Edited sentence: (read more about Snake Hips.1- Sit by a flat table like surface.2- place your arm from pit to fingertips flat on the table.3- now starting with the finger tips, bend your first finger digits (while the rest of your arm is completely flat).4- now bend your hand at the knuckles (straightening your fingers at the same time).5- now bend at the wrist (the whole point of this exercise is to always keep all other arm joints flat as can be on the table).6- now bend at the elbow (strengthening your wrist).7- now touch your chin with your shoulder, and completely straighten your arm out.8- now reverse this whole exercise back to the finger tips.Earl Tucker ("Snake Hips") was a performer at the Cotton Club during the days of Duke Ellington.His style of dance is definitely related that of waving that you see young Hip Hop dancers still doing today.The ARM WAVE is just one aspect of waving, And while it is difficult to teach this move without visuals, I will explain a technique I used as a kid to get a good wave.The history of waves from my research go back to the Bay area and Oakland with a move called the TIDAL WAVE, which was also a popular dance as seen in the Michael Jackson "Beat It" video.There have been similar moves done in MIME as well as in dance style from the East.Which brings us to an important Pioneer from the early Cotton Club era