(upbeat music)
- Hey everybody, once again,
this is Flow Funk from the Massive Monkees.
Today we're gonna work on some other moves.
We're gonna do a little bit more funk styles today.
And the two different styles we're gonna work are,
the King Tut style and the Robot.
Alright, so most of you guys know what the robot is,
kinda just dancing around, acting like you're a robot.
Alright, King Tut style is a little different.
You may not have seen it before,
but we will work on that.
Alright, so the first thing we're gonna do is,
we're gonna mess around with that robot, okay?
Same thing, make sure you have enough space.
This is not gonna take too much space
unless you're doing the robot all the way out, okay?
Alright, so from here,
let's start with a little bit of movement with your head.
Alright, so make sure you stretch out a little bit.
Move around because after this,
your body might feel a little bit of soreness,
because you haven't used those parts
of your body in a while from sitting on the couch all day.
(laughs)
Alright, so from here, let's start with the robot.
Alright, we're gonna keep our back straight.
Alright, from here, just starting with the head.
Okay, so from here, head goes down.
All we're doing is moving one body part at a time.
Alright, so the robot, I mean you can do the robot move,
different body parts at the same time,
but it doesn't look as clean.
Okay, so from here, one body part at a time.
We're gonna work with our head first.
So from here, it's just gonna go, and that's it.
Simple, right?
Okay, we're gonna add in a little stop to that
because from here, if we just go and look up,
it just looks like we're lifting our head.
So, but from here we're going,
a stop motion
to a hard stop right there, okay?
Stop.
There's a little bit of a shake right there.
So when you do it, it goes.
See that little shake, it's super subtle.
But with other movements,
you'll start to see that little shake again, okay?
All right, for me, I like imitating robot sounds
as we do it, so from here I'm just gonna go, vooot,
it's just more fun that way, alright, here we go.
One, alright, now we're gonna do arms.
So from here, same thing.
One joint, or one part moving at one time and that's it.
So we're gonna go: head, vooot,
arm, vooooooot.
Okay?
So from here, I'm just going from my shoulder.
My elbows aren't moving, my wrist isn't moving or anything.
It's just gonna go up from here,
it stops, it doesn't have too much movement after you stop.
Right there, it just stops and it's frozen,
okay, down, up
and that's it.
Only moving from right here, okay?
So let's try that again.
Okay, other side, let's go.
You can go super slow,
or fast movement.
Okay?
Let's get a little music in here now.
Alright, so from here, it's still a dance, okay?
It's a robot dance.
We're not just moving around like a robot and that's it.
Okay, so we've still gotta do it to the music, okay?
Alright, so from here, starting with the head,
then we're gonna do one hand at a time, okay?
So from here, five, six, seven, eight, one.
And then from here, we're gonna turn our heads.
One.
From here we're just gonna go,
from the middle part of our body, okay?
From here, to right about here, this is gonna move, vvvuuu.
And then from there, we turned, alright?
So from here, it's separated, we're isolating just our head,
and then just the middle part of our body,
and then we'll do a little bit of movements
for the lower half, okay?
So we're gonna go from here,
head turns,
middle and then from here,
our bottom half, okay?
So from here it's gonna go,
one, two, three,
four, five, six.
Got it?
Okay, so let's try that slowly.
Oh wait, let's break down that
movement with our legs first, okay?
So from here, after we've already turned,
watch from here, this will just kinda pivot.
I usually like to pivot from here, toe and heel, okay?
So it's gonna go, toe and heel, pivot.
That's the turn, okay?
It's not a full turn here,
it's a toe and heel.
That way I stay kinda centered, okay?
'Cause if I just moved here, I'd eventually,
move all the way out, okay?
Alright, so let's try that again from the beginning.
Head,
arm,
head.
Okay?
So let's try that in counts.
It's gonna go, one, two,
three, four,
five, six.
Got it?
Alright, try it out on your own.
Just move slowly or you can go fast if you want to.
Alright, here we go, let's try it together with the music.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two,
three, four,
five, six.
Alright, now from here, we're gonna go from our waist.
We're gonna bend down.
Notice my arms didn't really move, they kinda stayed there.
Okay?
Just remember I'm moving one part of my body at a time.
So from here, it's just bending down from my waist,
and that's it, okay?
No matter what happens with my arms,
or with my waist, my arms kinda just still stay there, okay?
Somebody is controlling you.
Their controller only moves one part at a time.
Okay, so here we go.
It's gonna go head, arm, arm, head,
arms, legs, waist.
Okay?
So that little shake there at the end,
that's called a Dime Stop,
so if you hear that,
if you've ever heard the term stop on a dime,
think of like a car just driving past,
and there's a dime on the ground, vvvrrrr, boom.
It's a hard stop, right there on a dime.
Okay, so imagine from here,
okay, so you're going from up top, down,
and there's that little shake there again, okay?
So that shake goes boom, one, two.
It's very subtle.
You don't wanna do too much of a shake,
'cause then you're just gonna go.
(laughs)
Okay, that's too much, you just want maybe two,
maybe three bounces and that's it.
Okay, alright, so from up top,
it's gonna go down, alright?
Let's try it together, Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two,
three, four,
five, six,
seven, alright.
And then from there, we're gonna turn,
eight, come back forward, okay?
Alright, here we go, five, six, seven, eight.
And we're done with that part, okay?
Here we go, let's try it again, this time I'll count it out.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two,
three, four,
five, six,
seven, eight, and one.
And we start it over, okay?
Alright, let's try it a little bit faster.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one.
Okay, here we go.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one.
Alright.
Try it out on your own a little bit.
This time, maybe let's add in
some of those sound effects, okay?
Here we go, five, six, seven, eight, voot, voot, voot, voot.
Voot, voot, voot, voot, voot, voot, voot, vooooot.
(laughs)
Like I said, have fun with it, mess around with it.
If you're gonna go get up
and go get a drink in the refrigerator.
You can go, voot, voot, voot, voot, vooooooot,
open that fridge.
(laughs)
Play around with the robot.
Alright, you gotta wash dishes?
Go, voooot, vooot, vooot, vooot,
pick up the dishes, vooot, vooot, bring it back, voooot.
Don't just drop 'em, 'cause they'll break.
Alright, we're gonna mess around with a little bit
of the King Tut style now, okay?
King Tut, you don't know who that is?
Look it up, ancient Egyptian times.
You'll see some of those pictures.
You see them like in this position, right?
You see a bunch of these different angles,
with their arms, okay?
That's what we're gonna try to do now.
Alright, King Tut style is all about different angles,
boxes, so real, real important.
Not everybody can do this, but stretching your wrists,
and all that stuff,
will come in handy with having those really tight angles.
Alright, so from here,
think of a right angle, you know what that is, okay?
You want to be here, you want to be here.
This one works out too, okay?
This not so much, okay, it's not that right angle anymore.
See the boxes on my shirt,
it just goes from here to here, okay?
Squares, you wanna think of squares.
Because from here, watch,
we're gonna try out making some boxes, okay?
We're gonna smash that box down,
and bring it back up the other direction.
So from here, we can go in different directions.
With this, there's another box, okay?
Bring it back over here.
Keeping that box right there, alright.
Okay, so let's learn a couple of those together.
Alright, here we go.
So from here, here's an Outside Tut, okay?
Outside, because it's not inside like my body area.
It's outside here, these are outside, okay?
Bringing your arms up, from here,
you're bringing, bending your elbow,
bending your wrist, elbow, and wrist.
From here you can turn that in.
It's still an Outside Tut, but you're pointing in,
and then from here you can flip that wrist up.
Okay, now we're gonna do the inside.
So from here, inside one hand in, boom,
other hand comes in, boom, okay?
These are the Inside Tuts now.
So from here, still inside.
It's within my body area, okay?
Alright, let's try a couple of those out together.
So from here, we're gonna go,
Outside Tut,
flip it out, bring it in,
just like you're praying or something like that, okay?
Or you're begging for something,
mom, can I please have that?
Whatever it is you're asking for, okay?
Alright, so from here, we're gonna go, up.
So all I did was, my wrist came up top.
Now it's the top part of a box, okay?
From here, I'm gonna do that with the other side as well.
Got it?
Now the confusing part,
we're gonna keep my fingertips together,
push through,
make another box over here, okay?
So from this position, it's gonna go up,
up, fingertips together, push through.
Now there's a little box right there, okay?
A little tiny box,
we're gonna bring that box over to this side, doom.
And then from here, watch this, see my arms,
they're just, this one's in front of the other.
We're gonna bring this box down.
There's that box again, okay?
Open it up,
fingertips together, we're gonna push this through,
create a box here, and then bring that back up.
Gets a little confusing,
but you can try that out on your own.
If you want to rewind the video,
slow it down, stop, you can, okay?
So from here, it's gonna go,
up, up, push through,
boom, other side,
bring it down, open it up,
kinda like you're cradling something, okay?
And then from here, push through back onto the other side,
bring it back up.
Now with this box, you could look through it,
you could put your head through it, whoooh.
Bring it out, now you can bring some Outside Tuts again.
Okay, so a couple of different Tuts, alright.
Remember like I said, you've got these outside ones,
you can also do a low one right here.
So it's up top, down, down.
From here, this still works too.
You can bring it out, in, bend, alright?
So from here, let's try it out again.
We're gonna go, one,
two, from here,
flip it out, flip it out, just follow along,
here.
And we're gonna go, one, two,
push through, flip it over,
bring it down, open it up like you're cradling,
push back over, come back up.
It's not really a box anymore,
but you're gonna look through it,
whooooow, bring your head through.
It's okay if your fingertips
kinda separate during this part,
but you're just gonna make it look like
your head is going through and you're coming here,
and you're gonna end with that, okay?
Let's try it again, here we go.
One, two,
three, four,
bring it in, boom.
Whoop, look through it,
step in,
wow.
Alright, so those are just a couple of different Tuts.
Alright, so let's have a little bit of fun with this.
The song right here is put together by Mr. Wiggles.
He is actually one
of the pioneers of this dance style, okay?
And you can look him up on YouTube.
Check him out, Mr Wiggles.
He's part of The Electric Boogaloos,
and the Rock Steady Crew, so, check him out.
Alright, so here we go, some follow the leader,
just follow the movements that I'm doing, alright?
Alright, let's shake this out, get ready.
We're gonna do some robot first, alright.
Here we go.
(upbeat music)
(robot sounds)
(upbeat music)
(laughs)
Like I said, have fun with that.
Just do a couple of different moves,
and then from there you can also
work on those steady motions.
(upbeat music)
We can add in those waves that we did before too.
(upbeat music)
Alright, so like I said, just play with it.
Whatever you wanna do, just have fun, alright?
Once again, I'm Flow from the Massive Monkees, peace.