Hey dancers, today I'm teaching you
one of my favorite floor work tricks.
You wanna see it?
Let's go.
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Let's get started.
Okay, so this starts on the floor.
You can roll into it,
you can do another little movement into this,
but I'm gonna specifically be teaching you
how to do the inversion kind of push up.
So I like to start in this little mermaid position
and then I bring one foot plant it on the floor
and one foot is up, it's already pointed,
it's beautiful ready to go.
My palms are behind my body.
Now from here, I plant that top foot down
as I bring the opposite arm over and I put my palms down.
I'm gonna be showing you the opposite direction as well,
meaning me facing back so hang in there.
I go mermaid, plant the foot, other foot,
arm comes over my palms flip.
From here I push through my bottom leg,
I shift my weight into my shoulders and my palms
and I send the top leg high.
From there it's of course a jump.
From there I tuck that bottom knee down
and I roll into whatever the next thing is, okay?
So let's do that again.
So we are here in a little mermaid position,
I plant one foot palms are back, plant other foot,
palms come forward, shift my weight,
tuck the knee, roll and over.
Now, couple of tips.
You wanna make sure that you're not being too scared
to push your weight into your shoulders,
if you don't get high enough, you'll kind of just come down
and that's okay,
but you wanna get that beautiful suspension,
so put the weight in your shoulders.
Number two is to straighten your legs.
I highly recommend having someone to get a video
of you doing this so that you can see if you're actually
lengthening your legs out.
For the longest time I thought my legs were straight
in tricks like this, but I needed to go one more inch
to get that long long line, so straighten those legs.
The second thing is just or the third thing
is to squeeze your abs to control the load down, okay?
The landing.
If you don't squeeze, you're gonna kinda crash down
which it's okay, but again, we want that suspension
that beautiful fluid landing, okay?
Let me show you facing the back.
So I have both feet planted.
I come mermaid, plant, shift the palms,
up, tuck, roll out.
Good, I'm gonna show you one more time in a normal speed.
Let me crawl back over here.
And then I'm so excited to see all of you try this trick,
this is my favorite, one of my favorite floor work tricks.
Five, six and seven, and this is up.
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Great job dancers, remember to start low and slow
and then work your way up to getting higher and higher.
Build some confidence shifting your weight
into your shoulders before you
kind of just throw yourself into it, okay?
Comment down below,
let me know what other tricks you wanna see,
I love doing these little mini tutorials
just to give you a step-by-step instructions
on really cool dance moves.
Love all of you and see you so very soon.
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