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Tips & Techniques: Mashed Potatoes

Jennifer | June 19, 2008

The Mashed Potatoes steps is another tricky one which is so nice to look at, but not easy to coordinate your feet to do. It’s mostly done in funky dances and can replace the back walks. Try doing the Mashed Potatoes instead of the boring walks! 😉 Among the dances I know that you can incorporate Mashed Potatoes are Freaky Skillz, Gyrate, Boogie With You, Phloor Philla… Do add more to the comments if you know of any others! Ok ok.. here’s the breakdown:

  1. Starting with the initial position (0), and keeping your weight at the balls of your feet (the red spots), twist both your heels outwards. You will get the end position as shown in the 2nd pic (&).
  2. Still keeping your weight at the balls of your feet, now twist both your heels in again, but this time, slide your right foot backwards while doing the twist (look at the big arrow) so that your right foot is slightly behind the left foot. The end result is the 3rd pic (1).
  3. Then again, twist both your heels outwards again. While twisting out, you can slide back your left food slightly back, so you’ll have less distance to move later. End result should look something like in the 4th pic (&).
  4. Twist your heels inwards again, this time sliding your left feet backward so that its position is slightly behind the right foot. The end result should be as illustrated in the 5th pic (2).
  5. Process 1-4 are just 2 steps of Mashed Postatoes, one right and one left. (This substitutes 2 walks back, right, left).
  6. Repeat again, depending on the number of counts in the dance.

To sync with the counting if you’re substituting the back walks with Mashed Potatoes, your Right Foot shd be at the back when the stepsheet say “Step Right Foot back” of the count. The same goes for the Left Foot. The twisting out part is normally on the & counts between the back walks. Also do small steps as “long” Mashed pPotatoes are not “delicious”! 😉

Hope that helps, more practise is the essence to get your Mashed Potatoes neat and “delicious”! hehe!

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Tips & Techniques for Hare Ram: Applejacks

Jennifer | June 17, 2008

I know it’s hard to coordinate both feet in different directions. All it takes is more practise. Anyway, here’s the breakdown:

APPLEJACKS TO THE RIGHT

  1. Graphic A is the starting position of your feet. They should be arranged in a “V” shape.
  2. Keeping your weight on the “red spots” of your feet, twist the unweighted parts to the right, following the blue arrows. Your feet will then be in the position of B.
  3. Again, keeping your weight on the “red spots” of your feet, twist the unweighted parts to the right, following the blue arrows. Your feet will then be in the position of A again.
  4. Repeat steps 2-3 again!
  5. The counting of the Right Applejacks in Hare Ram is 5&6&7&8. Thus the sequence of pictures of your feet should be A-B-A-B-A-B-A. Hope this helps!

APPLEJACKS TO THE LEFT

  1. Graphic C is the starting position of your feet. They should be arranged in a “V” shape.
  2. Keeping your weight on the “red spots” of your feet, twist the unweighted parts to the left, following the blue arrows. Your feet will then be in the position of D.
  3. Again, keeping your weight on the “red spots” of your feet, twist the unweighted parts to the left, following the blue arrows. Your feet will then be in the position of C again.
  4. Repeat steps 2-3 again!
  5. The counting of the Left Applejacks in Hare Ram is 5&6&7&8. Thus the sequence of pictures of your feet should be C-D-C-D-C-D-C. Hope this helps!
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Tips & Techniques: Hare Ram Head Roll

Jennifer | June 17, 2008

I noticed that many people find it hard to do the Head Roll, be in in Hare Ram or other dances with this step. So here’s a breakdown.

Note: In Hare Ram, the counting for this head roll is 7&8. For other dances, pls adjust accordingly!

7: Keeping your body straight, head looking straight forward, tilt your head to the left. Your left ear would be almost touching your left shoulder. (pic 1)

&: Still in the tilt position, turn your head to the left so you’ll be looking at your left shoulder. (or your chin would be almost touching your left shoulder) (pic 2)

8: Look up and bring up your face, bringing your shoulders along. (imagine putting your head and shoulders through a little hole) You would then have done a 1/4 turn left. (pic 3) Then, shift your weight forward to your left foot. (pic 4)

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Tips & Techniques for Gyrate: Hands Bit!

Jennifer | June 17, 2008

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I had a spectacular view of how Gyrate was done LIVE during Mr Leong’s party last weekend, watching Wendy Teh and her group. They were awesome and the first stepsheet I look for after the party was – you guessed it – Gyrate!

The meaning of Gyrate is according to the Online Dictionary is:

gyrate [jire-rate] Verb to turn round and round in a circle

In the song, I think Gyrate refers to the circling of the hips! And so has the choreographer put that into the steps!

Here’s a breakdown for the Hands Bit – It’s too fast to be viewed on video, so still graphics will do a better job! Remember my watch is on my left wrist and the pictures are placed above the description!

Hands Bit:

1: After the clap, both palms are in front of face. Slide your right fingers down your left palm.

&: Then rotate both palm downwards.

2: Push up your left palm and arch back your right palm. At the same time, both palms move to the right hip.

&: Still with the same palm positions, move both palms to the left hip.

3: Rotate both palms up again, also bring both palms up to left chest.

&: Push up your right palm to arch back your left palm.

4: Push down your left palm again to arch back your right palm. You will get the same position as (3).

5: Still with the same palm positions, bring both palms to the right chest.

&: Rotate both palms downwards.

6: Rotate up the palms again. You will get the same position as (5).

&: Slide right palm/fingers along left arm towards left elbow. You will see a “rectangle”.

7: Slide both palms along the arms towards each other. The palm positions are as (6).

8: Then, push back right palm to arch back left palm.

Extra Tips from Hsiu-Fang Liu (USA):

The movements of hands are from upper right to lower right, then to lower left, then to upper left. Practice is the key!

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