/r/FunkStyle
This is the subreddit for all dances involving the use of mainly Funk music (Popping, Krumping, Turfing, and Locking)
This is the only subreddit to focus on the main Funk Styles. Please feel free to ask for help/Advice, Post cool videos you find, or tutorials.
Everything is allowed as long it has something to do with the FunkStyles that originated from the west coast.
Based around the fundamental 'hit' or 'pop'. Encompasses many different styles including waving, strobing, animation, boogaloo, scarecrow, toy-man, puppet, and botting.
The first funkstyle dance. This dance is centered around many fundamental moves including the lock, the muscle-man (up-lock), uncle sam points, and wrist rolls. Originally established by Don 'Campbellock' Campbell and the group he developed: 'The Lockers'.
Style of dance/City/How long you've been dancing
Example: Popping/Fresno/5 years
Funk Music Documentry (highly recommended you watch!)
Highly Recommended video on the deep roots of dancing
YomKimme's Popping/Dimestopping Practice guide
JRock's "Popping Styles" Interview (highly recommended)
Dennis Infante's Mixes (great for practicing, many genres!)
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Hi guys Iâm a beginner starting out popping. Are you allowed to bend your elbows during the arm pop? A little confused because at the 4 minute mark the gentleman is bending his arms, and I was told somewhere that popping was strictly muscle-based. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
I meant to practice gliding, but there wasn't enough room. My feet have been on autopilot for 20 years.
I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. Everything is not how I would have it be ideally. However, I am closer to what I want than what I thought.
What's good everyone? I just thought come on here and ask is there anyone here that lives in Charlotte, NC or around that area. Just trying to find some other dancers who does hip hop and/or funk styles to collab with or just cypher with. Also to build some friendships. I'm a down to earth brotha who loves music and talk about it for hours. I like DJing, comics, anime, video games, and being at the gym. Who wants to be friends? Lol ð âðū
https://youtu.be/CZYyMCZEc7g?si=QPKNAHANuAr-KnkO
This was meant to be popping practice, but threw on some other music late in the set.
I'm actually going to practice in a meaningful way and see what I can achieve. Also, dancing will b a good way to get back in shape.
Not Marry Poppins.
She had a unique style. Can.not remember her nationality. She might b white or Latino.
Damn, I did not give many clues.
Anybody remember those days,?
Some martial arts strikes involve throwing out limbs and then cutting it short and pulling it back half way so you don't fully commit the motion.
I want to know if this is the feeling/image I should keep in mind when I explore muscle isolation.
Allez ÃĐcouter le son sur youtube, il est incroyable !
https://reddit.com/link/1ek3s9w/video/5a220zq89pgd1/player
Choreo made by my coach Denis
Yo I'm Philippe from Belgium and started dancing since 2012. I started by watching stepup movies, then filming myself while doing dancemoves, had 1 year of danceclass, in 2017 decided to follow poppinglessons and started to get a good foundation of popping (got really the full package+international workshops as a bonus) and really grew VERY passionate towards popping.
Always grew towards robot and was pretty good at it too:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9wfr0zDxlvo
Then had a mix with speedchanges, waving and robotics: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lAbvgc4975s
And nowadays, I've found some love towards waving and I'm growing on it as well. Really found a connection with water. Such an amazing style waving! I just love it! Have alot to learn about it but we do that with passion!
So here's my latest wavingvideo:Â https://youtu.be/d1N_Sh3H_1k?si=H-4_L7TpKOfF-DIr
Yo I'm Philippe from Belgium and started dancing since 2012. I started by watching stepup movies, then filming myself while doing dancemoves, had 1 year of danceclass, in 2017 decided to follow poppinglessons and started to get a good foundation of popping (got really the full package+international workshops as a bonus) and really grew VERY passionate towards popping.
Always grew towards robot and was pretty good at it too:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9wfr0zDxlvo
And nowadays, I've found some love towards waving and I'm growing on it as well. Really found a connection with water. Such an amazing style waving! I just love it! Have alot to learn about it but we do that with passion!
So here's my latest wavingvideo:Â https://youtu.be/d1N_Sh3H_1k?si=H-4_L7TpKOfF-DIr
Trying to plan my next move and this will be a big factor
Hello, so i was watching a video from boppin andre and he was speaking a bit of history of popping and said that popping come from roboting and robot is the foundation of that style... I mean popping/hittin and robot are two different style no? I can pop with waves, tut, toyman etc without doing robot? I don't get it
https://youtu.be/ctQoVFqH1gU?feature=shared (at the beginning)
Wats good yall my name is PeaceOne I'm not a Dancer but I'm super into Breakin and Popping. I dj'd a few breakin and Popping battles back in the days. I started collecting records again and would like to get back into djing I've been searching for boogie 80s funk that poppers can get down too. What are some dope lesser known tracks from genre?
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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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?