Hip Circles

Big Circle

Standing with your feet about, to slightly more than, hip width

apart push your hips way out to the right and then bring them

around to the back leaning forward with your upper body. Now,

bring your hips out to the left and then to the front leaning slightly

back with the upper body( to keep better balance).

Small Circle

Standing with your feet close together, push your hips out

slightly to the right then to the back. When pushing to the back

do not stick your rear out just release it. Then push out to the

left and tilt your pelvis forward.

Egyptain Circle 1**

Standing with your feet about hip width apart push your hips out

to the right, to the back, to the left, and then slide your hips

straight across to the right (it is important not to tilt your pelvis

forward). It helps to think of making a half circle to the back.

Egyptian Circle 2**

Standing with your feet about hip width apart push your hips out

to the left, to the front, to the right, and then slide your hips

straight across to the left. (it is important not to release your

pelvis in the back). It helps to think of making a half circle to the

front.

Inner Hip Circle

Standing with your feet about hip width apart and facing forward,

push your right hip backwards and then lift it up and out to the

side straightening the leg and lifting the heel of the floor. Now

bring the hip forward and drop it down and pull it in to center.

Outer Hip Circle

Standing with your feet about hip width apart and facing forward,

push your right hip forward and then lift it up and out to the side

straightening the leg and lifting the heel of the floor. Now bring

the hip backwards and drop it down and pull it back in to center.

Bouncing Circle

Just follow the same steps as you would for a big hip circle and

then lift your heels off of the ground and drop the back down as

you go around. You might want to "bounce" out to the right,

when your coming around to the front, the front, when your

coming around to the left, out to the left, when your coming

around to the back, to the back, and when your coming around

to the right. That would be eight bounces per circle or mabey

you only want to do four bounces per circle so you bounce right,

front, left, back.

Fish Step*

This step often confuses people but once you get it its so easy.

You stand with your feet apout hip width apart and you stepout

to the right side with your right foot, then out to the left side with

your left foot. Now step behind the left foot with your right foot

and then crossyour left foot behind the right then start agian with

the right foot out to the side. It goes side, side, behind, behind.

Once you have that you add a hipcircle to it. So, it goes side

(right hip goes out to the side and front), side (left hip compleats

the circle in the front and goes out to the left), behind(left hip

goes around to the back), behind(right hip compleats the circle.

Walking Hip Circle

Place your feet about hip width apart and then place your right

foot silghtly forward of your left foot. Now do a small circle.

When the weight is on the left foot step to the side with the

right foot. When the weight is on the right foot step to the right

with you left foot. Don't step too far out.

Hip Circle in a circle

While doing a hip cicle turn around yourself. You can just take

small steps for a slow turn or you can use 1/4 turns for faster

turns.

Hip Circle with a 3/4 Shimmy

Start in the basic position. Now transfer your weight to the right

foot and push your hips out to the right and then out to the front.

Now transfer the weight to the left foot and push your hips out to

the left and then out to the back. Now layer the 3/4 shimmy on.

When you step right, straighten the right leg, bend, and

straighten again. Now when you step left straighten the left leg,

bend, and straighten again.

Reversing Directions

Reversing directions is really easy when you reach the side you

want to stop at you straighten your leg and pause for a second.

For example if we go right, back, left, front, right, and stighten

the leg pulling the hip back then we can go to the other direction

now bring it back to right, front, left, back, right, front, left, and

then straighten the leg and pull the hip back.