The dance move that inspired what has become known as the "Shoot" was best described as follows in this excerpt from an August 2018 article in the New Yorker entitled, “Drake Anoints the Viral Dance Challenge” where writer David Turner explains:

 

“Last July, in a video for the up-and-coming Memphis rapper BlocBoy JB, the director Fredrick Ali shot the rapper bouncing back on one leg while kicking the other back and forth, with his kick-side arm then jerking forward in a hammering motion. Though the rapper had already built up a following in his home town through modern rap’s traditional path of mixtapes, SoundCloud singles, and gritty low-budget music videos, those three seconds of the video for the song “Shoot” were what broke him nationally.”