How to Do the Sending Dance from Final Fantasy X
Start off walking slowly on your toes, staff in your right hand, arms extended almost to the point where you look like you’re asking for someone to throw something at you., Come to a stop, arms still extended., Take a large step forward with your...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Start off walking slowly on your toes
Take a deep breath and prepare yourself, stretching out your arms a little if you have to.
Just try to keep as still as you can. ,, Keep your right arm stiff and parallel with your upper body the whole time, holding it at a slight diagonal. (See above picture) Spin your staff in an oval from where you had it diagonal beside you, behind you and up, around your head, down, and straight back as you do this.
On your way to hold it backwards, spin the staff in your hand. (If you don’t know what I mean, watch a video of the Sending) , Spin halfway back around, facing the way you started, as you do this.
Bring the staff back up in an arc around your head.
Bring the staff up parallel with the ground, spinning it like you did when you held it backwards.
Grab it in both hands for a moment, still spinning it. ,, Bring both hands, and the staff, above your head, hands now straight. , Quickly bring it back down, and bend forward, keeping your back straight and your legs bent. , As you go to bring it back up, still in the circular pattern, lean back with the staff, keeping the circle going. , While crouching, bring your staff into your left hand (hand on the bottom, holding it as you had at the beginning), and twirl it in an arc from where it was, until it is facing away from you.
Bring the arc back into your right hand again. , When you get up high enough (still going slow,) spin your staff in your hands like an airplane propeller.
Slowly continue to spin it, and bring your arms out straight in front of you, then up, as though the propeller was moving from in front of you to over your head like a helicopter. ,, Rise you your tiptoes (this is where it helps to where stockings if you are going to be on a wood or linoleum floor) and spin around a few times. (Do some pirouettes.
Yuna officially does seven before stopping.
Do as many as you like.) While doing this, make more ovals around your body with the staff, holding it at the bottom, with your right hand.
When you stop, keep your staff in your right hand, holding it at an angle above your head. , Take the staff in both hands again, and do a few more circles (away from you and in, up and down, as before) with the staff, walking in a small circle yourself as you do this.
Finally, come to a halt, standing straight, with your left hand on the top of the staff, and your right on the bottom.
Hold your staff so that, with your hands where they are (top and bottom) your right hand should be on top, and your left on the bottom, the top of the staff facing towards the ground.
Your arms should be out, and the staff should be perpendicular to you. -
Step 2: staff in your right hand
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Step 3: arms extended almost to the point where you look like you’re asking for someone to throw something at you.
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Step 4: Come to a stop
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Step 5: arms still extended.
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Step 6: Take a large step forward with your right foot
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Step 7: bending your right leg.
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Step 8: Spin your body halfway around
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Step 9: facing the direction you walked from
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Step 10: straightening up.
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Step 11: Bring the staff back down
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Step 12: spinning it along the ground in a circle.
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Step 13: Bring the staff back out
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Step 14: and spread your arms wide as you had them in the beginning.
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Step 15: Hold this pose for a minute
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Step 16: then bring your staff back into both your hands
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Step 17: keeping the staff parallel to the ground.
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Step 18: Take a step like you are about to skip
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Step 19: and kick your right leg up in the air.
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Step 20: Bring the staff out and down
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Step 21: still in both hands
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Step 22: and then towards you
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Step 23: in a circular movement.
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Step 24: Bring the staff out and down again
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Step 25: finishing the circle in a crouch with your hands
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Step 26: still on the staff
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Step 27: on the ground.
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Step 28: slowly start to stand up from your crouch.
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Step 29: When you reach the top
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Step 30: stop the staff
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Step 31: keeping it parallel to the ground.
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Step 32: Hold this for a moment.
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Step 33: Bring your staff in one final
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Step 34: sweeping oval around your body
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Step 35: spinning with it.
Detailed Guide
Take a deep breath and prepare yourself, stretching out your arms a little if you have to.
Just try to keep as still as you can. ,, Keep your right arm stiff and parallel with your upper body the whole time, holding it at a slight diagonal. (See above picture) Spin your staff in an oval from where you had it diagonal beside you, behind you and up, around your head, down, and straight back as you do this.
On your way to hold it backwards, spin the staff in your hand. (If you don’t know what I mean, watch a video of the Sending) , Spin halfway back around, facing the way you started, as you do this.
Bring the staff back up in an arc around your head.
Bring the staff up parallel with the ground, spinning it like you did when you held it backwards.
Grab it in both hands for a moment, still spinning it. ,, Bring both hands, and the staff, above your head, hands now straight. , Quickly bring it back down, and bend forward, keeping your back straight and your legs bent. , As you go to bring it back up, still in the circular pattern, lean back with the staff, keeping the circle going. , While crouching, bring your staff into your left hand (hand on the bottom, holding it as you had at the beginning), and twirl it in an arc from where it was, until it is facing away from you.
Bring the arc back into your right hand again. , When you get up high enough (still going slow,) spin your staff in your hands like an airplane propeller.
Slowly continue to spin it, and bring your arms out straight in front of you, then up, as though the propeller was moving from in front of you to over your head like a helicopter. ,, Rise you your tiptoes (this is where it helps to where stockings if you are going to be on a wood or linoleum floor) and spin around a few times. (Do some pirouettes.
Yuna officially does seven before stopping.
Do as many as you like.) While doing this, make more ovals around your body with the staff, holding it at the bottom, with your right hand.
When you stop, keep your staff in your right hand, holding it at an angle above your head. , Take the staff in both hands again, and do a few more circles (away from you and in, up and down, as before) with the staff, walking in a small circle yourself as you do this.
Finally, come to a halt, standing straight, with your left hand on the top of the staff, and your right on the bottom.
Hold your staff so that, with your hands where they are (top and bottom) your right hand should be on top, and your left on the bottom, the top of the staff facing towards the ground.
Your arms should be out, and the staff should be perpendicular to you.
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