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Break Dancing

Break dancing is a dance style that emerged out of hip-hop culture in approximately the late 1960s. It originated in the South Bronx of New York City and was popular among African-American and Latin American teens. A subcategory about the history, dances moves, dress code, lingo, music, bling, and more.

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What break dancing also called?

Break dancing is also called b-boying and breaking.

Are the Jabbawockeez or the Quest Crew better?

One opinion finds that the individual members of Quest Crew are better than the Jabbawockeez's individual members, but the Jabbawockeez are a better team than Quest Crew.

Who are the Filipino members of the Jabbawockeez?

Chris Gatdula, Phil Tayag, Rainen Paguio, and Joe Larot are the Filipino members of the Jabbawockeez.

How are hip hop and b-boying different?

Hip-hop music includes rap and music that people can breakdance to, while b-boying is breakdancing, which is a type of hip-hop dance.

Who is B-Boy Junior?

B-boy Junior is the most celebrated breakdancer.

How do TV dance crews learn to dance?

TV dance crews learn to dance mostly from experience from before or choreography, or contests or learning / watching professionals.

What is breakdance?

Breakdancing is a form of hip-hop dance made of four elements: toprock, downrock, freezes, and power moves. Breakdancing involves much movement on the floor and unique stunts.
Break dancing (also b-boying, b-girling, or breaking) is a type of hip-hop dance involving toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. A breakdance battle is when a breaker or team of breakers competes against another dancer or team of dancers in performing more awesome and original moves. The winner is usually decided among the dancers and audience or by judges.

Toprock is dancing from a standing position (such as the Indian step).

Downrock is dancing with hands and feet on the floor (such as the six-step).

Power moves are impressive moves requiring physical strength and endurance (such as the headspin and windmill).

Freezes are when a dancer stops in a position requiring much balance, such as (the one-handstand).

What is the dance move where your right hand holds the toes of your left foot and jump while inserting the right leg through the hole?

The move is called threading. Some dancers thread into one-handstands, because they have one free hand, so it's a smooth combo.

Do you need 3D glasses to watch Step Up 3?

The new movie Step Up 3 has two versions, a regular one and a 3D one. To watch the 3D version, you need the 3D glasses. If you're watch the regular non-3D version, you don't need the glasses.

What jacket was Madd Chadd wearing at Red Hook in the movie Step Up 3?

Madd Chadd was wearing a Rocksmith The Slash windbreaker at Red Hook.

Is break dancing illegal in cheerleading?

There's no law against breakdancing while cheerleading. You could if you wanted to, but you wouldn't breakdance while holding pom-poms when you're supposed to be cheering for your sports team.

How do you do multiple pindrops?

  1. From a standing position, bend your right knee and wrap your right ankle and foot around the back of your left knee.
  2. Fall to your left and land on your right foot's toes, so that only the left side of your left foot and your right foot's toes are touching the ground.
  3. From there, stand back up on your left foot with your right foot still at your left leg's knee.
  4. Then, with your right foot still behind your left knee, repeat steps 2 and 3.

To do more multiple pindrops, simply repeat. Your right foot should be behind your left knee the whole time.

What are all the freezes in break dancing?

The following are some breakdancing freezes:

  • airbaby
  • airchair
  • baby freeze
  • chair
  • double airchair
  • elbow airchair
  • freeze
  • handglide freeze
  • hollowback
  • invert
  • pike
  • planche
  • side freeze
  • turtle
  • two-hand turtle

Variations of these freezes have allowed for breakdancing power moves, such as the following:

  • airflare
  • airchair spin
  • crab
  • flare
  • jackhammer
  • windmill

How old is Joe Slaughter from Step Up 3D?

joe slaughter is 29 years old he's born in (1921 12 april)

How good is sunny breakdancer?

Sunny is a very good break dancer. Sunny has been mentioned in many magazines and many people know who Sunny is.

Should you tilt your head back when you do a handstand?

You aren't meant to tilt your head back because it will bring your legs down more. The best thing is if you can't look at the opposite wall, look at the ground; that helps.

DON'T FORGET: keep your stomach and butt tight and pull them in as much as you can.

Why does each Step Up movie have different actors and actresses?

Changing the characters allows each movie to have a whole new story.

However, the Step Up movies share a few common characters to partially tie the different stories together.