Ballroom Blitz #004

Hip Bump in Jive - Feb 06, 2023

Transcript

Ian: Hey random dancer on the interwebs my name's Ian

Lindsey: and my name's Lindsey

Ian & Lindsey: and this is the Ballroom Blitz

Lindsey: Okay chaps, today we've got a classic and nice and easy figure for you. It comes from the Jive and it's called the hip bump, let's have a look.

So, the hip bump follows the classic rhythm that we find a lot of in our base Jive moves. So, we've got a back replace for both parties, and then two chasses. There's a little bit of a turn but it returns us to our starting position. So, it's one that you can daisy-chain do over and over, and it's a nice settling one as well.

[Demonstration - no music]

Lindsey: So, as you can see this one is over in a flash.

We start in an open position usually facing our partner although it will work if we're a little bit opened out as well but we're going to do it facing. Ian's going to go back replace starting on his left I'm going replace starting on my right and you do want your hand grip to be leaders left to followers right for this one to work.

So, we're going to go back replace and at this point we're still facing each other we've got our first chasse now Ian ready on the left I'm ready am I right and what Ian is going to do is just over that chasse face forward so you're turning a bit a quarter to the right as you go and if he leaves his hand in that position and takes it with him that will mean that I will turn a quarter to the left and we'll just gently bump into each other here.

If you don't have any contact that's no worries but a little bit of light contact is fine. This move used to be called the "Shoulder Shove" they stopped calling at that for obvious reasons but a little bit of a contact right at the end of this first chasse is fine and that can help you do your second chasse back to where you started from.

So, if we go through that one more time we've got a

[Demonstration - with counts]

Ian: So, leaders just highlighting something that Lindsey has already mentioned, this is a great move to settle you down. So, maybe you've tried a whip or another turnee move or something that's got you a little bit off kilter if you're not straight ahead this is just a really good reset.

So, wherever you've started maybe you're in an absolutely god-awful position it's like “okay well rather than stopping let's just do a hip bump” as long as you've got some connection some tension there we can do a "good enough" back replace get in nice and close and then settle into a better position.

Lindsey: Now, with the actual hip bump moment, when we first try this out we can get a little bit excited about that and actually slow our other steps down to give ourselves a beat to do the bump itself. We actually don't want to do that, we want our back replace and our two chasses to have the same kind of timing that we would have for any of our other figures. We don't want to sort of kill a beat Just to do the bump.

Ian: No don't, don't do this don't do...

[Demonstration of incorrect timing - with comical slow motion]

Ian: because you get out of time.

Lindsey: You do.

So, if you think about that as a time at all it's a little 'a' but it's actually better to almost disregard it and if it happens great if it doesn't no worries.

So we've got

[Demonstration - with counts]

Ian: So, it just happens in between, technically there's a little 'a' there to give you some guidance but as Lindsey said honestly when you're first starting out just ignore it; you'll be fine.

Lindsey: Yep

[Demonstration - with counts]

[Demonstration - with music]

Lindsey: So, that is the hip bump try it out next time you're on the social floor trying out a jive. Try not to be too shovey with it, nice and light have some fun.