Where are we?

This is a Game. It is in the following categories:

• Warm-up

• Energy

Whoosh

How it Works

Everybody in a circle. Start with one person, who waves both hands to his/her neighbor, saying 'Whoosh'. The next person passes the Whoosh to his neighbor, and that way the Whoosh is passed around the circle.

There's 4 other sounds/movements that can be made.

• 'Wow': indicated by saying Wow, and moving both arms down. A Wow changes the direction of the Whoosh
• 'Zap': instead of passing the Whoosh to your neighbor, it gets zapped to the person you point to. The receiver continues with either a Whoosh to his neighbor, or another Zap to another person. A Wow after a Zap returns to the Zapper.
• 'Groooooooovelicious': for this one the whole group bends down and up again in a kinda groovy way, all saying Groooooooovelicious. Afterwards, the person who started the Groovelicious sets the Whoosh in motion again, in any direction.
• 'Freakout': indicated by waving both hands in the air. Everybody starts screaming and moves to the center of the circle. When everybody's freaked out a new circle is formed, and the starter of the Freakout sets the Whoosh in motion again (or Zaps, or does a Grooooooovelicious).

Variations

You can invent other sounds and gestures. You might replace Whoosh by a kind of Vroom-Vroom, as is you're in a car, and replace Wow by the sounds of brakes ('iiiii') etc. Also known as Zip Zap Zoop.

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work, must be resisted for they never fit together again --- Billy Bragg