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-: Hi, this is Anna Banana Freeze.
Welcome back to the second video for Beginning Breaking.
Today we're going to first do a review of
some of the moves we learned last time,
I think we did three Top Rocks
and one Drop down to the floor.
This time though, I think I want to play some music.
Dancing is a lot different
when you have music,
versus when you don't have music,
the experience is totally different.
So I want to play
one of my favorite breaking songs right now
and if the DJ is ready,
we could play it
and I'll show you what happens
when the music is on.
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There it is.
You know what,
when I'm at home or in the car,
on the bus,
or at a jam,
when I hear a song
and I like that song,
whether or not I know it,
I could tell right away if I like a song.
The first thing I do is I start nodding my head like this,
it makes me think about the song,
it gets my body ready to listen
and take it in.
Hmm.
I like this song,
I love the song actually.
So I want you to try nodding your head
to the beat of the song as well.
You don't have to nod the same time I'm nodding,
but I would like you to try nodding
when you hear a song from now on, okay?
Not only do I nod my head when I hear a song that I like,
I also kind of maybe move side to side,
maybe my knees bend and I bounce a little bit,
maybe I swing my arms like this,
maybe my foot starts tapping.
So, those are all different reactions
I get, and I do, when I hear a song,
especially one that I like.
And if you notice
my feet are starting to step and move too.
So when I get ready to dance,
my feet start moving, maybe stepping in place,
not exactly a Top Rock,
but they're just getting ready,
they're kinda itching to move and itching to dance
just like this.
So go ahead and just feel out the song.
We're gonna review our Top Rocks.
Front two-step, side step,
and back step, okay?
You don't have to go exactly when I go,
but I want you to dance during this time.
I'm gonna start with the front two-step,
and I really like the song
so it kinda makes me bouncy
when I do my steps.
Sometimes I can be flexy, no bounce.
And I do this on purpose sometimes
or sometimes when I don't have energy
that's how I dance
but right now,
I really love the song.
So I'm gonna kinda bounce
when I do the moves.
Now go side step
if you feel like it,
don't forget to move your hands
and your arms.
If you end up doing a different move,
that's not a basic two-step
that's not a front step,
a sidestep or a back step, that's okay.
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And now go ahead and do whatever Top Rock you feel.
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If you wanna try a different pattern with me
you could make one foot go front and back,
front and back.
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And then the song is kinda starting to slow down
so we could slow down too.
Alright, great Top Rock review.
I want you to take a deep breath,
actually two deep breaths with me right now.
Breathe in through your nose,
breathe out,
in through your nose out through your mouth,
breathe in again, ready, set, go.
(breathing)
Very good.
Okay, I think we're ready to review the Drop
that we learned last time and it was a Knee Drop.
Okay, so I want you to stand up,
feet open.
And the Drop we did was a Knee Drop actually,
it was a Knee Drop,
and one foot step back,
it kinda stomped actually,
so step back stomp,
knee goes down. Freeze.
So that was a Drop we did last time,
it was a Knee Drop.
In lots of different ways,
you don't have to exactly do it the way I do,
but you go down and you're on your knee.
And now, I want us
to do two new Drops
and the Drop starts like this.
Standing up,
two feet on the floor, open,
and then actually
we're gonna have our hands out to the sides
cause we're gonna go down.
Ready, set, start with a squat, go down, down,
kinda squat, and then one knee in front,
other knee in front.
And I don't know if you notice,
I don't know if you can notice,
but my legs
are kinda sticking out to the sides
or my feet are sticking out to the sides.
My knees are down on the floor in the front,
very close together,
and then my two feet are kinda sticking out.
Do my legs look like a certain letter to you?
I think it looks like
a W.
Yeah, I think it looks like a W.
So this is a W-Freeze Drop.
Again, it's a Freeze and a Drop
so it makes a W shape like this,
and this is one of the ways we do this move.
If it feels a little tricky
or it hurts to be on your knees,
you could W-freeze this way too, watch.
Stand back up,
feet open,
and then we're gonna squat down,
and then I'm going to start putting my knees
a little closer together, down, down, down, stop.
And this is a W-freeze too.
There're some people in my dance group
called Massive Monkees,
and their legs are so strong,
they have so many muscles in their legs,
it's hard for them to go down with their knees
so this is their W-freeze, like this.
My feet are still sticking out to the sides,
and you could W-Freeze like this too,
ready, stand up.
That one's a little tricky for me actually.
Let's try that again.
W-Freeze all the way down to the floor.
Feet open, ready, set, down,
one knee down, other knee down,
feet sticking out.
This could be your W-Freeze,
and hands could actually be like this,
or like this, or like this.
Or you could put your hands
on your ankles and lean back a little bit.
You could put your hands on the floor at the back
and lean like this, this is still a W-Freeze.
You can put your hands up,
maybe like this,
like you have a visor like there's really bright lights
in front of you like this and you're kinda covering them.
If it feels comfortable,
if this position feels comfortable,
this move feels okay with your knees
and you could sit down and it feels okay,
go ahead, try that.
This is another way of doing a W-Freeze
with your legs all the way flat on the floor, sitting,
just like this and with your hands, okay?
If your legs feel okay right now,
and you're feeling kind of flexible,
and this feels okay, you can lean back a little bit.
So I'm gonna put my two hands back,
lean a little
or you can lean a lot.
Only do this
if it feels okay with your legs,
if it hurts,
actually if any moves hurt
that you do with me,
I want you to stop.
If any of these moves kinda hurts a part of your body
then I want you to stop, take a break,
and you can figure out a different way of doing that move
that won't hurt, okay?
Very important.
Now let's continue.
So if this feels okay,
if this position feels okay,
I want you to go all the way back
if you want, if you can,
and Freeze.
So this is also
a W-Freeze but I'm flat on my back
but it's kind of a little tricky to get up from that.
So maybe don't go all the way down
when we do the Freeze again.
So let's do the Freeze again.
Right now, stand up,
feet open,
and if you want to, you can go all the way back,
but if you don't wanna go all the way back
for that W-Freeze, you don't have to,
I'm not going to do it this time.
Ready, feet open,
squat down, down,
one knee down in front, other knee down in front,
then freeze, or freeze
or freeze,
only if it feels okay.
Okay, so we're gonna try that
except we're gonna do it a little faster.
Stand up,
and it looks like this,
don't try it with me this time
just watch, okay?
So when I do a W-Freeze,
sometimes I do a jump.
So I'm gonna jump,
land on my feet,
bend over,
W-Freeze, okay,
so that was four parts.
Watch, I'll do it again,
just watch, don't do it yet
and I'm gonna count each part.
So number one is jump,
one,
number two is land,
number three is bend over like this.
Kind of like
you dropped something in front of you
and you're reaching to get it,
you could bend your knees if you want,
and then you're going to W-Freeze, okay?
So it's jump,
land, go down.
W-Freeze,
or W-Freeze, okay?
Let's try that,
Not fast yet, but try it with me this time.
Ready, set, jump,
land, go down,
W-Freeze, okay,
one more time.
Ready, teeny, teeny bit faster.
Ready, set, go.
Jump, land down,
W-Freeze, okay?
And just like the Knee Freeze,
this drop is kind of a Freeze too, alright?
But let's go ahead and learn the next Drop.
So start standing up,
feet open like this,
and this time, you know what,
we're gonna have our arms open.
So arms open like this, stretch out your arms,
and then we're gonna kinda swing them side to side,
so swing one way,
the other,
one way,
the other,
just like that,
except this time when I do the move,
I'm just gonna swing one way,
I'm going to swing that way, okay?
So arms out,
swing one way,
and then I'm gonna go
and swing around the other way, but I'm gonna keep going,
I'm gonna keep going and watch my legs.
My legs are twisting.
I go down,
and I catch myself with my hands
down on the floor like this.
I didn't land hard,
I went kind of slow
and I caught myself with my hands.
I didn't catch myself with my face,
or with my shoulders,
I caught myself with my hands.
So try it with me this time.
Stand up, feet open,
arms out.
We're gona swing one way,
swing the other way,
and then we're gonna keep twisting and swinging
and my legs are twisting too,
I'm going to lean over,
go down on my hands,
caught myself on the floor.
Do you notice my legs?
My legs are kinda twisty,
they're kinda tangled,
I could just get up and untangle them
but the way I like to get up is to untwist like this.
I kinda just did the reverse
of the first part of the move.
Let's try that again two times.
And remember,
if it's a little tricky for you to do any of these moves,
that is okay, that is what practice is for.
And if you don't do these moves exactly like me, guess what?
That's my favorite
because then that means you make up another move, okay?
So arms open,
last time we're gonna do this together,
arms open, swing one way,
swing the other way,
twist, make your legs twist,
hands go down when you Drop to the floor, okay?
So you can untwist and go back up,
or you could just untangle from the floor like this.
I just moved one foot,
I swung it around,
and then look,
I'm not stuck anymore
and I'm kind of in a squat.
Let me show that to you again.
This is the last time we'll do it for real,
okay, so stand up,
arms open,
swing one way,
swing the other way,
legs tangle,
go down, hands,
catch yourself when you go down.
And then I'm gonna
open up my legs
and squat like this, alright?
we're gonna stop there for now.
That's it.
I'm Anna Banana Freeze
and I can't wait for you
to learn more moves.
But make sure you practice
all the ones we've done so far.
See you next time.
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