Shimmy Like Shakira

I hear this all the time: How do I shimmy like Shakira?

Well, that will take a lot of practice (after all, she has been dancing since she was a child), but learning the basic shimmy is quite simple, and once you start practicing it everyday it will become like second nature.

This video from Kimber on YouTube shows you how to get started with your shimmies and then incorporate shimmies into different moves:

As Kimber shows, you need to start off doing the basic movement quite slowly and then build up speed. As soon as you feel like you have lost the flow of the shimmy, slow it down and speed it up gradually again.

Kimber says you should never lock your knees, and this is excellent advice in all your dancing, as locked knees can often cause injury. If you were to take classes in Egypt you would find some teachers insist on straight legged shimmies (and some dancers find it easier to shimmy this way) but personally I think it is better to avoid unnecessary injury – and shimmies with unlocked knees look a lot more relaxed and effortless anyway!

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