Ravenhairedbellydancer
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For a while now Ive been trying to master what I consider to be a perfect shimmy, I can definitely shimmy and its not too hard becuz i have a great deal of fat on my lower half but obviously simply being able to shake my fat doesnt equal a good shimmy. The first shimmy I fell in love with was one I saw Shakira do on her Live and off the Record DVD( during Ojos Asi) and i studied her posture and realized that she did in fact have her knees bent, I had previously thought she didnt..the shimmy was even, loose and very well defined around the hips, there was a definite up and down motion of the hip with each shake of the shimmy and it was not a 3/4 shimmy. Anyway I got Veena and Neenas DVD and took note of their shimmy, Now, they teach it with a bent knee but when they themselves in the dvd get to shimmying themselves they go straight legged! and their shimmy looks somehow stiff, something just looks wrong with it to my eye, its a very vibrating shimmy but its stiff and they alsmost seem uncomfortable.. is that how a straight legged shimmy always comes off?, and then I recently saw Amira Mor shimmying and she also has a really good shimmy but one of her dancers had a even more defined one than she( and it was very rapid but still defined.... what is it that makes a shimmy defined,, is it how much ur rasing your hip when your alternating knees?? and also i find that just vibrating my thighs back creates a shimmy and when i try doing it back and forth rapidly its very ungraceful becuz i have pretty big thighs and butt and i can hear them lol,, anyone have any remedies or suggestions about this,, or am i doing somethign wrong.....?