Kick cross step dance lesson:
Transcript of Kick cross step:
So let’s get started here. Alright, the first thing you want to do is kick. First step, boom. Don’t force, don’t place the kick or anything like that. It’s a real loose, bop. Just like that.
Now, what I want you to do is take that same kick with your right foot and kind of lean to your left as you’re doing it. So you’re going to go, kick, alright.
Notice, that if you’re actually leaning yourself as you kick and kind of throwing yourself off balance what happens is your right foot catches you. So the foot that you kick, catches you. Very natural. So that’s what I want you to remember; this movement is natural. You don’t have to place anything, alright.
So again you’re going to kick, cross, and then you step out. That’s where the step comes from; from the kick, cross, step. So it’s your kick and your cross, this is your cross, step.
Let’s try it again. 5-6-7- we go kick, cross, step. Alright. Now, there is a slight bounce or hop to it. More of a bounce then a hop but you’ll see what I mean. What you’re doing is… exactly. Just a nice little simple, boom. Using the balls of your feet and your toes to kind of lift you up. That’s what you’re doing when you kick.
Kick. So, 5-6-7- we go kick, 6-7- we go kick, 6-7- we go kick. Yay? Alright.
So, next thing you’re going to do is, remember that lean I told you? As we do out kick, with our little bounce, we’re going to lean to our left. So it’s kick, cross. Bow we’ve caught ourselves naturally, and then we’re, step.
So let’s try it. Here we go. And 5-6-7- you go kick, cross, step. Ready go. Kick, cross. Last time, here we go, and kick, bop. Alright? Cool.
Now let’s get into some arms. You’ve got the basics of the kick, cross, step to practice. What you’re going to do is you’re going to go kick, cross, step. So our arms are, boom, boom, boom. Ready we go cross, open, cross. Again we go cross, open, cross.
Now you want to have a groove to it, so let’s take our groove. Let’s go here like this, boom, boom. I’ll show you from the side, you just, boom, unh, that’s right, I’m rocking to the beat, okay. Good.
So it’s cross, out, cross, out, cross, out. So when we cross it’s like we’re backing up on it. Cross, out, cross, out, cross, out, and cross, out. Good.
Now, let’s add that with the kick. Alright so we have kick, cross, step. So 5-6-7-8 kick, cross, step. Ready go kick, cross, step.
So, your arms stay crossed on the cross. Stay crossed on the cross. 5-6-7-8 kick, cross, unh. Ready again, and kick. Good.
Alright, so now, once we’re here we’ve got to get back to the other side, so with the left leg, same principal. 5-6-7-8 kick, cross, unh. Yes, and 5-6-7-8 kick, cross, step. Alright? Got it? Cool.
So let’s do it slowly, a Capella. We’re going to do one to one side, one back to the other. You pause the video, repeat it a couple of times and by the time you’re ready to press play again we’ll be doing it will the music.
Here we go. A Capella we have kick and boom, and kick and boom. Let’s do it one more time sped up. 5-6-7-8 kick, boom, kick, boom.
Alright, this is your time to pause, go back over it and like I said, when you press play again we’ll be doing it to the music.
Alright, so, DJ Mahalo. There we go, on it.
Here we go, and 5-and 6- and 5-6-7-8 kick step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step, kick, cross, step. Alright.
Thank you DJ.
Alright, so, how’d you guys do? How do you feel? Hopefully you feel encouraged that you either got it, or you’re going to get it. Those are the only things you should be feeling right now.
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