getting funky on Peace Day at the Luminous Movement. Zanzibar Santa Monica. Swagging out. With much respect and dedicated to my teacher Skeeter Rabbit. Uno! I had this whole crazy intricate show planned right. It was like 7 minutes and 5 different styles of dance and I was gonna fully make this magnum opus and ...gimme more
See now we are really getting somewhere. We are now taking the EXACT same concepts that we were using with just our FINGERS and now applying them to our entire arm. This is where we begin to see how Otis Funkmeyer was not playing. Finger tutting concepts really do apply to the entire dance of ...gimme more
Now is where the women become separated from the skanks and hos. This is where we see whether you are someone who has basically sat in front of your computer watching Youtube or whether you have gotten up out of your seat and taken what you’ve learned into the rest of your body. This is ...gimme more
All credit for this has to go to J Smooth. I am basically teaching you J Smooth’s tut. I don’t care what anyone else says. As far as I am concerned, he is the inventor and creator of this tut concept. I am teaching it because at this point, it’s kind of just a move. ...gimme more
Here’s where we start getting into that cool shit, that oooh aaahh shit that makes you scrunch your face up and say I WANNA DO THAT. Up until now, we’ve been mostly dealing with stuff that’s kinda like a little boring. I mean, it’s sorta fun and cool but it’s not tripping anybody out for ...gimme more
Now we’re actually IN to the more advanced finger tutting of 101. Not just talkin bout it but bein bout it. 3D Finger Tut Pivots are not just a mouthful but also a way to take our pivots into space so that we can begin the process of not just dancing with our hands but ...gimme more
To go along with finger pivots, finger slides are the other butter in the batter. They are the way that you will get to the promised land of isolation mastery. Twisting and sliding one part of the body while another part stays still. It’s in a way as simple and difficult as that. The weird ...gimme more
This is like the basics of advanced stuff. It’s like the very end of Tutting 101 in the sense that it doesn’t get much more complicated than this before you start moving on to 201 and even 301. What we’re doing here is taking the basic concepts we’ve been playing with and now adding the ...gimme more
If we’re talking about learning isolation, I really think there is no better place to start than with finger pivots. The simple reason is that you can actually SEE the quality of your isolation with your own eyes. This is a very rare thing. Usually, you need the assistance of a mirror or video camera, ...gimme more
What it do what it is what it be?! Yall ready to learn some tuttin!? That’s what I’m talkin bout. Yes yes yall Otis Funkmeyer back again to get you all set up to start putting your hands, elbows, shoulders, arms, legs, head, neck, and torso in 90-degree angles, which is really the basis of ...gimme more
