Anna Kovalova | How to dance jive kicks
okay they shine wait so let's talk about our leg positions especially during the kicks well
if you are not that advanced dancer yet and you are computing like a bronze or silver go
through those like basic steps it's still important for you to know that every time
when our leg are lifting the floor but every time but especially if we want to talk today
about the case during the kicks especially for girls especially for ladies it's important to
remember sometimes we will practice in the pencil skirt imagine that you have a super
tight skirt and it's not allows you to do that note that not this position during the shots I
know that that's not attractive I try my best to show you so you always have to feel the engagement
in your inner thigh muscles so it's kind of always pretty tight and compact now during the
kicks the way we lift our upper leg up it's not that that's a little bit too simple too
to do and it's not pretty so we always have to remain the connection first of all with the floor
so we have to slide the foot in first before we're going to lift it up now when you gonna lift your
leg up I want you to feel connection between your right ankle the time right now I'm going to leave
my right leg between your right ankle and your standing leg so you have to keep pushing your both
legs - they're kind of like Center so it's always connected action and do not forget to point your
toes because these positions are not really pretty yeah so you're kinda when you lift your leg up you
already start to point your toes and lift in your leg up by kind of point curl your toes a little
bit more in for a prettier line so we're going to do a simple exercise just to train the other legs
and prepare ourselves for it nice and pretty kicks so we're going to slide our right leg in and now
in connection strong connection to the standing leg up and release it down our one two three
for keep the connection by let's try other leg slide with the floor over 1 C 3 d 4 5 3 now
little bit more into ends way of doing that action we're going to lift our right leg up at the same
time when we're going to bring our left heel up so we're kind of going to the high pass a release it
down up and step again left leg go to the passing down up and side step again up down up on your
standing leg and step one two so we kind of have a double action oh one two and step out one two and
step and again our one two step one to step it's very important to use your spindling entire time
during the kicks but in general as well so when we're going to do it kicks the second part what
you also have to put can practice as an exercise action we kind of continue to do the same movement
but right now we can activate not only our ankle but already as well so when we slide our leg up go
up on your thing to like bring your knee and heel away from the floor but keep your legs straight so
leg straight now when you lower your heel down flex your knee again straight your leg and size
them again go up flex your knee up straight leg and side again up flex your sins and you go down
up and side again up flex your standing knee and lower yourself up and say that's basically your
keep kicks action in the jail so our combination will include today keep kicks action for trick
kick ball changes and that's after this all that's it so we'll start with the right leg
and we're gonna do for eight counts so four kicks in total yes for each leg so we'll I have a 1 a 2
a 3 a 4 5 6 7 8 and just pay attention to my leg positions and we're trying to take a huge step to
decide well you can have a side step but after you just have to make sure that your flex will connect
before you're gonna do this and number 2 important point in right now you see me facing yes to you
when I'm doing the kicks for it that's not exactly forward so we're not kicking forward try to use
and use more candles in your movement and when we keep for it for Ricky came forward diagonal
towards the corner of the room and then and you can culturally and again we already directing our
knee towards the corner of the room then we can create the kick action and which her so alright
nice are always coming up under the angle then suit much nicer and prettier on the floor so we
have for kicks in total and one two three four keep connection between your legs seven eight
now we have one two so we have a slow slide one two three four down in close and again slow slide
five six and seven eight so basically when we have a slope I say I give you chance and opportunity to
really feel this slight action as for two counts one two now we have to jump through our right leg
to the left into the cross position and they can connect your inner thigh muscles and they
can slow pass a one-two and jump three four into the cross so I'll collect your inner thigh muscles
right away let's try one two three four five six seven eight and then we can continued with regular
kick-ball-change and again when you have regular keep punching voltage try to activate the gap in
connection to towards you standing there ow one rt3 up five six seven eight remember we're not
playing soccer so we need to kick our leg forward or kick towards our partner or our competitor well
so this is my move we have to always point our toes while we're kicking forward towards the
floor so if you noticed my leg is my point goes down and then I switch down and switch down switch
down switch kick ball change usually it's not a progressive movement unless you need to really
travel travel with the switch travel with the second step not with the kick yeah okay let's
review everything so we have three figures in total and starting with the kicks oh one two
three four five six seven eight plus eight one two three four five six up seven eight people change
you can make it someplace one two three four five six seven eight great and then we can start
over again let's try with me and practice with so starting with the right leg yeah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ah perfect great job Dance Today continues to create entertaining and
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