How to Do Street Dance Moves

Transcript What’s up, you all. My name is Jino Fort, a dancer-choreographer/performer. Love doing what I do. What I wanted to do is be a professional choreographer, travel the world, and go everywhere. I want to perform as well. Currently with MSA Dance Agency right now, going back and forth from here to L.A., doing …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino and I am going to teach you a little thing called Bone Breaking. Well not really teach you just show you and you do the stretches and get it yourself, so you’re really teaching yourself. OK, so here we go. Flexing and Bone Breaking can be dangerous if you are; …

Transcript Hello, this is your boy Jino Fort and I’m going to show you how to do a bone break illusion. A bone break illusion can be slightly hurtful if you don’t know what you’re doing so make sure you do stretch and you have the gist of the bone break/flexing before you do this …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino. I’m going to teach you waving today. Now waving is so crazy universal, you can make it whatever you want. It’s not just up and down. It’s, who knows? It’s to the sky. There are different types of waves. You have straight waves, where it goes all the way across …

Transcript This is Jino Fort, and we’re going to tick today. Ticking is very subtle movements. Moving to the music, but you’re really ticking. Like you’re barely moving an inch a second. So it’s like tick, tick, tick, tick, literally that’s what it sounds like. That’s what ticking is. So when you tick make sure …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino, coming at you with the hitchhike. The hitchhike is where you’re hitchhiking. You’re basically on the side of the road, you’ve got to go somewhere. So what you going to do? Nobody’s going to pick you up though, because these days, nobody’s going to help you. So you’re just …

Transcript So JIno, back again, to show you what the wrist twirl is in locking. The wrist twirl is a fairly simple move, but it’s easy to forget. Because you’re doing so much stuff and it is so small, and this is just a little movement that makes one of your moves look really whoa. …

Transcript What’s up? It’s Jino coming at you. I want to teach you how to point. Not just any point though, a locking point. Now what a locking point is very funky. Well, a locking is funky in itself. So when you point it’s like straight, boom, what you looking at? It’s over there. What? …

Transcript Sup, it’s Jino Fort and I’m going to show what the funky guitar is. The funky guitar is pretty fun to do actually and it really is a funky guitar. It’s basically what the name says, you have the guitar and you play it very funky, but this is air guitar, so not really. …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino. I’m going to teach you the floor sweeper. The floor sweeper is one of the main components I’d sat in locking, because a lot of people start like that and it’s a very fun movement. You can have a lot of energy and do anything from there. So basically …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino coming at you with some pacing with locking. Now pacing is a fairly simple move. It’s a little walk, like a little old man walk like you’ve got a cane. But you’ve got wrist rolls with it. So what’s you’re going to do we’re going to bend slightly over …

Transcript Hello, everybody this is Jino. I’m going to show you what the whichaway is today. The whichaway is, can be an awkward movement, if you don’t know what you’re doing, and just learning it at first is a great way because it looks like you just don’t know. It’s like what is this. What’s …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino. I’m showing you how to do the jazz split today. Now the jazz split is something you probably have to get used to. So I’m going to get on the ground first and show you how to position before we actually do it. What you’re going to do is get …

Transcript This is Jino Fort, and I’m going to show you some ground moves. Now ground moves are very sometimes hard, because you’ve got to get up from them. But if you know how to use them right, you can stay down there a little bit and impress people and get back up at the …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino Fort, your boy. I’m going to teach you bopping. Bopping is slightly more difficult, but it’s still doable. It’s very easy, once you get used to it. Basically, it’s double time popping. When you do it you want to start popping at first. Like one-one,one-one. Just do the basics at …

Transcript Hello. Gino Fort, back to teach you how to dime stop. Dime stop is a cool technique I would like us to use, for popping especially, because not only is it a great visual to the eye but it’s great to use period. Dime stop composes of ticking in isolated movements. You can use …

Transcript Hello. This is Jino again, and I’m going to teach you how to neck pop. Neck pop is a very small faction on popping, but it does help a good bit, more than you think. Neck pops deal with this circumference of your neck right here. So, you’re getting your neck part right here, …

Transcript What up? It’s me, your boy J, about to teach you some chest pops. Now, they’re a little different from crump chest pops but not really, in a sense. It’s just not as hard, sometimes it is. So, what you’re going to do: Stand still. Ain’t going to move nothing but your chest, so …

Transcript This is your boy Jino yet again, and I’m going to teach you how to do some arm pops. Arm pops are fairly simple but they can get very, rigorous and technical. It can get from popping one part, from your whole arm, to getting just this part of your arm. That takes lots …

Transcript Alright, it’s your boy Gino and I’m going to teach you how to leg pop. Leg pops are simple, but also yet make your whole hit with the rest of your body with popping a lot harder. If you’re doing anything without leg pops, you won’t to get the energy and balance like you …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino Fort and I’m going to show you how to krump freestyle. Well, to show you how to krump freestyle is one thing, but teaching you how to freestyle krump, you just work on your basics and just from there. So really, you want to be your own individual person when …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino Fort again, and I’m going to teach you how to retract. Retraction is basically, pulling on the body and then popping off with something. Now retraction can be very cool on certain beats. You know the beats of the song that goes – like use it any way you want. …

Transcript So this is Jino Fort again, and I’m going to teach you how to do krump chest pops. Krump chest pops are of the nature of what it says it does, popping your chest out. But it’s not just popping your chest out. It’s the beat and it’s very strong. So like from the …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino Fort, back again, and I’m going to teach you how to krump stomp. Now krump stomps are not just stomp and stomp all over the floor, going everywhere, because that makes no sense. You’d only look stupid, just looking like a big monkey going out on the dance floor. …

Transcript Hey, what’s up y’all this is Gino Fort again. I’m going to teach how to do krumping jabs. Jabs in krumping are like jabs in boxing. It’s very similar, quick, very static, to the point. You don’t want to get in a stance because you’ll kind of lose the element of krump, so get …

Transcript Hello, this is Gino Fort yet again. Came to introduce you to krumping arm swings. Krumping arm swings are very strong, and they make you very tired by the end of the song. Of all the techniques in krump that make you tired is arm swings, ’cause it involves a lot of power. And …

Transcript What’s up? This is Gino Fort, and this is dancing to dubstep. Now, dubstep is a very controversial thing within the dance world, because the non-dancers that really don’t dance like that hate dubstep think dubstep is a dance style. Well today, you’re going to know, for you that think that’s right, it’s very …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino and I’m going to teach you leaning today. Leaning is a universal way to make everything look cooler, I guess or to add a little variety to your style. You can use it with house, footwork, anything you want. You know what Michael Jackson usually does to lean, but …

Transcript What’s up, y’all? This is your boy Jino Fort, yet again, coming at you with some new dance moves. I’m going to show you how to do the scarecrow. The scarecrow is very loose, as well. It’s not like you’re puppeting exactly, but it’s close to it. Well, for some people it’s not. It’s …

Transcript Hello this is Gino Fort and I’m going to teach you how to bot. Now, botting is composed of different techniques in one, but it’s very stiff, very stiff. It’s not loose at all. You’re not even human, that’s why you’re a robot, that’s why it’s botting. So basically it deals with hitting a …

Transcript Hello, what’s up? This is your boy Jino Fort and I’m going to talk to you about battling the body. Now this subject is a little different, because it goes along the lines of respect, as well as just dancing. So you have to be professional in both your dancing and your attitude, because …

Transcript What’s up? This is Jino Fort again, and I’m going to show you what vanishing is. Vanishing you’re more of a trickster type, I would say. You can have technique. But all right, you’d rather be a trickster because the more creative you are, the better your vanishing is. For vanishing, just go crazy …

Transcript Hello this is Jino again, I’m going to show you how to do puppeting. Puppeting is like a very loose form. It’s mostly used with popping, well, yes, mostly used in popping and puppeting is like a very loose form of arms just loose like you’re on strings, like you’re being controlled. You’re going …

Transcript Hello, this is Jino Fort again and I’m going to show you what miming is. Miming is basically looking like you’re holding on to a wall or something you’re grabbing, a pole or a stick. It looks like an invisible object that you’re using or going against. Miming is a lot of ways you …

Transcript Advanced story telling can be difficult, but sometimes you just have to be in the zone and you have an adrenaline rush. You’re in a lounge, you’re at the club and you’re going crazy. You see a girl walk by you do a move with it. It depends on what’s happening. Some people are …

Transcript What’s up? This is your boy Gino and I’m going to show you basic story telling. Basic Story telling is fun, honestly is one of my best things in dance because without it dance is not a lot. Story telling is basically telling a story. It can be a random story. It can be …

Transcript What’s up. This your boy Jino, back again, and I’m gonna so you some arm traces. Now arm traces can be very unique, just like legs, you do a lot more with them though. Because you know, you have a little more leeway, and more, I guess, muscles to work with. So, a exercise …

Transcript What’s up? This is your boy, Jino, back again, and I want to tell you how to do traces for legs. Now, when you do traces for legs, it’s like how you trace on a drawing, or on a piece of paper. Same thing for legs, arms, or anything else. This time it’s for …

Transcript Hello, this is your boy Jino yet again, and I’m going to show you a little thing called the two step. Now, the two step is mostly a club dance. It can be easy, or hard, or medium, it’s whatever you want. It’s whatever the level you’re on, anybody can really do it. Now, …

Transcript Hey what’s up? This is your boy Jino Fort and I’m going to show you some wave illusions. Now for wave illusions the reason is different. I think it’s different. Because when you do it it looks very weird and very out of place. One wave illusion you can do is take both arms …

Transcript Hey, what’s up? This is your boy, Jino, and I’m going to show you how to do some hand illusions. So hand illusions you have a lot of combinations that you can do. Finger tutting, tutting, arm tutting, it can deal with legs. Anything. Be creative, really. Now what you’re doing is hand illusions. …