Collegiate Shag Basic - Practice Collegiate Shag - Dancing Fast
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2019
- How to Dance Collegiate Shag Fast is really only about a few things, your efficiency, how you're thinking about your movements and practice! So are you ready to Practice Collegiate Shag with me? Fast? This video goes through different beats per minute practice rounds to help you build up to that next level. I'm doing this solo and you can do it with me, anywhere. So go ahead and practice shag with me! Dance all of them or skip to the speed you want to practice. To keep it easy, we are doing the Collegiate Shag Basic only which is a 6-count but we are doing different variations of the shag basic throughout the song.
***If you're a lead, mirror my footwork. So weight starts on your left and you'd kick with your right. Verses a follow footwork where your weight starts on your right and you kick with your left.
Dancing Collegiate Shag Fast Helpful Hints: 04:44
BPM 170 - Timestamp 06:07
BPM 200 - Timestamp 09:45
BPM 230 - Timestamp 12:46
BPM 245 - Timestamp 16:06
BPM 265 - Timestamp 19:52
BPM 290 - Timestamp 22:00
The band you're listening to is Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander and I talk more about them and how awesome they are here: 02:13 and you can find more about them here: www.campusfive.com/
I started Live.Collegiate.Shag on Instagram to drive interest in the dance and I've had a ton of people who want to learn who aren't near any of the hot spots. You can find a map under Resources here: livecollegiateshag.wixsite.co... if you want to find Collegiate Shag near you.
You can find some of the basic Collegiate Shag Footwork in this video: Double Kick Basic, Step Kick Basic, Kick Butt Basic, Cross Kick Basic, Tap Back Basic, Slide back basic, shag breaks, 3 kick basic (no quick quick) - these are all 6 counts with most of them in the Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick pattern. This is not an instructional video but it doesn't mean you can't learn from watching, also all these footwork variations can be found in vintage clips.
Thanks so much for practicing Collegiate Shag with me. See you on the dance floor
Instagram: / live.collegiate.shag
Facebook: / live.collegiate.shag
You say dance practice I say workout video!! This is the cardio I needed
Totally, it is my fav cardio too :P
That shirt is the original sketch of "Goldy" the Gopher, mascot for the University of Minnesota! (The sketch was based off of a squirrel) I went to school there, what a great vintage shirt!!!
You can see, he has the "M" on his cap!
OMG that's so interesting!!! I LOVE knowing that. Yay. Thank you. That vintage info made my day.
Oh, my, yes. I really, really, really, want to learn to dance.
I am just so shy and I act like a nun when a guy touches me.
I understand. I think that it takes some time to learn to trust the dance community that you enter. I'd suggest trying to find a dance location and just going to watch. See if you feel comfortable and then slowly try to dance here and there. You'll build friendships and eventually trust and then it won't be weird.
GOALS 😍 I only made it through the end of BPM 230, but my goal by the end of quarantine is to follow along with the whole video👌
That's fantastic! You can do it.
You’re a terrific dancer! Thanks for sharing these techniques!
Thank you for leaving such a sweet comment and making me smile. You're very welcome.
I once had a West Coast Swing lesson that just focused on basic footwork. It was great. This one is even better! Thanks!
Awww that's so sweet! Thank you.
A great daily exercise to get familiar with Shag Basics. THANKS! 🙏
You're very welcome! Thank you for the comment! Makes my day to see who really loves this content.
Props for a great instructional video! And double props for not letting a technical malfunction get you down. Pajama Party Collegiate Shag NEEDS TO BE A THING! 😜👍🏼
Hahaha yes! Collegiate Shag Pajama Parties should be a thing... that's such a good idea.
I'm so glad I found this. I will use this for building my skills but also endurance. What an amazingly super fun way to work out. Thank you!!!
Long time Lindy Hoper who has been also working a Bal and some Slow bal this past year .Just getting to a serious attempt to learn Collegiate shag now after years of dabbling with it here and there at workshop classes and taking a short series years back. I am at the point with my Shag where I need to take my own advice I give when teaching Lindy and learn those basics as thoroughly as possible and get good clean basics in my muscle memory and get to the point I where I can also do them in all sorts of directions on the floor. This video with a variety of solid basics demonstrated and the progressive tempo increases is an awesome resource at this point and I am among those setting some goals based on this vid. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Maybe one day I will be able to lead the style well enough to enjoy a Collegiate Shag dance with you at an event one day :) I will be subscribing for sure to see what other helpful videos you have out there. Great job and thank you for making this!
This is what I've needed all my life! Thanks so much, Kendall!
Aww that makes my heart happy xoxox
Hi Chott Andersen, so so agree😆
Love it! ♥️
Cool tutorial! Nice to get a clear video of foot work!
great vid and thx for the shout out at the end.
This is gold! Thank you so much
You're amazing!
You're too sweet! Thank you
🎺 I like playing music for the dancers. So I will have to take a pass on the dance lessons. Cool topic and video editing. 💃
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
As always, thank you for commenting and always being supportive
thank you, wonderful lesson! :D
Love your hair and your dancing is awesome along with your instruction. I’d never heard of collegiate shag so I came here to see it. I appreciate your instruction here for this shag, but I really like Carolina shag a bit more. 😎
This is so useful! Thank-you!!
Yay!!!! I'm so glad.
Great 😍😍😍😍
I can only do the single kick basic so far. But o had extra fun making my salad and soup for lunch
Yay! I'm excited. Let me know if you have any questions as you go through it :)
You look like beauties of the 40s! And of course, you dance amazingly well!
Best shirt !
Hahaha, I agree. So glad it's being appreciated :p
Hi, Been asking and looking for how to practice fast shag and in a random search stumbled on your video, bliss. Been very happy practising to it and now looking forward to scrawling through all the great vintage info and watching the weekly clips. I'm sure you won't mind me sharing amongst the shag community locally here in Leeds and nationaly in the UK. Ta very much
Please share! And I'm so glad you found this video and that it can help. Let me know if you have any questions and thank you so much for taking the time to comment.
Started sharing and already got the first thumbs up from Shag up North our local group in Leeds. Thank you for offering to answer my questions. First :D, eally loving dancing shag and keen to improve. Though even with practice, social dancing and workshops, I get out of synch/rhythm with dance partners. Any suggestions of practice methods or tips to get out of this bad habit of mine? @@LiveCollegiateShag
@@andyhunt3746 that's great! As for getting out of rhythm with a dance partner, send me an email at live.collegiate.shag@gmail.com and I'll give you some suggestions :)
Awesome video!! 👏👌
Thank you so much
This is amazing! I was watching shag loops on tik tok but couldn't figure out the basic step so I searched it on youtube.. I'm pretty positive it was your tik toks I was watching! 😂
Hahaha so far I'm 99% sure I'm the only Shag dancer on TikTok so, I'm sure it was me :) It's nice to meet you and I'm glad you found us on TH-cam too!
Lovely. Greetings from Germany. ❤️
Hello! So nice to meet you!
Très belle danse, merci !
new subscriber hehe I AM OBSESSED. You make this so fun and easily accessible for me to learn :) thank you
I'm so glad you found my channel and I'm glad you're learning Collegiate Shag!!!! How exciting.
@@LiveCollegiateShagThank you so much, I still have a very long way to go, but I am super excited!!!
returning to this channel that I love but due to lack of time I had not been able to practice
Great video! Greetings from munich ❤
Hi 136diejulia from munich! Thank you so much for stopping by, I'm so glad you like the video.
From 30 seconds to 20 minutes. 🤣 . . . This was great thank you so much. I love watching you guys dance, so smooth. My partner and I are just now getting into faster BPMs (200 at most,) this will be great for us. Thanks again!
I'm so glad you guys love shag and are practicing! That's amazing. I'm hoping this video will help people take the leap and start challenging themselves to go faster! Let me know if you have any questions once you start going through it and thank you for leaving this comment
@@LiveCollegiateShag
Honestly, I have a question now. Lol. My girlfriend has crazy legs, kind of like Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz. We're having trouble getting her to keep her "claps tighter." We were thinking about putting those elastic aerobics bands around her ankles or tying her ankles together with a desired slack in between. We were wondering if there was a more conventional way of accomplishing the results we're looking for? We've tried working our way up from about 150 BPM to 200 and she can keep up physically just not rhythmically. Any advice?
@@jimmyjimmy7240 lol don't do the elastic band, it sounds too dangerous. Send me an email at live.collegiate.shag@gmail.com and I'll give you some helpful direction.
Desde que yo era niña, que me ha encantado este tipo de baile! Soy chilena, y este tipo de baile no está en nuestra cultura, pero siempre he querido aprender 😍 Gracias por este vídeo!! 💕💕💕 Tienes una suscriptora más
Awww, I'm so glad
hola giovanna! yo tb soy chilena y hay un grupito q baila shag :D! si eres de stgo escribeme
@@claudia_mldnd Hola!! No tenía idea de eso! Pucha, no soy de Santiago, soy de Conce :(
1) Los 1920s----Charkesto De Los.20
2) Los medicos De Los 20'-- Lindy Charleston
3) 1927--- Lindy Hop
Los 1930s----' Collegiate Shag, . St Louis
Shag, . Balboa,
4) Los 1940s ?
5).Los 1950s---East Coast Swing. West Coast Swing. Carolina Shag
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This year summer 2023 I watched many squirrels in a tree upside down biting branches off a flower tree where they ate the flower then dropped the branch and leaf and the fall of branch was pinwheeling and so pretty as they fell in a close simultaneously drop. .squirrels are adorable.,as well as as natures friendly pest to humans..
Excellent camera shot of your feet!
I wanted to learn this dance style because I love swing....but I dance already in this style to drum'n'bass by instinct XD
Nanette Gries I’m glad you’re naturally talented 😘
very nice, looking 2020
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Many thanks for your video. As a person who is completely new to shag and has had ankle and foot injury issues last year, I would like to ask, do you focus on tightening your abs, or is it tightening the glutes, or something else? I would like to make sure my technique is correct to avoid injury.
Hi Debbie! Thanks for asking. I'd say my core is engaged while I'm dancing but I'm also very relaxed. I'd say I'd be more worried about your foot wear. Make sure you have good arch support in your shoes. Your muscles are going to be sore for awhile from Shag just because it's a completely different movement (people will say they've tried running to get in shape for shag but it never works, the only thing that gets your body in shape for shag, is practicing shag). Have you seen my shoe video? *as for glutes... if you have a large butt like I do, you might have to tuck it or tighten it to prevent it from doing a counter bounce, I had that problem when I first started though most people have that problem with their boobs... our bodies are all so different. Hope this helped. Feel free to ask more questions at live.collegiate.shag@gmail.com
I just love your channel!❤️ Someone in a vintage group on Facebook, recommended your video about pincurls, and since then I have watched several of your videos😊 Just a quick question: where are those lovely shoes from? They look so stylish, yet comfortable😍 Love from Denmark❤️🇩🇰
Awww that makes me so happy! I'm so glad we connected and thank you for commenting. Those lovely shoes I found in a vintage shop and I love them. You can find similar looking shoes from Saint Savoy :) Ronnie has a pair of those that he loves and I want to get a pair in my size! P.S. would love to go to Denmark one day and if we do, I hope we get to meet you!
Great video! Im a lindy hopper who thought it would be fun to learn some shag basics so this is perfect!
One question!
Since im primarily dancing as a leader, should I mirror your steps and start on my left foot like in lindy hop?
Excellent point which I totally forgot to mention! Yes, as a lead, please mirror my footwork. Your weight should start on the left, kick with your right. I hope you enjoy it!
Loving the videos, taking the point of how the leader should go is there any chance you could get your fella to do a similar video to save us mirroring please?
alsooo! if you could do a video on your favorite vintage style dance shoes, id really appreciate it:) thank you so much
Not a bad idea... I'll put it on the list!
@@LiveCollegiateShag yay, can't wait lovely!
Shoes! Yes!
@@georginatoland right? :)
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I wanna learn this so bad but I gotta wait till after my pregnancy, my husband and I are obsessed.
That's so awesome! I'm so glad you're catching the shag bug. Let me know if you need help with anything. And congrats on your pregnancy.
okay so I used to be able to get through it all before quarantine and now I'm here at 230 like :")))
I feel the same :P quarantine has been hard on all of us.
awesome video, will be practicing for a while. I do have a question, how do you train to do the double kick basic. My foot just can't seem to get it.
Thank you Hector. For your double kick don't make the second kick as big as the first. You're almost doing a small pump, or baby kick while your foot is already out there. So try to look in a mirror and see (side angle) if you're doing two full kicks for each double kick. Weird to type this but I hope that makes since.
One of the things our instructors told us about double kick is to just have your foot up and out, then bounce downward, with each bounce your foot naturally pumps downward.
@@xixueyang thank you I will work on this
@@LiveCollegiateShag I practiced without a mirror and looked dow and must have looked silly. I'll work on your pointers. Thank you!
@@hectornaranjo9910 I'm sure you looked fine. Send me an email and I'll send you a quick video to help live.collegiate.shag@gmail.com
Would these steps be the same for male and female? Or is it at least beneficial for both partners to learn?
For leads (often the man) they would do the opposite foot. So they would kick first with their right foot. Where as the follow (often the woman) will start on the same foot I did and the first kick is with the left. I wouldn't suggest learning both at first as it can be confusing. Unless you plan on switching roles. I find it is best to start with one and get good at it before adding other elements. Have fun!
I‘m sweating 😂😅
Totally normal :) Good work.
I look like I jump a lot, what would you advise me? please wait me your answer
Send me a quick message on instagram, asking the same question and I'll send you a little video to help you. :)
@@LiveCollegiateShag ok ❤
I hope we could chat some day.. USA, Mary jean.
We look very much similar.. thank you for any consideration to this message..
What shoes are you wearing here?
Natalie Kohn these are actually vintage men shoes (Arika Nerguiz) that I really enjoy dancing in. Though I’d say Slide and Swing Shoes from Barcelona are a good equivalent. I dance in both often. Have you seen my dance shoe video yet?
As a Brit I was very surprised and weirded out by the title, shag has a very different meaning in the U.K.
Hahaha I can only imagine. Lol what were you searching for to find this if not Collegiate Shag? I'm surprised it came up under anything else. Yes, unfortunately different parts of the world have different meaning but vintage dances have been called the shag for a long time. This dance was created in America in the 1930's by College kids and became popular in the 1940's. What is the history behind the word Shag in Britain? :) I hope this helps make the word a little more innocent or at least it can be a conversation starter the next time you're with friends
You are beautiful 💕
Is this not the Lindy hop?
No, this is not the Lindy Hop, this is Collegiate Shag. Lindy Hop, Collegiate Shag, and Balboa are all in the Swing Dance Family. :)
Dance starts at -18:35. Everything before that is commentary.
What is your name 😘
Stop, you're scaring the cat!
Just a personal show off instead of detailed slow explanation for beginners...to name those moves doesn't help.😵💫👎