The Melbourne Shuffle dance style involves doing quick movements with your feet to get across the floor. This dance is usually accompanied with electronic music, and it’s a popular one to see in clubs. The Melbourne Shuffle has many versions, but the basic version, which some call the old-school version, usually includes the T-Step as well as the Running Man steps in the dancing. Once you master these two steps, then you can put variations into your foot movements or add arm motions that make your Melbourne Shuffle your own distinct thing.
The second thing to do is to pick up the back foot while moving the front foot’s toe at the same time. You’ll put your weight into the front foot heel while rotating the foot point straight ahead; while doing this, your back foot has to be picked up off the ground. Rotated your front toe towards the back foot so that your foot winds up pointing straight.
If you want to learn how to do the Melbourne Shuffle, then you have to start with the T-step, and that starts with putting your feet in a shape like the letter “T”. If you’re familiar with ballet, that’s the 3rd position. You do this put placing your heels with each other with the toes pointed outward so your feet actually make a “V”. Then, you slide one of your feet forward so its heel is in the middle of the back foot, and it doesn’t really matter which foot is pointed ahead. Click here for more information.
Third, put your back foot down again while you rotate the front heel back into the position it started in. Put your weight onto the front foot toe so that you can rotate the foot back to its starting position through moving the heel. While you do this, put your back foot down again in the middle of your foot so your feet resume the initial “T” position, only this time you’re about a half a foot from where you started.
Repeat this basic move involving rotations of the toe followed by the heel. Keep rotating the front foot to one side by first moving your toe and then also moving your heel. While you do this, lift up the back foot before putting it down again to meet the front foot. Move across the floor slowly to your side while you repeat this basic move repeatedly.
Practice with one of your feet forward until you get comfortable doing this dance move all the way across the floor. Once you are, start practicing with the opposite foot forward to get the other direction down too.
Nearly every version of the Melbourne Shuffle starts with this T-step, and you need to work on only that until you master it. Once you do, start learning how to change directions while doing it, and after you master this, then depending on what specific style of the Melbourne Shuffle you decide to take up, you might learn the Running Man step too. Master it just as fully before you start figuring out how to combine it with the T-step.
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