Tutorial

Monster Mash by Misfits, John Cafiero (KIDS)

Tutorial Video:

Song Video:

Designed By:

Jen Keet

FIT Categories:

Elements/Purpose:

Categories:

Cardio

Tempo:

Slow-Tempo

Time:

2:37

Age Group:

, 4-6, 7-11, 12-14, Teens-Tweens, Family-Groove

Genre/Year:

Halloween, Rock, 1999

Themes:

Halloween

Moves:

Slow ghoulish walk, jumping in the monster mosh pit, air guitar, punches

Style Words:

Rock, crazy, heart thumping, Halloween

Access Level:

Kids Provider

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Coaching Notes:

Pre-Teach: No
Focus: External
Purpose: High cardio time to get the heart beating through the skill of jumping, punching, and air guitar!

Note on Moves: please feel free to move in and out of the jumping monster mosh pit, air guitar and punches as you see fit for your group. Time stamps below are only listed as possibilities. Watch your group and see what they are really enjoying.

FIRST MOVE: Walk around slow like a creature or a monster, but get ready this is gonna be a crazy fast song!! (teaching note this move only happens in the beginning)

SECOND MOVE: Let me see you jump, oh yea welcome to my Monster Mash Mosh Pit! Lets all jump as high as we can together. If your body doesn’t want to jump can you bend your knees and come up to your toes? Yea lets all punch our arms up in the air!

THIRD MOVE: Okay, look around and make sure you have room we are going to take these punches all around our bodies and toward the ceiling and the floor, how about behind you?

FOURTH MOVE: It is time for epic air guitar, show me how you rock this! Oh yea look at the levels. There are no limits to how you rock this! Have you tried it on one knee? Whoo man!

Transitions:

0:00 slowly walk around like a monster or creature or ghoul
0:19 1 2 3 4 (in music) start to jump making a monster mosh pit
0:40 Start punches all around
0:58 Guitar all levels
1:28 Monster Mosh pit jumping
1:46 Punches
2:05 Air Guitar
2:15 Come together for monster mosh pit to end (or whatever move just come together)