The Holy Grail Of Handmovements Engels info

Writen by Acid,

Shuffling is 70% upper body. Literally. You can have the sickest shit going on with your legs but without your upperbody looking cool your shuffling is gonna look wack. Your upper body includes your torso, shoulders, head, upper arms, forearms and hands.

This post will contain firstly a list of common things i see in shufflers with sick upperbody control and secondly a list of ways to improve your upper body movement. If anyone would like to contribute to these lists please post and i will edit your contributions in.

1.) Pointing/Hitting The Beat
All good arms movements hit, snap or move to the beat in some way. The more in tune with the music your arms are the better they will look.

2.) Using the muscles of your abs to move your torso
It's counter-intuitive that the muscles of your abs are what move your torso. Moving your torso to the beat is intrumental in making your shuffle look smooth.

3.) Shoulders incorperated into the dancing
Alot of good shufflers also move the shoulder and elbow together because it looks better than just shrugging. You can roll your shoulders in a similar fashion to the way girls do hip rolls. Being able to do good arm waves will teach you alot about using your shoulders. Avoid shrugging movements and repetitive circular movements.

4.) Arms following/Mimicing each others movement
Pretty self-explanatory. Try doing one thing with one arm and then mimicing it with the other arm, or mirroring the movements together. Try and incorperate symmetry in your movements.

5.) Looking confident
Good upper body movements seems to tie in with confident body language. Movements that look confident tend to look cool.

6.) Popping

7.) Miming motions
Most cool things you can do with your arms relate to miming in some way, and it took me a while to realise this.

If you want to improve your arm movements the best way is to video yourself and watch what your doing carefully. Does what your doing look a little:

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OK... if your having problems with your arm movements here are some tips

1.) Open your eyes to what is possible with your arm movements

Liguid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjMo0bN71BY
Tektonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NXd8wYkeM
Krumping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7s6_ahld0&feature=related
Locking/Popping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oblRnGLLMyk&feature=related

2.) Mime as many differents actions to the beat as you can think of. Move box's around, start a lawnmower, rip your heart out of your chest and watch it throb to the beat. The possibilities are endless.
Miming can really liven up a boring shuffle and you can get other people involved with it too, One of the things i'll do with my mates while shuffling is taking turns miming out random things. This is a good way to increase your 'miming vocabulary' so freestyling random things becomes easier.

Some examples of miming:
Passing around, bouncing and shooting a basketball with other ravers.
The robot
Reving a motorbike
Brushing dirt off your shoulders

3.) Dance in front of a mirror that obsures your feet so you can only see the upper part of your body.

4.) Video yourself and watch the recording carefully. Do any of the following things describe your upper body:

Unco-ordinated
Flip-Floppy
Weak
Odd/Un-natural/Weird
Tense
Spastic
Overly Aggressive or Too passive for the music

If so you need to work more on your upper body. Be honest with yourself cause it's the only way your ever going to improve.

Some things to avoid:
Sloppy swinging movements
Letting your arms 'hang'
Continually using the same finger positions

5.) Practice, Practice, Practice

Good luck...

Helemaal top,
Alleen soms vind ik het een beetje moeilijk engels.

Is er een diehard die het wil vertalen?

volgende week vertaal ik dit en dat stukje van PLUR wel

hand movements kunnen tricky zijn vind ik