Club Dance Move Footwork Tutorial (AND HOW TO FREESTYLE WITH IT) Foot Wave

Hey, Monika here and in this video I'm going to teach you slightly complicated looking but fairly easy to do footwork move for the clap. And stick around till the end of this video. I'm going to show you how you can use this movement in combination with other moves I previously taught on my channel so you can freestyle better. For the best social dance tutorials and tips please subscribe to my channel and hit the bell to be notified whenever I'm posting a new video. Before I jump into the video I want to briefly announce that a couple of spots have opened up for a free one-on-one consultation with me to join my Confidence Through Dance program. If you're interested in that wait till the end of this video for the information on how to sign up. I'm going to break it down really slowly because this movement is not the easiest one. So you're going to start with your feet slightly apart, hip width apart, let's say your shoulder width apart, in a comfortable stance and you're going to lift one heel up. For you, if you're mirroring me, this would be your left heel and you're going to put the weight onto that ball of the foot, okay, left ball of the foot. Then you lift the other heel, stay with me, so both heels are off the floor and now the first one that went up you will drop it and then the last one that went up you will drop it. So the order here is very very important. So you're to go left, right up, left down, right down. One, two, three, four and just keep repeating that because we need to get the order before we make this movement look nice and fancy. So we have up, up, down, down. Notice I'm not going on my tippy toes, this is just literally ball of the foot, I'll show you from the side. Up, up, down, down. One, two, three, four. This is just half of the movement, so let's try again slow. You're starting with your left heel going up, up, right heel goes up, left heel goes down, right heel goes down and now the right heel was your last one to touch the floor, so now we'll start the movement on that side. So we have right heel going up, left heel going up, right heel down, left heel down. I know a lot, it's a lot going on and this is not even finished yet, but try slowly starting from the original side. Left up, right up, left down, right down, right up, left up, right down, left down. You can pause the video, practice it, make sure you have the order and you can do it with your eyes closed. Right, so this has to be in your body before we do anything else. Now once you have that, once you have that order, we're going to make it more into a foot wave. So slowly, as you're lifting the heels, you're going to be angling, is that a word? Angling the body, you're going to angle the body, you can think of it like that. If your left heel goes up first, you're going to be twisting to the left first. By the time the last heel drops, you have to be already twisted and facing that corner. And then guess what happens next? You have to twist the other way. So now you're lifting your right heel, if you marry me, and everything happens in the same order we practiced, but now you're twisting to the right when you finish. Let's try slowly again. Up, up, down, down, and then this one up, up, down, down. You see that? So the twist happens gradually, but in my head I'm focusing on, you know, knowing which heel to lift and which heel to drop because the order is exactly the same as we practiced before without a twist. Now we have to smooth it out a little bit and make it flow, so I really like to imagine a wave when I do this. It kind of looks cool with the hands too, but imagine a wave, meaning each movement is connected to the other. It's no longer this, it's no longer separated, but once, you know, I lift one heel, the other one already starts lifting, so it's just connected better. But this, guys, don't worry about it. This may not happen for a week or two weeks or even three weeks, so you have to be patient with this little motion. The last thing we're going to do with this move, and this is, you know, extra, and if you want to make it into a more of a hip-hop technical-ish movement, we're going to shift weight at the end. So after you finish one side, normally we would just touch this right heel down to the floor, but I'm going to shift weight onto it and then push myself the other way to start the wave in the opposite direction. So at the end, we just added a little lean onto that foot and back, and everything else is the same. So going one, two, three, lean on four, one, two, three, four, one and two. If you do it faster, and two, one and two, one and two. On the snare, I am finishing the movement. Before we try with the music, let me know if you guys like those more complex movements like this. Let me know in the comments so I can maybe create more tutorials. First, we're just going to do the basic one without a twist. Let's try. Five, six, seven, eight, one and two, one and two, one and two, one and a two. Five, six, add the twist, one and two, one and two. And then, last one with the shift. The shift has to be very small. We don't have much time. One and two, one and two, one and two, one and two. You can give a little tap at the end if you really want to show off. Let me show you how I would use this movement just as a quick transition in between other movements I taught you before, and I'm going to include all the links to those tutorials below this video, so check it out. I hope this video was helpful and I hope that you learned something. Let me know in the comments, do you want me to create more tutorials with more complex movements such as this one? Let me know. 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