DANYEL: Hey guys, my name is Danyel Moulton!
I have danced with VMO and LFG
and I'm also an instructor at STEEZY!
(crowd cheering)
I'm here to teach you six powerful dance moves
that you can do RIGHT at home.
And, if they seem a little bit difficult, do not worry-
stay till the end of the video
'cause I will give you a couple super secret tips
that you can use to make you feel a little bit better.
I got you, you got this b**ch.
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Number one - Arm Swing.
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All right, first you're going to make sure
that your legs are bended and GROUNDED.
Imagine a ball of energy rising from your feet
up to your shoulders.
Then, when the energy ball meets your shoulders,
RAISE those arms together and PUSH that energy upwards,
use your chest and shoulders to THROW the energy
FROM your body,
almost like you took a huge weight off of you.
Another variation would be The Pushback.
Basically the same thing,
all you gotta do is, when you throw that energy forward,
you're gonna step back so that you dodge it.
Number two - Chest Pops.
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Stand in a normal, neutral position,
now move your chest diagonally upwards.
You can imagine a string pulling your chest
or Casper the Ghost, PUNCHING your heart through the back.
Now, your upper abdomen needs to squeeze a little bit
in order to stop that momentum of your upwards chest motion
and then you bring your chest right on back to center.
Do this again, but think about EXPANDING your rib cage
as FAR as possible.
You should feel the tension in your upper back.
Then let's go ahead and bring it back down.
Lastly, we add the POWER.
If it helps, you can pretend to hit your chest
against an invisible wall.
Don't forget that the retraction
is JUST as important as the expansion.
If you want another variation, all you got to do:
PULL up your pants, do the rock-away and lean back,
COME ON, lean back, COME ON, lean back!
Now pop that chest out and you got it.
Number three - Side Kick.
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Raise your leg of choice to a 90 degree angle
where it meets your hip.
You're gonna use your hands
to STOP the momentum of that leg.
It actually helps to crunch over as if you're holding
all of the energy inside of that circle.
Then you're gonna imagine that your knee cap
is getting hot as hell,
so you're gonna push that hot leg energy
to the diagonal downwards,
forcing an energy in laser precision
to a single point on the floor.
You can also imagine that you're kicking down a door.
A very small, very sturdy door.
(door booms)
Bonus points if you continue to stare at that door
as you kick it down.
B**ch.
My favorite variation of this is the jump.
The door's levitating
so you got to kick it down with more power,
so what do you do?
Jump, kick, period!
Number four - Hip Pop, not to be confused with hip HOP,
but a hip POP.
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Stand with your feet a bit wider than your shoulders
and planted forward, now you're gonna lean to one side
and put all of your weight on one leg,
which allows your opposite hip to have the freedom to move.
Push into the ball of your free foot onto the floor
and turn that knee cap inwards and straighten your leg,
so the hip bone is the highest point.
You can visualize a string, pulling your hip bone upwards.
Relax that hip and leg back to where it originally was
and let's recenter your body.
It's ALL about the weight transfer.
If you wanna add a little spice to this move,
then we can change it up so it's a hip thrust.
The main difference is that you're using your FULL body
and you're not hunched over, you're actually leaning back
and I'm thinking about laser beams- BOOM, BOOM!
POPPING up from my hip bones!
Number five - Shoulder Pound.
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This move is also a great, powerful way
to put yourself back in a centered position
and it can also help you prepare for other moves.
So we're gonna start off in a wider leg position
with toes pointed forward, not sideways.
Then, bend your legs,
now lean back, make sure to keep your chest facing the sky.
Based on the side that you choose,
use the same arm to meet your opposite shoulder
at the halfway point.
Then, release that energy back to a centered position.
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Another variation you can do,
which is my favorite thing to do on stage,
is just the shoulder.
You're gonna give them a little taste
of the power that you have
but you're not gonna reveal all of it.
Mystery is key..
[laughing]
[Danyel laughs]
Number six - 100 to 0.
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Be in a neutral position first,
then, imagine the same energy process as tip number one,
the arm swing.
So now the energy is rising from your feet upwards
but instead of throwing all of that energy out,
it's going to fill your chest
like a balloon that's about to pop,
then as FAST as you can, BOTTLE up all that energy
as if nothing happened.
Similar to the moves that I explained before,
you can vary this one
by just simply changing the direction of your chest,
but remember, breathing is super important.
Now, here's some extra tips to make you feel
and look even more powerful.
Posture.
When you want to exude power
it's hard to do so when you're hunched over,
so, roll those shoulders back, lift that chest and chin up
and it has the ability to give you confidence,
energy and presence, all at the same time.
Power in dance is less about the muscle
and more so about the momentum and the timing.
You have to know EXACTLY when to release your power,
that's the key.
Visualize what makes you angry, feel that feeling,
and then PUT that into your dance move.
Don't forget, the intention is HOW
you want the audience to feel.
Remember, that your most authentic self
is your most powerful self.
Thank you so much for watching,
you can find me online here..
and, if you wanna dance and feel even more powerful,
you should take some of my STEEZY classes, periodt.
Come on YouTube Danyel b**ch, you got it.
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪
Okay yeah.
Take the weight and s**t yourself
because you forgot the f**kin' line.
I blacked out, I blacked OUT right now..
I've never watched SpongeBob before..
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