How to Do a Vertical Figure 8 | Belly Dancing

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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.

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  • @rockabillychola7654
    @rockabillychola7654 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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!

  • @nilekat
    @nilekat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @hopechristie2332
      @hopechristie2332 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      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/

  • @JadeVamp1986
    @JadeVamp1986 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @beautybumb2857
    @beautybumb2857 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @bethmoreland3705
    @bethmoreland3705 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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 :)

  • @LottieLucid
    @LottieLucid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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!

  • @Spiderwebs5646
    @Spiderwebs5646 12 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    @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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      women empowerment 🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @GreenSong257
    @GreenSong257 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazingly graceful

  • @mslarlo
    @mslarlo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This move....I will master it

  • @camelia8358
    @camelia8358 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @miss-
    @miss- ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mi33slick
    @mi33slick 13 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @annetenorio983
    @annetenorio983 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    very clear instructions, thanks for sharing!!

  • @hayleymaciel2278
    @hayleymaciel2278 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @hotpinksocksX
      @hotpinksocksX 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @wildone1392
      @wildone1392 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's where I'm having problems also!

  • @mrkyburzy
    @mrkyburzy 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thumbs up if youre not learning how to belly dance

    • @Salmakindgirlloveoutoypups4ceo
      @Salmakindgirlloveoutoypups4ceo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

  • @wewyllenium
    @wewyllenium 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm happy now. :D

  • @jupitercricketsprediction8228
    @jupitercricketsprediction8228 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mam your rocking

  • @SPBU-tw1kj
    @SPBU-tw1kj ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @GammelMannn
    @GammelMannn 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    You commenters are so cool

  • @shimmydoll
    @shimmydoll 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @SunderWolf69
    @SunderWolf69 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    You had me at hello

  • @lexi8893
    @lexi8893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @smartgirl9759
    @smartgirl9759 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plz show floor foot moments

  • @aliciabazo9450
    @aliciabazo9450 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    keep that to your oneself

  • @macakStipe
    @macakStipe 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    .....nice video :)

  • @Handgun777
    @Handgun777 12 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Brasileirathelabel
    @Brasileirathelabel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @ΕιρήνηΤσαρουχά-ζ5υ
      @ΕιρήνηΤσαρουχά-ζ5υ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @danakiami7000
      @danakiami7000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

    did anyone ask you go
    go away

  • @xxxshelinaXD
    @xxxshelinaXD 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm unteachable 😢😭

    • @lanacherie184
      @lanacherie184 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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! ^-^