Running Man (Beginner) | Shuffle Dance Tutorial

that's a running man but that's not why you're here you're here to learn how to shuffle so my mission is simple taking you from not knowing how to shuffle to start doing the running man and begin your shuffle journey so now yes that's the running man we want not the other one and now to get started we're going to open our legs a little bit like this okay so it doesn't matter which foot you have in the front the most comfortable you're now with so my case i have my right foot in the front my left foot in the back that's going to be our first position okay and we're going to call it final position and it's important that you balance your weight in between the two legs so i don't want you to be like this recline on your back leg or very straight forward your body weight is in the core so to have it aligned you have to have this part of your body like your abs your your back in the middle okay and then our second position will come from taking the front one to the middle aligned with our body and the other one up here okay so screenshot this moment this is going to be our second position which we'll call the intermediate position so the runnerman consists in these two positions we'll be repeating that with each leg and we'll end up having the running man in a loop like the one you're seeing right now now we're going to change the two positions let's go back to the first position we have this is the final position of the running man and now we're going to do like a little hop a little jump to change the position to go from this final position to the intermediate position so we're going to bring this one to the middle and the back foot always the back foot is the one going up okay not the front one the front one comes to the middle the back one goes up and we're going to do a little jump we'll hop and we're going to this position and we need to stay here okay it's important that you do the two moves simultaneously so when you start moving the front one or the back one the other one goes along so three two one at the same time simultaneously again one and two and then if you look at the back leg when it comes up the knee i bring it up to more or less my hips okay so we're in this position we do and imagine like you have like an invisible line around your hips that is going like this and you're going to bring the knee more or less to this line okay we bring our knee up and and now once we're here we have to go down again so the one we have up we're stomping and the one we have in the middle we're sliding back okay we're also going to do a little hop here and we got again to the final position now we are in the same position we started with but with the other leg so we have if i had the right one at the front now we have the left one and same will happen the other way around we're now in this position we're going to repeat the loop but with the other leg so remember back foot is going up the front one is coming to the middle and now this one we stomp and we slide back two now as you can see we are exactly in the same position we started with so you start with the right foot in the front you have now your right foot on the front and if you had your left in the front you're having the left in the front again so now it just consists in looping the two moves stomping and sliding with the right stomping sliding with the left and we change that and we'll get this loop with the running man so let's do it back foot up and stomp one and two and three and four remember if you're like feeling that you're losing balance it's because you have your weight in the wrong position so remember imagine there's a length here that goes throughout your body and this line should be right in the middle right in between the feet when it comes to running on practice there are several things that you need to be looking forward and have to pay attention to first thing moves have to be simultaneous okay so both movements at the same time that's super important because when people think they have it and they start accelerating it they just start on synchronizing and you should be paying attention to this so the two moves at the same time we're here final position one and two move at the same time simultaneously when you start the other one starts to two and three and four okay it doesn't matter which side are you looking okay it's the same one and two and three or you look to the front and one and two and three and four if you want to end up having a really good running man this is a very important point now there's another point i haven't explained yet in this video which is that your toes yeah your feet need to be looking straight need to be looking forward so if i'm looking to you now right now i'm looking to the camera look at my feet are straight they're not like looking to the outside yeah or to the inside in shuffle we have steps that we pivot so it's very easy to have one foot or two feet looking outside or inside but for the running man we have to keep them looking straight why because the running man as its name says is like a person running okay so we run we have our feet looking forward okay when we walk we have our feet always looking forward we just don't go like walking like this if there's someone who walks like this on purpose please let me know in the comments but i don't think anyone just walks or runs like this so this is a very important point now i'm doing the running and looking forward looking to you so if you see my feet are always in every step of the running man they're always looking forward they're always looking straight so and one repeat with me and two and three and four it doesn't matter when you do it slow or when you speed it up yeah they're always be looking forward now again that's the basic running man so the balance there's this is another point remember has to be in the middle yeah it doesn't matter which leg how are you orientated and how you balance you can just bend a little bit your knees okay to have this control of your body so being like this maybe it's more difficult to control where your core is but if you bend a little bit your knees it'll be more easy for you to just control your body weight and your body placement so having this little knee bending will help you a lot now maybe you're struggling dragging yeah doing like this slides in the running man if it's being very hard for you i just recommend you to do jumps like little jumps so when you change the position you don't need to like drag and have like all this friction going on yeah so i just recommend to get the starting position this final running man position and just do a jump and go to the intermediate one and and do another jump it doesn't matter it's not fast now just looking to learn the running man and have the positions right so we're here one and slowly jumping two and three and four doing the jumps will help you clean the steps and clean the position yeah so when you jump you can make sure everything is okay your feet are aligned or your weight placement is okay yeah now we do the other one boom as i said we don't need to be like dragging having all this friction so also depending on the floor for example this floor is a bit sticky so if i was dancing here i would just be jumping a little bit more so i can avoid having this friction and now the most important point is the speed okay so maybe you're starting to get it and you just want to speed it up and shuffling is a fast density so you want to speed up you want to get on beat but getting the speed right and fast is very hard to do it right at the first time so i just recommend to don't rush the speed okay when you practice the most important thing you need to be looking for is find a speed that you can maintain and then try to keep pushing that speed little by little and don't get used to do it fast then slow them fast and slow because you need to be constant okay when we dance music has a pace and we need to continue that pace and that speed for a one minute dance round whatever is the duration of the round so we need to be okay keeping up with this speed so imagine this is the first time you're trying your running man that's why you're in this tutorial maybe probably now we're here and you only can do this speed and one and two and one and two then that's your speed right now when you are very used to this speed you'll feel that you can start speeding it up okay to speed up i recommend you to not drag because friction always will create your resistance and resistance for when you want to go fast you want to try to avoid it okay when you start gaining control over the steps you can do pretty much whatever you want but right now the easiest thing to gain speed or to try faster paced running mans you just need to hop so try to avoid dragging that's something that i was struggling a lot when i was learning and when i discovered this thing of the jumps it's just i was like enlightened just in a moment and i was like oh okay now i get how to do it fast and clean you're gonna do it faster start doing with the hops okay and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and now when you start getting fast it's just you need to get used shuffling is super intense it's very cardio you need all your body ready to go and being able to maintain this speed over the time so this will be more like a sensational feeling you'll have when you're doing the running man where you feel oh i really can start doing it faster okay but just don't rush it focus on doing it better than the last day than the last day and this way is how you improve it now at the beginning now i'll do like a speed up running man from really low to like normal or high speed in shuffling okay so you can see how could be the process like but as i said don't rush it this is just for you to see and to have something a reference for the speed okay so we're starting here and one and two and three and four i'm splitting up one and two and three and four and one two three four one two three swing up one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three faster one two three four one two three four even that for me now i'm like hard breathing going fast is demanding so just take it slow this is not a race not a competition for anything you need to learn it properly don't rush the speed speed will come and once you get the speed you'll not lose the speed so it'll be fine and depending on when are you seeing the video in my channel there's a tutorial focused only on how to speed up your shuffling that's my other step let me know in the comments if you got the running man right thumbs up if you got it as i said that's the beginning of your shuffle journey first first time welcome to the shuffle community it's great having you here on board there's an incredible shuffle community so subscribe to the channel you'll find here a lot of more tutorials or more things to learn about shuffling so if you're starting out and you just don't know where to learn or what direction follow you can find a lot of things here in this channel i don't have anything else to say so enjoy your shuffle journey nice having you here and i'll see in the next video bye [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 18 2022