Gush
Start with your feet together and your knees slightly
bent. Now, push off the floor with your left foot and
step out to the right with your right foot. This should
cause your left hip to go up. Then slide the left foot in
next to the right. When you slide the left foot in next to
the right you should roll the hip smoothly back into
center. Repeat the process again. This step is used
for moving to the side, and in these particular
instructions to the right.
Two Shake Gush
Start with your feet together and your knees slightly
bent. Now, push off the floor with your left foot (this
should cause the left hip to lift up) and bend the leg and
staighten it again, so you get two "shakes", and step
out to the right with your right foot. Then slide the left
foot in next to the right and repeat the process again.
This step is used for moving to the side, and in these
particular instructions to the right. Remember to try
and keep the shakes small and fast.
Vertical Figure Eight Gush
Start with your feet together and your knees slightly
bent. Now, push off the floor with your left foot and
step out to the right with your right foot. Then slide the
left foot in next to the right and repeat the process
again. Now, add the Vertical Figure Eight. When you
push off of the floor with your left foot, roll the left hip
out to the left and up and when you step out to the right
with your right foot then bring the left hip back in and
start rolling down, out, and up with the right hip. Roll
your left hip down just before you push off with the left
again.
3/4 Shimmy Gush
Start with your feet together and your knees slightly
bent. Now, push off the floor with your left foot and
step out to the right with your right foot. Then slide the
left foot in next to the right. Now add a 3/4 shimmy by
pushing off with the left foot and when you step on the
right you tense, release, tense, or think of your hip as
going up and up or out an out. Now slide the left foot in
while your doing that and then when you go to push off
you tense, release tense on the left with an extra
emphasis on the last tense. So it goes 1, 2, 3, & 4. 1
and 2 being on the right and 3, & 4 being on the left.
