You can even stretch before you begin, if you think that this will help you loosen up a bit. Don’t stand there with stiff legs. Instead, keep your feet shoulder width, or even a little further apart, and keep a bit of a bend in your knees. Though the pop requires strong isolation, focusing on one area of your body, the energy should actually come from your legs, popping out the top of your body. [3] X Expert Source Dariusz Horvath-KrolProfessional Ballroom Dancer & Dance Instructor Expert Interview. 13 September 2021. You’ll need that spring in your legs to help you generate the energy in your arms.
Keep your knees slightly bent, springing a bit on your legs with every slight move in your arms. You can use this little bounce to set up a nice rhythm for yourself.
Really, you’re letting a wave of energy travel from your shoulder to your fingertips, and back up through your arm again.
Keep your hips centered, your head and neck nice and tall, and your look focused in the center as you do this.
You can even slightly pop your other shoulder, to help the move transition to the other side of your body.
The wave should travel from the tips of the fingers of one arm, up the arm, and then over to the other side, so the popping motion flows from one side of your body to the other.
Think of it as doing a “chest bump” with the air. It’s a similar gesture, putting everything into the chest while developing just a slight bounce and upward motion in the arms and elbow. For an exaggerated movement, you can place one hand on your chest to mimic a heartbeat when you’re popping. Place a flexed hand in the middle of your chest, flatten your hand as you pop your chest forward, and then flex it again as you drop back. You can even add more moves to this technique by bending down and moving slightly to the right, popping your chest, then swooping over to your left side, popping your chest, and going back and forth between the left and the right.
It can take a little while to get the coordination down, but once you get used to popping with every count, the rest should be cake.
Once you’ve mastered the pop on one leg, learn to pop both legs at the same time, not moving your feet but pivoting on them to the right and left as you pop your legs.
