How to Mime Leaning

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Teri Lynne and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment we're going to show you how to do some mime leans. There is a lot of options you can do with a lean. The greatest thing you want to do is it make it look like you're putting all your weight into something as if you were really doing a lean. The trick is that all your weight is on the other half of your body. For example, if I were to imagine that I were learning against a wall, waiting for something, picture your wall. Do the lean. I'm actually not putting any weight or effort here. This is just being held up. All the weight is actually going into my support leg here. I'm just leaning the other one. You'll actually use a lot of your core strength in this. You can, yeah you know. It?s very important when you get into the lean that it?s very specific and when you get off of the lean. Same with if, say, I was leaning on a counter top or something. I might want to like, tap my fingers while I'm waiting. Really make it look like I'm leaning into this. Then you know, really specifically leaning into it. You can do a back lean. One shoulder, the other shoulder. You do the foot. Again I'm using all my upper body strength. I'm not actually leaning anything in at all. Again, it?s how you get into the lean. Often to it makes it a lot more believable. Chose the object that you appear to be leaning on and then decide which lean you want to use. Whether its like a wall, or a counter, or leaning behind. That is how you do a mime lean."