Video: Latin Dance Open Leg Stretch

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Pointing your toes and opening your legs is a good way to warm up your lower body before dancing. Learn a Latin dance open leg stretch from a choreographer in this free video.

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Alright now we are going to do a second position stretch. You are going to try and open your legs as much as you can. Try to point your toes keep it all the way straight. Flex it up, yes, and you are going to stretch it, right? So that's one way to keep your body straight. If you can keep your heels out of the floor that will help you a lot. You bring your heels out of the floor alright? So bring them forward and bring them back. That will help you a little bit more. If you go to the side now bring your heels all the way up, bring your body up don't close your body O.K. and be careful when lifting your leg, keep your leg on the floor. So all the way up stretch and down. Same thing be careful with covering your body, go all the way forward, stretch a little bit more forward O.K.? Flex it up point your toes bring them down one more time bring your nose all the way down. And we go to the other side same thing O.K. So flex it up bring it up point your toes bring it down and one more bring it up and all the way down. And one more bring it up and all the way down. Remember don't push your body, don't tense your body, relax let it breath very straight. The same thing now we are going to go forward try to keep your body up, yes, don't drop it keep it up and keep reaching a little bit more forward, flex your legs and keep it up right there. Now from there try to bring one of your arms all the way across point your toes, breathe and relax. Same thing to the other side keep it all the way in, stretch it, good job. If you do it four or five times in repetition even if you want to stay there for a little bit you can stay for five, six, seven eight counts whatever you feel like and every day you can increase you can do it for more for ten minutes, for twelve minutes. Alright so that is stretching in second position and now we're going to go with contractions.

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Latin Dance Open Leg Stretch

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