Horizontal Figure Eight 1
With your knees bent and your feet hip width apart push your
right hip backward and transfer your weight onto the right foot.
Now push your right hip out to the side, to the front, and then pull
it back in and push the left hip backward and transfer your weight
onto the left foot. Now push the left hip out to the side, to the
front, and then pull it back in. Try to keep it parallel to the floor.
Horizontal Figure Eight 2
With your knees bent and your feet hip width apart push your
right hip backward and transfer your weight onto the right foot.
Now lift your right heel and push your right hip out to the side, to
the front, and then pull it back in and drop the right heel. Now
push the left hip backward and transfer your weight onto the left
foot. Now lift your left heel and push the left hip out to the side,
to the front, and then pull it back in dropping the left heel.
Reverse Horizontal Figure Eight
With your knees bent and your feet hip width apart push your
right hip forward and transfer your weight onto the right foot. Now
push your right hip out to the side, to the back, and then pull it
back in and push the left hip forward and transfer your weight
onto the left foot. Now push the left hip out to the side, to the
back, and then pull it back in. Try to keep it parallel to the floor.
Vertical Figure Eight
Standing in the basic position bend the right knee pushing the
right hip down. Next push it up to the side. Now straighten your
right leg while bending the left knee causing the right hip to come
up and the left to drop down. Then push the left hip out to the
side and then pull it up by straightening the left leg. Try to keep
it parallel to the wall.
Reverse Vertical Figure Eight
Standing in the basic position Straighten the right knee pushing
the right hip up. Next push it down to the side. Now bend your
right leg while straightening the left knee causing the right hip to
drop down and the left to come up. Then push the left hip out to
the side and then push it down by bending the left leg. Try to
keep it parallel to the wall.
Figure Eight with a Shimmy
While doing a horizontal figure eight add a small shimmy or
flutter to it. Try to keep it parallel to the floor or wall depending on
the type of figure eight you are adding to. Make sure to keep the
knees soft and the shimmy small. Start out slow if you have to
and build up speed to feel how the shimmy works with different
positions and weight placement. This can be done with any figure
eight. See the demonstrations below for examples of the shimmy
done on various figure eoghts.
Horizontal Demonstrations:
Vertical Demonstrations
Tetter Totter
While doing a figure eight you bend one knee lower and then
straighten it back up. I've heard people refer to this as lopsided
because one side of the figure eight will be done on a lower plane
and one half will be done on a highter plane. Others think of it as
a sort of dip or scoop with one side.
