| If you want to be good at anything, there are usually | | | | know how to make it funky. Locking is a funk style, |
| a number of things you need to master. In locking | | | | it is typically danced to funk music and hence it |
| you need to master the basics and this encompasses | | | | follows that your dancing should be funky too. |
| such capabilities like knowing how to be funky, | | | | While you may know how to stay loose or how to |
| knowing how to stay relaxed and loose, knowing | | | | just groove on its own, this is not going to be |
| how to groove and how to lock the moves. | | | | enough. You need to be able to take this ability and |
| So if you're a total beginner and trying to learn from | | | | use it while you are doing the moves, because then |
| a locking video tutorial what should you focus on? | | | | you're dancing locking and not just doing the moves. |
| Well there are a number of things. You will want to | | | | The funk is always there as you're dancing. Another |
| know how to do the moves, steps or combinations | | | | thing to note is that when you keep things funky, it's |
| in their entirety. | | | | hard not to enjoy yourself and the dance is a more |
| However most likely you'll discover that it actually | | | | satisfying experience for you as a dancer. |
| helps to strip each combination or step down to its | | | | When this feeling of enjoyment is present, suddenly |
| constituting steps. The reason this is effective is | | | | your thinking becomes sharper and you can actually |
| because if a move comprises of various steps then | | | | enjoy your freestyles or solos. They will then start |
| you'll want to be comfortable with each aspect of it | | | | to become more creative and you'll start to express |
| and in turn the whole move will become easier to do. | | | | yourself with increasing regularity. |
| Many times when I was learning locking, in class they | | | | So what you are looking to do with each video |
| would have me repeat the same move many times | | | | lesson is to become comfortable doing it. Not just |
| contiguously. This was done to become comfortable | | | | know how to do the moves, but be able to dance |
| with each move. You don't really want to be thinking | | | | them, keep things funky and not have to think about |
| too much about the move when it comes to | | | | it too much in the process. |
| performing it. | | | | Do this and you will get much more than just dance |
| It is also very important when learning each move to | | | | moves, or a routine from the lessons. |