Jerkin’
By Logan Alexander
Has the students of Osborne learned some new moves out of nowhere? Jerkin is a new dance that the teens are doing and teaching their friends how to. It all got out from one song by the New Boyz “you’re a jerk.” Spontaneously everybody one by one has been learning the dance. All I do is have one question?
How new is the dance actually? In actual fact it is not as new and has been done many of times for about two years now. Besides there are plenty more songs than just “you’re a jerk”. The way you jerk is staring to change as well. Other schools have been doing this dance since last year. Jerkin is not a new dance!
It may look easy but the process of jerkin is a little hard to grasp. The basic movements are skipping and then reverse it. So basically skipping backwards is the motion. Then there is a part when you drop or dip and then bounce back up with your foot out or something creative. Than finally there is a leg thing when you sort of bend your knees and together and apart in one rhythm.
To sum it all up there is a new dance that just began at Osborne. For all we know is that it is not new it is old. Then how to jerk which is a little confusing considering who teaches you. This brings us to a conclusion about the history of jerkin.
-Volume 2, Issue 1-
