We are lindy hoppers who have been trying to learn boogie woogie for a year now. This video has answered so many questions we had. Thank you!

My girlfriend and I have been dancing Lindy Hop for many years, but we always struggled to get the proper boogie feel when we tried to adapt our dance to the music. The exercises in your video have been incredibly helpful, but to me personally, it immediately clicked when I saw your diagram with the bounce amplitudes. Thank you a lot for your efforts, and I really hope there is more to come in the future :)

As a ballroom jive, social jive, and swing dancer, I've been thoroughly confused about how the lindy hop and boogie woogie are different. This was enlightening

WOW, Kuva, This video is really detailed and informative. I like every bit of it ! I really want to see more videos and topics like this one ! : )

Fantastic content! Keep going.

Very interesting! Being a long time Lindy Hopper and Boogie dancer there were a few new things to me. But I would like to add that one of the essential differences is the emphasis on the beats. Both dances uses a syncopated tripple/chassé step since the music is mostly syncopated, but classic swing music commonly has the emphasis on the odd beats so Lindy has the stretch and emphasised, but also cool, backrock. Boogie music more commonly emphasize the even beats so the step emphasis becomes the last step in the tripple.

8:33 is the most surreal thing I've seen.

This was so helpful!! Thank you so much. 🎉

aways wondered what the difference was. boogie woogie looks different to lindy but the actual differences are subtle. many thanks

Really good educational video in an understandable simple and logical manner i'm here for it! Slava Ukraini!

Finally an incredibly so difficult to find explanation of boogie. Thanks!!!

❤ I miss boogie woogie, our classes ❤

thankssss a lot. it's very useful and funny :)

Wow! Thanks a lot! Great stuff!!!

great explanations. thanks for upoadig from germany

Have you ever been to Herräng (in Sweden)? I am an old timer in dancing (began dancing in 1980, and between 1983 and 1993, I took classes in Herräng at 5 summercamps in total), who don't have much with the dance camp as such to do, but still as I now live here since a three years back, I have come to help with the build of tents and similar, so maybe we will meet sometime in the future. I've never looked at my dancing with your sharp analyzing approach, so listening to you, I acctually get to learn a lot of what I've seen in difference, but never given it much attention earlier. Very nice tought by you. Big thank you. PS. People who I dance with, can't place me, as I don't look as a swing dancer nor a boogie dancer, but at my best still look pretty alright, I hope.

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Great video. Question about the communities: which dance has bigger numbers worldwide? Would it be true to say that Boogie Woogie competitions are more prominent in the scene than Lindy competitions? Seems like several of the very top Lindy dancers came from a Boogie Woogie background.

Feels like Boogie pulses upwards and Lindy pulses downwards.

Very good explanation

As an American Lindy dancer of more than 35 years of teaching, competing, and judging and dancing obsessively, I can't help but think how silly the European interpretation our American folk dance, Lindy, is. Especially, considering that if you ask Gil Brady, whose California dance style is emulated by "Boogie Woogie", what dance he was doing he would tell you, "Lindy". Of course, Gil's dancing was so much more organic than the rigid expression of Boogie. Well, this is what happens when people try to codify our folk/street dance in a way that it can then be taught for money profit and promote rigid competitions. Strangely, I have, for the last 30 years used very similar basic patterns in my Lindy as I see used by Europeans in Boogie, namely pushes and side passes.