Take A Ride by Benjamin Bidlack (Bodygroove)

Coaching Notes:

Pre-Teach: No
Focus: External
Purpose: To increase heart rate and strengthen lower body

First move: Walk-4-Funky-Dance-4. Walk for 4 and now stay on the spot dance it. You can move you arms, shoulders, hips, knees – and no matter what you do, I wanna see your head move with it. Make you head dance! Play with walking in different directions – backwards, sideways and even turning as you walk. And start to really DANCE your walk, you can’t get it wrong, I promise, simply move your body to the music. Can you play with your levels? Show me. Get your funk on!

How can you get you arms involved as you dance walk? Your head? And what does your face look like right now – show me! When you don’t look like anyone else in the room your getting it right – give yourself permission to express this in your own way. Allow yourself to have a party in your body.

Second move: Slide-and-Clap. All you need to do is lower you center of gravity just a tiny bit and slide to the side. Connect to the clap in the music and every time you clap, clap somewhere new. Just play with all the options you have and be creative with it. Smooth, cool and lots of personality! Is there anywhere in the room you haven’t danced yet?

Dont’ forget that when you’re funky, your head moves – so see how you can move it side to side, back and forth and up and down. Your way is the right way – dance and make it feel good!

Third move: Little funky dance. Stay right on the spot and give me a funky dance – but small. Keep your movements small, cool and funky. Really get your head dancing. Now start to make it a bit bigger, you can play with your levels and really get your whole body dancing.

Transitions:
0:00 Introduce the walk-4-dance-4 move
0:24 Walk-4-Funky-Dance-4
1:08 Slide-and-Clap
1:28 Walk-4-Funky-Dance-4
2:13 Slide-and-Clap
2:53 OTS Little funky dance
3:33 Slide-and-Clap
4:32 Pose