Street dance is the American blacks by a kind of emotional movement interpreted into the street culture, characterized by strong explosive force, in the dance, the limbs made by the action is also more exaggerated than other dances. The most attractive feature is the passionate feeling brought by the whole body's vigor.
Jumping street dance makes people concentrate and have strong interest, and the movements are beautiful and casual. At the same time, street dance also has a slimming effect, because street dance is a kind of low-intensity aerobic exercise, in an hour of exercise, the effect of consuming the whole body fat is quite strong. In addition, street dance is a kind of small muscle movement, regular practice can increase your whole body coordination, so that your body proportion is more standard.
Categorization
Taking movement as the standard, street dance is divided into two major categories: Hip-Hop and Breaking. street dance can be generally divided into two kinds, one is individual skill street dance. Individual skill street dance is the earliest popular kind of street dance, because it can reflect the energetic side of the young people, they have a lot of ground movements, such as tumbling, inverted, bouncing are relatively high skill individual street dance performance. The other kind is the group street dance, which is the more popular form of street dance at present. It reflects the needs of the public, dancing is relatively simple, strong sense of rhythm, it has both the feeling of dance and fitness. So at present the more common is the collective street dance.
Breaking:
Technical street dance, requiring dancers to have a high degree of strength, flexibility and coordination, belonging to the skill of the higher sports dance, so the first for the domestic youth favorite. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-Boy/B-Girl.
In the 1980s, DJ Kool Herc, who is known as the "Father of Hip-Hop", created the concept of B-Boy, also known as Breaking Boy.
Every year, there are a number of events for B-Boys in many countries around the world. Every year, many countries around the world hold competitions for B-Boys, the most famous being the annual BOTY (B-Boy of The Year) and the B-Boy Champion in the UK, where 100s of contestants from more than 10 countries take part in such events. The winners of the competitions quickly gain fame and become teenage stars.
Hip-Hop:
Hip-Hop translates as hip-hop and RAP translates as rap, which are different concepts.Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term but a cultural one, comprising four parts: rap, graffiti, street dance and DJ beatboxing; RAP originated in the 1960s, and as a musical understanding, Hip-Hop is the most popular form of music. s, while Hip-Hop, understood as music, originated in the early 70s, and its predecessor was RAP (sometimes with a little R(B).
Hip-Hop literally means Hip is Hip and Hop is hopping on one foot, which together add up to a light twisting and swinging of the hips, and originally referred to street dance in its infancy stage (or breakdancing as we used to call it), before it evolved into a huge concept - what we Hip-hop culture now includes baggy clothes, heavy gold jewelry, and the habit of saying "YoYo? what's up?" -In short, it's about the way black people live in America's ghetto neighborhoods and what they're like.
There are many styles of dance, including Poping, Locking, Electric, Turbo and House. None of them require as much skill as Breaking, but they require more coordination and sense of movement, as well as flexibility and control of the body. Good Hip-Hop Dancers also need hard practice. Because Hip-Hop Dance is not as skillful as Breaking and lacks competition, it was not given enough attention by street dance enthusiasts before, but now with the enhancement of the concept of dance, this situation has changed, and even B-Boys have started practicing and many all-around good street dancers have appeared.
Hip-Hop is one of the most common dances that people come across, and it has a wide range of simple steps that are capable of showing a complex sense of dance. Because it is easy to learn and looks quite good when danced, it is very popular among the public
poping:
Mechanical dance, using the muscles and joints of all parts of the body, with the beat of the music, together with one's own rich imagination, to create surprising dance steps. It belongs to the more difficult type of street dance
breaking:
Breaking dance, which is also a difficult dance step, can be roughly divided into two types: spinning on the ground with hands, head and body, known as the big floor; and stepping on the ground with limbs to create a complex change in the footwork movements, coupled with tricky inversions, known as the small floor. Of course, while dancing, you can also feel free to go with the moves you want to show
freestyle:
This is a kind of out-of-the-blue dance, which mixes various types of dance together, and expresses itself as it pleases, with no limitations of dance styles, and out of the norms of general dance, so it can be said to be a kind of personalized street dance
house:
With the house dance, you will be able to dance to a variety of dance styles, and then you can dance to a variety of dance styles. p>
With the house music, the use of complex and magical step performance of a dance, it can be added to the Latin dance twists, martial arts flips, tap dance of the basic steps and ballet spins, jumping up can be very elegant, but also can be quite wild.
Street dance in China
The earliest exposure of Chinese teenagers to street dance began in the 1980s with the American movie "Break Dance," which was the predecessor of the current breaking dance. As Chinese teenagers' understanding of street dance deepens, they gradually return to the origin of street dance, practicing it with their own vision and characteristics.
Besides the early breakdancing, young people all over China have been practicing street dance since the mid-1990s. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, because of the developed information, street dance is carried out earlier; Zhengzhou, Henan Province, due to the close relationship between the Central Plains martial arts culture and street dance, Breaking dance also started earlier. Nowadays, there are young people practicing street dance all over the country, and in the street squares of various cities, they can pile up their training figures. They also often organize small competitions (Battle, ballast dance/scramble dance), and the best dancers can win the admiration of many teenagers.
The youth's passion for street dance has led to a proliferation of street dance applications, from arts and culture to commercials. We can see that in the music videos of many famous artists, such as Jay Chou, Chen Xiaochun, Xiao Yaxuan, and Wen Lan, the street-dancing teenagers appear frequently, and the commercial advertisements of brands such as Nike, Li Ning, Season 5, Huiyuan, Jinti, and Nokia, etc., use street-dancing styles and frequently bombard the vision of young consumers. In the dance drama "Notre Dame de Paris" staged at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in early 2003, a large number of street dance moves were applied, forming a unique cultural landscape.
With the rise of national fitness activities, street dance as a kind of fitness movement has also entered the fitness centers of major cities. Many professional practitioners of dance, opera and acrobatics have also begun to practice street dance, and street dance has spread widely in various art schools. On university campuses, many dance clubs have also organized themselves to practice street dance; it is more common for secondary school students to engage in street dance activities after school, and they have formed a community culture unique to young people in the residential communities of major cities. A few years ago, CCTV's 5-set sports channel opened a street dance teaching program (although the teaching was not pure street dance), and 3-set Dance World broadcast a special program on street dance before the Spring Festival in 2003, which was filmed by BeiDaTang. As a popular cultural and sports activity for young people, street dance has spread widely across the country.
What to pay attention to when practicing street dance
When learning street dance initially, it is important not to increase the amount of exercise all at once, but to progress step by step. Usually the first warm-up activities, the body's various joints, ligaments, especially the knee, ankle joints to be fully active, so as to avoid injury when jumping; and then into a certain intensity and time of practice, preferably not less than 30 minutes; and finally using a variety of stretching exercises to make the body relax. This three steps to achieve a better slimming effect.
Because everyone's age, fitness and health are different, the intensity of exercise varies from person to person. "Exercise intensity" is generally expressed in "maximum heart rate", you should calculate the most appropriate heart rate for street dance:
If you are 25 years old, do not often participate in sports, physical fitness in general, the choice of street dance as a slimming exercise program, then your Your maximum heart rate is 220-25=195, and your exercise intensity (workout heart rate) should be (60-75%) x 195=117-146 (beats/minute).
Finding the Feeling for Street Dancing
Often the hardest thing we have to do when dancing hip-hop is the feeling. So how can we practice that feeling?
Step 1: First of all, you must have several times more love for HIP-HOP than others.
Step 2: Go to your neighborhood music studio or video store and buy a CD or cassette of hip-hop dance music.
Step 3: Pick what you think is the best bass stereo around (to better practice your groove).
Step 4: Pick the CD you bought that makes your heart beat the hardest.
Step 5: Make the music as loud as you can and follow the thud of the music! Ta-da! Work on your shoulders (let your shoulders just shake back and forth); you'll find it boring at first, but they're the most important part of a hip-hop dance.
Step 6: Continue from the previous step and work on bouncing your legs and knees up and down.
Step 7: Follow the music and practice moving your left and right legs backward and forward one step at a time.
Step 8: Practice the flexibility of your hand joints (like waves from your finger tips to your shoulders, both right and left hand).
Step 9: Practice your toes. Follow the music and practice walking on your toes only, bouncing back and forth on your toes. This will take your senses to the next level as well. Be careful not to hit the ground on all sides of your feet while practicing this step.
Step 10: Combine all of the above steps and shake your body all over the place, and you'll have the basis for your hip-hop groove.
It's usually a good idea to have a large mirror to practice in when you're starting out. You will feel bored and tired when you start practicing. Because hip-hop is not a dance, but it is no less tiring, you must have the willpower to keep practicing. Some people may not feel it when practicing, but don't think that you don't have the talent. Many famous dancers feel it suddenly when they are walking or when they don't realize it. So you can also become the voice of HIP-HOP by practicing.
Specific practice methods
POPPIN as long as the flexible use of limbs is very strong, never in the limbs have not been practiced POP when you come to dance POPPIN, so that the foundation is not stable, you will never learn well, even if you mimic a movement out of the jump, but the insiders will feel bad at first glance, and POPPIN is not more than who POP the arc of the big! Or the whole body will POP is great; POP when the point of force to be short but to be big, POPPIN point of the more relaxed the more beautiful, so it will look fine and fine, many people practice will use the upper shoulder suddenly pull down to drive the various parts of the muscles to achieve the POP, this practice method can not say that it is not correct, just POP up is not very good to look at it, there is also to be added is that everyone just practicing When is not going to feel their own movement is very little, in fact, this is not a problem, as long as you jump for a long time, feel good, put their bodies into the music, even if in a song to repeat some of the action is also does not matter, the important thing is to feel, to follow the music to jump, to be in tune, as long as you can follow the music to keep jumping to play a song words is also not bad.
One of the methods of hand exercises
1, put both hands into a posture very much like riding a horse, fingers down, to feel very relaxed feeling
2, then you wrist down, but the finger part of his head to let him up, the wrist to the downward pressure, do you see your little arm has a concave hole, that is, the shaft where there is a small hole (repeated that practice is)
2, then you wrist down, but the fingertips part of the let him up, the wrist to the downward pressure, do you see a small arm has a concave hole, that is, there is a small hole in the shaft (repeated that practice is)
3, during the exercise, you look at the upper part of your hand, the muscles have not burst out, if so, you look at the chest and arm connected to the part of the chest and arm has not jumped, and the back muscles have not jumped? When you press your wrist downward, the muscles in your chest are slightly jumping, aren't they, but be careful: it's not the chest that's forward, it's the pectoral muscles that are jumping upward. If you have the above points, then you are correct.
It is estimated that at the beginning of the practice of the back muscle part of the jump may not be able to come out, but to force the practice will be OK. The thing to note is that when practicing the hands, the shoulders should not be hard, and all the hard work is on the wrists, so please try to see if you can feel it.
This hand exercise should be combined with the foot exercise, so that it is natural.
Second, foot POP practice
Foot POP is actually the POP of the crotch, many people think it is so complicated and difficult to practice, in fact, crotch practice is easier than hand practice, as long as you don't think it is too complicated on it, try to be as simple as possible, the simpler, the better, pay attention to is the use of the knee.
1, you first stand up, and then slightly bent knees forward, a little like to sit down the feeling
2, you from the first point said, slowly from this action to stand up, remember to slowly straighten the foot, but do not force
3, slowly stand up, the foot is about to stand up straight when you suddenly here to force the foot quickly straighten (that is, the knees back), so that Repeatedly practicing is not to reach the POP across the bottom? Remember don't use any force on the buttocks or close in, that's not the right way to practice, we try to think as simple as possible
This foot exercise should be combined with the upper hand exercise to be good, so that it is natural.
Three, the head of the POP
In fact, this head part of the exercise with the typing method is really difficult to explain clearly! In fact, it is also the head to the direction of the 45-degree angle of force to achieve a kind of effect.
We often call out "hello" when we meet someone we know on the road, and remember, the head POP is kind of like a "hello" sound, how do I put it? When you call someone "hello" when the head is not a little bit up a little bit, is that a "point" is actually POP, just you have to force and to be completed in a short time. Note that the first to maintain the original relaxed expression, suddenly call someone feed a sound, repeated practice will learn the head of the POP, is not a little feeling ah!
Four, chest POP
Chest POP
The chest does not need to be practiced. (But the real single chest vibration is the need to practice, practice method first straighten the waist, you will feel a little sore waist, pay attention to lift the chest, and then slowly relax when suddenly come to a POP, but this POP is not the waist out of force, the waist is straightened up just for the POP when more beautiful!)
Supplementation
Lastly, I would like to add some views of the domestic first-class POPPER: BOKY:
1. POP on the arm mainly uses the triceps and radial carpal tunnel muscles. You can try to do this kind of action: five fingers hold the wall, and then use the position of the palm of the hand to push the wall (pay attention to the elbow joint natural bending, do not force to go big straight). The muscle group used in this action is roughly the POP position on the arm.
2. The chest muscles are going up vertically. This is because it is important to note that very few pops will be done utilizing extended joints. So conversely, if the pectoral muscles are not traveling upward, they will inevitably be implicated in the flexion of the spinal joints. Also, the POP of the pectoral muscles and the POP of the neck muscles are generally accomplished at the same time. It can be understood like this. When the pectoral muscles go up, the head stays in its original position or is slightly pressed down, which naturally compresses the neck muscles. In addition, how to exercise the neck muscles? You can try to make two sounds, one is "Oh", when the mouth is opened to the maximum, it is very natural to tighten the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The other one is "ha", when you open your mouth as wide as you can, you can tighten your scapularis and scapulothoracicus muscles. These three muscles are very important to do the neck POP source.
3. Leg POPThis is the only POP that requires the use of joints, as it is difficult to tense the muscles of the thighs with the knees naturally bent. It should also be added that the lower POP is not only done by the thigh muscles. In some specific movements, POP on the glutes and lower back muscles is also used.
HIP-HOP WAYS OF WEARING
On the busy streets of the city, you can sometimes see a lot of young people like to dress in this way: wide sweater or oversized sports jacket straight over the hips, the upper body inside and outside of the overlap, the pants waist is low and big hanging in the crotch, the trouser legs straight on the ground, the trouser legs in the heel of the shoes, the trouser legs in the waist, the trouser legs in the waist, the trouser legs in the waist. The legs of the pants rest on the ground, and the legs are layered over the heels of the shoes, so that the whole person is safely hidden in a tightly knit jacket.
This comfortable dress code with a hint of humor actually originated in African American families. Originally, younger brothers and sisters were allowed to wear the big clothes that their older brothers and sisters wore down in order to save money, and over time, such a loose, street-wear feel developed.
With the popularity of black rap hip-hop, skateboarding, and other extreme sports from the streets around the world, this style of dress, favored by black musicians and street athletes, also became popular among young people around the world.
The typical way of dressing for hip-hop is to wear a wide T-shirt with an exaggerated logo, the same wide and dragging boardshorts, jeans or sweatpants with side zippers, basketball shoes or work boots, a fishing cap or baseball cap, an ethnic patterned bandana, and hair dyed or braided into a wheat head. The corresponding accessories are: tattooed Tatoo, silver earrings or nose rings, arm bands, Matrix sunglasses, MD Walkman, scooter, back-pack and so on. These bits and pieces of clothing come together to make up the Hip-hop fashion that has been popular in the United States for 20 years.
When you see a boy dressed like this on the street, he has a full head of black braided hair, a short-sleeved baseball T-shirt over a long-sleeved cotton shirt, oversized sweatpants, a nail-thick steel bar through his left earring, a pair of foggy silver headphones hanging from his neck, a pair of skateboarding sneakers on his feet to strengthen his ankle protection and a big backpack on his back. He looks like a Chinese-American kid who just arrived to visit his family. Don't be surprised, this is a hip-hop fan!
However, if you look closely, it's not hard to see that these typical hip-hop outfits can't really be called "fresh," as big T-shirts can be found everywhere, and wide boardshorts aren't really fresh, as big-barreled jeans have been used by little girls in previous years to match tight little T-shirts. Big jeans have been worn by little girls for years with tight little t-shirts, basketball shoes and workman boots are commonplace, not to mention baseball caps, bandanas, earrings, backpacks and sunglasses. Of all the hip-hop gear, the only thing that was new was the scooter, but any child born in the 70's should remember the "shaved ice truck" that they used to play with in kindergarten, with the same tall handlebars, two wheels front and back, and a single pedal in the center, which was just as popular as the scooters of today. The same high handlebars, two wheels front and back, one foot pedal in the center, and today's popular scooters are exactly the same. So, in this case, the hip-hop fashion seems to be new, but it's not really new.
It's not easy to recombine all those commonplace outfits and wear the kind of hip-hop you've never seen before. The answer to the question of what constitutes hip-hop style is simple: "You need to feel that way." The answer is simple: "You need to have that feeling." In short, it's the word "feeling," but to put it into perspective, the word "feeling" includes a natural artistic talent, a sense of music and dance, a keen sense of fashion and taste, a very outgoing personality, a great command of English, and a good sense of humor. In other words, the person who wants to wear the hip-hop feeling to the fullest must be a very cool new man himself, and to find an English word to describe it, the most apt is "Smart".
So if you don't think you're up to snuff, don't try hip-hop that you don't already feel is right for you, or it'll just make you feel awkward and unnatural. If you are seen by those who are already quite accomplished in Hip-hop, you will undoubtedly be laughed at.
Street Dance Nouns
B-BOY Breaking boy, boogie boy, as long as it's a break, it's called b-boy.
CREW B-boy's group.
BATTLE A challenge between individuals or b-boy groups.
BURNED A term used specifically to refer to a group or individual who has been defeated in an awkward dance.
ROUTINES The linking or execution of dance moves by several dancers.
PERFECTIONS Refers to a b-boy's best moves.
WACKED or WACK When a person does a move wrong.
SLIDES Pulling yourself across the floor, the name Slide tells a b-boy to do a "slide".
BITE Stealing moves from others.
1990(***) B-boy inverts and spins, then switches from one hand to the other as his body weight shifts until his feet hit the ground. (also known as hand spin)
2000 (*****) Invert with one hand and spin as far as possible until the foot touches the ground. (Also known as an inverted hand spin)
AIRPLANES (****) Windmills with hands stretched out to the sides as high as you can grab them.
AIRSWIPES(*) Start with both hands and feet on the floor, face up. Support your body weight with one hand and kick your foot upwards and rotate it, landing on the ground with your other hand before your foot hits the ground
. You should be able to rotate your entire body if you do it correctly.
APPLEJACKS(**) A basic move to challenge other b-boys. Crouch down with your feet, lean back and support yourself with both hands, then kick one foot in the air as high as you can
. Then jump back with both feet and repeat.
BACKSPIN(***) Use your back to perform a spin. All the weight is balanced on the upper part of the back, and the feet are scrunched up as close to the body as possible. The key to spinning is to move your feet in a circular motion in the air
. (Commonly known as a backswipe)
BACK SWIPE(***) is the same as an airswipe, except that when you add your feet in halfway through, you change direction and go back to the beginning of the movement.
BARRELS(****) Windmill with your arms wrapped around the front.
BELLYMILL(****) It's like a windmill, except instead of spinning with his hands or head, he uses his stomach.
BHUDDA(****) is similar to a UFO except that the knees are in straightened hands and then the feet are off the ground.
BOOMERANG(*****) Begins by sitting on the ground with your feet in front of you in a V-shape. Then brace your hands between your feet, and then brace your body so that only your hands touch the ground. Then turn around.
BRONCO(**) Starting with the feet, then only one hand down, kick the feet back and then the feet down again, repeat all the movements.
BUNNY HOP(*****) is similar to the flare, but the difference is that the feet are straight up in front of the body, and then jump up and down in a circle.
CANNOABALL(****) Hands around the knees in a cannonball move.
CRAZY LEGS(****) Like air swipes, but not just one. Do air swipes over and over again without pausing in between.
CRICKETS(****) A spinning motion almost identical to a hand glide, except that when the spinning hand leaves the ground and spins and comes back to the ground, there is an occasional shift in weight
to a hand shove. If you do it right, it looks like a continuous rotation.
DOUBLE 99 (*****) is like doing a 2000 (One hand 99), but when you want to drop one hand and switch to the other, kick your foot to get the speed and then continue with the 2000 (One
hand 99), each hand continuously without stopping.
DOWNROCK(*) supports the entire weight of the dancer with the center of the hand, and then the legs and feet move in a continuous rhythmic circle, with the legs and feet moving around the hand
. They are often combined with freezes and hesitations, and are performed immediately after other movements.
ELBOW GLIDE (****) The movement and position is similar to a hand spin, except that it is done with the hand axis and the hand is released in the abdominal position.
FLARE(****) is similar to a windmill, where the feet make large circles in the air, but instead of moving the shoulders, the weight is placed on the hands.
FIST GLIDE(****) The movement and position is similar to a hand spin, but the difference is that you use your fists to spin.
FLOAT(*) Balances the body horizontally with the hands, but with the exception of the feet, which are bent to help with the balance.
GENIES(****) Use your hands to windmill and cross your entire chest.
GO DOWN The move a b-boy does when he's in danger of losing a dance.
HALO (*****) A windmill move, but instead of turning from shoulder to shoulder, you turn your head. (Commonly known as the brush head windmill)
HAND GLIDE(****) is similar to Bboy's float maneuver, but with the difference that there is only one hand to support the body, and the other hand to help push the rotation. (We call this the "helicopter"