch. Running man with right leg. Quite easy, right? Let's do it again from the T step. So perch, T step, perch, T step, perch, running man, left leg, perch, running man, right leg. Again, from the back. So from here, T step, perch, T step, perch, running man, left leg, running man, right leg. Good. So let's practice a little bit faster. These four counts. So let's count together. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Great. A little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. So now let's get together these last four counts with the first ones that we saw before. So let's do everything together. Starting from the top. We started with right leg running man, then come back to perch, left leg running man, come back to perch, right leg running man, Front step. Come back to perch, and then you remember what we just did T step with left leg, T step with left leg, and then left leg runningmm, right leg runningmm. Good. Again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. From the bag, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. Now let's sit a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now let's try to increase a little bit more the speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and and from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and Let's practice now with music. Oh. W. So remember that you can use this combo for a slower song or even a faster song. Now I'm going to show you the same combo with a faster song. This one has 126 BPM. It's called the Sound of Silence by Disturb and it's camix by SEL. So let me show you how it looks. Nick and light eyes now I show you front back. Nick and light ew. So you can see the same combo applied to a faster song. 44. Combo #2: Let's continue with combo number two. A in. This combo might look a little bit complicated when you see it. But actually, you will see that it's quite simple because we only have two moves here. We have the diagonal running man, and we have the Y step. So we're going to start in our perch position with our right leg to move from here to a diagonal runningmn. You remember this move, the diagonal runiman. Great. So from here, we're going back to perch. To do another diagonal running man with left leg like this. And now we are coming back to perch to do a third diagonal running man with right leg, like that. So you see we have three diagonal running mans. So let's practice together. So perch, Diagona running man, back to perch with left leg, Diagona runningmn, back to perch, Diagona running man with right leg. Don't forget the technique of this move. Yes. You remember that it was important to do the twisting. Of our body and our hips. Yeah. Remember what I mentioned this idea of doing like a wave to have this kind of flowy movement. Something that I wanted to mention, remember when we talk about our torso, that in the diagonal runnimans not facing the diagonal, neither facing the front, is somewhere in between, yeah. And especially when we do many diagonals, the our torso will be doing this. Yeah. So again, go back to that lesson in case you need to do a quick recap of all the little things that we mentioned. So let's practice together. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now from the bag, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and. Great. So after our three diagonal running months, we ended in the third one with our right leg. And what I'm going to do, I'm coming back to perch, but I'm going to keep my diagonal. What I mean by that is that I'm going to do this, and I'm not going to do this, yeah. I'm not going to face the front. No. I'm going to keep the diagonal because what I'm going to do is a Y step. Let's do a recap of the Y step. The y step was like this. First, we were doing a backstep, then we were coming back to perch to open in another backstep. So the Y step was basically two backstep, one to the right, one to the left, or the other way around depending from where you started. Yeah. So something that I wanted to mention that when we are doing the Y step or the back step, our width is a little bit linen backwards. Yeah. So see the difference. When I do the diagonal runumn, my width is in the middle, whereas when I doing the back step, see that I'm leaning a little bit backwards. Yeah, a little bit. It's not this because I'm going to the floor. It's a little bit, yeah, the same when I'm doing the full Y step, ah, leaning a little bit to the back. Great. So now let's practice this union between the diagonal running man with our right leg and the y step. Yeah. So let's practice just that. I'm going to show you. So that will be our third step, yeah. So it'll be third and four and five. Yeah. So you can practice with me, five, six, seven, eight, and three, and four and five. So from the back, it's going to be five, six, seven, eight, and three, and four and five. So now, let's add the previous two diagonal runningns. So we are starting from the top. So you remember there were three diagonal arrunmentsR leg, left, right, then backstep and backstepO y step. Yeah, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. So let's do our first five counts together, faster, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. And again, five, six, seven, eight, and Now, let's add the last three counts. Yeah. So we ended in this y step that was Bastep and backstep, yeah, with our left leg, facing the left, yes. So now what we're going to do, we're coming back to perch. Again, we are keeping the diagonal because it makes no sense to face the front because we're going to do another diagonal runningmm but with left leg like that. Yeah, same move. And from here, what I'm going to do is another white step, but now with my right leg. So see what I'm going to do. I'm going to come back to parch with my right leg, and from here, I'm going to do a backstep Come back to perch and another backstep to the right. So there I have my Y step. Yeah, so I'm doing the same. But now I'm doing the Y step to the right. So let's do again the last three counts. So remember that I ended in the y step like that. So from here, I'm coming back to perch, I'm going to do a diagonal running mount with left leg like that. From there, I'm going to bring my right leg to perch to do the Y step. And then to the right. Yeah. Now, from the back. Now I'm here in the Y step to come back to perch. Diagonal with the left Why step. Oh, let's do everything together slowly, slowly. So I know that the pattern looks Oh, so complicated. But if you think about it and you remember the moves, it will make a lot of sense. I promise, I promise. So let's start again. I'm going to tell you the moves, so I think it's going to be easy for you to remember. So let's start five, six, seven, eight, diagonal right. Perch, diagonal left. Perch, diagonal right. Perch. Y is deep and diagonal left. And Y is deep. Again, five, six, seven, eight, and Diagona right and Diga left and right. And Y is deep and lift, and Y is deep. Now let's practice with the count five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. When you do it slowly, oh, it's hard to keep the balance in this move. As I mentioned before, it's actually easier to do it faster, but I want you to understand the move correctly, yeah. So one more time slowly, five, six, seven, eight, and And now yes factor, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six, seven and eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and And now, yes at a speed, five, six, seven, eight A. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and Illustrate with music. 45. Combo #3: We are going to continue with the third combo, and this one will consist only in using the Charston and the backward Charleston. And we're also going to add a little variation of the Charleston that is a rebound. So don't worry. I'm going to explain everything to you. First, let me show you the move. Again, if you need to do a quick recap of the proper technique of the harleton, go back to the lesson. But we're going to also explain a little bit here, yeah. So for you to remember the move. So I'm going to start this combo in my transition position like this. So I'm going to do first a charston to the front with my right leg. So I'm going to do and one. And then I'm going to do another chalton with my left leg. So and True. And now I'm going to do a third Charleston with my right leg to the front. And three. So let's do everything again, starting in the transition position and going and one and two, and three. Three Charlestons. Not that complicated. So again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great. So let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and and two and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So I finish in the third Charleston that was with my right leg. And from here, I'm going to do a rebound will be to do this. Like that, yeah. So three, my third count is when I'm doing the Charleston, so I'm going to do and four. So four is going to be when I step in. So the, what I'm going to do is I'm going to lift my heels from both feet outwards. Like that. Yeah. P Pam. P pam. Practice this with me. P pam, p pam. P Bam. Yeah, we're going to do just one. Yeah. So let's practice doing just one Charleston with our right leg and the rebound. So we're going to do Charleston and rebound. Yeah, again, Charleston and rebound. Again, Charleston and rebound. From the back. What are you going to do? Charleston and rebound. And again, Charleston and rebound. Yes. So let's practice this first four count. So remember we had three Charleston and then the rebound. So let's go. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Great. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. So from that rebound, yeah, that we did pum pum. Now we're going to do three Charlestons to the back. Yes, three backwards Charleston. So do you remember the backward Charleston? We had to do the same but going backwards. So let's leave our feet like that. So we did one, again, two, and again, three. Yeah. So three chalstons to the back. So again, I'm here in the rebound, and I'm going to do three chal stones to the back. So one, two, and three. Great. Let me show you from the back. So in the rebound and one and two, and three. From the last Charleston that we did with our let's say, right leg at the back, we're going to also do abound, like that. Pa Pam, yeah. Pa Pam. The same idea. So I did my last Charleston with right leg, my last backward Charleston, and I'm going to do bound Pa Pam. Yeah, Pa Pam. Let me show you from the side in case it's easier for you to understand. Yeah. So let's do everything together so you can understand the dynamics of this combo. So we started our transition position. So we're going to do three halones to the front, one rebound, three chal stones to the back, one rebound. That's the idea, yeah. So let's go, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Rebound, four and five and six and seven, and rebound. Yes. Again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Really hard to do it slow for the thing of the balance. So let's practice a little bit faster, yeah. So let's go to the front, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six, seven and eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six, seven and eight. God from the side a little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five, six and seven and eight. Please, if you need to go back to the haliston lesson, remember important things of the halston was this idea of having our knees bended when we do the step. Yeah, when we do the step of the halston, we need to bend those knees to be able to perform also the move faster so, again, in the rebound, we also see that when we lift our heels, we are extending our knees, but then we bend our knees again, yeah, to be able to do the rebound. So again, do a quick recap if you need to. Now I'm going to show you this combo with the music. 46. Combo #4: Moving on now to combo number four. So for this combo, we're going to use the Running Man and the regular glide to the sides. So first, I'm going to show you the combo. So as this combo is going to have two glides, I change my shoes to these ones. Remember I mentioned they have flat soles. So they are quite wood for gliding. Remember when we glide, we try to be as closer to the floor as possible. So pay attention to which shoes you're wearing. Go and change if you need. So let's start this combo with two running mass with our right leg. So we're going to do first one with the right and then one with the left. So see that I'm facing the diagonal, yeah, not the front. So the idea is to face the diagonal. So then when I'm doing the glide, you see that I will cover more space. And give the solution that I'm gliding on the floor. Let's start. First, we runuman then bringing my left foot to perch. Second runuman now I'm going to do a glide. Coming back to perch with my right leg, remember the glide that I'm going to step my right leg to the front, then my left foot comes to the back, and then I will glidate that right leg to the side to the right. Remember the technique of the glide. If you need to go back to the lesson, do it. But some things now to quickly remember the back foot is my foot that is going to be my anchor foot. So it has to be like a rock. They are very, very steady because it's the one that is going to support my gliding. And remember that in a glide, I'm moving from point A to point B. So I'm transferring the weight of my foot from here to here. I try to have the weight of my body in the center, as we discussed before, that I'm starting here, and I'm slightly moved to one side. But I want you to focus more on what your foot is doing. Yes, this idea of coming from here to there. Yeah. Don't think of transferring the weight of your body like that because you're going to fall. So remember, you always need to have that support in your car. Yeah. So hopefully, you understand these different ideas of the weight of the body and the weight of the foot, yeah. So the idea is I'm starting here and moving to here, yeah? So great. Let's do all together. So the two running mans and the glide to the side. So starting with right leg, running man, left, running man, perch, step on the front with my right leg, and then I'm gliding to the side, trying to have my foot as closer to the floor as possible. And remember that I mentioned in that lesson that you can glide in one count or in two counts. For this specific combo, I'm gliding in one count. Yeah. So I'm going to step and glide. Yeah, one, one count. Let's do the first part together a little bit faster. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Great again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. God. Let's do a little bit faster now. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Remember, if you need to keep practicing at a slower speed, just rewind the video. But now we're going to continue to the second part. So the last move that we did was the glide, the regular glide to the side with my right foot. So now see what I'm going to do. My back foot, the left foot is going to come back to perch. And from here, I'm going to be facing also the diagonal to move to a running man with my left foot. Coming back to perch and now another runman with my right leg, coming back to perch, and now I'm going to also glide but to the left. So my left foot is going to come forward, right leg come backwards, and then I glide with my left foot. So pay attention what I have just done. I repeated in the second part, the same that I did in the first part, doing a mirror with my moves because you remember, I started with right leg runman, left leg runuman then glide with my right foot. And then I did a left leg runningman right leg runningman and then I glide with my left foot. So see, I just mirror the moves. So why I'm telling you this because it might seem very simplistic to do this, like, Oh, I just mirror what I've done before. But this is something that works very, very well in shuffle to do this mirror of the moves, pay attention to choreos from other shuffle dancers, they have a lot this idea of the mirroring. So I feel that this is really helpful for you at the beginning, especially that you are learning the moves and trying to get familiar with the moves because it really help you with this idea of Okay, now I have to glide with 1 ft and now I do it with the opposite. Oh, I have to start with my left foot running man. So you are going to practice a lot this idea of using both legs. And as we discussed before, there is always one leg that is going to be harder for us. So if you create combos or choreos with this idea of mirroring your moves, it's going to help you a lot with the thing of practicing your moves on both sides of your body. So this is a great tip that I wanted to share with you so you can keep experimenting. So let's practice now the eight counts. So you see first part going to the right, second part going to the left, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Now coming to my perch position with left leg and five and six and seven and eight. Now, from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And five and six and seven and eight. So now let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now let's do it at a speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and From the back, five, six, seven, eight and. Let's practice now with music. 47. Choreography Intro : Finally, it's Coria time. I tried to include in dichorio as many moves as I could from the ones that you learned in this course. You're going to see that this scoreo has four A counts, and two of the A counts, you already know them because they are part of the combos that we saw in the previous lesson. Hopefully, you already know this combos by now. But we're going to do small changes. So that's why I'm going to explain again here so you can understand the whole choreo and have everything together. We are going to dance to a piece of music that is called me and you by music by Aden. It's a song that has free copyrights, and it has 100 PPM. We're going to start practicing it at 80 and 90% speed, and finally at full speed. In case you do the choreo and you post it on Instagram, I would love to see it. So please tag me and floor shuffles. And you can also use the hashtag shuffle with floor. Thanks so much for that. When we are creating a choreo or practicing a choreo, it's good first to hear the music, pay attention to the music, to the beats, pay attention to also what the song awakens in you. So for me, this song has a happy vibe. So I try to pick moves that make me feel happy with energy. So that's the vibe that I like to give to this song. Don't worry about the choreo because we're going to go part by part in this choreo. So what I like to do when I practice a choreo is to first practice the first a count with the music, then add the other accounts and so on. Yeah, so we are growing little by little. And with that, I feel that you're going to learn better, and at the end, you're going to dance the choreo very well because you learn it step by step. Sometimes we try to do everything together at the beginning is like a lot. If we try to cut the information in bits, it's always better. Going step by step. 48. Choreography Part 1: We are going to get started with the first a count of the Korea. So these first counts are part of a combo that we saw before, but we are going to just change one little thing at the end. That's why I'm going to teach you again the whole combo. Remember that for the choreo, you should have already learned all these steps because these are the same steps that you will find in the course. So if you need to go back to any of those lessons to practice again any of the moves, to remember anything about the technique, how to place your body, your feet. So just go back to any of those lessons if you need to, to know really, really well your moves. And once you feel ready, when you feel that you really know the moves, you can come back and do the choreo. I'm going to explain each of the moves. Don't worry. But just for you to know, I won't get into detail as I did in the lessons. So for this first part, we're going to use the diagonal running man, and we're also going to use the Y step. So let's get started. First, we're going to start in our perch position with our right leg, and we're going to do a diagonal running man. Like that. Then we're going to do another diagonal running man but with left leg. So we come back to perch and we do another diagonal. And now we do a third diagonal running man with right leg. Coming back to perch, three, the third one. So great just three diagonal running mans. So let's start. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Great. Remember, yes, all that we talk about the technique of the diagonal running man that we have this movement of the hips that I mentioned that for me is kind of a little wave, yes, where we are not only moving our hips, but also moving our torso. And remember that our torso was not facing the diagonal, neither the front, but somewhere in between. Yes. So especially when I'm doing multiple diagonal run man is where you see more this idea of the wave. Yeah, I I do only one, probably you won't see as much. But when you start to do multiple, you will start to see that wave, yeah. So that's why I recommend to have a look again at the lesson. Great. So let's do it from the back. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So let's do it a little bit faster. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Now, a little bit faster even, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. Remember, if you need to keep practicing at a slower speed, do as many times as you need. Don't worry that we are going to do everything slowly, and we are going to practice many times. So after the three diagonal runns that I finish here, yeah, I finish in the third one with my right leg. I'm going to come back to perch with my left leg, and now I'm going to do a Y step. So you remember the Y step. It consisted in two back steps. Yeah. I'm going to do one to the back with my left leg to the right, and then I'm going back to perch to do another back step to the left. So that I have the y step that consisted in these two back steps, we can say it. Yeah. So again, just a y step. So starting in my perch position, I go back back to perch, and I open to the other side. Yeah. So something important that I wanted to mention is that you see that we finish in the diagonal running man with right leg. So when I'm coming back to perch to do the y step, I'm coming back to perch back to the diagonal. I'm not going to face the front because it really makes no sense because I'm going to go back to the diagonal. So that's why I'm staying in the diagonal. And I only face the front when I do the perch to do the y step to the other side to finish the Y step. Yeah. Hopefully, it makes sense what I'm doing. Yeah, again. So from the diagonal, running man, facing the diagonal, coming back to perch. Y perch, step. Yeah. So I'm showing to you from the back. So I finish in the diagonal runimm coming back to perch. And now I do the Y step. Yeah. Great. So let's do it a little bit faster, yeah, from the diagonal runnim. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Great. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. And from the bag, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two. Good. Now, let's put everything together, the three diagonal running mass with the Y step. So starting in my perch position, I'm going one and two and three, and four and five. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. Great. Et's do it one more time. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five. Right. Keep practicing at lower speed if you need to until you get the dynamics. And now we're going to continue with the last part of this A count. Yeah, so remember that we finish in our Y step here. So now what we are going to do, we're going to bring my left leg back to perch to do another diagonal runumn with the leg with left leg. So I was here in the y step, coming back to perch to do a diagonal runima. Yeah. Let's practice just that little thing. So from here, perch diagonal. So and then in the y step, perch diagonal. Let me show you from the back. And then in the y step, perch diagonal. So I was here in the diagonal runniman and now I'm going to go back to perch to the diagonal yeah, remember, I'm doing the same thing. I'm mowing back to perch to the diagonal and not to the front, yeah. I'm keeping my diagonal to go back to do a y step. But now I do the first time the same as the y step. But when I'm coming back to perch I'm not going to open like in regular Y step that I open like a Y. No, I will do this. Yes, after coming back to perch, I will open but to the front. Yeah. So you see the little difference. I show you just the part of the y step. The y step usually is like this. Yeah. But I'm going to do the step like this. Yeah, I'm going to end my why step facing the front. Then I will tell you why that is linked to the next a count. So for now, just remember that you have to end in the front. Yeah. So let's practice that last part. Yeah. Remember, we finish in the first Y step, yeah, like that. Now I'm coming back to perch to the diagonal to do a diagonal running man with left leg. Then I'm coming back to parch with right leg to do the y step. So do the backstep first, and then the second backstep to complete that Y step. Yeah. And remember I'm ending here. Let me show you again together. Yeah. So finishing in the Y step, perch, diagonal, perch with right leg. Y S, tap. Let me show you from the back. So and then in the Y step, perch diagonal, perch, Y S, tap. So something that I wanted to share with you, I feel that part can be a little bit tricky in the sense that if you remember from where we were coming, first, we did the Y step, and then we have to switch in a way, bring just the left leg, to do the diagonal, then bring the right to do another white step. I know the pattern can look a little bit tricky and sometimes a little bit confusing with the placement of the legs. So what have helped me to not to mess up with the pattern is to remember the moves. Yeah. So I'm going to do that instead of doing the counts. Now I'm going to mention the moves because if you remember that you have to do the diagonal running man, you won't mess up with your legs. Because if not, maybe you do backstep instead of doing the diagonal yeah because it kind of looks similar in the sense that we kind of have our legs similar, but it's not the same, yeah. So it's just something that I wanted to mention. That's why, now we're going to bring everything together, and I will tell you the moves so you start to remember them. Yeah. Remember that dancing is mind and body. So yeah, it's true that as we talk about the muscle memory, once your body memorized, you won't forget it. But at first, your mind needs to help the body, yeah. So if you can connect the two, mind and body, that's when your dancing will go to another level, and you will avoid confusions. So great. Let's start, and I will tell you the moves, yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and diagonal and diagonal, and diagonal, perch. Y is deep. Perch, diagonal, perch. Y is deep. Yeah, so you see three diagonals. Y step, another diagonal, Y step. Mm hmm. Great. So you can also start to memorize that pattern if it helps you. So let's do it from the back. So, five, six, seven, eight, and diagonal and diagonal, and diagonal, and Y is Tepe and diagonal, and Y is p. Let's practice one more time slowly. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And five and six and seven and eight. So you can see how we are getting everything together, the same moves that you have been practicing separately. Now they are being part of this choreo. Let's do them again, but now a little bit faster. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and So let's practice just the tricky part, yeah. So we end up in the diagonal running mount with right leg. So now we coming back to perch. To do the Y step, coming back to perch with the left to do the diagonal running man, and now the Y step with right leg. Yeah. So let me show you from the back. So I finish in the diagonal with right leg, perch, Y, step with left leg, perch, diagonal with the left, and now Y step with the right. One more time. Just that tricky part. Diagonal. So now. Perch, y, step, perch, diagonal, perch. Why, step. And now from the back, finish in the diagonal. Why step, perch, diagonal. Why a step. One more time. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight. Good. So now let's practice at 80% with the music so you can start to feel the music, know the rhythm. And then we will practice at 90. And then we will do one round at 100%. So you know what is going to be the final full speed. But again, don't worry if you cannot get the full speed right now, you can keep going. You can keep dancing at a slower speed. And then at the end, we're going to practice everything together many times. So you will get there eventually. So don't worry at all. Yeah, it's part of the process of learning. Great. I want to do a stop before we practice at a faster speed to talk about the arms. Yeah. So, see what I'm doing. What I just did was when I'm doing the diagona running ma, I move my arms to my hips when I'm starting with the right. Then when I move to the left, just moving my arms to the left, then to my right. And when I do the first part of the y step, I repeat, yeah, do again the same. So it will be like this. And again, yeah. So let's do it with the moves, so it will be one and two, and three and four. Yeah, again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. From here, I'm going to do the last part of the white step. So coming back to parch and I'm going to open I can do something with my right arm, do like this, drop something. I generally drop something. And now, yes, what we're going to do when we do the last wide step, we're going to do exactly that, bring your arm up, drop something, bring your arm up, drop something. Yeah. So see that I'm doing it with my right leg. The movement will be like, Yeah. Aah. Remember, we finish in the first part of the way step, like this. So I'm going to come back to perch I'm going just to finish the why step like that. Like dropping something. And to do the diagonal with left leg, I'm going to bring my right leg again up, drop something again to the back. Back to perch to do the y step. And again, drop something. Yeah. So basically, I'm just doing like this, yeah, like dropping something. Easy. Yeah. So I recommend to start to add the arms when you feel confident with the counts, yeah, with what your legs are doing. So practice first only the legs until you see, Okay, you do the counts, okay. And then start to add the arms. Yeah. If you feel still too much for this point, don't worry. You can add the arms at the end. Yeah, when we do the whole choreo, I prefer that you can keep going with the choreo and not that you get stuck with the arms and everything. So gradually, yeah. I wanted to teach you everything. So if you can incorporate everything, that will be awesome. But also be respectful with your own learning process. So let's practice again the arms, yeah. So we are going to start, yeah, in the perch. So diagonal, diagonal, diagonal. Y S deep. A Y S deep. So this movement of the arms reminds me of the bullfighter, you know, these guys that are with the bulls, and they do like that kind of that idea, yeah. So, or if now just thinking the idea of the way, yeah, the same thing that we talk about with your hips. So let's practice one more time. I'm just going to face you because I feel it's easier for you to see my arms if I'm facing you. So use myself as your mirror. And then we're going to practice again with the music and now thinking on the arms as well. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six, seven and eight. Good. So now let's practice with the music. Remember, go back and forth as many times as you need at the speed that you need. But we're going now to practice these accounts at 90%. So let's see how it goes. And now, let's do one time at full speed. As I told you before, don't worry if it's still is too much. But if you want to give it a try, do it. If not, don't worry. We are going to continue with the following a counts. And eventually, at the end, you can practice at full speed. So let's give it a try. Great. I wanted to show you at full speed so you can start to get used to the music. But remember, take it bit by bit, and it will be amazing. 49. Choreography Part 2: Now we're going to move on to the second a counts. The good news is that the second counts is actually the third combo that you learned in the previous lesson, and this one goes just like you learned before with no change. So hopefully you know it by now. Don't worry that we're going to do a recap here. So you remember that the combo consisted of three Charlestones, one rebound, three Charlestons to the back, and another rebound. We're going to go step by step, so don't worry. So we end our first a count in the Y step, facing the front. We talk about that. Now you will understand why we're facing the front because from this Y step, we are actually going to go directly to the first halston with the right leg. The idea is the following. This was the eight in our last a count, and now the one is going to be our first halston. So remember, first, we're going to do the one. Yeah. So from the Y step, in this position, we are going to do the and one. Again, Y step, and one. Let me show you from the back. So from the Y step, and one. Again, Y step, and one. You can see not complicated how we are linking these two moves. So great. So after doing the one, we have to do another chalston with left leg and two. And now another third chal stone with right leg, and three. So you see three charlestons. So again, from the Y step and one and two, and three. Let me show you from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three. So if you need to go back to the lesson of the Charleston, I recommend to do it. Remember when we talk about the technique, the idea of bending our knees to be able to perform this move faster and easier, as well. Another thing important in the Charleston and in these eight counts because you will see we will be all the time like this. Standing in the bowl of our feet, yeah, with our heels like that, lifted. So important, again, to feel comfortable in that position. I'm probably exaggerating, probably doing it too much now. But that's the idea, yeah, you have to feel comfortable. And you will see that this count all the time will be like this. So again, let's practice a little bit faster these first three counts. Yeah. So from the y step, and one and two and three. So let's do it from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three. Great. I'm going to add one more thing. And we end in this third Charleston. And from the combo, if you remember, we did a rebound. Yeah, the rebound was like this. P. Papa papa papa papa. Again, feel comfortable with this movement of Papa. Pa. We're going to just do one, but yeah, practice many times if you need to. Yeah. So finishing in the third Charleston with right leg, the rebound. Let's do everything together with the rebound. So finishing in the y step, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Yeah, the four, you see that the will be the time that I'm lifting my heels, and the four will be when I step on the floor. Yeah? From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. And now, what we're going to do we end in this rebound, and now we're going to do three Charstons to the back. Yeah, three backwards halston. So, starting with the right leg, I'm going to go to the back. That would be my five. I'm going to do another Chalston with my left leg, six, another with my right, seven. And now I'm going to do again a rebound and eight. So, you see, I just did to the back the same thing that I did to the front, yeah, three halston and then the rebound. Let's do it again, yeah. Just the last part. So from the rebound, I'm going 56, seven, and eight. Let me show you from the back. So see that I'm in the rebound. Rebound and five and six and seven and eight. Let's practice again that part. From the rebound, five, six, seven, eight. Rebound and five and six, seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and rebound and five, six, seven and eight. Good. Now, let's try everything together. So we end the first account in the y step. Remember now three chalson to the front, rebound, three chalson to the back, rebound. Let's try that slowly. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six, seven and eight. Let's try from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, three, and four and five, six, seven, and eight. Let's add a little bit of speed. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five and six, seven and eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three and four. Five and six and seven and eight. I'm going to mention this a lot of times. I know But please practice as many times as you need in the slower speed. Take it easy, take it at your time, yeah. And don't worry, you will get there, practice, practice, practice. Let's add the arms. So I think the arms will help you with the move. The idea is the following. When we do halston with the right leg, we're going to do like this, yeah, bringing opposite arm to the front. And then when we do the halston with the left, we are going to bring the right. Yeah. So you see, like this and like this and like this again. So the idea is that when we move the arms, we're also moving the shoulders, yeah. So the idea is like ticky tiki, ticki ticki. This is the style that I like to give to this move, but feel free if you want to change the arms. If you don't want to do anything, just leave them there or put another arms. Yeah, again, do it the way that it feels it's related to you. So let's practice with this idea. So it will be like this. Nana nana, nana, rebound. Nana Nana, Nana, rebound. See that when I'm doing the rebound, I'm just repeating the same arms, because my, in this case, for example, You remember is the same leg, the same foot, that's the rebound. Yeah, so the same arm here. You can have your hands like this, or you can have it more like this, and it will look like this. Nana, nana, na, na, na. Up to you, try both. See which one feels more comfortable. So let's practice now with the arms. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven and eight. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five and six, seven, and eight. So now let's do it at 80%. Now we're going to try it at 90%. Now we're going to practice this second count with the music at full speed. E's practice one more time, the union between the first account and the second. Yeah. So we ended up in this y step facing the front. This was the eight, and then was the one, the first Charistn, yeah. So eight and one. So from the back is eight and one. Let's now add the following two chalstons. So the end of the y step and then three chalstons that are the first part of the second a count. So let's do it. Five, six, seven, eight, and eight, and one and two, and three. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and eight, and one and two, and three. Now let's practice the Y step with the first part of this eight counts. Yeah. So we're going to do Y is step, and one and two, and three. Let's go. Five, six, seven, eight, and Y is step, and one and two, three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and Y is step, and one and two, and three. Now we're going to drill the first eight and the second counts together. Let's start from the top. Remember, we were doing three diagonal runumen y step, diagonal runumon, y step, and then three hallatonsRbound, three allatonRbound, from the top. Let's do it slowly. Five, six, seven, eight, and diagonal. Diagonal, diagonal Y is deep. Diagonal. Y is. Charleston Charleston, Charleston and rebound. Charleston, Charleston, Charleston and rebound. From the back five and six and seven and eight. Diagonal, diagonal. Diagonal. Why? Step. Diagonal. Why is step. Charlston. Charleston, Charleston rebound. Charleston Charleston, Chiston and rebound. A little bit faster. Five and six and seven and eight, one and two, and three and four and five and six and seven and eight. One and two, and three and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now, from the back, five and six and seven and eight. Now, faster with the arms. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three and four, five and six and seven and eight, and one and two and three and four, five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three and four, five and six and seven and eight, and one and two and three and four, five and six and seven and eight. So now we're going to practice the first half of the choreo, these first two counts and we're going to do it with the music at 80% speed. And now we are going to do it at 90% speed. Now we're going to try it at full speed. So you can always try. Don't worry if you're still not at full speed yet, keep practicing at 80 or 90, and then you can practice at full speed at the end. So do it as you feel comfortable. Fantastic. Now we have the first half of the karyo done. 50. Choreography Part 3: Moving on to our third a count of the chorea. We are going to start with two running mans. So you remember we ended our last counts with the rebound of the ch stone. Yeah. So from that rebound, we are going to go to a running man with right leg, so we are going to go to the and to perch position to do one running man. Now coming back to parch left leg, running man as well. Super easy, yeah. So Rebound. And one and two. Quite simple. Let me show you from the back. So rebound, and one and two. So let's do one more time with the rebound, five, six, seven, eight, and eight, and one and two. Great. So from this running man, we are going to do a running man spin with traveling. So you might remember that spin from the lesson, just go back if you need to practice anything of that spin. So now from here, we are going to do remember one running man going to the diagonal. And that spin, remember, we have to do. The second move of the spin was a literal spin. With the left leg, and then with my two feet together, and I'm doing like this, yeah. I'm bending my knees, so I can keep turning to end up in a running man to the diagonal with right leg. Yeah. So again, only the spin. We are here, yeah. So perch. Running man to the diagonal. Spin with my ending in these two feet together. And I keep spinning to end in a running man to the diagonal. Yeah. Let's do it a little bit faster. So and then here, perch running man, spin runimn. Let me show you from the back. So from here, perch, run spin runimn. Yeah. So things to have into account for the spin, remember that moment when we do this little bouncing, it's important for the balance to keep spinning and do the runningmn. Yes, remember we're going to do these at speed. So it's important that bounce and spin. Yeah, it's everything together. Let's do it one more time, a little bit faster. Yeah, only the spin. So from here, run man, spin, run man. Yeah, from the back. Running man spin, running man. Remember, practice only the spin if you need to as many times as you need. Yeah. For focusing in the balance, yeah. Again, press those as. So great. Now, let's do everything together. Yeah. So we are going to start directly in the first runningman yeah, and adding that runniman spin with traveling. So let's go five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. Let's do it from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. Great. Let's do it a little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. And from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five. Right. Great. So we ended in this running man that was part of the spin. And you might remember also the other running man spin, remember, we were just doing the running man at the same spot, yeah. So remember that we could do it clockwise or cancer clockwise like this, yeah. For example, the regular running man spin was looking like this. Remember we were doing it to the diagonals. And of course, we can also do it in shape runningmn like this. Well, we're going to do now three shaper running mans thinking on this idea of the spin, but only three. So we end in this running man part of the previous spin, and now we're going to do three shaper runningmns. So the first will be facing the diagonal. The second shaper will be facing the diagonal at the back. And the third one will be facing the diagonal at the front. Yeah. So from this running man, we do perch, shaper, perch, shaper, perch, and shape. Really, the most important part here is that you are spinning, yeah, on place. So it doesn't matter so much if you do the shaper exactly at the diagonal or you do somewhere in between while you're still turning, while you're still spinning. But if it helps you to focus in the diagonals, you can do that. Yeah. Just wanted to mention that as you don't get crazy. But I think it will help you to focus in the diagonals and it will look better. Yeah. So of course, do that if it's helpful for you. Another thing that I wanted to mention just in case if you get confused, you can do that. Yeah, it's totally okay. You remember we end the second spin on a runningmn on a regular running man as the running man spin with traveling. If you want, you can also end in a shaper running man. The same thing. Instead of ending here, you end here. So then you continue doing more shaper running mans. Yeah? It doesn't matter really if you do that running man regular or shaper. It's up to you, again. What happened to me is that I discovered that I started to do that running man shaper because I was like, thinking on what I was going to do next. So feel free, yeah, if you want to do it regular or shaper. When we're doing a choreo, sometimes it doesn't matter so much to do exactly the same thing while you get the idea, yeah? The important thing is to do something that feels natural, something that will look good. Yeah. Great. So I wanted to tell you that. So now, let's do it slowly. All these a counts. Yes, starting with the first two running months. Yeah. And then we do the spin, the running man spin with traveling. And then we end up with these shaper runnimns that we do three spinning on the spot. Yeah? Great. So let's start, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. So you can see that one time I end that running man spin with traveling with the regular runningmnO time I end up with the shaper. Yeah, it doesn't matter. So now let's do something. Let's start connecting with the last count of the previous part of the choreo, yeah. So the rebound of the chalst. So we're going to do rebound, and one. Yeah. So to start connecting that part. Let's practice that again, five, six, seven, eight, and eight and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. Now from the back. Remember we do the rebound, five, six, seven, eight, rebound, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Great. Now, let's do it a little bit faster. We are now going to do it directly from the first runiman. Yeah. So to practice only these eight counts. Yeah. So remember, starting with RunimnRgular, a little bit faster, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and Now, let's add the arms. We're not going to do anything crazy for this eight count. So actually, when we start with the two running mons, the idea is simply this one. Remember, we saw this that it was opposite arm, opposite leg. And while you are moving your arm, you're also moving your shoulders a little bit. Yeah. So that's the idea. Nothing crazy. Then when we do the running man spin with traveling, we starting running man, so you can keep doing the same. And then when we do the spin, I do something like this, placing my arms and hands like this for stability. And then the last running man of that spin, just keep doing the same. And then when we do the shaper running spin, yeah. So remember the three shaper running mans on the same spot, you can keep with the same idea, simply do like Pam pum pum. Yeah. So see I'm just moving my arms like this. Nothing crazy. You can keep them on the side. We're not adding a lot for these eight counts. So simply the idea of moving a little bit the shoulders, the hands. Yeah. So if you like that, you can do that. If not, just leave it there. So let's practice one time with this idea of the shoulders. Or if you want to try something else, go for it. Yeah. So five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. Let's practice one more time with the arms, little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and Now we're going to practice this third count with the arms that we just added, and we're going to practice with music at 80% speed. Great. Now we're going to practice with the music at 90% speed. So now we are going to practice this account at full speed. As I told you before, if you still feel it's too fast for you, don't worry, leave it for later. But if you want to give it a try, go for it. So now we are going to practice everything from the top. So we're going to go slowly with the counts. So remember the beginning. We started with the diagonal running man. Yeah. So let's try it. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five, six, seven, and eight, and one and two, and three, and four. Five and six, seven and eight. Let's strip from the back. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. One and two, three, and four and five and six, seven and eight, and one and two, and three and four and five, six, seven and eight. So let's do it one more time, a little bit faster together. So from the top, remember starting with the diagonal runimum five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight, and now we're going to practice these first three accounts with music at 80%. And now we're going to practice. Again, the three a counts, but with the music at 90%. And now we're going to give a try to these three accounts with the music at full speed. And and and and and and and and and and and and and and 51. Choreography Part 4: And and now, yes, we are going to move to the last a counts of the choreo. I hope that this part is easier than the other parts. I know it's different for each of us that sometimes something is hard for one and easy for another. So hopefully you like this part as well. So you remember we ended in this shaper running man position from that spin of the shaper running man. Yeah. So that was our last a count from the previous part of the choreo. So from here, what we're going to do is we're going to do a little jump like this. And this will be the one of the last part. So you might be thinking, Oh, this is the transition position for the carrying shapes. But you remember, all these transition positions are our and. But now, we're going to use this transition position as one. Yeah. So what does that mean? It means that we're going to stay here a little moment. I decided to do this because of the bits of the song. So there is the following. We're going to use this as our one, but it's also going to be the Yeah. So from here, we did an 88, and the t will be our transition from here to here. And this will be the one when we land in the little jump. And then we will do an t here to do a that it will be the criss cross. So again, eight, and one and two. One more time. Eight, and one and two. Let me show you from the back. So we're here. Eight and one, and he. Yes. So from the che from the criss cross, what we're going to do you might know, we're going to do the and and then we're going to do the three. Another criss cross with the left leg. Yeah. So again, let's do all together. So we're going to do. Eight, and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, eight, and one and two, and three. So let's do it a little bit faster just to try this together. Five, six, seven, eight, and eight and one and two, and three. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and eight and one and two, and three. So a note about the ris Cross. We have already seen it in the lesson. I'm going to advise you again to practice, to go back to that lesson to remember all the things that we talk about the technique. But remember, in the Cris Cross' important again, to bend our knees to be able to do that crossing fast. Yeah. So again, we are standing on the ball of our feet because if not, we get stuck in the floor and we don't want that. Yeah, we want to have really that kind of flowy look in our crisscross. Yeah, so important that thing. So with that said, we're going to move on to the rest. So we ended in this criss cross with left leg. Now we're coming back to the transition position, the, and we're going to do the B step. So you probably recall the B step. We're going to do it to the right like that. Yeah. So remember, my right foot is standing on the ll, and my left foot is standing on the ball of the feet, yeah. So like that, yeah. So we're going to do this will be our four. Then we're going back to the, and then we're going to repeat again to the right five and and again, So to be steps to the right. So we ended in the criss cross, and be a step and be a step and coming back to center. Yeah. From here, we're also going to do two B steps to the left, yeah. So it's going to be like that. So see that my right foot now is lifting the heel and standing on the boll of the feet, and now my left foot is lifting the boll of the feet or the toe and standing on the hel, yeah. So again, check the step because all these moves had a lot of technique. So please go and do a quick recap or maybe you already know them. So great. So we're going to do, also, as I mentioned, two B steps to the left, like that. One and two, and then coming back to the transition position. So let's practice just the B steps. So from the transition position, we're going to do B step to the right. Coming back, be a step to the right, coming back, be a step to the left. Coming back, be a step to the left. So important also when we do the B step that remember, the food that is standing on the hill is the one that is extended, and the other is bended. And the same the other way around. Yeah. Now that my foot is standing on the hill, is going to be extended, and the other is going to be bended. Yeah. So all that we talk about very, very, very in detail in the lesson. So great. So let's do all together starting now on the jump. Yeah, that was our one of these eight counts. So one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven. So let me show you from the back. So starting in the jump, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven. Good. Now we're almost over. We ended again in the transition position. And the last eight is a W step. You remember the W step, pointing our toes awards. Yeah. And we are going to stand on our heels like that. Yeah. So this W step is going to be the end of our choreo. So we have to give it really a momentum. What does that mean? That if you recall from the lesson, I told you that you can do the W like that or you can do the W like that. Yeah, with a little jump. So that's the way that we're going to do it. Yeah. We're going to do an emphasis because this is the end of the chorea, has to be amazing. So yeah. So the idea is that we're going to end, yeah, like that. Then we're going to talk about the arms. But for now, yeah, remember that. Yeah, give it that momentum. Yeah. So from the back, we'll look like that. Yeah. Cool. So now let's do all together. The whole egg count starting with the jump. Yeah, starting in the one. So let's do it slowly, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. And now from the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. I know it might be different. This thing that we are doing the and and staying in the same place is different. Yeah, definitely, it is. When you hear the music, you will see it makes sense. This is regarding to what we talk about musicality that sometimes given this kind of silence silence because we're not doing anything. We're just, like, waiting here. That will make a koreo to look better because it's like, it's not always the same. You know, it's not that I'm always doing something, but I'm, like, taking my time. Yeah. So just wanted to mention that why I did that step in that way. So let's practice a few times these counts. So starting in the little jump, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four and five and six and seven and eight. Good. Now let's practice one time from the shaper raniman so you start to incorporate the last previous a count. Yeah. So, five, six, seven, eight, and eight, and one and two and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. One time from the back with that shaper, remember it's our eight. So five, six, seven, eight, and eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five, six, seven, eight. Let's do it a little bit faster. Just from the jump. Now, yeah, the A counts. A little bit faster. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five, six, seven, eight. And a little bit faster, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five, six, seven, eight. From the back, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, three, and four, five, six, seven, eight. Now, let's add the arms. So you will see that the arms are not that complicated in this part. So we're going to start, remember in the jump, and when we jump, we're just going to do this. Yeah, so like that. Nothing crazy. Yeah. Cool. From here, we had to do to crisscross. Yeah. So we're going to continue with this idea of the opposite arm opposite leg. Yeah. So see that I'm placing my right foot on the front, and I'm going to move to this side my left arm and then transition position and then left foot and the same with right arm. Yeah. So just doing this and this, nothing crazy. Bringing my arm. Yeah. And from here, remember we have the two B steps to the right. So the idea is the following. Like I'm moving something to the right or carrying something to the right. Yeah, very easy. Just ticky, ticky. And now the same to the left. Tiki, ticky. And for the last count, the W step, we're going to do the same as in the first jump. Just like that. Putting our arms and hands like that, yeah. Tick. Yeah. So basically doing the same as our toes are doing. Yeah. So quite easy, right? Nothing nothing too crazy. Let's practice slowly. So starting in the jump, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, and four and five and six and seven and eight. So let's practice again, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five, six, seven, eight. Let's do it one more time, a little bit faster. I'm going to show you just from the front because I think it's easier for you to see what my arms are doing. So use me as your mirror. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three, five, six, seven, eight. We're going to practice this last eight count with the music at 80% speed. We're going to drill these accounts now with the music at 90%. And now, yes, we are going to give it a try with the music at full speed. If you feel that you need to keep practicing at a lower speed, you can rewind the video, as I told you before. And when you feel that you're ready, you can practice it at full speed. So now we are going to practice everything from the top. So we're going to go slowly with the counts. So remember, the beginning. We started with the Diagona Running van. Yeah. So let's try it. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six and seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four. Five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight, and one and two, and three and four, five, six, seven, eight. Now we're going to practice with the music at 80% speed. The whole choreo. I think it's going to be easier with the music to hear the beats and everything. And of course, it's much more fun. So let's do it. What you can do is to mentally count the steps, so in that way you won't forget any move. Let's do it one more time. Let's try now the choreo with the music at 90%. And And now, yes, finally, at full speed. So I trust you. I know you can do it. In case you need to keep practicing a few more times at the other speeds, you can do it, but come on, come on. Let's do it. Yeah. Let's give it a try. And and and and and and and Now, I would like you to focus in what the music means to you. How the music makes you feel. If it also gives you this idea of happiness and joy, I kind of feel happy when I hear this music. So focus if you want to add more shoulders, if you want to smile. So just try to add your own style, yes, your own personality to the music and to the dance. And and and and and 52. Example of a Shuffle Session Intro: I will share with you how to organize a shuffle session so you can use it for your own personal practice. As we've been talking before, the only way to improve is by practice and repetition. And it might happen that at the beginning, you are super excited to go and practice. But as things start to get more challenging, probably you're feeling less like doing it. But those are the times that you need to commit yourself to keep going. Don't give up because that's the time when you're going to see real growth. It's normal that sometimes you might feel stuck or that a move is really hard to get. Don't worry. Take a break, give yourself some time. It happened to me many times that I was trying to get a move and it was really hard. But I kept on practicing. I kept going, and then you will feel that one day, you go to the session, and suddenly the move start to feel natural. So that's the natural process. So you have to be patient and trust yourself. Sometimes that process from the day that you start to learn and move and the day that you start to feel natural with it can take weeks or even months depending on where you are at your journey. And, of course, at the beginning of your journey, everything is harder because everything is new. But again, trust yourself that everything will go well. Going back to your practice, let's say that you are willing to practice three times a week, so you can do two lab sessions and one flow session. I will explain you each of them. Before each session, do a warm up routine. You can use the one that we sew together in this course. And then you can start dancing to a song with a low BPM. Why that? Because your body is starting to get warmer. Yeah. So you have to start slowly. You can use any list on Spotify with the name of slow shuffles. There are many. I tend to pick any random list. Then when you feel that your body is warm enough, you can start to increase speed. I have a list on Spotify that is called floor shuffles with different electronic music. So if you like it, you can use it. And also, remember, after each session, it's important to stretch your muscles. Doing that, you will relax your body, and you will feel ready to shuffle the next day or the day when you are going to pick again your practice. 53. The Lab Sessions: Regarding the lab sessions, in this one, the ideal thing is to focus in only one, two, or three modes. When you're starting your shuffle journey, I recommend to focus only in one. Give all the attention in the session to that only move. So you will be repeating each move several times over and over again. So first, start practicing slowly to understand the technique, the mechanics of each move, and gradually start to increase speed. So you can follow the same thing that we did in each lesson. Remember that first, we understood the technique, then we started dancing at a slow speed, then middle tempo, and then gradually increasing the speed. And then add a faster speed. So while doing that, yeah, starting slowly. And gradually increasing the speed, you are working in your muscle memory, to connect, mind and body. I recommend you to film yourself performing the moves, and then check those videos with the ones that you have in the course. So for instance, if you are practicing the running man, you can check your video with the video that you have of the running man in this course. Pay attention to what you are doing. See what are the things that you feel need improvement. Check how you are doing with your perch position. Check the way that you're landing on the floor, the placement of your feet. Yeah, pay really real attention to the small details, and in that way, you will be improving your technique. I have to tell you that you will need more than one lap session to really understand and move. The process can take weeks or even months. So really be patient and trust the process. Even for me that I've been shuffling for four years when, for example, trying a new combo, or even a new move, it takes me many, many lag sessions until I really get it, and I can perform the move or the combo at a faster speed. If you have a mirror at home or at the studio or at the gym, that will help you a lot because you can see at the moment what you need to change, what you need to improve. But if you don't have a mirror, don't worry. Film yourself and check the videos. I dance more than two years without a mirror, so don't worry about it if you don't have one. An advice I can give you is that when you already know a move, try to thinking ways to apply it before and after a move that you already know. So in that way, you are creating a combo. So, for example, let's say that you're learning the W step, but you already know the B step. So what you can do is, for example, do two B steps and then do a W step. The lab is also a great place to work in the compost and the choreography that you have in this course. So anything that requires practice or repetition, the love is the place to go. Love sessions might be longer because you are practicing, repeating the moves, you are filming yourself, correcting those videos. So they take some time. But this is like going to the shuffle school. This is the place where you are going to learn. This is the place where you are going to make your big improvements in your dance. If you don't know how to film yourself while you are playing music in your phone, I will share you now how to do it if you're using an iPhone. In the photo moode, you have to hold the shutter and slide it to the right until you see the red numbers at the top. When you're done, press the shutter to stop the video. Let me share with you one of my lag sessions at the gym. In this left session, I will practice the running man and then the D step. If I have a mirror, I can look at myself and correct myself at the moment. If I don't have one, I can fill myself and check the video later. So now I'm practicing the running man, and you can see that I first I'm doing it facing forward, then to the side. Now I'm going to show you in fast motion how I'm practicing the T step. See that I'm doing it first slowly at the spot, and then I'm starting to move. Then I repeat it again and again and again. Now I can change the direction. So I practice it first in place, and then I start to move. And I can repeat this several times to one side and to the other Now I'm going to practice a running man together with the T step first slowly, I'm going to one side and then to the other. And then I continue practicing it at a faster speed to one side and to the other. I can do this as many times as I want until I get tired or I can set a time for myself, for example, to do it for 15 minutes or half an hour, just repeating this over and over. 54. The Flow Sessions: On the other hand, we have the flow sessions. I can imagine that these ones are going to be your favorite because, of course, they are more fun. In these lessons, for me, the idea is simply to use your creativity and dance freely. So in these sessions, we will be working in our flow in the way that we perform the moves, I also in our personal style, in our freestyling. Also, the flow sessions are a great place to Practice musicality. Yeah. Remember this term musicality. So how you react to the music that you're hearing, how your body reacts with your dance, to the music that you're hearing, how you feel the music in your body. So working in your flow means to remember those moves that you've been practicing in your love sessions, but trying to process those moves through your personal style. Yeah, to give the moves your own personality. So in the flow sessions, it's also good to let yourself go a little bit, because in the las sessions, we are there working and improving our technique. But in the flow sessions, yeah, we need to internalize those moves, so start to fill them. And if we field so tight, yeah, we will be dancing like a robot. So it's a good idea, yeah, to let yourself go. So definitely, the flow sessions are more free, but you can also add a purpose to them. For example, pick the moves that you already know and try to think on how to add some collars to these moves. So while you remember the steps that you already know, you are also thinking of new ways to use your arms for those moves. Another exercise that you can do in the flow sessions is to relax your face. I remember myself when I started to shuffle that I have this very tight face. Like, I was so worried because I was so focused in the technique. So yeah, the flow sessions are definitely a good place to relax, to let yourself go. And in that way, you're also improving your dance. We can also say that flow sessions are more experimental because you can try also new ways to combine the moves that you know because you are freestyling, yes, you are not thinking so much. You are just dancing. And then if you film yourself, then you might say, Oh, that's a cool combo to start doing, and then you can take that combo that you did by chance. You can take it to a lab session and then practice it slowly, you know, applying the technique, improving that combo that came by chance. For example, let's say that you are dancing and you're doing a running man, and then you do a T step and then you do a W step. Then you film yourself and you say, Oh, that's a cool combo, you know, like So you say, I'm going to pick that combo to the love and improve it because maybe you say, Okay, I didn't champ properly in the W step or maybe the T step. I don't know, my feet. Came in a weird position, yeah. So you will be improving that combo that came by chance. So I'm going to share with you another example so you can really make a difference of the ue. So let's say on the last session, you are practicing the running man. So again, okay, I'm going to think on the perch position, how I land on the floor. Oh, I see that my width is on the front, no, I have to keep it center, okay, or maybe you saw that your foot was here. So, no, I need to place my back foot on the position, yeah. On the right position, maybe I don't know. Things that you need to improve of your technique. So all that you will be seen in your last session. On the other hand, you can also take the running man to a flow session. But instead of focusing in all that technique that you've been working very hard in your last session, on the flow session, you will take your running man as it is and try to think on ways to really feel comfortable with the running man. Think of adding some good shoulders. Yeah, try to fill the running man with the music that you're dancing to. Or, for example, try not to only do the run man to the front. Think of doing it to the diagonals, to the back, yeah, playing doing a spin, as you know, yeah. So playing around with the move. So I'm going now to play some music and show you an example of this. In a way, we can say that on a love session, you are learning the move, and on a flow session, you are making it your own. Because if you're always in the love, your moves might have a great technique, but they will lack personality. Whereas if you're always in the flow sessions, you might have a cool attitude in your dance, but maybe you are missing some things of the technique. That's why it's good to have a proper balance of the ch. Of course, that at the beginning of your journey, you will need to do more laugh sessions because you are learning the moves, everything is new. Whereas when you become more experienced and you already know some moves, you can start to do more flow sessions if you want to because you will have more moves to dance too. It's really hard if you don't know a move properly to add your personality, your style because you don't know. Yeah, you don't know what you're doing. So yeah, you need some time to get the move right and then start to make your own, adding your personality and your own style. So I hope with these examples it's more clear for you now. My advice is to always end a last session also with a little flow session. Yes, five or 10 minutes of free styling to be able to internalize those moves that you've been practicing hard on the last session and also to relax and have some fun. I, for example, like to do a flow session after doing the legs routine at the gym. We know that shuffle is a great cardio exercise. So it's good after lifting some weight to move your body so you don't end up feeling stiff. And if you have a day that you're feeling a little bit blue, do yourself a favor, take yourself out, do a flow session, just for fun. Even if you're performing just a running man, it doesn't matter. You will see that you will feel so much better and so much happier after that. I personally think that freestyling is so liberating that I like to do it as much as I can. I think that you will feel the same way, too. So it really lifts your spirit. And I want to share with you an example of one of my flow sessions at the gym. On this flow session, I want to focus in my arm flow and also to practice to feel more natural with the moves. So I'm doing the moves as they come naturally to me. I'm starting with some running mans, some T steps, more running mans, then moving on to some back steps, more running mans, some glides. Then a running man spin, more T steps, and some running mans to finish. 55. Stretching Routine: After any shuffle session, you should do a stretching routine to relax your muscles and to prevent stiffness on the following day. I want to share with you a stretching routine that I use myself. You will see that some of these exercise, we have already done them in the warm up. But in the warm up, the idea was more to move the muscles, yes, to move the body. But right now we are properly stretching. So the idea is to stretch the muscles that we have used during our practice. So to do the routine, I recommend to use a mat, and I like to do it in socks, but feel free if you want to do it with your snickers. As I told you in the warm up routine, feel free to adapt this routine according to your own needs so you can add or take any of these exercise. The one that I'm going to share is the one that I currently use. So great. Let's start our stretching routine. We're going to start by stretching the back. I will show you from the side as well. Now, we look to the sides to stretch the neck. We continue stretching the back. We lean on our heels in the child's pose. We continue stretching the arms to the sides and the diagonals. We do the same to the other side. Then we step with 1 ft and stretch the back leg. We support the knee on the mat and bring that leg to the glute. And we sit and stretch to the side. We now go to the other leg, then we stretch the back leg. Next, we support the knee and bring the leg to the glute. We sit and stretch to the side. Now we're going to lie down and bring one leg in 90 degrees to one side and stretch. We repeat to the other side. We're going to bring the leg 90 degrees above the knee and bring it to the chest to stretch the glutes. We grab the lower leg. We repeat the same with the other leg. We place our feet together and stretch the back. And we lean forward. We bring one leg to the side to continue stretching the glutes and repeat on the other side. We place 1 ft next to our leg and stretch the other leg forward. We repeat with the other one. And And now we are going to lie forward with both legs stretch. It is important to extend the knees as well. Then we bring, again, 1 ft to stretch to one side. And then to the other We open the legs and stretch forward. In all these exercises, it is important to respect the limits of our body. It should not hurt when we stretch. Next, we're going to do the garland pose to stretch the inner part of the legs and hips. We get up and sit with one leg above the other in 90 degrees holding ourselves to the wall. We repeat on the other side. Following that, we stretch the calves with one leg and the other. We continue bending one leg forward, and the other is stretched behind. This exercise is also to stretch the calves. We repeat with the other leg. Now, we stretch one arm to one side, being careful not to lift the shoulder and we bring it back. We do the same with the other We take a deep breath and exhale upwards. We bring the body down and swing to the side. This is very good for stretching the neck and helping us relax. We slowly rise and elongate the neck to one side. I repeat on the other side. We do a few circles with the shoulders, moving them backwards, and we're finished. 56. Recap & Further Advice : Thanks so much for finishing this course and for making it all the way through here. I hope that you enjoy it and congratulations for learning the foundations of the shuffle dance. With the knowledge that you have acquired, you are ready to dance at festivals, dije shows, and at the club. I recommend to come back and retake any of these lessons if you feel that you need to practice or to focus in anything particular about the technique. It's a good habit to come back every now and then. To keep improving your moves to make them to look sharper. To do a recap of the course and all that we learn, you remember we started talking about the basis in the shuffle dance. Then I show you a warm up routine. Then we started with the foundation moves like the running man and Shaper running man, the T step, and its variations, the diagonal running man, the Charleston, the criss cross, the B, and W step. And we also practice transitions, glides, and spins. Then we talk about the importance of adding your arms and shoulders to your dance. We went through the differences between doing a freestyle, a combo, and a choreography. We practice some combos, a choreo, and we also talk about personal style. I show you an example of a shuffle session how important is to go to the lab, but also to practice your flow. And finally, we perform stretching routine that you can use after your sessions. What an amazing journey that we took together. I'm so happy for your progress and for being part of this lovely shuffle community. Before saying you goodbye, I want to share with you that I will be launching a level two of this course. So once you feel ready to move to the next level, you will be able to learn new moves and more challenging combos and choros. So please keep in touch through Instagram. You will find me as floor shuffles. And I will let you know through my social media when the next level is ready. Please tag me if you post any of the combos or the choreo of this course, I would love to see you and to repost you. Also, I want to recommend a challenge that you can do by yourself for one month. That is to commit to shuffle every day at least for 15 minutes. I guarantee that you will see a big improvement in your dance. I did this challenge after shuffling for two years and a half when I opened my Instagram account, and I can tell you that I saw a big improvement in my dance. This is the video of the challenge, if you want to see it. I'm crazy. So you keep for you to leave. Back on the dance floor bad enough to take me home to get so hot day into my bet, friend, kissing on the floor. Weboy Thank you again, and please keep dancing.