If you're anything like me, you have no idea how to twerk. You didn't grow up shaking your booty in any skillful, throw-it-back kind of way. Instead, you learned how to "drop it low" and "raise the roof." And maybe a little macarena here and there, too.
However, with the focus of popular culture now revolving around bigger, thicker booties, and less on the heroin chic, skinny white girl phase that has plagued our country for decades upon decades, it's no wonder twerking has become the all the rage.
Young girls on TikTok are doing it. Moms on TikTok are doing it. But so few people are really breaking it down in understandable chunks for all us newbies to easily digest and understand. And while I still haven't found the perfect online teacher, what I have found is that by watching videos of highly skilled twerkers, I observe the little things they do, and I sit down and practice what I saw. And I am slowly getting better.
Here are the 5 best Instagram pages to follow (ranked highest to lowest) to take learning into your own hands, and teach yourself how to twerk:
Yes her real name is Nastya, and it's pronounced nahs-tya, not "nasty," a common misconception. Nastya is Ukraine born, and went from 1 million followers to 8.1 million followers in less than one year...she's that good. She is regarded as the queen of twerking on social media. In a pre-quarantine era, Nastya toured the world, giving twerk classes to filled rooms. Now she has launched her own clothing lines, toting lingerie and expensive twerk shorts in her entrepreneurial repertoire. I've learned a lot from her just by watching many of her videos. She makes twerking look easy, like anyone could do it. But the magic lies in that we can't all do it, and she can...with a grace that is unparalleled. However, a few social media stars are catching up...
2) Rachal Camilleri @camabootie_
Rachal launched her twerk IG account in April 2020, and I have watched it grow to 31 thousand followers in just 7 short months. Just like Nastya, she's that good. What I like more about Rachal is that she is still learning and growing, and shows a lot of her learning processes on her IG stories. I see her try, I see her fail, and as she works everything out, it makes sense in my brain. She also makes twerking look effortless, and her body is SERIOUS GOALS.
Julie is an actual twerk teacher, so the majority of her content is twerking. A real positive, for any "normal" girl like me, is that she doesn't have the perfect body of Nastya or Rachal...she is just your everyday girl doing your basic twerking. It makes her a little more relatable, and that much more motivational. Because for real...if she can do it, then so can I!
Herein lies another "normal" body. For Tutti, it's the fact that she's thicker, has cellulite, and is older (as in over 35). And none of that stops her fans, pulling her in at over 540 thousand followers. She posts A LOT of twerking content...like A LOT. And it's all very vast and different. Consider it your large library of various twerk moves.
Miss Alicia has a modest following of 7k followers. The thing she does best is slow, controlled, isolated movement of the glutes, which is the thing we need to master FIRST before ever getting to the fast-paced, endurance capabilities of the aforementioned four. If you watch her videos, you'll start to see the pattern of what she does with her glutes, what the others do with theirs, and how to apply her techniques to your booty, to get to your twerk goals.
What is all comes down to is OBSERVATION, PRACTICE, and MORE PRACTICE. Observe these top 5 instagram twerkers, and then get yourself out there and apply what you've learned.
So, what are you waiting for?
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