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Originally Posted by Letti
Do you think its "cheating" to shimmy with slightly lifted heels?
My teacher told, that it was easier for her to start to learn in that way, however it will take about 2 years of practice to become good at shimmying.
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Don't know about "cheating" - unless you are using the heels to create the movement in which case it is definitely nem szabad. Heels must not move up and down with a shimmy - or a rock - otherwise you are using the wrong muscles to do it and it will be almost impossible to layer.
Actually the shimmy we start with has heels firmly on the ground, knees bent, and is driven by the waist muscles. This produces quite a big loose shimmy rather than the fine modern Egyptian one, but it can be seen by students easily in the mirror and gets people into relaxing everything.