‘Million Dollar Listing’: Fredrik Eklund’s ‘Little Frog Dance’ May Explain His Love for High Kicking

Fredrik Eklund from Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles has a bonding moment with Swedish clients when they sing and dance the traditional “Little Frog Dance” at a listing. Eklund and his clients gleefully dance, which flicks to his love of high kicking.

What is ‘The Little Frog Dance’?

Eklund shows a listing to a Swedish couple, but during the tour, they decide to bust out in song. “It’s so lovely to meet other Swedes,” he tells them in a preview clip. “Because then I can sing ‘The Little Frog Dance!’ Shall we do it?” The couple seems to be almost more into the playful song and dance than Eklund.

“Yes!” they exclaim while locking arms. They all sing and elfishly dance together. “The little frogs, the little frogs are funny to observe,” they sing and dance.

“I miss Swedish people,” Eklund admits in a confessional. “I mean there’s something about us Swedes and I haven’t seen them for a long time. So naturally, when we meet I wanna sing [The Little Frog Dance]. It’s an ancient, centuries-old children’s song.” All three adults hop and flap their arms while they sing with gusto. “Old, young, cat, dogs, everyone,” Eklund continues. “Everyone in Sweden sings this amazing song.”

Fredrik Eklund ends the dance with his high kick

Eklund tops off the song with his signature high kick. He revealed that his kick had nothing to do with Swedish culture. Instead, it came from an iconic American film. “I started doing it when I was about four, three years before the first Karate Kid movie,” Eklund told Entrepreneur in 2015. “I was growing so tall so fast that people almost didn’t recognize me. If you look at my body, I’m 6-foot-4, but I’m like 6 foot in legs alone. I’m all legs. I would have been a great Swedish supermodel, with big boobs and long legs.”

“It was sort of like I had to do something with these legs,” he added. “The kick was a way for people to kind of be comfortable with me. When I enter a room, it’s like, ‘Okay, here is the long legs guy.’ Then it became part of who I am. I just kept doing it. I think it’s hilarious. What it does is release endorphins. It makes me happy, so I do it when I’m sad. I always, always do it when I’m really excited. I do it when I’m alone. I do it in front of people.”

Why does Fredrik Eklund love to high kick?

Indeed, endorphins seemed to be released with his clients during the showing. Everyone is smiling and laughing and the song and dance seemed to lighten the mood. While Eklund isn’t likely to try to get other clients to sing “The Little Frog Dance” with him, he thinks everyone should be more playful in business.

“The high kick symbolizes everything I stand for in business, who I am,” he said. “I’m in a very conservative suit and I’m in a conservative board room environment, high pressure, multibillion-dollar New York real estate world, and at the same time, I high kick right in front of everyone. It says that I don’t take myself too seriously and they shouldn’t either.”

“It also shows that I have really great balance because I do it like a ballerina with perfection on one toe,” he described. “Then I retract to this pose back and all of the sudden I’m back into the more conservative stance. It shows that I’m unpredictable, too.”