Video: Belly Dancing Choo Choo Shimmy: Weight Shift

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Alternate the hips when shifting weight for a belly dancing choo choo shimmy. Learn how to do a belly dancing choo choo shimmy with a weight shift in this free dance video from a belly dancing director.

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Let's practice our Choo Choos Shimmy with shifting our weight very distinctly. Let's first review with our feet flat on the ground, the knees are going to be soft, and pulling the belly button and lift your chest. We're going to be doing a weight change with each hip alternating, just like in our bump or weighted hip lift. So we're going to take this little motion here and we're going to shift right, left; right, left. First, get that going, make sure you have your weight evenly distributed side to side and then go up on your toes as much as you can. And then little faster right, left; right, left; right, left; right, left. And then you speed it up. If you look down at the feet, you can see that I'm shifting the weight and I'm really using my side muscles to pull the hip up in toward my rib cage. You want to keep the chest nice and still so that you really see what the hips are doing. Make sure those ankles are pulled in toward each other. You don't want to have little pigeon toed feet, that won't be very pretty. Make sure everything stays lifted nice. Just like you're floating over the ground. So practice that in the mirror and watch your posture.

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Belly Dancing Choo Choo Shimmy: Weight Shift

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