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Originally posted by Anomyst the funniest place to do it is sydney... Oh the looks you get, its like sheer amazement.. Ha and they dance with sand not talc!!

that's for sure! when we had 5am dj's playing up there for ANOT they were looking at us dancing, stunned. i wouldn't call myself the shuffle master or anything, but they loved it!

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I noticed a few people saying they like X style and dislike Y style so what defines the shuffle?

When I went out clubbing I was 'shown' the basic step for the 'running man' and the 'shuffle'.

The running man was a on-the-spot running style and you moved your arms in time.

The shuffle was done with 1 foot in front of the other. The front foot twisted and the back foot stomped.

What do you think?

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Joax (Pronounced 'jokes')

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I've always thought the shuffle was one foot shuffling and the other stomping to the side, and then when changing direction a backstep with one foot behind the other, then back the other way and again. Some people just do the backstep constantly shuffling, but I think it isn't as good as stomping to the side and doing a backsatep when changing direction. This is just what I gather from wathcing people and I've never actually found out what exactly is the shuffle.

I'm not saying anythng about the running man, that's just comedy to me.

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Originally posted by amnesiak I've always thought the shuffle was one foot shuffling and the other stomping to the side

What does a foot 'shuffling' do?

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Joax (Pronounced 'jokes')

Itsuisee - if this stuffs up it screws everything else

Best way I can describe it is by moving your foot like this and sliding left to right and then back again \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/.

Spinning foot around on your heel and then toes if you knwo what I mean.

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Okay took some vids on the night, have a lookie here:

http://clept.net/index.php?name=Dow...wdownload&cid=9

Hmm you probably won't see a very 'clean' version of the shuffle there, nowadays everyone just does a hybrid of shuffle and running man (not that I'm complaining, I actually think it looks pretty good). Then again, if you can dance and keep the rythm to 145bpm music, anything you do kinda looks good.