How to Do the Wave

Doing the wave is a great way to show your enthusiasm for your favorite sports team or for any kind of group rally to help interaction and boost spirits. While it is possible to do the way by yourself, it is much more visually impact as well as fulfilling to do as a group. So whether you are at a sporting game or just want to show your group appreciation, follow these simple how to instructions and you will be doing the wave in no time.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Imagining a wave of water with people is the easiest way to explain visually what a wave looks like in a group of people. Using this image and starting at one end, the leader on the floor introduces the idea and gets everyone focused to stand up and raise their hands when it is their turn.

2. Starting usually at the far left of a bleacher or stadium the wave starts by the beginning rows standing and cheering and throwing their arms in the air, immediately sitting down afterwards.

3. As the wave progresses and the further sections see the section before them stand, raise their arms and sit down, they subsequently stand and raise their arms as the previous section is on it's way to sitting down.

4. If this pattern follows all the way across an arena it gives the impression of a human wave and is fun and can be a great encouragement for pep rallies, sports teams, or any of their kind of celebrations.

5. If the wave reaches to the end of a section often times the pattern goes backwards and the last people that were standing and cheering start the human back the other way. Don't be a party-pooper and stand and be counted in the human wave.

Tips & Warnings

• It's hard to start a wave or get enough of a sections attention to start a wave, so if you are trying to facilitate the start of the movement, don't give up. Eventually people will get the message and you will be waving arena wide before you know it. Be persistent.

• Nobody likes a spoil sport, if you see a wave coming don't resist the urge to stand and cheer. The most foolish of people are the ones who refuse to be part of the wave whenever everybody else is doing it.

Resources

• History of the wave