- Hi speed babes,
today we are doing a video that has been requested
by the masses, meaning like three of you,
but we're doing an attitude turn tutorial.
And so in attitude possession,
I'm gonna be going over,
I'm not gonna give away too much in the intro
and how to do it in a turn.
So for those of you who have been asking
today is your day, let's go.
Okay, so the very first step is to know
what an attitude position is.
So if you have a new chair or a bar or a boyfriend,
someone just to hold onto.
You're going to do a tendu derrière,
so tendu to the back.
you're gonna lift that leg up,
both legs are stationary as you can tell.
The top leg will slightly bend
and you're now in an attitude position.
What's really important is that your knee is above your toe.
You don't wanna go this direction,
that tends to happen the higher you lift the leg,
you need to keep the knee above the ankle
to keep in alignment.
Your top arm is going to lift up.
If you notice, the same arm high is the leg that's extended
in the thigh.
So left arm, left leg or right arm, right leg, okay?
Now in an attitude position the bottom knee is still
super straight, just your top foot is pointed.
The other foot comes up to demi point in the turn.
So you wanna be on the absolute highest élevé,
that you possibly can get to.
If you need help with your art strength
make sure to pop over to my dance, beat videos.
I think I have like a ballet beat one
one of the TheraBands that you can work on getting
really high arch in your turns.
So make sure you practice your Tendu derrière,
lifting your arm up to a high fit
taking that leg up in the back,
and rising up to a demi point.
Okay so before we move into our actual attitude turn
I want you to practice going from parallel.
You're gonna rise up to a demi point.
And then you're gonna lower down with control.
You wanna make sure that you are not buckling your feet
in or leaving them out like this.
You want to go straight up and down with the weight
in between your first and second toe.
Go ahead and do 20 to 30 elevators with nice control
on the rise and the lower this way.
When you go into your attitude turn you have first of all,
warmed up muscles, but second of all better balance
and control over that demi point.
Try that out you guys.
Okay, so we've made it to the actual attitude turn.
There is a couple of different ways to get into it.
I'm gonna show you a PK attitude turn,
and a chassé attitude turn chassé
being my personal faith, no matter what you're gonna start
in third position with your arms,
shoulders past the chest is open, chin is lifted.
Take your time, do this on.
So I turned in to the front for a PK attitude turn
you need to pre aid your other leg, your supporting leg.
PK means to prick, so you're gonna step up
onto that foot with a nice sharp motion.
So you would step up and turn.
Now, when you do your PK,
you need to immediately look to the direction
you're turning.
So I'm stepping to the right side of the studio.
So my head is gonna turn directly that way.
For the arms, don't do that round position I did.
You're just gonna take your arms out.
So you're gonna step up and lift the arm
in order to get all the way around.
You need to squeeze your tummy and your foodie,
your butts and your guts, and spot all the way to the side
with these arms in, instead of like a slow motion
over there's no way you're gonna have momentum,
but if you're able to spot and get your arm up and around
you should theoretically be able to get all the way around.
That is your PK attitude turn.
The next one is your chassé.
I think your chassé gives you more controlled.
Chassé means to chase very irrelevant in this moment,
but it's fine, you're gonna chassé on the floor
and then relevate, so you see a chassé relevate up
into the attitude turn.
So the difference was that PK, you lifted your foot
and steps and the chassé you stayed on the floor.
I like this one 'cause it gives you more grounding
and that you can zip everything up to pull up.
So let's try it, same prep, lift.
So that wasn't a great turn for me because I let my arms
go behind my body.
When you let your arms go behind your body,
your chest opens your rib cage opens,
your core is not as activated,
but if you keep your arms slightly in front of your body
everything is able to be controlled as opposed to here okay?
So let's try it again and chassé.
And that was so much better control through here.
Try it out, all right.
You guys thought was a really fun tutorial to do
try it out, let me know how it goes.
If you have other questions, you're struggling a little bit
on your attitude turn, I'll try and help you out.
And also let us know what other specific technical
skills you wanna learn.
I did this attitude turn video because I had
so many comments in the last month
saying please do an attitude turn tutorial.
So I'm listening to all of you,
write in my comment, let me know what you want to work on,
and I'll try to make some content for you to continue
your training, love you guys so much,
big shout out to our home studio Fringe Dance Studio.
Check them out@fringe.dance or on Instagram
fringe dance studio, I'll see you guys next week.
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