How Much Of A Freestyle Is Actually A Freestyle?

[hytermmma]

What i mean is, when a person is poppin, alot of the moves they do are not made up on the spot. They are moves they have practiced before, just in a random order and tweaked to fit into their freestyle.

What i am asking is, how much of a poppin freestyle is actually moves made up on the spot and how much are moves that are practiced?

I believe a freestyle is made up of 70% of practiced moves, I.E. a specific ground move or a particular arm wave, and 30% of moves made up on the spot. I believe this way because, for me anyway, It is dangerous to do a totally random move because it could, for 1, be sloppy, and 2, throw you off.

I know it varies from person to person, but what do you guys believe a freestyle is and how much of a freestyle do you guys think should be moves you have practiced before and how much should be moves made up on the spot?

[nomsg]

Freestyle is expression to musik...its being free...in YOUR mind. Its not doing a routine to the music, but letting mouvements come out of you to match the music...it could be rehearsed movements...or spontaneous. It DOESN'T matter, freestyle is a mindset, and maybe even a way of life. At least thats my definition. PEACE.

[Engine]

Hmm i agree its sets of moves u know mixed and matched and thrown together ,hopefully with some musicality, and then some on the spot transitions = freestyle
kind of...

[blackbrawler]

to me i think it depends on what particular technique you excel (did i spell that right?) at. For me when im popping i usually just do moves im used to. Which i guess means i have practiced before. For things like Tutting though i do a little bit of both or variations of what i practices. Plus a lot of the moves you do naturally without even realizing. If you want to get better at just making moves out of thin air i guess you should try no to practic ein the mirror (if you do).