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Teach me to breakdance!

Zeker — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:30:50 -0800

BBOYZ! Teach me how to dance, specifically popping, locking, and breakdancing. Any tips you can give will be appreciated. I want to learn to breakdance. Any websites or video tutorials or advice will be readily accepted. Anything from moves (air flairs, glides, windmills) to technique on popping and locking, to ideal shoes, to diet and exercise to turn me into a b-boy. Anything that helped you get better and simplified the learning curve, let me know.

About me: I listen to quite a bit of freestyle music, and I find it ideal to break with. Specifically, anything you can find in this CD collection.

I'm a little overweight (like 10 lbs or so) and know very little basics. I'm just perfecting my arm waves and glides haha.

I live in the middle of nowhere, so there is no place that offers breakdancing classes, or even dance classes in general. I'm open to learning a wide variety of dances, but breakdancing is what caught my interest.

Thanks in advance!

I need music to breakdance to!

tumbleweedjack — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:56:13 -0800

I need music to breakdance to. I'm taking a breakdance class and I'm having fun but it's hard for me to practice at home because I don't have a huge selection of anything danceable. I'm open to any style of music that fits breakdancing, but please nothing too 'gangsta' as it is totally not my style (my style: gay white-washed Iranian 20-something)

Where can I find a bboy workout?

misled — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:51:47 -0800

The B-Boy workout: How are B-Boys able to build such strength in proportion to their own bodyweight? Traditional bodybuilding should be able to help, but are there certain exercises that allow for people to control and distort their bodyweight in the way B-Boys do? I apologize if the title doesn’t make much sense, but I do not know how else to title the question.

I am fascinated with the way B-Boys are able to control their bodyweight in different ways. If you would like to know what I am talking about, here are two videos:

Video 1
Video 2

What kind of exercises do they do? Is there a workout program out there that helps grow their skills more or is it purely the dance that does it?