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Thank you so so much. I am truly honoured and humbled by your kind words. I have not actually performed much lately, as I had to focus on my work and studies. It is only recently I decided to start this ShimmyFitz channel and I dug out my old videos to share here. However I will keep practising and also keep learning so that I can share more and hope to help others improve their dancing too! I am truly honoured that you like belly funk and you enjoy my routines! To be honest, I am very touched with the support that I am getting online from viewers like yourself. When I was sharing my belly funk locally, very few people seem to like it, my classes only had average 2-3 students, and did not last long, and closed down after about 1-2 years. Even when I tried to share my ShimmyFitz workouts, I didn't get any regular signups. So that's why now, I just do occasional ShimmyFitz workshops in the studio instead of regular classes. But I am so surprised that there are a few subscribers who have told me they really like my routines and like my shimmies. I have never had anyone in real life tell me that my style of dancing is good and no one ever said that they were impressed with my shimmies. So I thought I was just below average. I only started this channel because of ONE lovely lady who reached out to me online who encouraged me to keep sharing more. So truly, I am very touched and humbled by your comments as well as lovely comments by other viewers. Reading these comments make my day and keep me motivated to share more and choreograph more. Thank you again 🥰

To be honest, I was never taught how to shimmy fast.... I learnt the basic shimmy techniques, and then I just practised on my own and I found I was able to shimmy very quickly. So it came as a surprise to me when a few people who viewed my videos (like your beautiful self) complimented me on how fast and strong my shimmies were. That was when I was inspired to start sharing more shimmy videos. So I'm doing my best to break the process down and I hope to share more tutorials on how to shimmy and improve. To answer your question - you mustn't go tight, otherwise you won't be able to move your muscles easily. So your muscles must be relaxed but not loose. However, at the same time, you must engage your core (abs) in order to have a strong posture so that you don't hurt your back. So basically - engaged core with relaxed muscles. I am not sure if you are able to tell the difference, so if you do understand and can do it, great! For beginners who can't differentiate muscle engagement and tight muscles, I am planning to release a tutorial video to explain the difference and how to identify which is which. For now think about pulling your ab muscles in, but keep your knees relaxed so you can shimmy.

@@ShimmyFitz First, thank you for replying. I appreciate it. I agree with the others because your shimmies are that strong. makes me hope one day I could do it like you can and just go that fast. it is beautiful to see and try every time 🤣💞💞 I will keep following and also with your help, I know my shimmy will improve and get stronger and last longer in no time. inspire each other. So you just caught on quick and from that moment on, just never stopped. I love it. ok so engage the core, but keep other muscles relaxed. I will keep note on that, thank you. I know it takes time to get used to that but I am determined. Please do tutorial on this shimmy how you can engage the core, and use the legs to drive the vibrations like you do and also how you drive the booty to vibrate so fast and so big too ok? if you do not mind? like I said before, I practice in mirror after I watch your videos and I feel I am getting better. Just my glutes does not move much. so hope you can make a long video to explain how to make it move so fast, but also have big movement as well. Thank you so much and also after do a tutorial on this. Make a fun video on just all about the leg shimmy booty vibration for fun. see how you do. thank you. with love from United Kingdom.

I am glad to hear that your shimmies are improving! I am actually working on a tutorial about how to improve leg shimmy, exactly as how I explained to you above. I just need to find the time to do it properly 😅

Thank you! I am so happy to know you enjoyed this choreography! I appreciate your messages and I am glad to hear that you are inspired to keep dancing! Happy shimmying! 🥰

@@ShimmyFitz 💓💓 thank you. And I will keep dancing and follow your choreographs and shimmying a lot. It is so much fun 💓💓💓

Thank you so much, you are too kind 🤗 I'm trying to find time to make more videos, for now I can only release 1-2 new choreo a month. 🥰

@@ShimmyFitz Hi sis. you are so welcome 😍🥰🥰🥰 Well any time you can share videos, me and others truly be appreciative. I do know how much you work, like me, we are always busy with work and do not ever have much time to do anything in our lives that we love to do like dance or spend time outdoors, etc or even just resting at home haha. But yes, please keep doing what you do and hopefully you can get your girls back in the studio to do super long videos together to different songs, shimmy challenges together. be great to see too. Love you sis. have a great day.

Muchas gracias! Thank you so much for taking the time to write a comment. Your comment really made my day 💓 I'm very happy to know how much you like my videos and choreography! It is thanks to lovely ladies like you, that I am motivated to keep choreographing and to continue sharing my videos. I'm sorry I can't write Spanish. I used Google translate for your comment. Please do continue to share your thoughts, I will reply when I can. Happy dancing and happy shimmying!!

Thank you for your kind comments! Yes there are a few different kind of shimmies, I plan to share more tutorials about the different shoulder/chest shimmies and how to practice those. To be honest, I was never taught how to shimmy fast.... I learnt the basic shimmy techniques, and then I just practised on my own and I found I was able to shimmy very quickly. So it came as a surprise to me when a few people who viewed my videos (like your beautiful self) complimented me on how fast and strong my shimmies were. That was when I was inspired to start sharing more shimmy videos. I appreciate your messages and I am glad to hear that you are getting stronger! Keep shimmying 🥰

@@ShimmyFitz Hi. Just commented on your newest video. And seen your reply here too. I will be excited to see more videos on shimmies when you do share the content of your shimmy fitness. Well shimmy, I am sure when you was being taught or learn how to shimmy, it was not about how fast, it was all about the technique like you said, and once yu get used to the movements, then you can go so fast like you can do. For I will say you go like the fastest ever. I remember seeing a belly dance performance here in Davao City here, And few girls performed, it was beautiful to see because belly dance is not highly popular here like it is with twerk, hip hop, zumba, which so many girls like but Belly dance is up there too, just not the main dance. But the performance was great but your belly dance is many times better than what I saw in Davao City. I thank you for the lovely compliments. I am so happy that others love your dancing, shimming just as much as I do too. And that it keeps you motivated to share many more. I just hope you can get more girls to join with you in class like you did few times before on this channel. Thank you once again for sharing your beautiful videos. Happy Shimmies always and Yes I am getting a little stronger thanks to you. I give all the credit to you 💞💞💞🌹🌹🌹🌺🌺🌺

@@jademermaid8869 You are way too kind! I am not anywhere near professional level when it comes to performing... I'm just out there having fun. 💃🏻 I'm glad to hear you are improving in your shimmies!! Keep working on it. I hope to be able to view your dancing! I am thinking of ways to set up an online community so that we can share videos among ourselves 🥰

Thank you so much! I don't have that much free time but I will try to squeeze in time for dancing whenever possible 😅💃🏻

@@ShimmyFitz oh I know that sis for sure how busy we both are. But any time you can post, that be great. you know you have my love and support always. Hope your having a great day today.

Thank you so much! I will keep practising for sure, just that I won't share unless it looks good enough 😆😆😆 otherwise I will invite tok much criticism instead and get demotivated!! Do keep practicing your shimmies too!

@@ShimmyFitz Hi. If people dislike or criticize your videos, they can go somewhere else. tiktok is cancer to social media, same with twitter. I do not even go on those things ever because it is just horrible! But please keep sharing here youtube. upload. all your videos, dancing, shimmyfitz are so stunning Zyenhoo. And again, the shimmies, I have practiced and gotten a little better slowly but it is improving thanks to you. But still long way to go to catch up to your speed and endurance but more practice, more I will be able to hopefully. Thank you so much and shimmy, shake that thing Zyen all you got any time. With love from Philippines.

Thank you so much for your kind compliments! I was so hesitant to share this actually because the video did not quite turn out like I wanted. (Wait until you get to the end, you will see what I mean!!!) But I had my heart set on sharing the workout, so I decided to share it anyway. I learnt a lot from making this video and I will try to plan for better workout videos in the future! I am glad you enjoyed the choreography. I am still practising my shimmies, I still feel that there is much for me to improve. I am trying to think of ways to encourage and motivate more of us to shimmy together. I am so humbled by your kind words. I hope all is well with you! Do keep me posted about your shimmy practice. Happy shimmying! 🤩💃🏻🥰

@@ShimmyFitz Well I be honest, even if you make videos that you feel is not the best or turn out messing up on choreograph or anything like that, just smile and laugh and keep on dancing, shimmying. I enjoy all your shimmy workouts. Well, the more you share, videos posting, more ladies will follow along. I did more shimmy today practiced with your videos, it will take time for me to get more comfortable and get stronger, build on endurance of it. but I will get there thanks to you. So keep shimmying more and share. Love it so much.

Thank you for the encouragement! I'm so happy to know you enjoy my shimmy videos. I will definitely keep working on producing and sharing more ❤️💙💜

Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. I am certainly doing my best to keep sharing. I hope more people would be able to shimmy and to dance. I'm just doing my best to share what I can for a happier, fitter community!

Glad to know you love the choreography! Please feel free to shimmy along everytime you hear this song on the radio!! 🤩

Thank you so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed this choreography! Also, thank you for the suggestions! I will look into those. For now, I have made some videos with choreographies of other songs which I have scheduled for release over the next few weeks. I'm trying to share my old choreographies which I had posted on my old channel - now I'm reshooting and re-releasing on this new channel, so that has already been scheduled. So, please don't be offended if I haven't released any new choreo with your suggestions yet - I will work on them and once those are done, I will release them too!

@@ShimmyFitz Hello. nice to hear from you. Oh that be great to see all the videos you done in past and will upload soon. I was just sharing the song suggestions for future references if you like the songs that is. So just take care of what you got going on right now. I just wanted you to listen to the songs, see what you think of them and go from there later down in the future. but yeah I am so happy to see your other old choreographies and dancing, shimmy fitness. I am stunned how you can shimmy that strong. one of the best shimmies in the world is from you.

thank you for supporting my sis. she deserves it 100% @livingangel3025

Thank you for your kind comments! To be honest I "cheat" by taking tiny breaks during the leg shimmy - I can't quite do it nonstop yet. With the tiny breaks, I'm able to keep going for quite a while. I'm still practising and building my stamina to try to do it nonstop 😁 Keep shimmying! I honestly don't even mind if you are able to shimmy better than me. My only aim here is to share choreography to inspire more people to dance and shimmy together!

@@ShimmyFitz Your welcome shimmyfitz. Well cheat or not, you do so well with it on the shimmy. Like you say, not quite nonstop yet, but you will eventually. And thank you for inspiring me and other women in the world that need this dance in our lives for so many women in different countries struggle for freedom and being held down and not able to do these things for fun, for fitness. So we should look out for our women and young girls across the world and build them up and have fun in life with your shimmyfitz fitness. Thank you.

thank you for the support @jademermaid8869 please keep commenting and liking her videos. she deserves it

@@lorenagarciadance78 for sure I will. Always. she is a sweetheart.

Thank you! I'm glad to know you enjoyed it! 🥰 Keep on shimmying!

Thank you! 💖💖💖

I am so glad you like it!!! How you like that? How we like that! (pun intended) Thank you for you lovely comment!! I will do my best to keep sharing more workout choreography!

@@ShimmyFitz Please keep sharing these amazing videos. Thank you for sharing! I will say, still getting used to all this but I did not think with shimmy, I did not know much about belly dance. I was into like reggaeton, twerk, classic hip hop, but I never knew you could make booty shake that fast with this movement. I found something better than all those dances and it is thanks to you. I am so excited to drill and learn this to my maximum capability.

Thank you! You are way too kind!! ❤️

@@ShimmyFitz 💓💓💓 you are so welcome. Keep up this beautiful dancing always. I was going to say, could you add shimmy to the latin dancing? I seen some women in the latin dance like salsa, bachata, merengue, do shake it up a lot and shimmy at times, both chest and hips, legs. so do you add shimmy to it or could add it to the latin dance often?

I will see if I can try to combine both shimmy and latin! It has occurred to me but I have not really tried it yet. I will experiment and see if I can share the results of my experiments here!! 😀

Thank you so much 🤗 I was actually in half a mind about whether to share this or not, because I felt that it could have been better. I'm glad you enjoyed it!!! I don't feel so cringe now. No, I don't perform at events like this anymore. Nowadays I just perform at my own small studio parties which I organise with my students, just to keep myself active with choreography and performance. Interestingly, my students I refer to are actually Latin Solo. I've tried to introduce my ShimmyFitz choreography to them, but they say it's not their preference, and they prefer to stick to their Latin Solo classes 😅

@@ShimmyFitz Oh girl do not ever feel that way. You are way to gorgeous and so beautiful in this dance. Never feel cringe or anything. You dance way better and make the dance look so much fun and elegant compared to a lot of professional belly dancers who do this for a living. Well please keep dancing, shimmying my friend. You are so awe-inspiring! and at time in class, your girls are amazing too. Even if it is not their preference, can they still join you in the shimmy for fun? and still do latin which your latin is so cool too. But shimmy is just more impactful. thank you 💓💓💓💓

You are way too kind 🥰 You sure know how to inspire and motivate people! I will do my best to keep on shimmying. I will occasionally invite my students to join me in the shimmy from time to time too!

Thank you for taking the trouble to write such details in your lovely comment! I am very selective in the songs used, and it makes me happy to know that you liked every song, as well as really enjoyed the workout! Comments like yours inspires me to keep working on more choreography and workouts! 🥰

@@ShimmyFitz Thank you for sharing because if it was not for you. I probably would not be interested in dancing or doing fitness but coming across your channel and you focus mainly on shimmying and I did not know much about the benefits of it. But it sure is worth it and You give me the courage to get up and do what I can. I am in my late 30s. I have been feeling like I am slowing down. Not like I used to be in my early 20s. but With you. I am now fully invested in this. For songs. I do not know really what to request if you do take any? I just like the remixes of the classic songs. So if I find one, I will comment and share. Thank you.

Wow... I feel so humbled by your words 🥰 I am touched and honoured that you found my channel inspiring to get up and dance. It is my vision to help ladies to stay active and to enjoy dancing! I'm in my 40s now, so I know what it's like to feel like we are slowing down. We can't do crazy active stuff as we used to! I've got so many injuries all over as well, so I'm trying to find ways to stay active without the possibility of high impact injury. Yes, feel free to share any suggestions of songs. You can share the original song and I will look for a remix, or you can even share a remix if you have found one. Thank you again for your lovely comments. 😘😍

OMG! Your comment just made my day. I am so humbled and honoured by your kind words. There are days when I question whether I should keep going, and encouragement from lovely people like you are really what motivates me to keep going. I am so touched that you took the time to write and share your thoughts. Thank you so much for the love!!! 💜💜💜 I truly am honoured and humbled that you enjoy my shimmy workouts and videos so much! Do keep me updated about your shimmy progress!

Hello! Thank you for coming by, and I hope you will enjoy this workout! It's a lesson recording for now, I did my best to try to take high quality HD recording for good audio and video! After this, I do plan to take workout videos that are designed for CZcams, so do look out for those in the near future. I hope you enjoy the shimmy dance workout! Personally I enjoy it because I don't have to jump or overexert myself too much, yet I will be sweating and burning so many calories. I have found that even with some minor injuries (I actually had a slight back injury during this workshop), I can still shimmy without aggravating any injury. But of course, it is important that you get the correct technique and stop immediately if you feel any pain, because there should be absolutely no pain during shimmy movements. I am from Malaysia. I am very glad to meet you virtually! Which part of USA are you at?

@@ShimmyFitz Hello @ShimmyFitz I am glad to hear that. I am excited to try this workout. I hate jumping or running, lifting weights, so when seeing shimmy here, I was like, this is easy kind of but lots of fun. And I love the challenge to go fast as possible on this shimmy. It take time to get fast, but in time i be ready to go super fast hehe. I am from Texas, San Antonio. Thank you for replying. When will you post more?

I'm glad to hear that you like this workout! My goal is to try to provide us with a fun alternative to exercising, while developing dance skills at the same time. I won't be able to post that regularly as I only dance in my available time (I have a full-time job), and ShimmyFitz is something I'm offering for free on CZcams. I will try to share regularly with a mix of various videos like tutorials, short workouts, as well as long workouts. My aim is to try to share at least twice a month. Thank you for your support! With support and encouragement from viewers like yourself, I will do my best to share more!

@@ShimmyFitz Oh ok. That must be tough to do regularly with full time job. So now I know you will not be posting as much as you like because of limited time. I got it now. Thank you for letting me know. I will always be ready when you are and do this amazing workout with you always.

Thank you for your kind words! I am glad that you enjoyed this video 🥰 Yes I do wish you could be here to shimmy with us too! Nevermind, for now, we will shimmy virtually together 😍

@@ShimmyFitz We always will shimmy together whether together there or here virtually. we will always keep each other motivated and keep on shimming. Just wish many girls in your country love shimmy like they do here in the States and other parts of the world. maybe you find more and teach, it is just they might be too shy to try but once they get over the shyness, they would love it and join more lol

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words! 🥰 Unfortunately I am not able to do this every week due to various factors, including time and resources! As this is not my studio, I have to pay for rental and I am not able to run classes for free, so if I don't have enough students, I won't be able to have the class. However, I am planning to try to take more solo videos in venues which are free (like at home!!) so I don't have the burden of cost to worry. I hope to run special ShimmyFitz workout sessions from time to time, so let's hope those will be successful!

@@ShimmyFitz I am sure it will be successful. you are awesome and if anyone does not like this dance, fitness shimmy, super fun workout, the girls are missing out. I hope you can do this when you can. I for one, love this so much. So do what you can, with the ladies in class or at home. You got my support.

That is so kind of you to say! Thank you so much, I am truly humbled by your compliments and support. Encouragement from lovely people like you is what keeps me motivated and keeps me going in this ShimmyFitz journey 💜 Happy International Women's Day to you and let's keep shimmying together!!

@@ShimmyFitz Let's keep shimmying together for sure. Your so welcome. I will keep eye out for your shimmy videos.

Thank you for your kind comments! Personally I do like the song, I thought it's hauntingly beautiful. We can still enjoy the song whether or not we watched or even like the movie 😆 I hope you enjoy the dancing the choreography too!

@@ShimmyFitz Oh for sure. I always love your dancing, choreographies, I wish you could do more shimmies often but in your video you said you are busy and hard to make videos often. I hope you can soon when you can.

Thank you! I am glad that you enjoyed the choreography. 🥰 Thank you for the suggestion about the quarter rotations. I usually include quarter rotations in many of my shimmy workouts (I have a number of old choreography uploaded in my previous channel; I am planning to redo them and reupload the updated videos in this channel). I did not include them this time because I found the time was too short to really enjoy the leg shimmy if I did the rotations 😄 but that's just me! If you feel the quarter rotations are suitable, by all means do include them! I do see your point about the quarter rotations though, so I'll try to include more rotations in the future choreography. Do continue to give feedback! They are more than welcome!

@@ShimmyFitz yes that would be awesome. Video, choreograph was sweet. just always fun to see all angles though. Great work.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the choreography. I did not know that Beyonce is so disliked in UK.... so far here in Malaysia, we are ok with her. I did like that the song is about #girlpower but it is a pity that she has turned off many people. And you're right, I agree that we all should be equal whether men or women! We build the world together, not have it dominated by any one group of people.

To my understanding, leg shimmy can also be done as vibrations, but you have to build up your technique to get there. Without the correct base technique, it will just be a shake or shimmy, without any vibrations. For me, when I first learnt this, my teacher said it was one of the easiest shimmies, and I found it to be easier than a lot of other shimmies. It is also very fun, and I enjoy doing this even if just as a simple warm-up exercise in a cold room 😆

@@ShimmyFitz Wow ok. So you just have to build up the technique, base corrections and lots of practice, you could do vibrations on different types of shimmies I guess. I too love this shimmy the most because its fun and it is kind of easy but the more I practice, the better I will get. Also quick question. So how do some dancers have that big shake or vibration in the glutes? sometimes it looks so small but at times look so big, is it just in the technique or just depends on the power and speed you can make the glutes really move big? thank you.

It is definitely in the technique, which builds up to the power and speed! Without the correct technique, it would be very difficult to build power and speed. However, I also think could depend on the body type and the muscle/fat body composition. People with a little bit more fat are more "jiggly", so with the correct technique, power, and speed, a little movement makes their moves look amazing. Those who have less won't be able to create the same jiggly look, because they don't have the fat to jiggle. And those with high muscle mass and very little fat have even less movement because muscles are too tight and toned. I do notice that some people who are too toned, like athletes, look amazingly fit but they don't usually produce the same kind of vibrations even if they want to shimmy. I think they can still create shimmy movements, but the vibration effects look different. I think that is why usually belly dancers are usually not overly toned. They have muscles to control their movements of course, and a bit of fat which allow them to be able to emphasise the shimmy vibrations. Like for me personally. When I was super toned and fit, I could still shimmy, and I could even hit the speed, tempo, and power. But the vibrations did not look as good as when I had a bit more fat, which were able to emphasise the vibrations. By the way, the above are just my observations. So if anyone has any corrections, I do welcome them. P/S: I hope no one reading this has a negative connotation of fat. I hate it when people talk about 0% fat! That is extremely unhealthy. Everyone needs to have a certain amount of fat in their body, and having fat actually is beautiful and keeps us looking young 🤩

@@ShimmyFitz Wow. Great insight on this. I always wondered that. And you are so right on about that. With how some girls are toned and do vibration, big shimmies, it does not look like they are moving much but some girls that have more fat on the body can do more jiggle and I realize it now. And I agree with you 100% we need body fat on us, having no fat is not good, but also having too much fat is not good either. we need perfect balance. I Just thought of an Idea. With how you described all this. you maybe could do a video and show different in all this. like with the jiggling aspect of the shimmy. with doing few different types shimmies like Egyptian, hip, vibration, one leg shimmy be great try Natasha. What you think? would you do video on this, maybe few videos on the whole challenge on your power and speed and vibration to see how strong you are and if there is a lot of jiggle or not? thanks Natahsa. talk to you soon.

That's a great idea! I will think about making a video about this.

Thank you for your lovely words! I'm glad you enjoyed this choreography. About burning up to 100 calories - yes, it is true, provided that we do the correct shimmy technique and we go all out! I actually track my heartrate when I practice my own ShimmyFitz choreographies. I treat it like a workout. It does vary of course; based on my tracker, my calories burnt ranges between 50 to 90+ within 10 minutes, depending on the routines. So for the choreography that is supposed to be a workout, I try to put in as many shimmies as possible to increase the calories burnt. The calories burnt differ from person to person, as it depends on our shimmy technique, skill, and effort exerted. Even for the same person doing the same choreography, it can differ because we can choose to change our level of exertion. Also, some routines might burn more and some routines might burn less, depending on the tempo of the music and the moves incorporated. My aim is to make ShimmyFitz an enjoyable dance workout, where we use our favourite shimmy movements to fun songs, and burn calories quickly with low impact and high intensity! I will keep experimenting with different moves, different routines, and different songs. I welcome any feedback that would help me do even better!

@@ShimmyFitz I love your input and advice. I appreciate this. I am all in science and love to learn about the body, cardio, fitness, burning calories, how to stay fit, what to watch for and your videos truly help me want to learn more and shimmy with you. So any song, choreograph you do, as long as you add in a lot of shimmies, the more you do, more you burn, I got it. And true, eacn one has different levels so some might burn more than others. And for sure the music and tempo of it is key lol. So a little feedback here. I have to find some songs be great to add to your channel and shimmy choreographs. Different moves? well I have not done this omg since high school with few girls of mine and we would do shake battles where we just do booty shake battles in the girls locker room just few of us. It was just at that time, so popular and big. And we did it for fun, to test each other on the vibration aspect of it and that too, just doing that one movement was a workout on the glutes, legs, core. So good video to try would be, experiment on leg, hip, egyptian, one leg, vibration shimmies, which has best glute movement, big or small movements and also which shimmy would burn most calories in 10 minutes. Hope that help. Thank you.

What a great idea! Thank you, I will see how to incorporate those moves. It would be good to experiment which shimmies would be most effective in burning calories. I have never done booty shake battles (don't have the booty anyway!!) so I probably won't be as good as you and your girl friends 😆

You're welcome! Yes, this shimmy is quite easy to do. The shoulder shimmy is quite different from the chest shimmy, we usually use the shoulder shimmy to match music which has clearer beats and more definition; chest shimmy would be more suitable for moves with vibration rhythm. But the chest shimmy is more than just "shaking boobs", although it does feel like it! I'm working on the chest shimmy tutorial, I will share it when it's ready!

@@ShimmyFitz wow thank you for the tips. I thought it was all same thing on shoulder, chest shimmy. I appreciate that. So shoulder is just to match music but chest shimmy more for vibration rhythm ala drum solos? nice to know. I had no idea. LOL it does feel like it when doing the chest, shoulder shimmy, feels like boobs just shaking but its more than that. But it is cute move and you do great. So when you do chest shimmy tutorial and when its ready, can you do vibrations with chest? share tips on that. thanks.

Maybe for different dancers they have different perspectives about shoulder and chest shimmy. For me, because the shoulder shimmy is much more defined, I do feel it is suitable to match staccato music, with clear beats. Whereas chest shimmy can reach vibration levels, so it's good for vibration rhythm, like in drum solos. I'll do my best to share the chest shimmy tutorial soon 😊 Need to find the time to shoot and edit 😅

@Fitz ok I can see that. different dancers have own style and how they wanna do it. But you did great here. I loved it. I hope you find more time to shoot, edit and post. Your dancing and tutorials are so wonderful that you got to do more dancing and share when possible. So that be great to do on chest shimmy, try how you say the vibrations? try it for fun, test your skills on it. Also I mention before and loved your other shimmy tutorials and classes. One thing, I am not sure if anyone mentioned this or suggested this. But I think another fun tutorial is one that I notice so many people love this in the dance, from dancers, to fans, and so on. Is the shimmy in the hips, legs, but mostly focus on booty how to make larger movements and also vibration. if that is ok if you can do that after chest shimmy tutorial? do a glute shimmy vibration and large movement tutorial? like what be the differences in the two types of movement where its vibration or big movements. Thanks.

Thank you so much! I really am trying to share more, and I'm also practising more on my own to try out different types of shimmies. For the chest shimmy, I think it is possible to do vibration, although maybe not as fast and strong as with the leg shimmies. Especially for ladies who may have a heavier chest, it won't be comfortable to do vibrations for long. For me, I am able to vibration chest shimmies at my own comfortable pace. I will share more tips when I make the chest shimmy tutorial.

@@ShimmyFitz Hi sis ❤❤❤I know you work a lot and it is hard to find time to record, edit, post. I get that. Just do what you can ok? True jaja like me, it would be impossible to do vibration chest shimmies, as well as vibration hip shimmy. Just to heavy but it is fun to do the best I can though. Ok just share when you can sis. Also do vibration hips, chest shimmies, also happy help you more on the clap shimmies challenges too.

Everyone has their benefits and advantages... haha I am unfortunately not as beautifully endowed as you! My only advantage is that I can do vibration chest shimmies 😅 Thank you my dear sis. Let's keep shimmying together!

@@ShimmyFitz Hey sis 😍😍I appreciate the compliment, truly do but you are truly amazing, and beautiful and have so much talent in this. 🤣 I know you can do vibration in chest and hips, legs sis. Just I know you do a lot of work and its hard to find time to dance and edit, post, etc. when you do, you have a lot of love and support. So just do what you can, let's keep shimmying together as you say and I will always be here for you sis and no matter if you get a lot of love or just a tiny bit of love, or even an occasional hater 🤣Always keep shimmying and have fun is the most important. 💯❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

Thank you very much! I'm glad that you enjoyed this video! And thank you for your constructive feedback. It is helpful to me to know whether the back camera angle works. If yes, I can continue to offer classes / online recordings with the back camera angle. I will try taking a recording with a camera for better audio and video quality in the future.

@@ShimmyFitz Yes the back camera angle works great. I would think it be hard to do two angles at same time, like two cameras recording and then post both videos from like back and side or back and corner angle. what do you think? this was great angle and worked perfectly. hope to see more soon.

That's an idea! I have tried this before but to be honest, it was a bit difficult as well because the studio is not that big, and the camera needs to be far away enough to see me entirely from head to toe. When I put the camera at the side, if the camera is too close to me, you can't see my legs in frame. And also unfortunately, the tripod took up space in the studio and the ladies in the studio ended up getting a little squished at one side to try to accommodate the camera, because if THEY get too close to the camera, their heads and bodies will block the camera, which meant that they had to give the camera a wide berth... I felt rather bad for them, and I'd rather they dance without inhibition. So after many trials and errors as well as feedback from various members who watched the recordings, we found that for this studio, the best location and setup for the camera is at the back of the studio, in this current position. If I do have a larger studio setup, then the 2 camera idea would be possible! At the moment I don't have access to that though, and large studios here are very expensive to rent. I have to make do with what I have for now. I do have plans to use different camera angles for my solo demonstrations/workouts (not in class) so there shouldn't be any issues with students blocking the camera, which I'll be releasing soon when I have completed those videos. (They do take a lot of time to shoot and edit!) I would love to hear your feedback then!

@@ShimmyFitz Hi. Good Friday and weekend to you. Thank you for the info there. I can imagine that with the camera set up and not much room. It is best to keep it how you had it here, where it is in back of the room, and then had the girls kind of stand side by side but seperated enough to see you and them clearly. Now not all of them were in video I noticed. So at times, maybe switch them around just for fun. So the back camera angle is great. It works for sure. So class, with the girls, for sure keep in back room back angle, works perfectly. And with your solo videos, tutorials, just keep it close on you I would guess be best too. Because you can always turn around and show different angles with camera close to you. So yes, please keep uploading, be happy to give you feedback for sure. 😻😻

@@divinestarlight8876 Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and comments. It is good to know if this works, and what else I can do to make it better. I will keep working on better angles and better videos! 😍

Thank you very much! I am humbled by your kind comments, and I am so happy to know that you enjoyed this choreography. Also, thank you for your very constructive feedback! It really helps to know that the format of the video I used with the verbal cues as well as the visual descriptions on the bottom right corner are useful. It took a while to put the whole video together because of descriptions at the bottom! If they didn't work, I would not put that anymore in future videos. However, if does work, I can continue to add them in the future. I appreciate your feedback and encouragement! I will continue to share my choreography. Looking forward to more shimmies with you!

@@ShimmyFitz oh no problem. Glad to be here to watch and do best to keep up here. hope you keep posting more.

Thank you for your support! I really appreciate your encouragement and feedback. It keeps me motivated to keep sharing more shimmy choreography 🥰

Thank you! I will be organising ShimmyFitz sessions once in a while, and I will post the recordings here on my CZcams channel. I hope to get more ladies to participate!

@@ShimmyFitz Hi. Thank you for the reply back. My wifi has been going on and off here in UK. being in rural part of the country, sometimes weather causes effect to not sign in often but I am happy to hear you will post more soon. I hope you get more ladies to join, participate. please keep posting, recording, all that when you do. so wonderful to follow and do and watch.

Thank you for your encouragement! I will certainly do my best. In the meantime, I will focus more on my tutorials and choreography as well. Thank you for signing in to check my channel from time to time! I appreciate the support!

Thank you! I hope you enjoy the dance!

Thank you so much for your kind and lovely comment! I am happy to hear that you enjoyed this choreography, and I will love to share more choreography in the future. It is a pleasure to get to know you. Happy shimmying!

@@ShimmyFitz I really enjoyed it a lot. very helpful in details, everything. Pleasure is all mine and will be happy shimmy with you always.

Thank you! My apologies for the poor quality. It was actually a livestream recording. I was just testing to see how it would be like on CZcams. I have actually recorded a clearer version of myself giving verbal cues this choreography just for my channel, and I'm going to be editing these few days. I hope to be able to upload it before Chinese New Year this weekend! Do look out for it!

That is true, a few times overlocking won't cause immediate pain. But still, they can eventually add up. And overlocking will take away the energy of the shimmy vibrations and slow you down. And yes, when we are first learning and practising, we always forget to relax! We tend to hold our breath but that just makes it worse. It sounds like you know what you need to do - but I totally understand that actually doing it is more challenging than learning the theory! This has given me an idea - I will plan on shimmy challenges which we can all do to keep us motivated, to practice together, and to help us all improve in our shimmies. I'm so glad you found my videos helpful. I will definitely make more to share! Stay awesome and keep shimmying!

Thank you so much 🤗 I am glad that you enjoyed this video!!! Keep shimmying!

@@ShimmyFitz You got my love and support always sis so lets keep shimmying as long as we can do it

You're welcome! I am glad that you found this tutorial helpful. Yes, it does take practice, and it's very important to practice the correct technique! Keep going, you will definitely get there!

@@ShimmyFitz Thank you. I will keep practicing and hopefully get there one day. I will keep following you and your tutorials and hopefully improve enough to make videos on the dancing and give you a shoutout for helping me along the way.

Hi Lia! Welcome to my channel, and thank you for your kind comment. I love shimmy too, and I hope to share more! I look forward to seeing you on the shimmy dance floor too!

@@ShimmyFitz Thank you. I will try one day once I am able to last a period of time doing it comfortably without losing endurance and rhythm 🤣 Cant wait to see more of your shimmies here. Thank you💞

Thank you! With support from shimmy lovers like yourself, I would be more than happy to share more shimmy movements and workouts!

@@ShimmyFitz Please do.

Thank you for coming by, and I'm glad you enjoyed this video! I am hoping to share more shimmy workout videos. There will be a combination of different types of videos. Some will be short videos, and some will be long workout videos.

@@ShimmyFitz that sounds great. I hope you can do majority long workout shimmy videos. Just my vote for that. I hope to see more as well. Thank you for replying.

I will do my best to make more of that!

Happy new year to you too! Looking forward to more shimmies with you! <3

@@ShimmyFitz thank you. Lets do it my friend.

Thank you for your kind words! I will do my best to make more ShimmyFitz videos and classes in the coming year!

@@ShimmyFitz That will be sweet. I will keep a look out for it all. I really hope you can do similar videos just like what you done here.

Thank you for subscribing! I am glad you enjoyed the vide! Your kind words have made me motivated to keep doing videos like these. Happy shimmying! <3

@@ShimmyFitz ​ @ShimmyFitz I am sorry for taking so long to get back. I did not see any notification you replied until I just watched this video again just now and seen you replied. I really did enjoy the video and it was fun to do this again. Helps me get more used to the movement and build on my cardio. I hope you do more soon like this. Thank you. 💖💖 my name is Shante by the way.

Hello Shante, thank you for your reply! No worries about the delay in the reply. I have noticed that CZcams doesn't give prompt notifications about comments! I am glad to hear you enjoyed the video. I will do my best to share more. Keep up the shimmying! Much love!

Thank you for subscribing, and thank you for the suggestions! I am glad you enjoyed the video! I will see what I can do to make make more videos and make them more interesting. Happy shimmying!

@@ShimmyFitz your welcome amiga, thank you by the way for sharing. this was amazing. Hope you can do more like this with class, also do solo at times too, I love the long videos like this, 50 minutes, really helps a lot to keep it going and not give up. So please do this a lot more often. Much love sis. Happy shimmies.