Club Dance Moves For Beginners 51: Check mark

Hi guys, Monika here. Welcome to another tutorial. Let me show you the move of the music first and then I'm going to break it down. Stay tuned till the end of this video. I'm going to show you how you can use this movement when you freestyle. The move we're going to try today is all about footwork and I have to be honest this is not my move. I actually borrowed it. I wanted to say stole it. I borrowed it from one of my students. So hi Alex, thank you. We're going to do a check mark which is this little motion. So it's more so like walking on beat with a little bit of groove. It's not too complicated. Let me show you what we're going to do. Okay, let's say we're going to be traveling to the right. Instead of starting the right foot however we will start with the left so it will feel a little bit unnatural. And now just so you understand the pattern I call this movement or we call this movement check mark because this is the shape that we're going to be creating. If I know how to do this in editing I will but if not it's my finger will have to do. Check mark. So left foot will step back diagonally. We're starting the check mark, the pattern. Then you're going to bring the right foot to the side and then feet together at the end. I hope I made that shape on the floor. Let me look. Back, open, together. Notice that I'm not traveling backwards. I am traveling sideways. Just the first step is back. Back, open, together. Okay, that's the shape. After we finish one side we're going to go the other way. So right foot will start. We'll step diagonally to the back. Left foot opens up and then we close the feet. Let's try again. Let's go to the left. So right foot will start. So you will go into the left. Opposite foot starts. Right back, left to the side, together. Left, open, together. Right back, open, together. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom. For now keep the knee slightly bent. You don't have to do anything extra. One thing that will happen automatically is your body will want to twist. So let it because that will make the movement more natural, look more natural. If you step with the left foot, the torso opens up to the left side. See the foot takes it with it. But then on the second step we want to go back to the center. So we have twist, center, stay in the center. Twist, right, center, stay. Left, center, stay. And right, center, stay. This motion, let's see, as far as rhythm we're going to just do it to the tempo so you don't have to worry about the snare in case you don't hear it. It's kind of a easy movement for beginners in that sense because you don't have to look for the loudest beat. We're just going to put it on every single beat. Five, six, seven, go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. You just keep walking in that pattern. I think what would make this movement look good aside from the twist is different arm movements. Most basic version, if you're a total beginner, just keep the arms loose but let them swing with the body. So try to avoid the tension, avoid putting tension in them so they have to move a little bit. Bounce, sway, whatever. If you're a little bit more advanced feel free to use any of the arm moves that I taught you before. I did plenty of tutorials. I will link them below. Arms or shoulders because we have just so many options for the upper body. It's hard to do them all in one tutorial but just to show you a few. I can roll the shoulders, I can bring the arms cross open, I can roll them forward. Yeah, so plenty of options. Let me show you how to do check mark with the music. Five, six, five, six, left foot back. Okay, I'm going one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Torso is twisting and I'm just walking in that little pattern. I notice that this movement may look a little bit repetitive if you do it over and over again so what I would do instead is I would mix it with other steps and just use it as a transition, my favorite word. Whenever you're doing your basic two step and let's say you went to the right, to the left, you know you're gonna go to the right again, start the check mark then and then maybe do it twice, go back to your two step so we have a nice mix. You're not just check marking all over the place. Let's try again to the right, to the left, check mark, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and two step. Okay, that's just one of the way you can mix it up and let me show you other ways. I will just freestyle using check mark. Check it out. If you like the movements that I'm using in my freestyle, I'm going to post links to those videos in the description box below for you. All right you guys, how did it go? Let me know in the comments below. If you like this video, don't forget to like and share and subscribe and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!