You're a Jerk. And you look it too.

If you remember highschool dances, you remember that there are a slew of different skills based on where you live and who went to your high school. You have the ones who seem to take hip hop classes constantly, twerking and jerking so much that you think that the dude is about to hurt someone really badly. They may even get enough space to do a little break dancing, flipping around and spinning upon the floor like the end of inception.

Then we get those guys who try reeeeeally hard and want to do the dances that are going on, but end up making things awkward and embarrassing for everyone. They turn the 2 step into the 18 step, twitching and stomping around as if they were incapable of holding a rhythm if there was a drum beside their head being slammed against it. I like to call these people.... seizures. 

Now Seizures were constantly getting beat on by their other counterparts, laughed at and forced to stand alone flailing to the music with their Seizure dates. But wait! Hope came on the horizon!

Because everyone needs a hero.

Ah yes, the Soulja boy "Superman" craze. In 2006 or so, his little youtube dance exploded into the market. Every single dorm room guy and girl wanting to score some cool points were learning this song. No one could really mess it up. The moves were so simple and catchy and ridiculous, that it became the electric slide of the generation. Of course, the boy is forever a one hit wonder.

Now throughout the generations there have been variations of dance, the electric slide, the twist, the hanging ten and what not. Each have their own levels of embarrassment to the generation, but those moves were rather simple and calm compared to the spazzy stuff we've come up with ours.

Your kids will be so proud that you will still be able to do this

So this one may have been annoying and probably the most iconic of the dances, it wasn't exactly the first. 

We have the Lean With It, where you twist your self and snap... Trying to look tough doing that or even remotely cool is something of a challenge... 

We have the Crank that EVERYTHING. Spiderman, Yank, Forrest Gump, Spongebob, you name it we got it!

Crank that Scooby Doo wasn't bad I guess.

My own personal favorite dances was the 2 step, you hop side to side crossing your legs. Should be called the Hopscotch, but that just wouldn't be "Hood" enough. 

Another rather fun dance that will be remembered will be "The Jerk" Or as I like to call it, the "Backwards Running man" It involves a rather catchy and annoying song to go with it, and a rather strange assortment of skin tight pants. 

Thought I was kidding... didn't you.

Alright, so I know that many of these dances will probably fade into the distance and you won't have to atone for the sin that is this form of music, but I'm sure that if those songs come on and you start dancing, your kids will move out all that much quicker. Oh and to leave you off on a good note, have fun explaining this guy to your kids