| I begun to lean Hip Hop just about 3 years ago, and | | | | dance world. This is a really bad thing and will lower |
| got hooked immediately. I wanted to know so bad | | | | your respect amongst other dancers. |
| How Hip Hop Dance is being done so I started at a | | | | Imagine yourself going out to a club at Friday night |
| dance school and practiced under different teachers | | | | dancing and having fun with your friends. When |
| five times a week. In half a year I evolve some | | | | you're dancing there you see this guy and your |
| good skills, the problem was that because of the | | | | friends say something like "Hey he looks exactly like |
| enormously amount of training I had no time to use | | | | you". That's not the point of dancing, you should be |
| my new learned moves and develop my own style. I | | | | dancing because you like it not to show off yourself. |
| became a copycat. | | | | And that's exactly what many of the "biters" are |
| I will warn you about this, if you want to learn how | | | | doing, trying to look good by copying someone else's |
| hip hop dance is being done don't just take class | | | | moves and groove. The best dancers always try to |
| after class all the time. My tips is to practice at least | | | | flip and add their own touch to the new moves they |
| as much on your own or at a club as you do in a | | | | learn. It's also about giving something back to the Hip |
| dance studio following a teacher. | | | | Hop culture, creating new steps or flipping old ones |
| This may seem hard in the start but I permit you, it | | | | into something new. |
| will give some mad results. Try to challenge yourself | | | | If you don't play with and add your own touch to |
| by turning on your favorite Hip hop song and | | | | the moves you learn you will never be able to go out |
| freestyle until the end. Play with the dynamics and | | | | to clubs and freestyle, you need to practice it. Going |
| accent different sounds in the beat. Practicing hip hop | | | | out dancing just isn't the same thing when you try to |
| this way will make you to a much better dancer in a | | | | remember in with order the steps where done in |
| shorter time. | | | | yesterdays choreography. Let it loose! |
| I see two big risks with taking too many classes | | | | How Hip Hop Dance is best learnt: |
| each week. The first one is to get stuck in the dance | | | | - - Spend as much time in the dance studio by |
| studio in front of the mirror not being able to use | | | | yourself as with a teacher. |
| your maximum energy and feeling insecure when | | | | - - Train to freestyle |
| dancing without a mirror. The second risk is to | | | | - - Take it step by step, start with a small amount of |
| become a "copy cat" or biter as it's called in the | | | | moves and try to combine them. |