The Wave and Body Roll

An isolation exercise for learning the wave, one joint at a time. Start at the hand and send the movement through the wrist, elbow, shoulder, chest, stomach, hips and knees, then fall. Reverse it and come back up the same path.

The work is in isolation. Move only one part at a time and keep some resistance in it, so each point reads on its own before the whole thing flows as one line. A sideways view shows the profile of the wave.