How To Do a Calypso (Leap) Tutorial

hey guys it's Alexa welcome back to my channel today's tutorial is on Calypso's one of my favorite weeks so keep watching to get your clips those look a bit first you want to start with stretches that will help your clip settle in your lunge gently pulse your hips down towards the floor you then can put your hands on your knee for a different stretch lowering the back knee take a hold of your back foot and bring it up this is a really good stretch for Calypso's because this is the position our leg will be in in the air straighten your front leg lowering your chest forward you can even flex your foot here to get a stretch on your hamstrings go ahead and slide into your split try to square your hips and go ahead and come braegh forward and back and forward again really lean into the front hip now go ahead and grab your back foot and pull it up towards your head this is a very good stretch for Calypso's pull it to one side of your head the middle and the other at the bar do some pleeeease and some grand plie is to warm up standing at the bar point your leg front brush through first swing back into attitude arch your head back to look at your foot now you can start bringing your arm back towards your foot then go ahead and use the other foot pointed Tommy back brush through first and bottom of the leg from now I'm going to be breaking down step by step how to enter the lead first you want to do a suit new cross your fists unwind to the other side brush to second position plie step forward turning the body to face the back in create continue the turn pointing your foot to the front arms in first lift your leg 90 degrees rotating your body to face the other direction open the back arm as your leg pushes higher switch feet doing an attitude back plie dropped a poopa and now again a little bit faster add a hop and a roll to the floor remember as you enter the transition to the floor or to point your feet the entire time another quick tip remember to release your legs to the front before you turn your body to the side now put it all together the more you practice the better you will get at your Calypso knee all right so I hope you guys enjoyed that tutorial if you did please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe

Channel: Lexa Tiller

Views: 127,972

Keywords: Calypso, Leap, Dance, Tutorial, how to, split

Id: u_QT14eI5Z4

Length: 4min 14sec (254 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2016