Freestyling Tips

Vyse · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 12:02 pm Post subject:

i dont think anyone should rate difficulty as "trick" or "maniac". those just arent accurate enough. one maniac song could be 6 step while a trick song could be 7.
in my humble opinion people should just rate songs by how many feet is on the difficulty display wotsit thingermajigger.
i think 4-5 are the best difficulties for doing freestyles on (tho i have little experience) cuz there's enough steps to give u a good limit, but not so much thats its way too hard.
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Joose · Trick Member Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Location: Lakewood, WA

About the breaking thing...Hmmm...Well I know a few moves that I can think of that are possible.

-Backwards rollouts to handstands
-Jumping handstands
-One handed jumping handstands
-certain footwork
-poses at the end of a song

Thats all i can think of. I've done jumping handstands before. Too scared to try one hand. Peace.

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swish21 · Basic Member Joined: 21 Nov 2002

Okay, I have a freestyling q.

My best routine is Ghosts on Standard. Some of the best parts are:

L+R, U, L+R, D, L+R, U, L+R, D, etc.
I spin around and it flows perfectly!!!!

If you turn off freeze arrow in the middle there is a HUGE gap. I'll pull off something cool then.

But what about the rest of the song? Is anyone familiar with these dance steps that can give me a little help on what to try and do?

THX

~Sketch~ · Trick Member Joined: 25 Feb 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY

question; how many of you can freestyle to a cata, AND MAKE IT LOOK GOOD? seriously though...
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ghettobunny · Trick Member Joined: 16 Apr 2002

freestyling...

as far as b'boying while play ddr, you can bust out simple six steps, and maybe a couple of poses, but I dont think its possible.

Now this bugs me the most outta anything, anything...

Ok say you start freestyling, and do your handslaps, you do your knee drops, then afterwards you wanna go past do those and more into 'dancing.' Before you do this....freakin learn to dance!!
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LÂ¡ustyle · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:47 pm Post subject:

Tweekt85 · Basic Member Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Location: Lake Forest, CA

Oh well.....heres my 2 cents......considering ima fat buttocks(250 lbs) and, in my opinion, i think i could freestyle okay. I used to do all that knee drop, spinning, bar raping, and hand plant stuff then i noticed i didnt really remind me of dancing(how many peeps do u see in a club putting their knees or hands on the ground beside breaking?) N-e-ways....I started just doing stuff that felt normal or natural to me....I mostly freestyle on doubles light maybe standard depending on the song. FYI...i am mostly into rap/hip-hop and techno/rave so tha songs i usually pick r predominantly upbeat. My favs @ freestyling r A Minute extended mix, B4U. and Do It Right.....thats enuff 4 now....so if u just learn 1 thing about freestyling.....just do what comes natural and dont force urself to do ish u cant or feel awkward doing aight?.....well..that was my 2 cents and about a dollar.

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Tweekt85 · Basic Member Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Location: Lake Forest, CA

Oh well.....heres my 2 cents......considering ima fat buttocks(250 lbs) and, in my opinion, i think i could freestyle okay. I used to do all that knee drop, spinning, bar raping, and hand plant stuff then i noticed i didnt really remind me of dancing(how many peeps do u see in a club putting their knees or hands on the ground beside breaking?) N-e-ways....I started just doing stuff that felt normal or natural to me....I mostly freestyle on doubles light maybe standard depending on the song. FYI...i am mostly into rap/hip-hop and techno/rave so tha songs i usually pick r predominantly upbeat. My favs @ freestyling r A Minute extended mix, B4U. and Do It Right.....thats enuff 4 now....so if u just learn 1 thing about freestyling.....just do what comes natural and dont force urself to do ish u cant or feel awkward doing aight?.....well..that was my 2 cents and about a dollar.

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NW330 · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 6:46 pm Post subject:

Well, I've really grown to the Light steps in Long Train Runnin'.
I've done some freestyle in it(little kneedrops but not too many).
It flows well. I just need to play it more often to get better. Plus I'm trying to work on variations to hitting the long freeze arrows.
It wasn't too bad in my opinion it did attract a crowd but I'm still gonna work on it. My basic advice is just to feel comfortable doing it. I started at one point to clap loudly and sure I may look like a total challenged person but I did it with confidence which makes it look like your having a blast. And that's my number one rule of FSing. If you feel embarassed FSing than don't bother doing it.

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Ciaratha · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 4:32 am Post subject:

Wish me luck I do my first fs tourneyin January. I wanted to go with dance/flow/belly dancing. Ambitious... yes, but I think with practice and focus on choreography it will come off ok. I kinda feel the same way as some others who posted too many knee drops and hand plants come off as sort gay. Don't get me wrong I've done a few myself, but not in excess. Still I don't expect to win this tourney. I just want to gain the respect of my peers.
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taQo · Trick Member Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Location: Fort Worth

Dude if you're fat you should seriously think about learning how to pop. Fat people are the best poppers because when they hit and tick...the hit looks x4 as hard as when a skinny person does it. It looks f#cking cool as hell cuz their body mass makes the hit look way harder. There was some dude from LA or NY who won a sh#tload of popping battles and he was like 200+ lbs. Plus it's not much of an energy draining style, anybody can do it.

Vyse · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 11:51 am Post subject:

sorry if i sound like a complete newbie (well i am) but whats "popping" in terms of freestyling?
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LÂ¡ustyle · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 3:09 pm Post subject:

TooNice · Staff Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002

Sounds really cool...

Is it possible to self teach those things ?

With pretty much no freestylers in my area (only saw a guy try it with a few hand plant/knee drops and leg tricks once - wasn't really a routine though), I am still worried about starting =\

LÂ¡ustyle · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 3:45 pm Post subject:

ToRRoN · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

couldn't have explained it better myself...hence the title mr.pop n' lock
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