Beginner Hip Hop Floor Work- Trick Tutorial

- Hello. It's me Matt and not Miss Auti. (cool music) See you in the video. (upbeat music) (footsteps) Hey guys, what's up? Whoa Whoa. Oh, oh, no. Oh, wow. Oh! I'm sorry. What's up guys? How are you? It's me Matt, I'm back for another one. Because you guys are great and I missed you. In fact, I'm going to show you how to do that whole fall sequence, which wasn't actually a fall, it was planned. Those are movements that I'm going to show you. (palms clapping) Let's go. Well. Number one. The first thing you saw me do was kneel.

This is one way to get to the ground, right? What you're going to do is take a foot. I'm going to have my left foot go behind you and hook it, right under your knee like this. Good? And what you're going to do is bend your knee and "land" on your toes. So I'm not actually landing on the side of my knee. I'm going, fast, so if you see, I'll land on my toe first and that will cushion my fall. So I'm not actually hitting the side of my knee against the ground. That hurts, don't fall, don't do that.

So once you're on the ground, you're going to want to use these big leg muscles that you have to help you get up. So imagine this is like a little springboard moment. Come on, boom, we got whoa! Back. That's one version. The version you saw me do, staying on the ground, boom, bah and you're there, oh, and I fall and you're there and you're ready to do whatever else you want to do again on the ground. Excellent. Well. So number two, we're doing a knee twist. So if you have a rug or a soft surface, I recommend using it when you first try it because your poor knees or knee pads are highly recommended.

But what you're going to do is start with that knee on the

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, one knee up so you're in this nice sitting position, and what you're going to do is move around. your knees, I'm going to lower my right knee, replace it and raise my left knee. So this is going down, you notice I'm also turning my body. So now I deal with it this way and then I'll move on, yeah. And then the left goes up. So it looks weird and a little choppy if you don't have momentum, which is what you need to move.

So to get momentum, that's where your arms will come in. So I have my right arm here, I'm going to pass this arm and that will give me the turn to move. So you go, yeah, a little fast. Let me explain that one more time. So I'm starting with my right knee down and my left knee up, but you can go in either direction and you can even go back and forth if you want. Maybe I'll try it. But slowly again, you're here, my right knee is going down, I'm turning on the left, both knees are down.

I'm going to continue to rotate on that shoulder as I continue to rotate, I'm lifting my left knee and when you have momentum, this will take you all the way, rotating back to where you were. Quick version again, wow. You're here, using my arm this time. So I'm going to put my arm over the same thing as before and that brings me down. I'm back, try it. It's fun when you understand it. It is a good moment. Well. Number three, Coffee Grinder, classic pause, dance step. For this one, you're going to shift your weight back and forth on your wrist.

So take a minute, maybe stretch a few wrists, make sure you're nice and warm. I also recommend doing a couple of these types where you're on your toes and you just lean forward on your hands and lift your back feet off the ground. A couple of those, so you can get used to that rocking motion, which is what you're going to do in this move. So when you're here, after you're nice and warm, you're going to be alert, so you're going to be this way. One foot, I'm going to use my right side and it will be after the side here.

So you are balancing this way. My hands will be in front, I'm going to swing this leg out, like this. First in slow motion, it will go forward and then it will continue in this direction and as you go in this direction, I will let my weight fall on my right hand, to move it and this is the part we are on. I'm going to move forward. Because you want to rock forward on your hands to lift this left knee and rotate the other one. Yes, over and over again, this is one of those moves that's hard to do slowly, because you need momentum to help you.

Then, with a flick of that, you're out and about. Yes. Let me explain that to you one more time. So you are starting, you are alert. Yes, I said one leg to the side. I'm doing my right side. From here, it will move out and around, as far as it goes in this direction. I'm shifting my weight away from my leg so I can lift this foot off the ground. Wow, up and up. Oh, it's

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ing on your knees boy, I'm not young anymore. Well. Very fast full speed version. Yeah. So the leg is up, boom.

If you really want to send this, here we go. Give it a try. (Matt sliding) Okay. Let me show you that from behind real quick. Break that. So from here, the knee drop of the left foot will go behind the arm of the right knee, landing on the toe, not the knee. From there you will go back up, going around. That right foot will come out to the side and come down, so you're setting yourself up for that knee turn here, right? You're turning around, wow! From there, my hands go down to the

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, I sit on my left toe and my right heel comes out.

Yeah. (Matt sighs) Great, okay. Give it a try, make sure you have a padded film, your poor knees, rugs, knee pads, any of those tools will be fine. Be good, have fun, see you later. (cool music) (footsteps tapping) (chiming music) Can I check out? Oh, Jesus Christmas. Hello. We're making it. Okay, end. Excellent. I've been Matt, those were three moves you can do in sequence. I haven't done that part yet because Branden wants to pitch the exit, but you know what? We'll do it right now, maybe it's for the end, maybe it's after the end, I don't know.

Branden decides, Branden runs the show now, guys. Hey? I'll take five real quick, Branden. (Footsteps knocking) Stop! (upbeat music)