[0.000 --> 4.640]  Hey, what's up guys?
[4.640 --> 6.840]  It's Matt Stefano with Dance Tutorials Live.
[6.840 --> 9.440]  And today I'm going to teach you how to do an arm wave.
[9.440 --> 28.320]  So to learn this arm wave, we're going to break it down into four parts.
[28.320 --> 31.920]  Your shoulder, your elbow, your wrist, and your hand.
[31.920 --> 35.920]  First, we're going to start with a simple exercise to just get some control of our arms.
[35.920 --> 38.960]  So you're going to go shoulder, lift it all the way up.
[38.960 --> 42.560]  Then you're going to pick your elbow up and push your shoulder down.
[42.560 --> 44.760]  So notice how I have this 90 degree angle here.
[44.760 --> 47.800]  You want to make sure your hand isn't here or out.
[47.800 --> 50.040]  Shoulder elbow, nice and clean.
[50.040 --> 54.200]  Then you're going to go out to your wrist and make sure that that hand is flat and then
[54.200 --> 56.600]  roll it out through your fingertips.
[56.600 --> 57.760]  Let's try it one more time.
[57.760 --> 62.920]  You go shoulder, elbow, wrist, and release.
[62.920 --> 65.560]  Other side, six, seven, nice and slow.
[65.560 --> 71.440]  We go shoulder, elbow, wrist, release, little faster.
[71.440 --> 76.520]  Six, seven, eight, go shoulder, elbow, wrist, release.
[76.520 --> 80.240]  So now that you have that, we're going to smooth it out and try it a little bit faster.
[80.240 --> 81.240]  Ready?
[81.240 --> 83.480]  Six, seven, eight.
[83.480 --> 86.640]  Shoulder elbow, wrist, release, other side.
[86.640 --> 88.840]  Six, seven, eight.
[88.840 --> 91.640]  Shoulder elbow, wrist, release, and faster.
[91.640 --> 93.400]  Five, six, seven, eight.
[93.400 --> 95.160]  One, two, three, four.
[95.160 --> 96.880]  Five, six, seven, eight.
[96.880 --> 98.600]  One, two, three, four.
[98.600 --> 100.760]  Five, six, seven, eight.
[100.760 --> 105.080]  This is an important exercise because it starts to teach you how to move one part of your
[105.080 --> 106.280]  arm at the time.
[106.280 --> 110.120]  Now we're going to bring our arms up and out to the sides so that we can work on getting
[110.120 --> 113.960]  this wave to go across from one side to the other.
[113.960 --> 118.000]  So now remembering what we learned in the first exercise about isolating each part of our
[118.000 --> 122.320]  arm, we're going to think of this line as being our base.
[122.320 --> 125.880]  We're never going to go below this line when we do an arm wave.
[125.880 --> 129.280]  That's really important because a lot of people want to go down with their wave.
[129.280 --> 130.960]  We want to go up.
[130.960 --> 134.960]  So starting with our hand, I'm going to lift my hand up and then my fingers are going
[134.960 --> 138.000]  to come down and my wrist is going to go up.
[138.000 --> 140.840]  So remember this line, nothing is below it.
[140.840 --> 145.640]  Then I'm going to flatten my hand out and I'm going to lift my elbow up.
[145.640 --> 150.080]  So shoulder is down, hand is flat and just my elbow is high.
[150.080 --> 154.760]  A little tip for this one, if you can't get your elbow quite as high as I just had it there,
[154.760 --> 158.280]  it'll help if you rotate your elbow to the front.
[158.280 --> 163.040]  So I'm turning my arm this way and still keeping my hand flat and that allows me to get a really
[163.040 --> 165.520]  nice high angle with my elbow.
[165.520 --> 170.280]  And the last part is I'm going to press my elbow into my shoulder.
[170.280 --> 174.520]  So notice I'm not pushing my hand away to get my shoulder up.
[174.520 --> 179.040]  I'm actually pushing this bend, womb, into my shoulder.
[179.040 --> 184.160]  So if you have to take your shoulder behind your ear a little bit or even lean your body,
[184.160 --> 185.560]  womb, it's okay.
[185.560 --> 188.160]  You just want to make sure that this hand doesn't move.
[188.160 --> 191.200]  So let's try that whole thing again, nice and slow, connecting it.
[191.200 --> 201.120]  You go seven, eight, you go hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, reverse it, elbow, wrist, hand,
[201.120 --> 208.160]  release, little faster, six, seven, eight, we go hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, elbow,
[208.160 --> 210.680]  wrist, hand, release.
[210.680 --> 214.880]  Nice, now it's not going to do us much good if we can only wave on this one side.
[214.880 --> 218.120]  So let's try the other side nice and slow.
[218.120 --> 220.280]  Starting here, remember this is your baseline.
[220.280 --> 222.120]  Everything goes below, only above.
[222.120 --> 229.760]  We go hand, then you wave it down to your fingers, lifting your wrist up, you go elbow, keeping
[229.760 --> 232.680]  that hand flat, and then shoulder.
[232.680 --> 234.680]  Make sure that hand stays still.
[234.680 --> 242.160]  Reverse it back, elbow, up to your wrist, out through your hand, and flat, little faster,
[242.160 --> 250.160]  five, six, seven, eight, you go hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, elbow, wrist, elbow, wrist,
[250.160 --> 252.160]  hand down.
[252.160 --> 253.160]  Good.
[253.160 --> 255.840]  So, practice this a bunch.
[255.840 --> 257.000]  It's really important.
[257.000 --> 262.240]  So now that we have both sides individually, we can take our wave from one side and pass
[262.240 --> 263.880]  it over to the other.
[263.880 --> 268.360]  So we're going to try it just like that, keeping it nice and clean and going across.
[268.360 --> 269.360]  Ready?
[269.360 --> 279.360]  Five, six, seven, eight, you go hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, switch, shoulder, elbow, wrist,
[279.360 --> 289.720]  release, again, hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, shoulder, elbow, hand, release.
[289.720 --> 292.400]  So now I'm going to give you a little challenge and we're going to speed it up.
[292.400 --> 295.440]  If you're new to waving, don't worry if you can't do it right away.
[295.440 --> 299.240]  It takes a little bit of practice, but it's important to have something to work towards.
[299.240 --> 303.040]  Even if you're an experienced waiver, this is a great drill and something that I do every
[303.040 --> 305.240]  time I practice to work on my waves.
[305.240 --> 306.240]  So here we go.
[306.240 --> 309.320]  Five, six, a five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four.
[309.320 --> 314.280]  Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[314.280 --> 315.280]  How'd you do?
[315.280 --> 316.280]  It's fast.
[316.280 --> 320.040]  I know, but trust me, once you get it, this is going to make your waves so smooth.
[320.040 --> 321.040]  Let's try it one more time.
[321.040 --> 328.380]  Five, six, a five, six, seven, eight, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap,
[328.380 --> 329.380]  bap, bap, bap, bap.
[329.380 --> 332.160]  All right, so you've got the technique down, but you might be thinking to yourself, this
[332.160 --> 333.480]  doesn't look like a wave yet.
[333.480 --> 335.360]  It's just a bunch of random positions.
[335.360 --> 336.360]  You're right.
[336.360 --> 341.160]  You have to smooth it out and make it nice and controlled all the way through so that
[341.160 --> 342.160]  we get our wave.
[342.160 --> 346.120]  The good news is this is actually easier than learning the positions.
[346.120 --> 348.200]  All we have to do is fill in the gaps.
[348.200 --> 356.480]  So bringing your arms up, we're going to go one, two, elbow, shoulder, don't stop, keep
[356.480 --> 358.080]  it smooth.
[358.080 --> 362.960]  You'll notice that as I do it slow, I'm still hitting all of these positions.
[362.960 --> 367.280]  So if you pause me here, you'd see that elbow just like we worked on before.
[367.280 --> 372.720]  If you pause me at my wrist, shoo, you'd see this with nothing below this line.
[372.720 --> 377.080]  So make sure when you're practicing and smoothing them out that you still keep your technique.
[377.080 --> 378.080]  Let's try it again.
[378.080 --> 385.120]  Six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[385.120 --> 390.800]  Again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[390.800 --> 392.920]  All right, if you can do it slow, there's no way.
[392.960 --> 394.560]  No reason you can't speed it up.
[394.560 --> 395.720]  So let's give it a shot.
[395.720 --> 402.240]  Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[402.240 --> 407.440]  Again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
[407.440 --> 409.800]  So now that you got it down, we're going to put some music on.
[409.800 --> 413.320]  We're going to start with just our clean isolation, going across slow.
[413.320 --> 416.600]  We'll speed it up a little bit, and then we'll try and smooth it out.
[416.600 --> 420.440]  We'll also have a little fun and freestyle at the end, just so you can get some ideas
[420.440 --> 422.560]  of different ways to practice your waving.
[422.560 --> 423.560]  Let's try it.
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[493.560 --> 494.800]  Great job with those arm waves, guys.
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[499.480 --> 501.000]  I'll see you guys back in the studio soon.