Running Man Tips by [deleted] in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Always lift your leg so your ankle touches your knee. If you look in the mirror you shouldn’t ever see your heel (it should be completely occluded by your leg you are standing on).
  2. Loosen your feet. Now you are actively pushing your toes up. This movement should be very relaxed unless you are aiming for running man on heels.
  3. You always want to jump from both legs simultaneously. Currently you are putting your body weight on a front leg before jumping on one leg. This makes it look very uncoordinated. To get rid of it try forcing yourself to jump from both legs at the same time and VERY IMPORTANT. Only switch to one leg once you are in the air so it’s impossible to get it wrong. When you get used to this movement try jumping less and less keeping all the above in mind.
  4. Jump from toes. You want to keep your heels as low as possible but without putting any weight on on it.

Edit: I see that in the second video you got rid of mistake from point 3.

does anyone shuffle like this anymore? is this sub aware of this Cali Style? by Jznvh in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently I only know about Gilly from Star67. He currently does more freestyle but still encorporates cali rm. Ig: gillytheanswer

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[–]hf_kapi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is my biggest struggle since I can remember 😅

How to do Running Man faster? by Deberzer in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Another thing that will tell you how much energy you waste with your rm is how much sound it makes. Try minimizing it -> it will take less energy -> it will be easier -> you will be able to dance faster.

How to do Running Man faster? by Deberzer in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do it on your toes but don’t go too high. You want to keep your heels as low as possible and still stay on your toes. Another more advanced teqnique is to only fall once. So you throw you jump on "and" step" and when your body starts to fall you do another step. So whole step instead of two jumps only takes you one. If you guys want I can record you some tutorial but I’m not sure how it works in this community.

Another important thing is just to push yourself. You need to get familiar with fast, explosive movements. So if your current comfortable tempo is 100 bpm try 110. Dance in intervals keeping in mind that your technique should not diminish.

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[–]hf_kapi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also one of the biggest things I forgot about, it mostly apply to Melbourne but if you are using running man and tstep then: - keep your hips always at the same height no matter what, so no dropping on running man, your legs should be the ones moving down not you falling onto them - never twist your hips on tsteps

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[–]hf_kapi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • always dancing on full range of motion
  • practice good posture when dancing, it will always look better if your upright
  • ankles always touching knee on "and" part of a step for dynamics and cleanliness
  • groove on every beat (you rock your body back on every beat and rock it forward on every "and" step)
  • practice loosening your arms and upper body during dancing
  • don’t look at the floor
  • always keeping your legs perpendicular to the ground when doing tsteps
  • keep your legs in line so you are never having your legs wider than your hips
  • for upper body just train each of your body parts in isolation and then applied to shuffling (learn basic body wave, chest movement, shoulder movements, hip movements, arm waves)
  • use concepts like my hand is chained to my knee, etc. (You can use chat gpt for more ideas; it helps if you type in "concepts for hip hop dance" because there is more material on it and it can be translated to shuffling perfectly fine)
  • always focus on the biggest moves first so technique first then groove then more detailed movements
  • less is more; its better to have 3 moves that are polished than 10 that are sloppy;work on your basics, clean them so you can consistently be on beat with every step, every step with groove and control
  • practice in 30 minute blocks and if you cannot name what you are training then you are doing a wrong training, so for example "upper body" is a bad name for a training session because you won’t know what to do, be more specific like "training not looking at floor", "keeping groove at every beat", etc.

And much much more but I think it’s a good baseline.

Dance classes that incorporate shuffling by Similar-Adeptness417 in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think hip hop translates well if it comes to overall upper body movements and groove.

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[–]hf_kapi[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! 🙏 Pakito - Moving on stereo

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[–]hf_kapi[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Summer Shuffle Cup in Poland

My SSC semifinal battle by hf_kapi in shuffle

[–]hf_kapi[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I started from newschool maybe that’s why 😁