How to Do a Vertical Figure 8 | Belly Dancing

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
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    Belly dancing is sexy, fun, and burns up a lot of calories to boot! In this video, belly dancer Irina Akulenko teaches you how to do the belly dance move known as a vertical figure 8. You'll be shaking it like Shakira in no time.
    Now let's try Vertical Figures on both hips form up to down. Keeping the knees bent we're going to lift the right heel off the floor, push away into the right hip. Now we're going to slide it out, drop the heel down, bring the hip down and contracted back in towards the centre. Now we're going to switch our attention from this side to the other side the body, lifting the left hip up, pushing out, dropping the heel down contracting back in. Lifting right, right heel comes up the floor, pushing up, coming down, pulling back to centre, lifting the left side out, heel down and in. Now you want to be careful, when you're pushing out, make sure you're keeping the way on the inside of the foot, you don't want to roll the ankle at all, so you want to stay centred. So once again, you want to keep the chest really havering up, chin up, and this movement should not your upper body whatsoever. So let's try that with music. [music playing] Stepping right, stepping left. Let's try it a little bit faster. So you want to make sure your tail bones are pointing down no matter what and your lower are still engaged and there is no twisting to this motion so it's actually happening just from side to side there is no front or back dimension to it, and the tail bone's tucked down. Once again. For now, I will recommend keeping this out of your chest hyper isolating but sometimes you want to let your chest involved and let it travel into your upper body. So that's how you're doing an up to down vertical figure 8.

Комментарии • 43

  • @rockabillychola7654
    @rockabillychola7654 10 лет назад +22

    I LOVE her skirt. This is a great workout for scoliosis patients. My back was frozen between the shoulder blades where my curvature is. I can move now!

  • @Spiderwebs5646
    @Spiderwebs5646 12 лет назад +26

    @Handgun777 Belly dancing was never meant to be "sexy." Belly dancing was invented to celebrate the woman figure, and boost a woman's self-esteem. But because men and some women find the woman body "sexy" in all, anything involving a woman's body is sexy. If you were to tell a professional belly dancer her performance was "sexy," she would tell you the exact same thing i just did.

    • @Chloe-ul3vd
      @Chloe-ul3vd 3 года назад +2

      women empowerment 🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @JadeVamp1986
    @JadeVamp1986 8 лет назад +24

    I'm really new to all this but I've been wanting to learn this move for years. Now I see HOW to do it and it's not as complicated or impossible like I thought. My question is, how long does it take before I can do this with ease? How manny minutes a day & days a week should I practice? And is there any warmups or exercises you recommend that would help me with this? I'm a couch potato and I have scoliosis so I never exercise (I haven't done a single exercise since high school) but I'm finally going to change that so I can feel better about myself again.

    • @charleschoping7842
      @charleschoping7842 8 лет назад

      I've been researching into belly dancing and discovered a great resource at gabs mover crusher (check it out on google)

  • @nilekat
    @nilekat 9 лет назад +4

    You're a fine teacher, so clear and well paced. As one teacher to another, brava!

    • @hopechristie2332
      @hopechristie2332 9 лет назад

      nilekat Learn the basic bellydance moves and then integrate them into combinations, safely and joyfully discovering your own dance!
      Please visit => bellydancingcourse-new1.blogspot.com/

  • @beautybumb2857
    @beautybumb2857 8 лет назад +7

    Wow! You're a beautiful woman, I love your outfit. Your dance movements are so fluid and sensual, I hope that with practice my movements will be as fluid. This video was a great help.

  • @LottieLucid
    @LottieLucid 8 лет назад +5

    Great videos thank you, they've been very helpful. As I hoop I have found one side is a lot stronger than the other so this will be really good for me!

  • @bethmoreland3705
    @bethmoreland3705 11 лет назад +2

    thank you so much for making this video. i've been wanting to learn how to do that move for years but i never knew what it was called or anything. now i can learn and cross another thing off my bucket list :)

  • @mslarlo
    @mslarlo 2 года назад +1

    This move....I will master it

  • @camelia8358
    @camelia8358 8 лет назад +5

    Great video, thanks :)
    Is it possible to do this move keeping the feets on the floor ?

  • @GreenSong257
    @GreenSong257 13 лет назад +1

    amazingly graceful

  • @mi33slick
    @mi33slick 13 лет назад

    i learnt how to do this from very young, grew up i a dancing family, we dance a lot using our waist and stomach

  • @hayleymaciel2278
    @hayleymaciel2278 7 лет назад +12

    can someone explain to me how I push my hip out without rolling my ankle

    • @hotpinksocksX
      @hotpinksocksX 7 лет назад +5

      it comes from within, complete isolation. focus and internalize ;)

    • @wildone1392
      @wildone1392 3 года назад

      that's where I'm having problems also!

  • @miss-
    @miss- Год назад

    Thanks for this amazing belly dance ..video I have learnt lot

  • @annetenorio983
    @annetenorio983 10 лет назад

    very clear instructions, thanks for sharing!!

  • @shimmydoll
    @shimmydoll 9 лет назад +1

    Is this move also considered a maya? If not whats the difference between the two?

  • @SPBU-tw1kj
    @SPBU-tw1kj Год назад

    Maybe it's hard for the first exercise but just keep exercise until its like so easy

  • @mrkyburzy
    @mrkyburzy 13 лет назад +2

    thumbs up if youre not learning how to belly dance

    • @Salmakindgirl
      @Salmakindgirl Год назад +1

      👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

  • @GammelMannn
    @GammelMannn 13 лет назад

    You commenters are so cool

  • @wewyllenium
    @wewyllenium 13 лет назад

    I'm happy now. :D

  • @lexi8893
    @lexi8893 2 года назад

    I can do this amd I’m chubby! It’s sooo easy

  • @jupitercricketsprediction8228
    @jupitercricketsprediction8228 6 лет назад

    Mam your rocking

  • @smartgirl9759
    @smartgirl9759 6 лет назад

    Plz show floor foot moments

  • @SunderWolf69
    @SunderWolf69 13 лет назад

    You had me at hello

  • @xxxshelinaXD
    @xxxshelinaXD 9 лет назад +15

    I'm unteachable 😢😭

    • @lanacherie184
      @lanacherie184 8 лет назад +2

      +selina rodriguez Keep trying!! I didn't think I could at all. I'm starting to get it and doing hula also helps get use to the movements. If i can u can too! ^-^

  • @Handgun777
    @Handgun777 12 лет назад

    @Spiderwebs5646 I just said an opinion... no need to be "professional" about it.

  • @aliciabazo9450
    @aliciabazo9450 9 лет назад +1

    keep that to your oneself

    • @Salmakindgirl
      @Salmakindgirl Год назад +1

      Excuse you how about you keep it to yourself how about that

  • @macakStipe
    @macakStipe 9 лет назад

    .....nice video :)

  • @Brasileirathelabel
    @Brasileirathelabel 3 года назад +1

    Belly dances was created for women to dance to their husbands after they got married

    • @user-jo5ht8jn2n
      @user-jo5ht8jn2n 3 года назад

      Actually belly dance used to be danced by men as a traditional men's dance.

    • @danakiami7000
      @danakiami7000 3 года назад

      It originated in egypt where they have belly dancers who dance in clubs, etc. I don't think it ever occured to them to invent it solely for wives to dance to their husbands though.

  • @aliciabazo9450
    @aliciabazo9450 9 лет назад

    did anyone ask you go
    go away