(upbeat music)
Hey, everybody!
Once again this is Flow Funk from the Massive Monkees.
Today we're gonna be learning some funk styles.
A little bit different from breaking.
A lot of this is upper body movements.
But we're gonna do some lower body movements as well.
alright?
So, here we're gonna be working on some waving.
Waving is a waving motion,
pretty much what it sounds like, alright?
We're gonna go, kind of thinking water alright?
And we're also gonna be doing some popping.
So, popping is a little harder alright?
So, show you the difference between the two.
So, waving is kind of like the fluid motion of things.
And then from here popping is more of a hard motion.
Kay?
And then, so from here,
first thing we're gonna learn is the wave alright?
We're gonna start off with the arm wave.
Arm wave, I like to break down
into about 10 different movements.
So, first I'll show you what it looks like first.
alright?
So, from here looks like this, it goes.
Kay?
alright, and then we're gonna bring it back.
One way, the other way.
10 different moves all in that, kay?
So, first one is this.
It goes, from your fingers it goes one,
wrist, two, elbow, three.
Notice how when my elbow comes up
my wrist bends back the other way, kay?
We're gonna go fingers, one, wrist, two, elbow, three,
shoulder, four, kay?
My shoulder comes up.
From here, we're gonna go head, five,
we're gonna look the other direction, kay?
Switch, six, so it goes from shoulder to shoulder, kay?
Let's try that again.
Fingers, one, wrist, two, elbow, three,
shoulder, four, shoulder comes up all the way.
Here we go, five with the head.
This head roll goes from this shoulder
to the other shoulder, kay?
And then six, boom, switch, kay?
alright, here we go lets try it again.
One, two, three,
four, five, six.
From here, seven, there's that elbow kay?
Eight, here comes your wrist.
Fingers, nine, my fingers are still down.
And ten, out, kay?
Lets just do those last four motions, kay?
From the shoulder it goes
six, seven,
wrist, eight,
fingers, nine,
out, ten.
Kay?
From the beginning.
One,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine and 10.
A little faster this time, here we go.
We're gonna go one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
alright, if we do it with our arms out.
It's gonna go one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
alright.
If you can think about all ten of those motions,
and doing it all together.
We're gonna put all that into one wave, kay?
But now instead of breaking them up individually,
going one, two, three, four.
We're gonna go.
Kay?
So, now your fingers will kind of roll
one knuckle at a time.
Kay?
So, lets see that again,
it goes rolling in down to your wrist, kay?
In, alright, here we go!
We're gonna go one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, 10.
All in one motion.
Again.
Kay, so we're gonna break it up into two counts.
It's gonna go one,
two.
One,
two.
Now all in one motion now, here we go!
One.
This looks super simple,
but it's actually pretty complicated.
So might take a little bit of practice.
I like practicing in front of the mirror myself.
Or sometimes when I'm just at home not doing anything.
I'm just thinking,
or I could be sitting on the couch
just thinking of doing that motion, kay?
Bring it back the other way.
I really think of water.
Sometimes I think of electricity just going through my body
from one end to the other, kay?
But just practice it.
Kay, here we go again.
It's gonna go one,
two.
Now we're gonna try to bring it back.
We're just gonna repeat those moves,
but in opposite order.
Bring it back.
And bring it back.
alright, that's the arm wave.
Next we're gonna try out a trace wave.
So, kinda like how I was pointing
to each of the different moves,
I'm gonna point and then that's what's gonna move.
Nothing else will move unless I'm pointing at it.
So, I can't go.
(laughs) I'm gonna have to go here.
So, this is what a trace wave looks like.
I point to whatever moves.
Kay?
If I wanted to bring it down,
I could bring it back down and back up.
I could bring it down to my foot,
my legs, come back,
bring it up, and back to that point.
Pointing the other direction now, kay?
Trace wave, think of a pencil.
From here, point, goes wrist,
fingers, wrist, back to your fingers.
From your elbow up and to my chest now.
So, from here my chest pops out as I point to it.
Shoulder, chest, sticks out, boom, kay?
Here's normal, chest comes out, boom, kay?
Like you're huffing and puffing, kay?
It goes in, out.
In,
out,
kay, here we go,
let's try that.
We're gonna do the chest, up to the chest.
Trace wave to the chest, here we go.
In, bring it out to the shoulders,
and back out to the hand.
In,
out,
good!
alright, from the chest.
We're gonna go up,
maybe bring it up to the head right after, kay?
So, when I bring it up to my head,
I'm gonna go up and kinda bobble head it.
alright?
So, from here it goes in, up.
Kay?
alright, here we go.
Fingers, chest, to my head.
alright?
Let's see, we're gonna go in a different direction.
I'm gonna try out arms, head, now chest, kay?
Here we go, arms, head,
and then chest comes out, kay?
Arms, head, chest, got it?
Kay, I switched it up on you.
Here we go, arms, head, chest,
down, back up to my head,
shoulders and out.
Kay, follow that path.
Trace it the whole way through.
Arms, head, chest.
Back up to the head, back out to the arms.
Here we go, here we go, here we go!
One, two, three,
back up, head, and out.
Kay, here we go, we're gonna try it faster!
Go!
alright.
Try it out on your own.
Just move it around, think, point, and go.
alright?
Now, let's try that with a little bit of music.
Same thing, we're gonna go arm wave,
and then we're gonna try out the trace wave right after.
Kay, so from here this is what it looks like.
It's gonna go one, two,
trace wave,
(upbeat music)
head, back up, and out.
Kay, here we go, alright.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two,
trace wave,
go, one, two, three.
Back up, head, shoulders, fingers.
Kay, here we go, from the beginning.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
alright, here we go, same thing.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight, just take your time with that, kay?
Go ahead and mess around with it on your own.
Play with it and then we're gonna try to do some popping.
Popping motions like I said, are a little different.
They're a little stiffer, kay?
You want to think of your body making a popping sound
as you're doing it, kay?
So, lets see,
the first pop we're gonna try out is an arm pop.
You can do it with one arm,
you can do it with two arms if you want to, kay?
So, the first one looks like this.
I'm gonna just try one arm at a time.
You need to have your arm straight out.
And then you're gonna think of
a little bit of a pulling motion.
You're gonna tighten up your muscles.
Tighten up your muscles in this arm,
it's gonna go.
It's a quick pop, kay?
You can also think of like you're pulling something.
Quick tug, (grunts) alright?
So, from here it looks like this, it goes.
See my wrist bends a little bit on each pop.
My forearm tightens up.
Kay?
You can try that with both hands.
(upbeat music)
So, every time you hear that song go.
(imitates pop sound)
You want that pop.
'Cause that's that pop sound, that's on that beat.
Kay, remember your body is making that pop sound.
Or you're imagining your body making that pop sound.
So, from here.
(imitates pop sound)
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop!
Kay?
We're gonna try out one eight count in the front.
One eight count here on the sides, kay?
alright, here we go, my count.
Five, six, fix, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, again, go.
One, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight, kay?
alright, here we go!
Five, six, seven, eight.
Three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight, alright.
Next one that we're gonna do is the chest pop.
alright, so from here, kinda like we did
with that waving motion, but we did that chest out thing.
Here we're gonna do it and it's not gonna be as smooth
as that wave, kay?
It's gonna be a quick out motion.
Imagine your heart beating out of your body.
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Kay?
You can also use your hands in front
to make that pop look even bigger, kay?
So, my hands are out here in front.
It's gonna go pop, pop, pop, pop, kay?
At the same time my chest comes out.
Chest is coming out,
my shoulders are going back at the same time too.
Kay?
alright, so let's try that out.
We're just gonna do about eight of those ones as well.
Kay?
So, here we go.
Five, six, five, six, seven, eight.
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Kay, try it out on your own.
Pop,
pop,
pop.
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It also helps when you do a little bit of a breath out.
Or just sometimes just say pop.
Pop, pop, pop.
Kay, now we're gonna do a little bit of a freestyle.
You can mix and match, you can go from your waving,
you can go to your popping, it's up to you.
So, I'm gonna show you a little bit of a demonstration
of how you can mix those things together, kay?
Starting with the wave.
♪ Said, I wanna blow ♪
♪ Just let me blow ♪
♪ Blow my thing, baby ♪
♪ I did it ♪
♪ Said, I wanna blow ♪
♪ Just let me blow ♪
♪ Blow my thing, baby ♪
♪ Blow my thing ♪
♪ I did it ♪
Alright, we're gonna try out a different song.
I'm gonna let you get down to that, kay?
And then from there,
we'll do a little bit more free styling together.
(upbeat hip-hop music)
One of my favorite songs right here!
Kay, here we go!
I'm gonna let you try it out.
Just move around different directions.
You can go with the wave, you can go with the pop.
alright, on your own try it out.
I'm just gonna dance here in the background with you.
♪ It's just me, myself, and I ♪
♪ Now you tease my plug one style ♪
♪ And my plug one spectacles ♪
♪ You say plug one and two are hippies ♪
♪ No, we're not, that's pure plug bull ♪
♪ Always pushing that we've formed an image ♪
♪ There's no need to lie ♪
♪ When it comes to being plug one ♪
♪ It's just me myself and I ♪
alright, we're just dancing.
Whatever you want to do,
this is your freestyle, kay?
Waves.
Pop,
pop,
practice on your own.
Once again, I'm Flow Funk from the Massive Monkees.
Peace!
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