Dancing for dungus
Jason Lo once described a typical guy’s clubbing move on Latte at 8 consist of holding his beer and swaying left to right and back again. I call this the palm tree move and am guilty of such a ghastly mistake when I first started clubbing. Now while I’m no john travola, here are a couple of pointers for those ‘kayu’ people out there on how to move from a previously reformed ‘kayu’…:P
First of all comes the footwork and the key is in your hips. Don’t be too self conscious about move that booty. Start of by standing with both legs on the floor then slowly raise one leg up slight off and tapping twice balancing your weight on your other leg. Reverse and repeat with your other leg…once you got the rhythm and the hang of it, you can do a quick switch between the legs and try and make the motion fluid and wavelike.
Once comfortable, bend at the knees slightly and then move with the same steps but this time bending the knees sideways inwards as if taking a step forward but stopping when your heel leaves the floor and your weight is on the tip of your front feet. Repeat with the other leg. By now you got the gist of the move, so time to move that upper body.
Key to being fluid is to be soft…loosen up will ya. Bend your arms 45 degrees then use your upper body to match the wavelike motion of your feet. If your left feet moves forward, bend the right side of your body backwards towards the left with your right arm up and your left arm down (maintain that 45 degrees angle or you’ll look ridiculous). Repeat process in opposite, when it’s time to move your right feet. Instead of holding your hands in a clench fist, you can start snapping your fingers. Now with this move you can practically move backwards, forwards, left and right by adjusting your weight on the front of your feet and moving the knees in that direction.
Next comes the fun part…you can use this move to switch to salsa, and by placing one hand on your belt buckle, you can take three or more step forward and a equal number of steps back. You can use your other arm to continue snapping fingers at a 45degree angle or raise till the top of your head. You can also change it to shuffling, twist and even cha cha. So now time to put on those blue sweat shoes…;)
