American Reacts to... The Melbourne Shuffle 

Shuffling and the Melbourne Shuffle was huge part of the Australian Hard Dance Culture in the Early to Mid 2000's. This style of shuffling originated from Melbourne Australia which later grew popularity in Europe and Asia.

The dance is called the Melbourne shuffle, or shuffle dance, that originated in Australia in the 1980s. With energetic steps, it is becoming a new form of "square dance" occupying China's urban spaces from parks to plazas and a popular pound-losing exercise for many elderly and middle-age Chinese.

As a man of that era that raved I was always jealous of the ppl that could shuffle. I had my own dance moves which sufficed but yea. Crazy shufflers seemed so cool .

👌The man can pronounce Melbourne properly

This compilation got most of my generation in Melbourne get into the dance in 2007. It has a plaque dedicated to it in ACMI for it's feats in the early days of RU-vid. I never anticipated to become friends with most people involved with the scene / videos back then. Best thing that ever came into my life. It's taken me across the ocean on more than one occasion. Long live the Melbourne Shuffle

Im getting flashbacks 😂 we really liked Melbourne bounce/hardstyle and trance on the Isle of Man. Tbf its still really popular 😅

We party so hard in Melbourne biggest mdma users in the world in aus. From Tekno mulisha warehouse raves or under the Westgate raves before they were infested by people mugging others. Melbourne’s clubs go off every weekend all over the cbd some crazy places like cloud9 and hidden forest, mostly playing minimal and Melbourne bounce was a big thing before it became cringed; the famous revolver ofc. Ended up only enjoyin the psytrance bush doofs and festivals like rainbow serpent and esoteric; always great vibes and more psychedelics than Just straight cookers This is all pre covid mind you I’m not sure what it’s like these days I don’t think the festivals are on

I worked in the EDM scene doing production for a lot of the large parties in Melbourne from 96 to 2000 and can assure you this is the Melbourne shuffle. If I danced anywhere else people could tell I was from Melbourne. It’s what ended up becoming known as just “shuffling” eventually thanks to caine-toads like LMFAO

My hometown Melbourne ❤❤❤

I always preferred the Cliffy Young shuffle.

My dude rocking the PHD hoodie ❤

It was huge in every night club of OZ! every body Melbourne shuffled

Never knew this was called the Melbourne Shuffle, but certainly saw this being done at some of the raves I went to. I was going to them ‘93-‘03ish…please don’t ask me to nominate the year I first saw the dance…memories are clouded for some reason😇

this was at the height of melbournes "gangland era'... where idiots were popping pills and scoring kills for thrills...

We Aussies did this in ‘85 onwards. Learn your stuff bro. We rocked!

man hardstyle from this timeperiod was just something else. SO amazing

haha love the doof doof, times haven't changed much!

Wow what a flashback cheers for that 🍻

This video is part of my life and many ppl. Lifes when internet was still new and everything balance. Good time

I remember that sort of performance. Buskers often used to do acts like that. Sometimes you still see them around town. Thank you for the video!

Oh geez I’d forgotten all about the shuffle lol. I think it was maybe 2006, 2007 or so these videos were all over RU-vid. It was a thing before RU-vid started though 😂. Never heard of it being called the ‘Melbourne’ shuffle though. I don’t live in in Melb.

It’s my home city and I lived through the underground rave scene for a solid few years. PHD hoodies, Fat pants and glow in the dark plastic bracelets (etc) clad fellow ravers all completely munted and doing the melb shuffle, well, except for me. Still to this day I CANNOT do the damn dance. I just don’t understand how to make my lower half move like they do

It was huge in high schools around 2007 i was only 13 and everyone shuffled, by time i got to clubbing years it died out but me and the bois i shuffled with since HS still rocked it haha.

How could you not add in the Melbourne shuffling in heels?

I could outperform them back 20 yrs ago. My swag on the dancefloor took some beating 😜

i grew up im melbourne in this time and it was a natural phenomena when i was clubbing and just went with it at the time, was so good to see our local girls and guys get in to in to it at the time. i danced hard and partied hard yee yee

If the music wasn’t there it’s still cool to see. Sadly that kind of music, opera and what passes for RnB these day just isn’t my thang. Each to their own though 👍🏻

Yep... I use to go to rave parties around this time.... lol. A big tradition in Australia is the "Bush Doof" - Earthcore 2016. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uaf4si71dbA.html

God damn man I am showing my age lol, I am from Melbourne and have never seen this style of dancing ever. really cool. lol

Ohh shit some hardstyles rip Ryan bigs (delete) remember this going around highschool when I was in year 7

Aww, you poor old man, Ian 😛 Wait till you're in your 50s 😅

Forget the Melbourne shuffle, I wanna see the Iwrocker shuffle?🕺 Is there any footage/pics of your EDM lovin days? 🤪

Melbourne, represent! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Watch ‘Moonboy’, he is an Asian kid, who has the most amazing skills!

Hadn't seen that before. Very interesting. Certainly, some talent there.

The city of Brisbane actually had it's own style of rave dance as well, known as the Brisbane Stomp. Definitely not as floaty and fancy as the Melbourne Shuffle but I loved the high energy of it 👌 Was also much more beginner friendly for uncoordinated people like myself 😅

I still listen to hardstyles but it has evolved alot mainly listen to raw and hardcore sub-branches of Hardstyle very different from back then

My son and his mates used to shuffle all the time, we live in Brisbane, and I absolutely loved watching them.

All viral trends start in Australia. Even the word "Selfie" is Australian and started in Australia when myspace became popular.

If you like this kind of music, maybe a reaction to a defqon 1 festival endshow (maybe sunday 2022 or saturday but saturday is pretty long) would be nice. I've been watching your content for a while now, and defqon 1 is my favorite festival, i try to go every year, went the full weekend this year for the second time, so i would defintily like that!

1:30 in and im already loving the video ahahah, this is great.

calling hardstyle edm, but ok i guess its kinda dance music too :) Ian, search hardstyle from 2006-7 and up, until like 2010, the best ones (probly u wont, but if u was a bit into edm, or still are, go for it, especially some festivals like defqon and the like

Yes. Well. The city that spawned sharpies has not surprised me. It's true that all shuffling dances originated from the Melbourne shuffle in the 1980s, so another Australian first. It was a bit more out there in the early days, but it is far more refined these days. Still looked a bit gorfy if you ask me. Talented, but gorfy.

I was at a rave in Brisbane on Saturday night and there are still some amazing shufflers even outside of Melbourne to this day

Oh wow you took me back to the Mid 90's at a very young age sneaking to Melbourne rave parties at various warehouses, Doing the melbourne shuffle was a passage to adulthood. When i went to Europe in early 2000's you could tell who is from Oz when the burst out and do the Melbourne Shuffle. Julian Assange was there during the first generation ( late 80's to early 90's ) when it all started i think there is a video somewhere doing a shuffle at a party in a Scandinavian country.

Even the music are kickass. Good old hardstyle electro music

Back when everyone had the puma kicks… and the shuffle always looked better under a strobey!!

I really miss these old time ik im not as old but still when i was young it was so much better only a 23 year old but i miss the old times

the next step would be industrial dance

Geeeeeze this is a flash black and a half

Music was banging!

never too big in perth, few peeps smash it

I'm from Melbourne and never seen that kind of dancing before in Melbourne

Some serious drugs down there

this is the O.G shit right here. phats+ suspenders+ whichever hoody you could get, PHD, Basshunterz, Hard Kandy or whatever.

LOL... Now react to Zyzz brah! He was from Sydney and although he died years ago people still worship him as a god with a cult following and there are still fresh memes being created for him. He had the power to make woman moist all over the world. He was known for his shuffle dance at edm festivals and for aesthetic bodybuilding to hardstyle music.

Waistland firebird has a video of himself doing this on his RU-vid channel.

Original was jumpstyle from the netherlands and Belgium

Hell yea Melbourne shuffle!!!! Good old days

Wow takes me back

Same as most things, whats old is new or whats new is old😁

Heel n toe polka slide lol

The only shuffle video you need to watch is moon boy

Damn I remember seeing this vid when I was about 8 nostalgia😂 shuffling is no longer in fashion and hasn’t been for years hakken/gabber is the preferred dance at raves nowadays, check out a Aussie hakken video

now watch eagle rock by daddy cool

Our house was busy with youngest and friends shuffling back then. Once it became popular o.s, seemed to die in popularity in Melbourne.

Mikki is a Fckng Legend !!!

It's easy very good drugs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺👍

Oh its my fav. Used to be one of them and still loving it. Btw we are still doing this in Australia and even the rest of the world. I met many Americans in Netherlands and Germany who also does melb shuffles..

lol, do Belgian Jumpstyle next.

This is not the original, there's a few variances to it.

I'd say it's the meth Ian 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

You should see a video on dutch festivals 😋 and the hard dance scene

You should watch "how to dance at a rave party" 😃 with Leroy and Joachim

Looks like its double speed lol

Yeah, I was dj'ing at raves in the 90's and the shuffle was the most annoying part of the scene in Oz.

You quoted the area in miles for Australia and the USA in km, in km the are nearly the same

Melbournians so desperate to be recognised for something other than The Australian Open 😆

Melbourne Raver 2001 - 2005

Rarely seen now adays. At least here in europe. People either continued hakken or do some kick rolls and on the regular mainstream EDM festivlals it is more of a fashion show than any dance at all =/ Next month Thunderdome edition will be great 🥰

The smell of talcum/baby powder always reminds me of those days.

How are they doing that? .....................pingers

i'm in my 30's and refuse to call it "EDM" it's techno

Should have a look at zyzz

its magic

Michael Jackson started it all with his moonwalk.

you want to see a big big festival in the netherlands?

Looks a little bit "harder" than other Shuffles I have seen, a bit more towards Jumpstyle. Speaking of which, perhaps you would like to have a look at this, it's from a Jumpstyle meeting in Lille, France in 2020. So yes, there is still people doing it. Cheers / B. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uuZ9QjohWKA.html

i mean where do you think the shuffling craze originated from? we made it popular and then the US took it and made a worse version of it. Now every chick with tiktok and insta is doing it at festivals and it always looks pretty ... off

Today these kids are married with kids listening to good old classic rock in the car. Haha

Did you watch techno viking ?

I dont know what it is either

another reason not to use drugs boys and girls

Fuckin good on ya for showing the Melbourne shuffle!

Hey Iwrocker, in the video about Darwin, it was mentioned how close we are to Bali, I have a suggestion for a reaction video, however its not your usual happy sort of video. (Im sure any Aussies reading this, already knows exactly where I'm going with it) It's about one of the darkest days in Australian and Indonesian history. About A year after 9/11, two suicide bombers from a group linked to Al Qaeda detonated 2 bombs, one at a Bar and one at a Nightclub in Bali, killing a total of 88 Australians, the biggest loss of Australian life in a terrorist attack. We've just passed the 20 year anniversary last month so there is a lot of recent, reflective news reports on RU-vid, this is just small 5 min one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9G1hP0DOPPQ.html I know It's a tough subject tackle, but you being someone that we know very much adores Australia, it might be worth having have a look into it, even just in your spare time if it's not a topic you want to make a video about.✌️

As a long time shuffler this makes me laugh so much I use to watch people shuffle for hours an now I'm better then most all

Meth.....

Melbourne is over rated. Sth Oz all the way 🇦🇺🤙