Hit & Spin Advanced Hip Hop Move

Series Summary

Hip hop dancing covers a large range of styles and specific moves and techniques, but the cornerstone of the style is undoubtedly break dancing. Over time, that so-called old school way of dancing and participating in hip hop culture has evolved into many different off-shoots. Funk dancing, popping and locking, jigging, freaking, krump, and hyphy are examples of types of hip hop dance, and each style contains certain moves that distinguish it from other forms. Many people take hip hop dance lessons, and although some people believe that teaching orchestrated steps is contrary to the roots of the culture and history of hip hop dance, many people benefit from taking lessons.

In this free dance video series, a professional instructor will teach you numerous advanced hip hop dance moves and how to put them in combinations. She will show you how to do the hit and spin, drag with open pop, disco arms, squatting drums and heel pops with body roll. You will also learn how to rond de jambe, rag doll, spin to the floor, floor pop with weight transfer and off the floor spin. Finally, you will learn how to do pancake with ball change, double pop with whip, ball change walk with heel spin and double pops with ball change.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Emily Larew. We are on our advance hip hop combination. We are actually going to continue to put together this whole segment with our last combination that we did in advance hip hop choreography. So what we're going to do right now is just continue on with a combination and not do the whole choreography. So we're going to start with is right here we ended in, we did our elbow pole so this is on 4. We're actually going to pick it up from 5, what you're going to do is you're going to go ahead and pound it and hit and spin. Alright, so you're going to hit and it causes you to turn to the right. So hit this 5 you're going to turn around 6 to the front and unwind. So my feet never moves I just spun around kept it in place. Then you're going to step out 7, hand to your hip 8, alright and you're going to make sure that you lean your hip both times. So left with the left foot and right with the right and turn your head. So we did 3 and 4, we hit 5 turn 6 7 8. Good that was awesome, that is the beginning of our advanced hip hop combination."