Everytime after I dance or practice doing boogaloo rolls, my knees would hurt slightly. Not intolerable pain, but I don't want to everytually break my knees lol. Is it a problem with technique? Should I make my knees bend less? Or do I need to improve knee strength/flexibility?

I have no problem with the Boogaloo style, but the lie that the Electric Boogaloos and their students spread has to be stopped as people are beginning to see it as truth.

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PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO OF POPPIN'S TRUE ORIGINS:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eENaYk5j1hU

Is there any place that poppers normally go to dance during the week in the inland empire or LA??

Been trying to learn strobing (double time dimestops, no hitting), but just can't get a clean stop that fast. My muscles are super tense automatically when I do it, but I still can't get my arms to stop cleanly at double time for any song over 100 BPM or so.

I've heard some people strobe without tensing their muscles too much, so am I following the wrong technique?

Do I need to tense with all my strength when trying to strobe? If so, I guess I'll need to hit the gym because I don't think I'm "strong enough to strobe" right now lol.

New to popping...is there a rule of thumb on which way you roll your boogaloo rolls? I'm asking this question in relation to all 4 directions: meaning going left to right, right to left, rolling forward first or backward first. Thx!

Basically the title, I'm pretty new to popping but I really love the way it feels. Physically hitting the sounds in the music is super satisfying.

I've been trying to work on popping with various body parts and I'm having a lot of trouble separating my chest/pec from my arm/bicep pops. It seems like whenever I flex my arm my pec also flexes. And even worse sometimes it feels like the pop from my pec is bigger than my bicep (cause I suck...)

Anyway, was wondering if this is an issue that anyone else has had? And what I can do to fix it?

Also for background, I'm a guy that's somewhat muscular so I have larger than average pecs (although that's mostly genetics, not cause I'm particularly strong).

One of my favorite popping videos but I can't find it on youtube anymore, anybody know where it is linked?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2axTRdJdKfI

He's the dude in a suit. I've seen him in as a contestant on a show called 30 seconds to fame, or something like that. OG popper, I can tell. I saw him at Universal Studios about a decade ago. He was walking fast so I didn't bother him. Anyone know who he is?

One of the things I've noticed is that a great many "moves" have lateral symmetry, which is I think what it's called when you can do the same thing on your left hand side as you can on your right hand side. You can do an old man to the left and you can do it to the right. You can pop your left bicep as you can pop your right bicep. Etc.

But I find that somehow, many specific moves I've gotten really good only in one direction and as a result my muscle memory tends to reinforce that motion, instead of trying to let the weak side try it. I really have to force it.

I think the answer is probably drills...but does anyone else have this problem?

Hi, im new to boogaloo/popping and I try to learn from YouTube videos but it difficult to find a complete video that explain all concepts history moves etc for beginner, I only find short video that explain one move but I need a global understanding and structure of that dance for learning it better... If someone can give me a link for a streaming video, a name of a DVD or a download link It would be great! Sorry for my English I'm french

I recently watched a random battle and the MC said "I like the story telling". I don't really understand what that is.

In some dance like contemporary dance there are literal movements that can work with the lyric, like falling to the ground when you're sad, pointing to the sky if you miss someone etc., but with movements that are more just moving your body with the music, or more geometric or abstract movements (as in, they don't really "draw" a picture like literal movements do), what the is storytelling? I'm learning popping btw.

I noticed most famous poppers wear a kind of stripe pants with a glossy, slippery looking shoes. I want to learn more about popping. Does anyone know what's the story behind why these are considered popping clothing?

Besides your local scene (I'm currently a nomad), what are your favourite online resources to learning about different funk styles?

According to Mista Hugo's Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfidkwlOmzF/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=