Welcome back to 20 moves in 20 days. Yesterday we learned the Demi play and today we are going to learn our grunts play. So the Demi play like you practice yesterday is simply a bending and straightening of our knees. So we're simply going to go down and up. Now with the Grom play, we get to go a little bit further. So instead of just stopping where he'll stay on the ground, in fact, that's a really good distinction.

By the way. When you do identity play, your heels are not going to want to pop up off the ground at all they need to stay nice and flat and supportive of you. But anyway, for the ground play, we've done our dummy This is stage one of your ground play. Stage Two is actually going to be lifting up your heels. So I'm going to continue downward lift on my heels. Yes, when I'm at the lowest point of my play, I'm going to bring my heels back here.

So back towards me, please And then straightened fully. So again, for sort of stages of background play. The first is a Demi, Demi, lift your heels. That's two, back to Demi three and straight and four. Yes. Okay.

Ground plays are usually the place where a lot of us as we're especially as we're learning, we start doing really odd things with our hips and our shoulders and our back. So we want to be very cautious on the ground pa to make sure that everything is stacked in is really straight down, straight up. And again, this is where Aamir is going to come in super handy because it is very hard to feel it on yourself. If you can't see it. Sometimes you just don't know that you're doing something a little wrong with your hips or your shoulders or something like that. So I highly recommend that if you have that opportunity.

But again, we're going all the way down and then back to Demi and all the way up. Perfect. Okay, so now we're going to do the same thing in second position. second position is kind of the exception to the rule. I always say that there's you It's like the English language, right? You have your every rule, and then everything's going along just dandy and then all of a sudden, you have an exceptions kind of the same way with ballet.

But it is what it is. So we will just tackle it as a ghost. So for a second position, we're going to maintain our heels on the ground the entire time. Yes, so I want to go through Demi all the way to grace, which means I'm just going deeper but my heels are staying firmly on the ground. From there I'm going back to Demi and straighten, okay. So again, unlike any other position where your heels do lift up, the second position, heels do not so I'm going all the way down as far as I can and coming up.

Now one word of caution. Some people are super Flexi and They have the ability to go really deep. But if I'm continuing on, usually what starts happening is my tailbone is going to come out, and then I'm not no longer straight up and down and sometimes people can even go further. I cannot but some people can even go further. You don't want to go. You don't want to let your pelvis dropped below your knees.

Okay, so no matter what your hips should stay above your knees no matter what, again, some it, it doesn't happen very often, but some people are super Flexi like that. So I just want to make sure that I caution you to make sure that your alignment stays correct. Okay, in third position, same thing as first. So we start with our Demi, we lift our heels for our grant, back to Demi, and straighten. Same thing in fourth we have Demi grond, Demi, straighten and same thing and fit. Demi girl Demi straight.

Now, one thing I will tell you as you're practicing these is normally we don't do them. So chunky, where it's you know, Demi than ground and demonstrating. It's a nice fluid motion. The rule of thumb and ballet, typically, is that you never stop dancing. In other words, you never stop your body moving in the combination. So unless there's a particular reason why you're supposed to hold the thing really briefly, and then maybe bounce for a second.

Other than that, you want to think about your body moving in a continuous flow. So with our ground plane first, for instance, we're going to do it in one seamless motion this time. Yes. So we're going to go one, and two, and three, and four. Okay, now most promptly, A's are done in four counts. Demi's are usually done in two grounds are usually done in four.

So putting it all together, we're going to do two dummies and a grind. And we're going to do that in all of the positions. Okay? So in first position, we have one, and two, and three, and four, Kron five, and six, and seven, and eight in seconds done. And string and two, and string four counts five, and six, and seven, and eight. And in third, Demi, and two, and Demi, and for grumpy a 5678, fourth and Debbie, and straighten and to add a string, and grunt, and six, and seven, and eight.

And Demi ends and straighten and Demi and straighten and grace Six, seven, and eight. Good. So now you know the basics of play. When you're practicing these on your own, making sure you do both sides. So you're going to want to hold on with your right hand and your left hand when you're practicing. That way you get both sides in for your feet.

And bonus practice to be frank. All right, good job today you learned ground please. Tomorrow we will move on to something else.