Last month we went back to The Beat Box Studios in Culver City to shoot our Dancehall Jam series with the lovely Zen! We’re so excited because this series involves some of our Kickstarter backers that wanted to be in our fitness workout videos. So let’s go back to our shoot day and check out…
Are you having a bad day? Or just in need of some cheering up? We’ve compiled 5 of our favorite inspirational dance videos that always puts a smile on our faces! We’ll count them down from a smirk to a full on tears of joy.
Where my ladies at?! Do you love dance parties? Do you love cardio? This is the one for you. Let’s go behind the scenes of our Flirty Hip Hop shoot. Get your Diva Pose ready and let your hair whip and come join the dance party!
I know you can’t get enough of our dreamy LA Latin instructor Matt Mancuso. And you came to the right place. Our first big shoot weekend was a month ago and we still smile thinking about it! Here’s exclusive behind the scenes action during our LA Latin shoot.
Broadway style dance will always have room in my heart and with the success of Hamilton, it is now getting a Hip Hop makeover. I was very excited to take a Broadway style dance class and what better day to take it than the day after the Tony Awards. I got even more excited when…
Did you know that Dancehall Jam is a unique dance style that you’ll only get from Hip Shake Fitness? If you are like me, I had no idea what Dancehall Jam is about. Dancehall is a genre of popular Jamaican music that was less political than Reggae. And Zen, our lovely instructor, incorporates her core…
Meet Shaun Arora, one of our amazing backers from Kickstarter, a dad and now an official dancer for Hip Shake Fitness! He is the GM at Make in LA where they are creating the Los Angeles epicenter of entrepreneurship focused 100% on hardware technologies. He helps startups thrive providing them with top notch programming and…
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We had a big weekend of workout video shoots at the awesome Beat Box Studios in Culver City and we started with Bollywood Abs with Ashley. It was a cloudy Saturday morning, but we were ready to make it a hot one! We had our schedule for the day set, our outfits organized and our…
Since you liked our Best Superhero Workout Stuff for Women article, we decided to make an in depth version for superhero workout leggings! Here’s a roundup of the best superhero workout leggings in the market that will surely give your fitness attire the power punch it needs!
What is Bollywood Dance Workout? Bollywood dance workout is a combination of various traditional and modern Indian dance forms with a little hint of other dance forms like Jazz, Hip-Hop, Latin dance. It is a fusion dance form so there are no hard and fast rules. You can mix and match the moves. Just feel…
Have you ever wanted to let your inner diva out? Well, do we have a class for you! Flirty Hip Hop with Nicole Steen is a non stop cardio workout that will surely get you feelin’ sassy and get you sweating those calories away.
At home fitness is convenient, private & a lot of fun. This list is from personal experience and may or may not relate to you. I live in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles with my boyfriend and my dog and they can either help or hinder my attitude towards getting the best workout…
One of the awesome perks that you can get when you pledge on our Kickstarter is a Team Dance. This means that we’ll bring Hip Shake Fitness to you and your team in the greater Los Angeles area! This is a great chance to reconnect and build interpersonal-relationships with your coworkers or a group that…
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I’m always trying different dance classes to see what works for me and Matt’s LA Latin: Fun & Fitness class definitely SLAYS. Lucky for us, we get to work with him here at Hip Shake Fitness and we get to show the world his fancy feet and charming personality.
I’ve been in the digital analytics space for 10+ years but kickstarting a business is new to me. When I decided to launch Hip Shake Fitness on kickstarter, I noticed that most posts are about how this installation is executed. Â What I want to talk about today is actual reports that you can create and…
It was an early Wednesday morning at The Beat Box Studio in Culver City where we got ready to shoot some dance workout footage. We had a little hiccup with our last minute arrangements for dancers, but luckily we had the amazing Mimi & Grace to help us out. Of course, we also had technical…
It’s been 15 days since we started this roller coaster ride we now call Hip Shake Fitness Kickstarter campaign. Â We’ve raised 60% of the funding goal and we have 15 more days to go. Â These 15 days have been the most stressful, crazy and fast-paced days of my life.
It was a Friday, March 11 at 6pm when we scheduled to shoot the dance workout scenes shoot for Kickstarter. We shot the scenes at Beat Box Studio in Culver City, LA. We planned to shoot two videos, ‘Lips are movin’ & ‘Old school hip hop’ within 4 hours. Usually, we don’t get rainy days in LA but, of course,…
Mimi is one of our awesome Hip Shake Fitness Dancers. If you can believe it, she is 61 years old, but she can definitely out dance anyone of us.
Meet Ashley Chatman Ashley is a very passionate, proud and professional dance fitness instructor. She started dancing at a young age and has had training in Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Latin and African Dance. She was awarded “Best Zumba Instructor in Los Angeles†in 2013.