How to Knee Spin (Hip Hop Dance Moves Tutorial) _ Mihran Kirakosian

Hey guys , welcome back to another tutorial .

My name is Miran .

Today we're gonna focus on the knee spin .

Let me show it to you guys with music first and then I'll break it down .

All right guys .

So the first thing you need to do is make sure you have your knee pads on .

I won't suggest you try it without , if you do just go ahead and stop once it starts hurting .

Ok ?

Especially when you do the spin part , you're gonna start feeling it in your knees .

Let me give you a quick little step to get into it .

So the first thing we're gonna do is little step with the left leg .

So step forward and then come down on your left knee .

Ok ?

So left leg forward , back down on the left knee .

Here we go .

Let's try that again .

678 , step one down .

Two .

OK .

One more time .

6781 two .

OK .

So if you can see , I'm kind of uh twisted to the side , I'm not directly in the middle because this is gonna allow me to do the spin .

So from here , my right leg is gonna come down as I'm turning and this is gonna be the first part of the spin here .

You want to get to the back .

Ok ?

So the way I'm doing that is the right leg is coming down the back leg .

I'm gonna pick it up a little bit .

So my leg comes up like this so I could actually move and not drag my foot on the floor .

So here , now if you use enough momentum that should get you around and then you're gonna switch the leg here .

Once you get back here , you're gonna continue to spin on your right leg and then the left leg is gonna open up and then you should be here with the switch of the legs , ok ?

You could put your arm down or if you have good enough balance , you could stay up .

Ok ?

So let's try that one more time .

Come on up .

Here we go .

678 , step one .

Come down , two .

So the left leg is down .

Right leg is here from here .

You're gonna spin , use your arms and your body for the momentum to go to the left side .

Put the right knee down , pick up the left leg .

Yeah , the left foot is up so you can spin on that knee .

So you're gonna go one from here .

You switch two .

Yeah .

So that's the switch of the knees .

Boom .

You end up on the right knee and now the left foot is down So let's try that one more time .

Come on up , here we go .

678 step with the left leg .

Left knee down , you're gonna spin , you're gonna pick up the back foot up .

So you could actually spin on the left , the left knee and then put the right knee down here .

Ok .

So that's your first motion right there here from there .

The minute the right knee , um , hits the floor , you're gonna pick up that left leg here from here .

Let the spin continue on the right knee and then open up that left leg and you're back here .

OK ?

Try that again .

Here we go .

56781 down two , spin 34 .

Try that again .

56781 .

So the four , OK .

So again , the spin is happening .

Half of the spin is on my left knee , half of the spin is on the right knee .

OK .

Here we go again .

678 , step 1234 .

OK ?

Now , once you're here on two , OK , I'm using my body and my arms for the momentum of the spin .

OK ?

So I give myself a little push here .

Boom .

And I'm able to spin around .

OK .

Let's try one more time and then we'll switch the legs .

We'll go over to the right side .

Here we go , stepping forward again with the left leg , 678 , step one down two , go for the spin , the four .

Now , remember what I told you when you're spinning , legs are coming up , your foot is coming up .

Same with the right .

So you're here .

So you don't , it doesn't touch the floor so you could spin on your knee .

Ok .

Here we go one last time switching the leg .

678 , go 123 , four .

Good .

Let's switch it up .

Same thing .

Right leg will cross now .

Ok .

Here we go .

Right leg , cross right leg down .

You're gonna spin to the right side .

Left leg is going down and then you're switching the knees .

Here we go here and down .

Here we go one more time .

Many times .

Here we go .

678 , right leg , right leg down .

Same thing here , right knee is down , left leg is up .

We're gonna spin over the right shoulder .

Left knee goes , pick up that right foot .

Here we go .

78 , go for it and then make your switch .

Here we go .

678 .

Go one down .

Two , spin 34 .

Ok .

Let's try that again .

Five 67 eight go one 2334 .

Good .

So like I said , you have to use your body and you have to use your arms for the momentum for you to actually be able to spin .

Don't expect to just spin without giving yourself any push .

OK .

Here we go one more time .

678 , go step down .

Spin , stop .

All right guys .

So let's see if we could go a little faster .

Now , here we go .

Five .

Let's go from the left leg first and then we'll switch to the right leg .

678 .

Go 123 .

Stop .

Good .

If you were able to do that , then you should be fine with music .

Let's try again .

Left leg 678 .

Go one down .

23 .

Stop .

Good .

Let's switch it up right leg now .

5678 .

Go one down .

Three three .

Stop .

Good .

Let's try that again .

56 78 .

Go one down .

Three stop .

Got one last time .

56 78 .

Go one 234 .

All right guys .

Here we go .

One music .

Let's do it slow .

It counts it up .

Let's start with the left side .

So here we go .

781 three full .

Good .

One more time left left 781 three .

Here we go .

Five 781 three .

Go .

Let's see if we could do that again .

Six 78123 .

Got switch it up right leg now .

Slow first 781 31 more time .

Here we go .

781 233 .

It up 78123 .

Yeah , here we go again .

Six 781 down .

Three that six 78 three .

All right guys .

So that was the neath spin .

There's different variations of it .

I've done a few myself .

If you go through my playlist , I will do more in the future .

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