Some steps!

In this post, I'm including some dance steps we use to create a regular routine. We use these steps everyday in our practice to help us improve. This also helps keep me in shape :)


- Afata (AH-fata): Think of this as the box. You're hips hit in the shape of a box, or square. It's a very simple step. Once you've gotten it down, you must learn to go at a faster pace.

-Fa'arapu (Fah-ah-rah-poo): In this move, you move your hips into a circle motion. And as you get this down, you learn to move at a faster pace.

-Tamau(Tah-mow): This move, it's a sway right, then a sway left, so your hips are basically bumping from side to side.

-Toma(toe-ma): This step is very similar to the tamau. With this you do the same move, but you double bump. So your hips hit twice to one side then twice to the other.


And last,

-Varu(Vah-roo): This move is a figure eight. In this move, your hips move in the shape of a figure eight parallel to the floor.


These aren't all the steps, these are just the main ones that we do on a regular basis. There are many others to learn as well :) each and every unique one.