Skanking seems best when listening to
traditional ska, like
The Skatalites. It's mostly the bending of the
knees to the
offbeat and doing something
goofy with the hands. Sometimes it looks like the
twist, or like you're
juggling invisible items, or like you're pulling on a rope with both hands, but it's fun and nobody around you cares because they look sort of goofy too.
Third wave skank is actually a kind of retarded, mutated version of old skank, and since lots of third wave ska is fast and punk influenced, it looks spastic and weird. then again, lots of
third wave bands like
the articles and the
New York ska-jazz ensemble are nice to skank to like the
Skatalites are, too.