Learn How to Break Dance

Transcript I hope you guys are ready for this move, because this move is advanced. Alright, it’s called the UFO. Why is it called the UFO? Because it’s out of this world. Only a select few can do this. Believe me. And I’m one of them. But, you’re here with me today and I’m going …

Transcript What’s up, fellow B-boys and B-girls? My name is Kid Glyde. And I’m here to instruct you guys on breaking moves. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced, teaching you combos and all that. But I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I’ve been breaking for 17 years, still travelling the world, my goal …

Transcript Welcome to how to do a reverse hand glide. This move right here, my father created the move. Hence the name glide. Hence my name, Kid Glide. So, a little history about myself. Check it out. It’s a simple thing. If you want to, use a glove. Right now I’m going to use my …

Transcript Here we are, about to learn how to do the New York Flare, all right. The only thing that makes it different from any other flare is the beginning. All right, this is how the New York is do it out here New York, yo what up, all right, west coast you all do …

Transcript All right. Let’s go. Jack Hammer time. All right. First we are gonna go through some phases. All right. Make sure we review a Hopping Hang-glide. All right. So let’s do the Hopping Hang-glide first. Basically, you’re gonna be in this position. Which we call the Table Top, or Pilot position. All right. From …

Transcript Here we go! Kid Glyde. Swipes. All right, we’re going to go to the next level, this time. For me, this is easier, but like I said earlier with other moves, it’s mental. A lot of moves are mental. There’s fear. Once you get fear in the way, it’s going to block you from …

Transcript I hope you’re ready to take your footwork to the next level. I’ve got some advanced moves, tricks, and all of that just for you. All right. Here at Dynamic Rockers Academy, we bring it. We have thirty years of knowledge that has been passed down from my father and other leaders of the …

Transcript What’s up, Howcast? Another freeze combo for you guys. This time turtle freeze to the headstand. You don’t really see this that much. But, hey, I know how to do it. Turtle freeze, all right? We’re parallel with the floor, our body. All right, what I’m going to do is we’re going to tuck …

Transcript Straight back, straight back. Now, monkey foot, here we go. Check it out. So, we’re gonna put the left hand down, alright? You wanna be a little elevated, alright? Hips up, alright? It’s not a crazy flip, but it’s something, you know, you could use in your arsenal. But don’t do it too many …

Transcript Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got another combo of freezes coming, brought to you by K Glide. So anyways, here we go with the baby freeze to a handstand. So we’re going to go from baby freeze. Same thing as what we did earlier. We’re on our head, right? So we’re going to get our …

Transcript Yo, what’s good? We’re back for some more. This time we got a simple combination going on. That’s right, we’re doing combos now. So, you know, we’re taking all the simple moves we learned earlier and we’re putting them together. That’s all we’re doing. So, the turtle freeze. Do you remember the turtle freeze? …

Transcript What’s up guys? Now I’m here to show you guys how to finish your story, all right? This is like in Top Rock, beginning of your story, we’re gonna end it. End the sentence with a period, question mark, exclamation mark, whatever. How we end our stories with a freeze. All right? So, we’re …

Transcript Howcast, what’s up? K-Glide here, about to take you on these levels. Time to go on levels with these freezes. Gonna go from the turtle to the elbow. You ready? We’re going to do this. We got this. Check it out. Once again we’re going to go right into the turtle. Remember, it’s very …

Transcript Handstand to elbow freeze. You ready? Now when everything starts up and comes down, people tend to bring everything down. Make sure that doesn’t happen. The only thing that’s going down in levels is your arms. If your hips, you drop your hips a little bit, which, of course, if you’re going down, you’re …

Transcript Yo, what’s up. I’m about to teach you all the kip up. You’ve seen this move in all your favorite kung fu flicks, straight up, and your favorite BBoy does it all the time. I’m going to show you the simplified version, just the regular kip up with our hands, nothing crazy. You need …

Transcript Freezes, freezes and more freezes. We’re back for some more, now we’re going from an extremely low level to an extremely high level. Okay, we’re going from a turtle, one of the lowest levels in breaking besides being on your back, a low level. Now from there we’re going all the way to the …

Transcript I’m about to show you advanced baby freeze. I’m going to use my right hand as my pilot hand. Check it out. Right here, look at that, now, to here. Remember, baby freeze is like that. Now, for more advanced, I’m going to go onto my right forearm. So, really slowly, check it out. …

Transcript So now we’re here to do the coffee grinder, which I call the helicopter. Remember, all these moves, there’s different names. We didn’t have the Internet back then, so people would see moves and just put names on it. It wasn’t like everybody knew the name or the correct terminology. So don’t get mad, …

Transcript Now, we have head spin tips from Kid Glyde. It’s not my forte, but I, trust me, I’ve been around the game, I’m working on it, and I know the tips that can make your head spins a lot better. Alright, so, basically, you know, if you’re a beginner, you want to just get …

Transcript Yo, we’re rolling, man. We’re rolling. Check it out. 2000s, we’re about to do this. It’s 1990s to the next level. All right? Basically, this is the 2000 position. The hand I spin on is my left hand, all right? Left hand is on the bottom, right hand is on top. So we’re going …

Transcript Welcome, once again, Howcast. Love you guys. We’re here for the elbow tutorial, elbow freeze, and basically, this is one of the basic freezes that can help you with your power moves. Okay. Why do I say that? Because it helps with your core. Remember the four points I said. So your shoulders, your …

Transcript Freezes are essential to be a B-boy. You got to put your freezes either as a comma or a period to your sentence. Alright? It’s good to do a move, freeze and the go back to what you’re doing. And then end it. Regardless of what you’re doing, you need to freeze somewhere in …

Transcript All right. We’re here to do 1990s with Kick Live. That’s right. I’m going to help you guys out. Advance move, remember, this is advance move. I hope you guys have been practicing your handstands, especially on against the wall. I hope you’ve got balance. If you can, work on handstand pirouettes, going upside …

Transcript All right. Kid Glyde back again. Now, we are going to take our handstands to the next level. We’re going to do one-handed handstands. Alright, we’re going to do stages. First, we’re going to do one-handed handstands, and then, we’re going to work our way into inverts. Alright. Inverts, you got to do. I …

Transcript We’re here to train the windmill to the backspin. Alright. This is not that hard. It’s momentum. So if you master the windmill and the backspin it should be easy, Okay? So make sure you practice each one individually. Now let’s put them together. Just like when we do the windmill, remember: shoulder, shoulder, …

Transcript What’s up? Here we go again. Shoulder spin, but this time from a windmill, all right? Same concept. Just like the back spin, but we’re going to use our shoulders this time. As we said earlier, we’re going to use our second shoulder, all right? So we’re going to go, head, shoulder, shoulder, and …

Transcript Welcome to how to do a shoulder spin, out or reverse shoulder spin. Alright this is a little bit more difficult. I hop you guys have been working on your back spins because you need your back spins for this. Well, my technique at least. Basically, you’re going to use your second shoulder. If …

Transcript Backspins to munchmills; AKA, babymills. We’re going to do it, check it out. We’re going to start with the backspin, same concept. Go onto your back, legs open, bring them in, gain the speed, and then don’t wait until you lose momentum because the next move you need a lot of momentum and speed. …

Transcript What’s up, y’all? Kid Glyde here once again; so now I’m going to do a back spin, to a head spin, all right? Kind of difficult, but it’s just a simple trick as far as going from your shoulder onto your head. Basically, you’re in a clenched position, in your back spin. When you’re …

Transcript Munchmills, aka babymills, this is how we’re going to do it. I’ll tell you and I’ll instruct you guys on how to do this move. All right? It’s not that easy. It’s very scary because once you get the momentum going, you go so fast, you don’t know what’s going on. Check it out. …

Transcript All right, here we go. We’re going to do the back spin. This is how to do a back spin. It’s a basic power move, but it’s very crucial for all your power moves. We’re going to start it off with the pilot position, pilot/tabletop. Remember, so many different names for all these different …

Transcript Yeah, boy. Here we are, doing some more power move combos. We are going to do the windmill to the halo. Halo is also called Head Track. Invented by Kid Freeze of who? The Dynamic Rockers, my crew. We’re going to go from the Windmill to the Head Track, or what you would call …

Transcript What’s up? I hope you guys are ready. Now we’re going to take it on the top, alright? Top Rock. The introduction to your story. Whenever you come into the cypher, which is the circle where all the boys are at or even in the show, you have to do your Top Rock or …

Transcript I’m going to do no-handed windmills right now. This is very important for you to get your speed. No handed. You got to make sure your arms are in really tight. Close it. You go like this with your upper body. It’s very important, that motion. And your hips and your legs have got …

Transcript What’s up, what’s up. Kid Glyde here again right here to show you guys some free style tips. Alright it’s very important for a beat boy to make sure they always freestyle. It’s good to have sets. Nothing wrong with that. But what happens when you mess up the set? Can’t go back to …

Transcript What’s up Kid Glyde, once again. I’m here for the beginners to get more advanced. I got some tricks that will help you make your footwork look a little bit more advanced. Like you know what you’re doing. Because, it’s all about confidence baby, trust me. Being a B-Boy, if you don’t have confidence, …

Transcript How to do a windmill into a flare. Damn! All right, now we’re going to go pick it up a little bit more. I’m going to go through two stages. The first stage is how to do a flare from a tabletop position or down in a kind of like a baby-ish position. We’re …

Transcript What’s up yo? This is Kid Glyde. I’m here to teach you guys some breaking moves. For this one, I’m going to show you some basics. Well actually, what a beginner should know. Straight up. All right? Beginners should know, of course, the four elements of breaking. The four basic elements. There’s more elements, …

Transcript Here we are, Creative Windmills. I love it. Don’t hate rockers, we started it. Powers is our forte. Power moves is our forte. Alright. So now I’m going to show you how to be creative with it. It’s all about hand placement. Alright. Once you get the regular windmill, with your hands, then you …

Transcript Alright. Kid Glyde in the place to be. What’s up HowCast. Check it out. We’re going to do some footwork combos. We’re going to put some footwork moves together. I know you guys at home are confused like; Hey should I do it this way? Should I do it that way? Well, I’m here …