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Summary: Learn tips on how to do the basic Michael Jackson hand wave in this free pop star dance video.
Daniel Etcheto has been breakdancing and teaching for over 10 years. He teaches anyone who would like to learn and has a very diverse group of students ranging from kids to adults in...read more
"I'm Daniel for Expert Village. Again getting this body control in this posturer could be a little difficult I find it best to break it up into 2 sections. Your lower body and your upper body so if you have to just focus on your upper body. Doing something as basic as a wave and really mastering it would go a long way. Let me practice it in front of you like this when that becomes easy we are going to transition to the other side. You really want to start exaggerate by bringing more and more body into it. Really what we are doing is it is like a totter think of the worm one part is up the other part is down. So my hand is up, this shoulder is up, this shoulder is down. If I have to I can even bend this leg a little bit we are just exaggerating the motion. Taking something as easy as the wave can be broken in 2 steps think upper body first like this. Now think of your shoulders right one goes up and one goes down. Practice that, practice the other side and when you have your upper body down let's involve the legs. So here is the upper body, now let's get the legs now you kind of bend it like so but with control."
eHow Article: How to Hand Wave Like Michael Jackson
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ozrocker said
on 6/30/2009 If Michael Jackson did do the wave he would have at least done it properly. Common beginner problem is not being able to point the elbow up as the wave passes through to the shoulder. Thats the part that requires one to unintuitively rotate the arm slightly (yet keeping the hand at the same angle) so you can bend the elbow and make it face upwards instead of to the side which is what naturally happens. If someone just learns a wave quickly and goes by feel, that is always the part they stuff up
mjfan said
on 8/2/2008 Michael Jackson did NOT do the wave, and he DEFINITELY did not air swipe, do back spins, or planches!!!!! This is making me sick!