Hip Hop Dance Moves: Spins

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Keith Fitzpatrick with easy to learn hip hop, I'm going to show you how to do a spin. Alright so one of the first things we do in a spin in hip hop is that you want to be in plie or you want to have your knees bent, cause if you stand straight up you tend to wobble a lot and you don't have your balance. So the first thing you want to try and get on your knees here. And you want to use your arms to give you that momentum to get your body around. So the first thing you want to do is here, and we're going to use our left toe for this spin. We'll be here, your arms will come out, you'll come this way and you'll turn and stop. Now when you're doing it slowly, it's a lot more difficult, but if you do it quickly, you’re putting your right foot down will stop your spin and try and kind of give you the motions of just coming to a dead stop. But you'll be in plie, you're here, you'll turn and you step out. Same thing with you other leg. You want to be in plie, our knees bent, here, use your arms, come on to your right toe, spin out and stop. The main thing though, is using your arms, staying in plie because having your knees bent is going to give you a lower center, you won't be up, you won't be wobbly. Here, boom. Then as you do it more you get into a faster song, you want to do a faster spin it's the same thing, we just go in to it, out. Same thing the other way, bend down, spin, out. One more thing with that spin too is that you want to keep your head planted to the very last second so you'll be down, your head is pointed here, and you whip it around at the very last second. It kind of gives you the impression of spinning around a little bit more quickly than you really are. Same way with the other side, here, keeps your face planted that way, come around, boom, very last second. So, one more time, your knees are bent, bring your arms out and when you swing your arms kind of let them go whew, kind of go down, gives you the impression of your body kind of warping around the turn, just bring it down and turn around out, same thing with this leg, plie. spin around, out. That's how you do a spin."