How to Trace & Thread _ Hip Hop Moves & Grooves Dance Tutorial 2021

Joe .

What's up guys ?

This is paradox .

We are here in Shanghai at the CASA studio where I just gave a freaking three hour workshop .

It is three o'clock at night but it is time to give you some new moves of my last video ghost .

So in this tutorial , I want to share with you another trace and thread concept .

Tracing , meaning tracing over the body treading , meaning having a loop and a needle , needle and thread .

And we go through the loop for the first combo .

We're gonna start with grabbing our knee and creating this loop over here .

We're gonna take our hand as the needle and put it inside as a tread .

But we're not going to do it vertically down .

We are gonna swing it around like soap , boom .

As we do that , we step back , boom to create a dynamic way of doing it instead of shark down back .

Easy to give it a little bit more flair , a little bit more sauce .

We need sauce .

Really important .

You can actually rotate your leg , your lower part of your leg while you boom , bring it in to just give it that extra turn .

OK .

So we grab our knee , we tread inside .

From here , we step back , raise our right hand or whatever hand you want to use to our head to create a new loop that we can then use .

From here .

We're gonna swing our other arm over boom and come in to create the thread .

So this is the loop .

I swing and bring it into the loop .

Yeah .

At the same time with the swing , we're gonna raise our leg onto our knee like soap .

Swing in boom right there .

Yes .

From here we switch hands .

So again , I swing , I bring my body forward to create the thread .

So I'm not threading backwards .

Boom in .

Yes .

You jump into it or you rotate into it .

Basically .

Boom , change hands , touch my head with my other hand , create a thread with the loop that I've created here .

Boom .

From here , you create a chain reaction with your hands by bringing one up , bringing one down like a clock or like Domino's boom .

Boom .

When the hand comes down , boom , boom , you grab your elbow , raise it up and bring it down .

At the same time , my legs are going to switch from position .

So as this comes up , my leg comes down , I switch and then I bring my hand down , which brings us to the last moment to the last step .

And that is another tread where I take my leg and put him into this loop right here .

To then trace up the body and finish the first combo .

So that's the full combo .

Let's try it out a little quicker .

We take the knee and create the first thread right here .

Come up , swing second thread with the leg .

We change hands , come in , tick tack , grab , switch down , tread and slide your hand up besides your leg and then body to the head .

Boom like .

So that's a trace .

So from here , we're gonna continue this combination from the head where we finished the previous one .

This is a different combo , but you can connect them together if you want to .

We're gonna start by making another tread .

But this time we're gonna use our chin as the part of the loop .

How does it work ?

It's very simple .

I just create the needle right here and go inside .

Then you wanna switch your hand .

So you use your face and look to the other side to grab your chin with your other hand and switch again .

This is a fun little concept that I use a lot in my dance and play around with a lot .

So just have fun with it and search for how many ways you can switch your hands and create threads with them .

It's awesome for now .

We're gonna do this two times .

So we're gonna start off where we finished .

Bring it over here , then tread once , switch and thread twice .

And as we threat the second time you actually create a trace with your chin and your forearm .

So I bring it in and I go over my forearm with my chin and my hand stays here to finish it off .

Boom , so fast , left and right from here , we continue the combination into tracing instead of treading again , tracing is about tracing out lines and parts of your body with another body part , right ?

So in this instance , we're gonna use our chin to create the trace .

In the first part of the sequence , we trace our chin to our hand and then bring it up .

So trace up after which we trace that down and trace to the other arm .

So again to the hand , bring up trace down , switch to the other arm from here , we create another trace , but we use our hand to create the trace instead of our head back up .

Now we use our head to push down the arm and push up the other arm and let's finish it off , right ?

Trace down and trace back inside .

So do it with me slowly .

You finished here with the tread , go to the side to your hand , bring it up that makes you slide down , make sure you use your chin boom , slide down , slide to the side , bring the whole arm up , bring the whole arm down , come to the other side , bring it back up .

You use your hand again to trace down .

It doesn't matter if it's front or back doesn't matter , you can do whatever you want with that .

And then I come in to grab my head and finish that little trace sequence .

So let's connect the thread and the traces together .

Slowly .

We finished off here as we traced up , bring it to the chin , come in and switch straight sideways , up , down , side , up , down , up , back down , trace finish .

OK .

So let's finish it with the third part of the second sequence .

We were right here from here .

What we're gonna do is we're gonna , again , swing our arm back , boom to hit our head down .

So it's another trace down the arm boom from here .

I'm going to again , push my arm to another side , but follow with the head down side and then lastly , I pushed my head again to the other side .

So first I push my head down , then I push my arm out , push my head to the other side from here .

It's a very easy finish .

I'm gonna switch arms just like the one that we did here .

But now I'm gonna trace down , change the direction of my arm boom , go down again , change the direction of my arm and go down uh again , and that's in a very interesting position where it finishes off .

If you want to finish it off , right ?

You can rotate back up uh and finish it right .

OK .

Now let's move to the second Gumbo a little bit faster .

We finished off at the head .

We tread switch , trace come out up down , trace and switch .

Bring down grab and boom , boom , trace switch and down , down down , boom .

Finish it off .

Awesome .

I hope you got that because now we're going to bring the two combos together into one .

So for the full combo , let's go .

We grab our knee op .

Come in , step back , swing , come in twitch , bring it in boom , boom .

Don't forget to switch your leg .

Come down , thread through your leg and up .

Hey , boom and switch in .

Trace up , down , side , up , down and up .

Bring it down , trace , grab , boom , sideways , boom , trace crab again .

Same idea .

But now we go down the stairs to eventually rotate back up and finish it off .

So that concludes this video and my combos of my video , Ghost by Jaden Smith .

Also , if you would like to learn more about freestyle , I actually have a program on female where I teach a lot of my techniques .

I share with you my thoughts about how to dance and I just give you bigger types of tutorials that help you more in depth to practice freestyle as opposed to just my own moves .

You can find the link of this program in the description box of this video .

So if you want to check it out and check out any of the techniques or whatever I am teaching , you , please go ahead and just choose whatever you like to learn groove isolation concepts , it's whatever .

But for now , thank you so much for watching this video and I hope to see you in the next one .