Popping: Foundations & Concepts

[Juvi-J]

Okay, so i've been popping for about 3 months now, and I've yet to understand the foundations & concepts of popping. When I practice, I actually work on alot of techniuqes and moves, you see, I understand popping in general and the history of popping. What I don't seem to get, are the foundations and concepts that make up popping. If anyone could please explain to me what these two fundamentals are, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks in advance! (So far, I know that "hitting" is one of the basic foundations of popping).

[Hidden]

Foundation includes basic techniques that are necessary to do just about everything else. Hitting, isolation, dimestop, fixed point are some examples of major foundational skills.

concepts are pretty self explanatory... they are your ideas. You use fundamentals to give your ideas shape... and thats it in a nutshell lol

[klassicboog]

The basic techniques you should learn are also walkouts , twisto flex , neck o flex ,master flex , fresno , old man ...ect if missed anything let me know , I am also workin on my basics

[poppincamo]

Is a Neck o flex like a twisto flex wit more neck movement?
Also wuts a master flex?

[inventfmc]

The basic techniques you should learn are also walkouts , twisto flex , neck o flex ,master flex , fresno , old man ...ect if missed anything let me know , I am also workin on my basics

These are all basic boogaloo moves... not TECHNIQUES.
There's a difference.

[Bolt3000]

much agreed... true foundation has nothing to do with a specific style of popping. Hitting, isolation, understanding commitment and non-commitment of ones body while moving... Understanding concepts, and why you are attempting a movement the way that you do.

I know you say (Juvi-J) that you understand popping in general and the history of popping, but I do not think that you quite do yet... cause the foundational concepts that allowed popping to develop as an illusionary style of dance, you will soon see, are a large part of it's history, and eventually will become general knowledge to you.

If you really want to become good quickly, imo, Learn A LOT about music and the body and how it works (basically our anatomy, and why our body parts, when used in a certain way, look the way they do when we pop). Most importantly, always keep an open mind. There is no right on wrong way to do something, there is only concept and perspective.

[BoogyBlack]

Ahhhhh poppins soooo deep its crazy

[Yovi]

To me the big three are dimestops, hits and isolation.. I consider fixed point a result of isolation..

Hitting is what defines a popper right (part of what defines a popper i guess)? But dimestopping and isolation are what define your hits lol..
If you don't isolate, people don't know where to look, if you dont stop, your hit loses definition (although you can use this intentionally too, good to keep in mind the effects different things produce, maybe not so much for begginers).

Isolation and dimestops improve all styles in popping.. Everything uses them.. EVERYTHING!!! Waving, boog, tutting, animation, botting, gliding, ticking, strobing, etc etc..

Also, practising dimestops will improve your isolation (depending on how you practise) and hence improve all your styles.. Even if only subtly..

Random post~

[thaSMiZofESV]

Ahhhhh poppins soooo deep its crazy


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