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Originally Posted by Lauren_
That is a HUGE umi, pushed waaay to the back. I've never seen an actual Middle Eastern dancer do that movement, so I wouldn't call it part of the Middle Eastern dance vocabulary. Yes, it looks unsafe to me. Very.
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It seems almost like an externally driven umi, which, yes, is a contradiction in terms. It looks like the movement is being driven by the legs and spine rather than the abs, and I think that could hurt the lower back quite a bit. Maybe the instructor is providing internal ab support, but that isn't the way she is explaining it here.