Video: Hip-Hop Dance Warm-Ups: Push Down

Push down stretches start by pushing down towards the floor and bouncing back up. Learn more about push down stretches in hip-hop dancing with tips from a professional choreographer in this free dance video.

Video Transcript

Hi I'm Keith Fitzpatrick with Hip Hop Warm Up Moves and we're going to work on our push down stretches. Alright with this one I call it the push down stretch because we are going to be really just pushing down towards our legs and push back down towards the floor and kind of bouncing back up. So what we're going to do is we're going to start here with our right hand and we're going to push down to this leg. We'll push down here, we'll come up, we're going to push down to our left and as you go down really try to push and when you get down there hold that and you're going to push and you're going to hold. You'll come up and you're going to push and as you go down squeeze the muscles in your stomach and your arms to give you a stronger core, you need to have a strong core for dancing. You're going to push down here and come back up and hold and push down and hold and you are going to come back up, you'll push down, you'll hold, come up and push down and really squeeze your muscles, squeeze your stomach muscles and squeeze your arms. You are going to come up and go all the way around. You are going to drop down and bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. You'll come back up, come back to center, turn and drop back down. The whole time you are doing these make sure that you are squeezing your core. Squeeze your stomach muscles, we'll come back, push down with your arm, squeeze your stomach, come back up, push down with your arms squeeze your stomach, come back up and rest and that's called the push down stretch.

Hip-Hop Dance Warm-Ups: Push Down

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