Hip Hop Dance Moves: Slides

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Keith Fitzpatrick. This is easy to learn hip hop, and we're going to go over how to do a slide. So one of the main things with sliding is there's always one foot that you're going to step out on and there's one foot that you're going to drag behind as you slide. Another thing with sliding too is you kind of want to be in plie again or with your knees bent because if you're up and you slide, it doesn't give you the same impression. So you want to have your knees in plie. This one we're going to step out with our left leg and we're going to slide to the left. So you just want to step it out, bring it up and let this foot drag. Same way going to the other side. You would get into plie, you step it up, slide this way. Same thing with going in forward or backwards direction too. There's always a foot that you'll step out with and there's a foot that you drag. So if you're going backwards, you just step your foot up and drag it backwards or if we were going forward, you'll step your foot up, left foot, drag your right. But the thing with going forward and backwards is that instead of being on the side of your foot as when you go sideways, when you come forward you're usually on your toe or your heel. So, let's go sideways one more time. We're here in plie, you're stepping with this foot, you're sliding, other way, stepping with this foot and sliding. Another thing you might want to do is put something on the end of your slide to kind of let everybody know that that's the point where you're supposed to stop your slide. So we'll step out, slide, pop, here. Go the other way. Same way going backwards. We'll step back. Slide up, we'll go forward, slide up. Alright, so lastly, we're in plie. We're sliding to the left that way we're sliding, hit. We're bringing it back, ha, coming forward, ah. That's how you do your slide."