Aniseteph
New member
OK, hip shimmies are my weak point. I'm never sure if I'm doing it right. I get the difference between the hip rocking type and "Egyptian" straight legs wobble knees and belly button goes side to side ones. I can walk and make my behind wobble though I'm not quite sure how, or what's going on back there. And I can do an Egyptian walk aka 3/4 shimmy no problem because we broke it riiiight down.
I'm bothered about the plain hip rocking ones ones at speed. My teacher taught us by getting us to focus on making behinds and back of thighs wobble, rather than by keeping to an external beat starting slow and building up. What works for me (and feels right) is really fast. I think it IS actually on the beat, but not in a way you could count out easily. It's all very follow the bouncing butt and organic, but being a geek is that good enough for me? oh dear no. I wondered if learning a slower approach might make life easier, or at least give me options.
Two questions:
1. Is there a good DVD for this? I just started one and it's annoying the **** out of my inner geek because as far as I can see when the instructor goes at full speed she isn't doing what she says she's doing. She counts eight along with the beat, but watching the hips I count six. I am going to get deeply frustrated trying to do 8 if she is only managing 6 herself. Also, if it looks OK with just the six is there any point worrying about "on the beat" if things are wobbling impressively?
2. Is there any point bothering? Do you do full speed shimmies on the beat, or is it more a matter of getting things wobbling where you want it to? Because I think there's physics involved here and we have a natural frequency depending on our anatomy - I wonder if it'd make more sense to work on developing and exploring that than trying to beat it into submission.
Thoughts?
I'm bothered about the plain hip rocking ones ones at speed. My teacher taught us by getting us to focus on making behinds and back of thighs wobble, rather than by keeping to an external beat starting slow and building up. What works for me (and feels right) is really fast. I think it IS actually on the beat, but not in a way you could count out easily. It's all very follow the bouncing butt and organic, but being a geek is that good enough for me? oh dear no. I wondered if learning a slower approach might make life easier, or at least give me options.
Two questions:
1. Is there a good DVD for this? I just started one and it's annoying the **** out of my inner geek because as far as I can see when the instructor goes at full speed she isn't doing what she says she's doing. She counts eight along with the beat, but watching the hips I count six. I am going to get deeply frustrated trying to do 8 if she is only managing 6 herself. Also, if it looks OK with just the six is there any point worrying about "on the beat" if things are wobbling impressively?
2. Is there any point bothering? Do you do full speed shimmies on the beat, or is it more a matter of getting things wobbling where you want it to? Because I think there's physics involved here and we have a natural frequency depending on our anatomy - I wonder if it'd make more sense to work on developing and exploring that than trying to beat it into submission.
Thoughts?