The Baby Wow Shifu trend: who Maestro Shifu is and who really started the dance

Search TikTok for the Baby Wow trend in Mexico and one name keeps coming up: Shifu. The “Baby Wow Shifu” videos are not about the kung fu master from the cartoon. They follow a Mexican streamer called Maestro Shifu, whose take on KAROL G’s “BbY WOW” dance spread across Latin America. Here is who he is, where the dance actually started, and how to join the trend.

What is the Baby Wow Shifu trend?

It is the Baby Wow dance as done by Maestro Shifu and his crew, plus the thousands of videos copying their version. People tag them #shifu, #maestroshifu and #babywow, and search for “shifu bailando baby wow” (Shifu dancing Baby Wow) or “baile de Shifu”. In late October 2026, TikTok’s “Baby Wow Shifu Dance” topic page listed about 16 million posts.

Who is Maestro Shifu?

Maestro Shifu is the online alias of Adriano Zendejas, a Mexican actor who grew up in telenovelas such as “Marina” and “Juro que te amo” and later moved into streaming. He is the brother of actress Samadhi Zendejas. He has more than three million followers on Instagram and over a million on YouTube, streams on Kick, and films most of his videos with a group of friends known as the Team Shifu.

Is Shifu from Kung Fu Panda dancing to Baby Wow?

No. The nickname shares its name with the red panda master from Kung Fu Panda, and that is the only link. The “Shifu bailando” clips show Adriano Zendejas and his friends, not an animated character.

Did Maestro Shifu create the Baby Wow dance?

No. The dance started with Los Menor3s, a Venezuelan music trio made up of Big Bowe, Nego and Sheba. Big Bowe told Remezcla that he recorded himself dancing to BbY WOW backstage at a Rawayana concert, and his bandmates helped the clip spread. “We’re not dancers,” he said. “What we do is make music.” KAROL G brought Big Bowe and Sheba on stage at Gillette Stadium on September 12, 2026.

Maestro Shifu’s crew then posted their own version, which made the dance huge in Mexico and gave it a second name, the “baile de Shifu”. That is why many fans say Shifu “made it viral”. Both claims hold at different scales: Los Menor3s started the dance, Shifu’s crew spread it.

Who else has done the Baby Wow dance?

• KAROL G, on stage with Los Menor3s in September 2026.
• J-Hope and Jimin of BTS, in a TikTok posted on October 7, 2026 before a show in Peru. It passed 21 million views in its first 24 hours, and KAROL G shared it on Instagram.
• Erling Haaland, the Norwegian footballer, who copied Los Menor3s’ moves.

How do you do the Shifu Baby Wow dance?

Search TikTok for “baby wow shifu tutorial” or “paso a paso” (step by step): creators break the routine into counts. Learn it at half speed first, then at full tempo. Film vertically and add the official BbY WOW sound from the app’s library instead of playing the music through a speaker, so your video sits under the trend’s sound page. Los Menor3s filmed it as a trio, so it works well with two or three friends side by side.

Can you do the Baby Wow trend without learning a dance?

Yes. The trend’s other half is the Bby Wow Guy meme: a man in a black cowboy hat at a quinceañera who bites a piece of bread, spins through the guests and points at the camera. That one needs no choreography. Dime Dime Baby AI puts you in that clip from one photo of yourself, with the original audio. The how-to guide walks through it.

Use a photo of yourself, or of an adult who has agreed to it. Photos of children, of public figures such as Maestro Shifu or KAROL G, and of anyone who has not said yes are not allowed.