Popping (or machine dance) is a style in funk dance and street dance. It basically relies on the technique of rapid muscle contraction and relaxation. A technique that causes the dancer's body to vibrate is called a "pop" or "hit." Dancers perform many different movements and postures to the rhythm of the song. Mechanical dancers are also known as "poppers".
Introduction
Popping, there are many theories about the inventor of this dance, the more popular one is Sam Solomon (also known as Boogaloo Sam) , Boogaloo Sam) invented this dance. The basic form of this dance is that to the beat of the music, the muscles in various parts of the dancer's body must continuously relax and tighten, causing violent twitching and vibration effects; at the same time, the body assumes various funk-style postures. Most of them come from Sam's dance group The Electric Boogaloos (Electronic Boogaloos), which requires dancers to have a rich sense of rhythm and funk feeling.
Mechanical Boogie, sometimes called 'Body-Popping' in the UK, is a very special and interesting dance style. It is an optical illusion dance style, and it is also difficult to Describe it, if you've never seen it before. This dance looks like the dancer is controlled by a supernatural force, and then performs some strange and incredible movements.
Historical Origin
Pioneer
In 1974, the young Michael Jackson and his brothers performed "Dancing Machine", which was an early JACKSON5 classic The performance, a mechanical dance they choreographed themselves, was popular throughout the United States at the time. Therefore, they can be regarded as one of the pioneers of mechanical dance.
Features
Use the vibration of muscles and joints in various parts of the body, follow the beat of music, and add your own rich imagination to create surprising dance steps. This is a mechanical The most basic characteristics of dance. Muscles tense, contract and relax to achieve muscle vibration - when exerting force, the muscles tighten instantly, release the force at once, then relax, and relax the muscles to the loosest level. Do this in rapid succession to drive the joints, accompanied by the heavy drum beats. Rock music, this is Michael's dreamlike space mechanical dance on stage.
Health benefits
Control power
Behind every movement of mechanical dance is the dancer’s concentrated control power, which can exercise people’s concentration. A strong sense of rhythm can increase the body's sense of rhythm and rhythm. Although the movements have a strong rhythm, they are actually flexible and powerful. Release in the cheerful rock music, keep fit and healthy!
Aerobic exercise
Space mechanical dance is also a medium-low intensity aerobic exercise. The movements are exaggerated and explosive. In the context of a coherent combination of movements in multiple parts of the body, more small joints and small muscles are exercised, which can increase the elasticity of muscle parts that are difficult to move during normal exercise, and often make the body proportions more standard. It also consumes body fat.
Enhance lung vitality
Mechanical dance can also enhance lung vitality. In the mechanical dance movements, there is a movement that protrudes the chest and abdomen, which actually relies on breathing. Take a deep breath to make your chest and abdomen rise, and then exhale. After exhaling, your abdomen will sink. Between inhaling and exhaling, lung capacity is increased.
Need to fully warm up
Before dancing the space mechanical dance, you need to fully warm up, fully move all joints and ligaments of the body, especially the knees and ankle joints, and then proceed step by step. It is not advisable to increase the amount of exercise immediately from the beginning of dancing, as it may easily lead to muscle spasms.
Muscle strains and joint sprains
Muscle strains and joint sprains are common injuries faced by space mechanical dancers. Excessive exercise and inconsistent and uneven frequencies of muscle vibration and joint movement often cause muscle fiber tears and injuries. Excessive joint movement causes sprains of ankle joints, knee joints, and joints above the waist, as well as ligaments and tendons, such as violent shaking. Head, which can easily lead to cervical spine injury; rapid rotation and sudden kneeling, which can easily lead to damage to both knees. These should be avoided when dancing mechanically. At the same time, people with joint diseases and muscle injuries are best not to dance astronauts.