Rave Hands in Intermediate Hip Hop Dancing

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Emily Larew continuing on with our intermediate hip hop combination. We're now on our eighth count of eight, five, six, seven, eight, with our rave hands. So, what's going to happen is, we just slid and our left hand was forward, four, you're going to step together, five. All right, straight forward. Now what's going to happen is, you want to make sure that you have blade hands and you are going to rave. What happens is your left hand is following your right hand in a straight line. So you can curve it anywhere you want to, you just want to make sure your fingers are lining up with each other. Because you don't want to be like this--it just looks like you're doing hand tosses. But they actually follow, they curve, wherever your finger curves--right hand curves, your left hand has to curve as well, and they stay straight. So it follows exactly what the right hand does. We are going to do a left, right, and center rave hand. So we just did four, you step five, and you're going to lean back, and six, and seven, you keep leaning back as your hands go forward, and you're going to drop to your knees, eight. Okay, and you saw how soft that was. You shouldn't pound on your knees on the floor. As you're just leaning forward, you quietly, softly, drop to your knees, because your weight is leaning back while your knees are going forward. And your toes are up. You press your arms straight down for eight. All right, so let's try that one more time. We're going to go, five, lean back to the side, six, and seven and eight. All right, let's pick that speed up. Here we go. We just dragged three, four, five and six and seven and eight. Yes. And then the only thing I'd like you to add is follow your hands with your head, so it's looking, looking, group and down. All right, let's take it from the top. Here we go, nice and slow. Five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five, six and seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five and six, seven and eight. One and two, three and four, five, six, and seven and eight. A one and two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Good. That was our rave hands for intermediate hip hop combination. "