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EntertainmentLearn How to Break Dance

Break Dance Basics

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, but we’ll go into that later. So anyways, we got top rock; we got the footwork, freezes and power moves, the eye candy of the whole dance.

All right. With top rock, you should have at least three steps. Three steps, Indian step, cross step and at least a side step. The three and you can do the back step. Back step’s easy. Footwork, six step, two step, three step. It’s very important to have the six step. Kick outs, step outs. You should have all that in my first series. Know what I’m saying? Know what I’m saying? Know what I’m saying?

Power moves, first work on freezes to help you get the pop, you know, the strength to get the power moves such as table top, the baby, reverse baby. Then for swipes, I would say let’s work on elevated chair. Elevated chair would look like this. All right. That will help you with your swipes and you’ll be good. That’s what a beginner should know, as a beginner. So, top rock, you’ve got the Indian step and then, the reverse to that, you got the back step.

Then, you’ve got the side step. Three basic top rock moves. A little bit more advanced, but still beginner, is the cross step. Know what I’m saying? Then you’ve got the footwork: step outs. A little faster. Switch hands. You got the kick outs. Step. Kick out, son. And you’ve got the six step, which I showed you all previously. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six.


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How to Break Dance with Kid Glyde & The Dynamic Rockers

How to Do a Reverse Hand glide in Break Dancing

How to Do a New York Flare in Break Dancing

How to Do a Jackhammer in Break Dancing

How to Do Swipes in Break Dancing

How to Do Advanced Break Dancing Footwork

How to Do a Turtle Freeze to a Headstand in Break Dancing

How to Do a Monkey Flip in Break Dancing

How to Do a Baby Freeze to a Headstand

How to Do a Turtle Freeze to a Baby Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do a Baby Freeze to Shoulder Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do a Turtle Freeze to Elbow Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do an Elbow Freeze to a Handstand in Break Dancing

How to Do a Kip Up in Break Dancing

How to Do a Turtle Freeze to a Handstand in Break Dancing

How to Do a Baby Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do Reverse Helicopter (Coffee Grinder) in Break Dance

4 Head Spin Tips for Break Dancers

How to Do 2000s in Break Dancing

How to Do an Elbow Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do a Baby Freeze to an Elbow Freeze in Break Dancing

How to Do 1990s in Break Dancing

How to Do a Handstand in Break Dancing

How to Do a Windmill to a Back Spin Break Dancing Move

How to Do a Windmill to a Shoulder Spin in Break Dancing

How to Do a Shoulder Spinout in Break Dancing

How to Do a Back Spin to a Munchmill in Break Dancing

How to Do a Back Spin to a Head Spin in Break Dancing

How to Do a Munchmill in Break Dancing

How to Do a Back Spin in Break Dancing

How to Do a Windmill to a Halo in Break Dancing

How to Top Rock in Break Dancing

How to Do a No-Handed Windmill in Break Dancing

3 Freestyling Tips for Break Dancing

5 Break Dance Tips for Beginners

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