Learn how to break dance

4 ways to break dance.

The first and most basic way to learn hip dance is to develop the habit of moving your feet according to the music.

First find some songs with moderate rhythm and slight changes, and learn to use your feet to tap the beat. At this time, you must pay attention to the clear steps and accurate pressing. When you feel comfortable, you can find some more difficult music with faster and more varied rhythms. The requirements are the same. However, you may feel powerless at the beginning of the second step, and you always feel that the next step will come before the step of this step has been taken back. Practice more, it all depends on practice. And the range of motion is as large as possible. (The greater the amplitude of the movement, the greater the change in speed. The more exaggerated the change in speed, the more exciting the visual effect.) Practice like this is to slowly remove the fixed rhythm of your own footsteps. After practicing too much, you won’t even have to think about it when you hear the music. Just think, the dance steps will come naturally. Do whatever you want!

The second way to learn Le dance is to enrich your own dance steps.

1. Since you can’t learn any rich dance steps from break dance, why not learn it from other dance types? For example, I add a lot of c-walk and house steps to my own toprock, but because the music used in breaking is different, the speed of the dance steps changes in a different way, so the feeling is still toprock. . In fact, you don’t necessarily have to find inspiration in hip-hop dance styles. There is much to learn from the steps of many other dance styles. Recommended for tap dancing and jive dancing. (I went to see a performance by River Dance (the most famous tap dance company in the world) a few days ago, and it really benefited me a lot. When I came back, my house became a lot better, and of course my toprock also improved).

2. After talking about toprock, let’s talk about footwork. Let me be honest first, is it possible for footwork to be completely covered in every shot? possible! But don’t try to do this, it’s very twisted and ugly! In breaking, except for toprock, everything else relies on inertia (or in other words, the movements completed using inertia look good). If you want to use inertia, you need to apply force at a specific time. Who can guarantee that the moment when extra force is needed is exactly on the beat? For footwork, it might be better to use music. It’s impossible to choose music when you’re fighting. For power moves you can wait until you have the right music. (How long does it take to do a power move in a battle?) But for footwork, it’s not the same thing (a large part of the battle now is spent in footwork. It can only be said that you are following the music. Under the premise of the trend and speed, try not to destroy the inertia.

3. There are many tricks to using music. In fact, footwork can completely use the ups and downs of the body and the swing of the legs when the body is lying on the ground. Supporting the body with both hands and stepping behind with one foot to completely follow the beat, it will be super monotonous and lack visual impact. Therefore, the charm of breaking cannot be lost for the sake of deliberately following the beat. The trick is still one word - stop! In footwork, there is a proper noun "freeze"!

4. In fact, freezes do not have to be only when the head and hands are on the ground. Freeze. As long as you do a simple pose that matches the music while doing footwork (of course it has to look good), it is called freeze. The earliest freeze was like that.

Only later with the development of breaking did various difficult freezes slowly appear. However, slowly, freezes lost their original role and became the main body of break dance. (Actually, my own footwork is not that good either (it’s been more than a month since I started practicing breaking again, so it’s surprising that I’m getting better). I believe that among the readers of this article, there must be people with much better footwork than me. I hope these experts can do the same. Tell us your own experience in the reply) However, I always believe that simplicity is the most important thing about freeze. If you can be both straightforward and perverted, then you are cruel. But if it's just abnormal and not straightforward, then it will be classified as acrobatics.

The third way to learn li dance. Power moves

1. Inertia is particularly important for power moves, and this is what you practice when practicing power moves. I’ve seen countless b-boy windmills. . . One lap. . . Stand up. . . One more lap. . . . . Stand up. . . . . It’s so ugly, it’s exhausting to look at it. Practice the first circle first before starting to learn the next circle. When I first started practicing dancing, I had a friend who practiced the first circle first, and then went straight to no hands. His windmill is the only one I have ever seen.

2. Learn to master the timing and use it. I have talked about this before, so I won’t talk nonsense. But I have another idea, if your toprock doesn’t look good, why do you have to shake it twice first? It would be better to just rush over and spin around wildly as soon as the other party walks back. How impressive!

How to learn li dance. Fourth, master the momentum and politeness in battle:

In fact, I think momentum is as important as strength in battle. As long as the momentum is maintained, even if the strength gap is large, there will not be a one-sided scene. But I'm worried that this year's BOTY Chinese team will lose to its opponents in terms of momentum when it debuts in the international arena for the first time. In that case, the loss will be ugly. (I estimate that I will go to Germany to cheer for the Chinese team in October this year.) But sometimes the momentum goes too far and becomes rude. For example, in the 2004 BOTY finals, when a white man in France was doing hollow back, someone from the Korean team came over to interfere. This is really a very rude behavior. If the referee is taboo about this, haha, Gambler can still win the championship? This degree is easy to control. As long as you don't interfere when others are dancing, that's fine. What should I do to tease you, or what do you want to do when you dance? In fact, there are many details in breaking that I have not covered in this chapter. Those things are reserved for the form of dance and the god of dance. There are actually great connections between various dances, and the topic of breaking will continue in the following article. Most of this content will appear in the new style section.