How to learn b boying dance steps

How To Bboy: The Complete Beginner Guide | by BreakDance Decoded

You are confused right?

You watched a few videos of those athletic guys busting out moves after moves on YouTube — and you’re all fired up now.

You really, really want to pick up this dance known as bboying. You want to learn how to bboy.

The problem?

You don’t even know where to start.

A quick search on YouTube gave you hundreds of tutorials and playlists.

But you’re a complete beginner.

Where should you begin? What should you start with? What do you need to prepare before you begin learning?

Are you even strong enough?

Questions, questions, questions.

You see…

I have received questions like these countless of times. And despite being asked so many times, there was no definitive resource I could point someone to to kickstart their bboy journey.

Until now.

I’ve put together a complete beginner’s guide (broken down into multiple sections) that will guide you EXACTLY on how to start.

It is what I call the “Ultimate List of Bboying Tutorials”. It contains every resource or tutorial that I think is good enough to teach you the basics of breaking.

After going through all these tutorials, you can pat your back, start practicing, start creating and becoming good.

Let’s begin, shall we?

Before we even begin on what to learn in bboying, you need to be part of the culture.

Do you know what is the easiest way to be part of a culture?

Learning the terms and vocabulary.

Being able to identify yourself as a bboy, and use the correct language at the right time welcomes you to the family of hip hop. After going through the resources below, you’ll be able to hi-5 any bboy and communicate with them in bboy lingo.

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Guide to the 25 Most Popular Powermoves And Their Names

Break Terminology 101

It’s Breakin, not Bboying/Bgirling

List of All Hip Hop Terms

Concept of Biting

PoeOne Explains Importance of Sweep

What’s next after you’ve learnt the language of the dance? You have to immerse yourself into the culture.

Not the moves, not the terminology, not the fashion.

But the knowledge that is deep inside your head.

Only by understanding the culture and attaining the knowledge of hip hop will make you a true bboy.

What is Bboying?

The Roots of Bboying

History of Breakdance

History

You’re already impatient, aren’t you?

3 chapters in and I haven’t even touched on a single move.

Yet.

That’s because the fundamentals of breaking isn’t the moves.

The fundamentals of bboying is the music. And that’s true for any dance.

Without music, there can be no dance. No physical expression. No artistry.

To learn the dance, you need to learn the music. Learn what is old, what is classic and what is new and modern.

And enjoy your time grooving and jiving to it.

157 Bboy Tracks You Must Listen To Before You Die

This Playlist of Bboy Songs Will Make You Move Your Feet

Strife Mixtapes

Stance Mixtapes

DJ Lean Rock

DJ B Ryan

DJ Nobunaga

DJ Four Eyez

DJ Fleg

DJ Jebel

We’ve finally reached the first lesson, the first movement of the dance.

The Toprock.

The Toprock is the upright portion of the dance. It’s where you step to the beat, play with your hands and just enjoy being groovy and cool.

The Rock

Cross Step

Indian Step

Salsa Step

6 Point Toprock

B.yu Video Series on Toprock Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Toprock Tips

Ynot’s Toprock Workshop

Before you can get into your footwork, you have to do what we call a transition.

A transition is some move or movement you do to change from levels to levels (e.g from toprock to footwork).

A get down (also known as a go down or a drop) is a method of transiting from your top rocks to your footwork.

Here are a few examples of the commonly used get downs you must know to change from the top level to the footwork level.

Coffee Grinder Get Down Tutorial

Knee Drop Tutorial

Cork Screw Tutorial

Indian Step Get Down

30 Drops in 60 Seconds

Powermove Entrances

The footwork is mainly what differentiates us from other dances and sports.

Let’s be honest.

We are quite possibly the only dance in the world to have developed such sophisticated movements at this level.

The footwork is what it describes — doing moves using your legs and arms and creating patterns of movements that are unique to yourself and breaking.

Watch to see what I mean here:

How to Choose Your First Footwork Direction

Basic Footwork Mechanics

Keebz — Steps 1–6

How to Coffee Grinder

How to 2 Step

How to 3 Step

How to 6-Step

7 Conditioning Exercises To Improve Your Footwork

How to Instantly Improve Your Footwork

What is a freeze? A freeze is what it implies — you act like you are frozen.

It serves like a punctuation in your dance. Imagine the various moves and movements like the words in a sentence and the freeze a full stop.

That’s how a freeze is.

Sharp, and locked tight to (usually) signify the end of something.

How to Baby Freeze

How to Turtle Freeze

How to Chair Freeze

How to Shoulder Freeze

8 Freeze Conditioning Exercises

How to Make Your Freeze Sharp

This is the part you’re probably most excited about.

It is the most physically challenging — and rewarding part of the dance. Many of the moves here require you to practice harder than you thought you ever would, as well as get the particular technique right.

It is not surprising to see people take a few months to learn any one of these moves.

But do not be disheartened — because the rewards will be well worth it.

How to Swipe

3 Swipe Mistakes

How to Windmill

3 Windmill Mistakes

How to Flare

How to Backspin

How to Cricket

How to Halo

Remember I mentioned that transitions are ways for you to get from one level to the other? They are also ways to get from one move to another.

In fact, you can count them as moves on their own.

And here are some common transitions used by bboys (some bordering on difficult) to get from moves to moves.

How to Kip Up

How to Valdez

How to Grub

How to Backspin Kick Up

How to Coin Drop

You’ve finally reached the last chapter of the complete beginner guide to bboying.

By now, you should have a clear idea of what the fundamentals of bboying are — and where you should start.

And if you’ve been diligent, you would have already been practicing the moves listed above.

Once you get your fundamentals down pat, you are ready to develop it a step further — and create your own moves.

You do this by employing creativity.

Employing what we call concepts or mental models that you can apply to change up your dance and to switch up your moves.

And where can you get these concepts?

You can either 1) think of it yourself or 2) use concepts that have already been used by other bboys.

And here, you can choose from a variety of videos where some bboys have willingly shared their most ingenious concepts with you.

Concepts for Breaking

How to Flip a Dance Move and Not Bite

3 Original Ways to Create Moves and Movements

Roxrite’s Bboy Concepts

Leveraging Concepts

How’s that for a guide?

Now, you no longer have any excuse to not know where to start. Just follow through the Chapters, consume the knowledge and practice everything inside.

And you’ll be well on your way to learn how to bboy.

Peace,
Erin

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Originally published at breakdancedecoded.com on November 30, 2016.

How to breakdance step by step

The following 3 videos will teach you how to breakdance step by step. We recommend that you watch these lessons in order as they are arranged from easiest to hardest. These moves come directly from our breakdancing courses which you should check out if you want to learn more. A word of caution, you must be careful when you attempt these moves. Be sure to study the movements very carefully and slowly and then ease into them. For other online dance classes click here.

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Beginner break dance moves

Breakdancing move #1: 3 Step
The 3 step is one of the most popular beginner break dance moves. It consist of 3 steps that are done in a circle. In this move you will start with one leg extended in front of you and then will switch the legs as fast as you can so that the other leg is extended, from there you bring the leg side where you end up in a kind of push up position. Learn how to sync the arm switches with your leg switches.

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Breakdance move #2: Corkscrew Up:
This is another cool bboy move. The corkscrew up is perfect for when you need to get up from the ground in a “cool” and smooth way. You can do this move on it’s own or from any other combination of moves.Here you will develop strength and balance as you push off the floor to spin upwards and around.

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Break dance move #3: The baby freeze
Learn how to do a baby freeze move in this video. Freezes in Breakdancing are meant to draw attention to the dancer and are usually put in at the end of some footwork combination like the 3-step above! The baby freeze is great to start out with since its small. It still requires lots of coordination and practice so take it slowly and make sure you don’t skip anything.

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History of Breakdancing:

Breakdancing was founded by the black community and Puerto Rican kids in the 1970s. And it really became popular after James brown’s single “Get On The Good Foot” where his busted out his high energy footwork dancing. After that, the kids in New york started to copy his moves and eventually it evolved to be called b-boy or break dancing. At that time most of the style was ground footwork combinations without any of the fancy stuff you see today like windmills or back spins that are popular today. There were also breakdancing battles between gangs or clicks.

Another dance called “uprock” influenced the b-boy dancers. In this dance style, the dancers mimic fighting moves into rhythmic dance moves that opponents would use to ‘battle’ against one another.

The music is not restricted to Hip Hop anymore. These days dancers choose Techno, Jazz, electronic, pop and an other types of music that suites their style.

Other styles:
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In other words, first a new musical direction appears, and then movements are invented. Therefore, it is a little illiterate to talk, for example, about hip-hop as a dance style. Hip-hop is a whole culture. And in our case, rather, it is a dance to hip-hop music, a certain style.

But in order not to overload our visitors with unnecessary details, we will consider dances of different styles. So...

You can learn to dance in our studio:

One of the components of hip-hop culture is breakdance (breakdance), which laid the foundation for many dance styles, which later joined and supplemented hip-hop culture, its styles and trends. Every year break dance becomes more and more popular and fashionable, breakers appear in commercial projects (TV shows, advertisements, clips, etc.), breaking has become part of the show business. Now breakdance is widely used by such American pop stars as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and others.

A few words about history.

Breaking, in other words b-boying, is very different from other types of dance. One could even say that this is a progressive development of previous forms of dance: In New York in the 50s and 60s. there was a large influx of immigrants. Everyone brought some part of their own into the dance, like, for example, the Africans, who brought rhythm into the dance. The influence of African dance on breaking is obvious, not only because of the "circle dance". Also, the expression b-boing (b-boing) can be borrowed from the African word Boioing, which means "Hop (dancing), jump (jump)".

Belly Dance, Belly Dancing or Bellydancing is a Western name for a variety of Middle Eastern dances involving isolated body movements. The exact origin of the term is unknown, but may have come from a misunderstanding of the word "Baladi" or the phrase "Danse du Ventre."

Belly dancing is becoming popular all over the world, excluding the Middle East. Strict adherence to Islam forbids a woman to be an artist, sing or dance.

Although the Egyptians believe that the belly dance originates from the pharaohs, in fact it was brought from India in the 10th century by the gypsies and from there spread throughout the world. Western travelers were fascinated by the dances they saw in Egypt and brought the news to Europe.

Although Middle Eastern dance must be quite ancient, there is no documented evidence for the myth that modern bellydance bears any significant resemblance to the ancient dance. Numerous other myths arose among the cultural influences that have shaped modern bellydance. These myths have led to different dance styles and to the use of accessories such as snakes and swords, the use of which in dance has no roots in Middle Eastern female dance.
Classes in a group usually begin with a kind of warm-up, which carries a significant athletic moment. This is warming up the arms and the whole body, stretching the spine, developing the abdominals and legs. Languidly smooth movements gently and unobtrusively straighten the spine, putting in place the displaced vertebrae and intervertebral cartilages. The music that accompanies this stage is calm, the rhythm appears a little later, in the second part of the lesson.

Strengthened hip work not only trains the flat muscles of the abdomen, but also massages the pelvic organs.

Belly dancing strengthens the abdominals without inadvertently tearing or pinching something inside. In addition, due to exercises on the abdominal muscles, the sexual capabilities of the lady increase, which has a beneficial effect on ... mutual understanding of partners :).

The main movements of the Arabic dance are both rotation, and those seductive sharp "blows" with the hip, and the "rattle", from which the whole body of the dancer walks seductively - in a word, everything that remains in the memory of those who have ever seen the dance belly.

There is a pas in belly dance performed on the floor, in which the dancer, continuously "dancing with her belly", also gradually lies back on her own heels, and then also slowly - as slowly as possible! - goes up. One can imagine the load on the abdominal press when learning and performing such movements. No aerobics can compare with this, especially since this step, among other things, significantly improves gait: after all, such an exercise turns the hips, stretches the tendons in the groin and, as if automatically, without special training, you start walking "from the hip" like a fashion model.

A belly dance cannot be considered correctly performed if the dancer's head is also shaking while moving her hips. This means that during rehearsals-trainings in the dance class, posture improves.

So exercise for HEALTH!

Do you remember episodes from films when blacks dance around a huge fire to the sound of homemade drums, rhythmic clapping of hands and stamping of feet, creating a complex rhythmic pattern, performing a prayer dance to the gods of fire. And every muscle, head, arms, legs obey the general character of the dance, every cell breathes freedom and the body from top to toe is filled with music ... music ... music ...

The style of jazz originates from the ritual dances of African peoples, and gradually the expression and improvisation of African rhythms mixed with elements of jazz music and American jazz dance was formed. Jazz dance, as an American urban social dance, is inextricably linked with jazz music and has evolved along with it, incorporating elements from a wide variety of ethnic and European dances. At a time when the rise of jazz music coincided with the establishment of action dance in the form of ballet and modern on the American stage, jazz dance developed as an equally serious type of stage dance, becoming the basis for many productions (for example, the famous "West Side Story").

A characteristic feature of this style is that the body is used to beat the rhythms of the music like a musical instrument or an entire drum set. To follow the rhythm, the center of gravity must be lower, so in jazz there is no such airiness and elongated and elongated lines as in ballet. Also, the emphasis of the step is not on the push, as in ballet, but on the setting of the foot, that is, the impulse of movement is directed towards the ground.

Perhaps the most striking feature of jazz dance is isolation, in which one part of the body moves independently of the rest, following its own rhythm. Each part of the body is so prepared that it can move not only in isolation, but also in opposite directions. Dance figures are built from a combination of complex hand movements and intricate body movements that fit into a very intense rhythm of the music.

This style flourished in the 60s. along with the rise of jazz music. Now the jazz style has changed a lot, incorporating the so-called social elements of dance: hip-hop, break, rap, funk, in other words, everything that show business stars dictate from TV screens today.

An interesting fact is that dancers of ballroom dancing are also beginning to use jazz technique. This applies to the Latin American program, where jazz technique allows you to find new expressive means in dance. The body of the dancer, prepared by jazz technique, interprets the traditional technique of ballroom dance in a different way. The original coloring of habitual movements and the unusual interweaving of jazz and traditional ballroom dance schools open up new facets of dance.

Today's jazz dance is dominated by hard rhythms, emotional pressure, even some aggression. In general, jazz and modern styles have much in common and sometimes the line between them is barely noticeable, but if modern originates from ballet, then jazz is more likely from "social" forms of dance.

Jazz-modern classes develop flexibility, musicality, plasticity and the ability to control one's body.
Uniform for classes: jazz or ballet flats, swimwear (tops, tight-fitting T-shirts / T-shirts) and loose-fitting sports trousers.

Art Nouveau developed contrary to classical ballet, in which the dancers strove to go beyond the bored classics. Art Nouveau is even a kind of shocking, shocking familiar look of the viewer. A vivid example of this is the performances of famous classical ballets in the Art Nouveau style, which have very little in common with traditional ballet performances. Broken body movements, spectacular throws to the floor, incredible acrobatic figures and even some kind of optical special effects - the dance completely depends on the choreographer's imagination. In modern it is quite acceptable to dance barefoot, you can dance without clothes at all, and sometimes even without music. Modern is the avant-garde of ballet dance art, the eternal search for something new, this style simply cannot stand still, it constantly changes, puts risky experiments on classical dance. The term "modern" is more common in America. In Europe, the word "modern" (contemporary) is more often used. Sometimes several major dance schools that determined the development of this style are called modern dance, and everything else is called modern dance.

The variety of expressive elements of modern dance makes it much more democratic and allows people who are plastically gifted to perform successfully, but who have already started dancing as adults and do not have sufficient skills for classical ballet.

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Since ancient times, one of the most important virtues for men and especially girls was the ability to dance.
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DJ at the console. Slender tanned bodies under the spotlights move with feline grace. High heels and skimpy suits make the figures even more stunning (but how much more?). Sparkling smiles. Alluring glances. The beauty. Plastic. Sexuality. Stars are not born. Stars become in the go-go dance training studio. Although ... You are already a Star! You need quite a bit. Polish your image. Add chic and shine. Work on your posture in the gym. Learn bright, feminine movements. Tighten up your (no doubt already beautiful!) body and accept compliments from admiring fans with a benevolent smile. The stage, the clubs, the parties... you will feel like a queen everywhere and always. And let your girlfriends with a spoiled mood nervously smoke in the corridor while you add to the list of your victories in a secret notebook. Learning to dance go-go is your self-confidence
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