How To Dance: Popping 101 Vol. 1

1. Popping 101 Vol 1 promo: Pop in is probably my favorite dance style of all. My name is CJ soup. I represent electric bugaboo family, ds players, Jedi mind trick. Jabberwocky is family, culture shock dance family from all over the world and locally here in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mission College, West Valley College, Cabrillo College, and gavel in college. I believe popping is a skill that anyone can learn. From 1999, I was personally trained by the late legendary skied or rabbit and pop and P of electric blues. Since then, I've been teaching and sharing this knowledge with dancers locally and globally. Now I want to share them with you in my online course, designed as PAP and one-on-one course from the ground up before each of my simple and easy to follow drills, explain the key factors for that particular drill. Watch the explanation videos before watching the drill videos, then practice long with the drill videos. What these drills I could teach anyone to build a popping skill sets. The key to learning is consistent practice. This will create muscle memory and muscle control. Your movement was seeing effortless, popping takes time and dedication. That's why I'm starting off with volume one. The drills and volume ones are easier to follow and it's great for building strong foundation in order to gain more advanced moves. The most unique and important feature that offered to my online students is the personal online feedback system. With other online dance programs, most students fail to learn because there are no feedbacks from their instructors. With my programs, students are encouraged to send videos of their practice sessions to get my unbiased professional feedback on their progress, this is the most effective way to reach success. I want to thank you for checking out this video in learning how to pop is your goal, then come join me in this course. I look forward to working with you soon. 2. Intro Overview: Welcome to our popping one-on-one video. This is volume one. I have a special guest with me here. This is Sammy. He's going to be helping me out with the tutorial video. In this overview, we're going to talk about what are the things, what are the important things we are going to be focusing on in this bottom one. The first thing I think we're going to touch on is timing. When a start a movement and went to stop the movement and the popping style, this is so important to be clean and concise with your movement so everybody can see a clear picture of what you're doing. Also involving one, we're gonna be focusing on isolation. We're talking about isolating just the arms, just the legs, the waste movement, the hip, the neck. At the very end. We're going to put it altogether, but we'll put a nice routine for you guys. So you guys have followed along. I hope you guys enjoyed and learned life. See you in the video. 3. Intro Popping Attire: When it comes to popping a tires. Here's some tips. First, the way we dress, we want to address classic because the music should make us feel really cool, almost ears but the classic field. Okay, so right now this is just a teacher. But traditionally, what are some nice, maybe a button up, pants like a nice Slack, something very loose because when you actually pop no vibration, the little jerk, it gives that reverberation. It makes it look a lot better when you have something loose. Now the most important thing is the shoe. I have here. You start Hush Puppies. It's very, very part of their most popular is to wear a hush puppies. But any shoe that has the nice sleek bottom. And the reason why we want something that sleep is for those activities. Wherever you will appear on the volume of feeding off of a heel. Shoes that again, nice style and makes you feel again, classic shoe most important. You do not definitely want something that is very sticky, like a brand new basketball shoes and that is just sticky, that doesn't allow you to turn. That's very bad for your, for your legs. So you want something nice and sleek. If you have a sneaker, I've seen people there under sneakers, but as long as you kind of word of mouth, nice and sleek, good to go. There you go. Popping and types. 4. Intro Practice Music: Music. This is very important because we need to know what type of music we should practice to which a pop to bulk traditionally has been the songs, the type of music that we practice to. However, how do we define that? I would say this something that is slow in them, not too fast. I would say if you looking at beats per minute slower than a 110 beats per minute, in case something slower. Why? The reason why is because if it's too fast, it's way too easy to think that you're on beat. Something slower, limited place something for you right here. Something that allows you to clearly identify the beat. We should all be able to hear that. That class, It's a nice distinctive clap. You know exactly if you're on it, if you're not those types of those type of song, any song that has a nice Class. I would say it's good practice to, again, something slower. You can really train your rhythm. Now. What are some songs that you probably shouldn't practice to it? I think, I think what we fall into to this newer generation is there's a lot of new experimental music that has come out. Depth set. She'll step trap. They have a lot of these really gutter OBC sounds that are slammed together. But what happens is when you try to dance, are trained to that type of music for one thing, often they're fast. She'll step, are trapped and be slower. But oftentimes the beads connected a very quick succession. Because of that, it's not okay to train to because what it will get you to do is just rush. You'll learned her dance really fast and probably off-beat. That's like the biggest thing. That's why we train a slower music. So it's consistent that you can really build on a strong foundation of clean movement. I wouldn't suggest practicing and that kind of music. There's a lot of also experienced on experimental music that they'll, they'll take away. They'll switch tempos and the song a lot. It's not great for training because the fact that you'll start with one pays and then all of a sudden a tempo change. And now your leg, now you have to change your tempo so it can be good for more advanced training later down the road. Before were for us where we're starting every now at the foundation with the base level. Taking it to these nice, slow, consistent funk type songs is the best way to do it. I totally agreed. Alright. 5. Arm Drills Variation 1 - Explanation: So the focus of this next trill is we're trying to isolate our shoulder and elbow that Santa is gonna help me demonstrate. Right on the 12. Here we go. 7812. We're only isolating the shoulder shoulder movement. So now you see the head, the body, the leg is not moving, even the entire arm isn't that moment. It's coming down on 3434. Adjust the shoulder movement. Now, moving on to five-sixths is coming street on the outside, 5 sixth. This is a very nice horizontal line. That's all we're looking for. It. By six, coming down sad and again, just the shoulder moving. Now next movement we're gonna incorporate the elbow as well as the shoulder to say I'm just going to turn sideways. You can see then we'd go 1212. We're stopping right here. Elbow and the shoulder are the same horizontal plane. We stopped rather than to coming down and 3434. Perfect. Again, we're talking about timing if you've got to focus on timing as well. The next mode of five-sixths through the windshield, 56. This movement is probably the hardest movement of this entire genome. Being that it's a little bit more unity, little bit more flexibility, but we're looking for is a nice 90 degree angle. Shoulders, elbows, shoulders, height, and their hands are coming straight down. That's bias it. And coming down, I was 78. Good. So we're gonna repeat that one more time. So entirely you have four incomes. Drove. 7. Arm Drills Variation 2 - Explanation: The focus of this mixture is more of rotating, rotating our shoulders and rotating our elbow. So let's quickly demonstrate with Sammy. First move 6781, right there on the one, the shoulders coming up, shoulder here and elbow to raising it up. We're also keeping this nice rectangular frame. Perfect. Again, rectangular frame for bringing it down. Nice. 90 degree, nice rectangular frame five, we're closing under five. Again, another rectangular frame, six. This time we're opening up the rotation of the hands. Before. Now the palm is facing up. Six, push forward. Palm is facing the camera phone, palms facing away. Nice. Straight arm. Down on a date. Would repeat that again. So that will give us the nice Fourier your system. 8. Arm Drills Variation 2 - Exercse: Hello. 9. Arm Drills Variation 3 - Explanation: The focus of these next two drills is muscle memory. These drove a gillion little bit more complicated. We're gonna do two sides. We are going to the right side and that side, 70 is going to demonstrate what we're gonna do. When we first started. Our elbows are bent at a 90 degree angle. Right on one. Right I was gonna go up one and everything is 90 degree and the left side is holding still. Went on to both arms are moving. Now what happens to the right arm is coming down 90 degrees this way, and then the left arm is going up. That's 23. This a little bit more complicated. I'm gonna go from the right side. So what happens is his right elbow is swinging back so that shoulders moving. Again, he's keeping this 90 degrees angle. Left arm, this is coming down that's 34. Shoulders coming down on the floor and the shoulders pulling back this way. On the 45. Coming to this location. Six, this should look familiar. 78. So that's why 18 count. We're gonna repeat this for, for eight counts. This pattern repeats over and over and over again and again, 40 counselors will renew. And when you're done with that, we're gonna go to the other side and you must start with your left hand. Have fun, and I'll see you in the Joseph. 10. Arm Drills Variation 3 - Exercise Right Side First: Hello. 11. Arm Drills Variation 3 - Exercise Left Side First: Impact. 12. Leg Drills Variation 1 - Explanation: The focus of this next trick is to utilize your legs. Taking our center, take you away from our center and back to the center. Okay. So you're gonna help me demonstrate 567812. So I'm going to stop right there. He's starting wrong. 11 to his center just moves slightly. You stepping away out of this center? When I say, when we say center, we're talking about your center of gravity, center of balance here. So 1234 is coming back 34 anomalies that to the center. A 56 stepping away to less than 78, back to the center. Sites that right side of the knapsack. Now we're gonna move forward 7812345678 there. Good. And we're gonna repeat it one more time. Besides that, 12347845678. And the last one, we're going to step back. One of the two, you stepping back 345678. And keep in mind as full time, we're only focusing on the legs. So you're not gonna see our arms move that much. We might naturally kind of counterbalance. That idea is we're focusing forming on her legs. All right. See you in the extra. 14. Leg Drills Variation 2 - Explanation: The focus of this mixture is to allow our legs, allow our body to travel. We're not going back to the center anyway. Seventies gonna help me demonstrate. Here we go. 81234. There lies the difference, the drill previously, we were always going back to the center. Now he's moving away. This last traveled. Here's the pattern. If you think about it, we're doing a box. I might have sandwich will return back to the original position and I'm gonna go all the way at 67812345, if 67822345678. So if you focus down on the ground, we're making this little box squared. And the pattern is right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left. I'm talking about the lake now we're stepping on. And then afterwards you're gonna go left, right, left, right. Let's do that one more time. 6781236. Said that, right? Good. Okay. So that's our first box. I wouldn't do it again. This time we're going to start with the left leg, this box and we'll go this way. Here we go, 6712312345678. And that is our drone. 15. Leg Drills Variation 2 - Exercise: In 16. Leg Drills Variation 3 - Explanation: The focus of this next trill is pivoted. We have to understand that we're coming from the borrower feet. That's the that's the heel. We're gonna do an exercise on both sides. Here we go. He's going to illustrate 6781. To do this, the first one we're picking on the bottom, we're turning to our left side, coming back 3434, again pivoting on the bottom. We've got 1234 coming back. Now we're gonna go these ones, right, top or right, bob, right? This is 5656, come back 78 against savings 78. Now we're going on the heel left here, 121234, coming back unless you 56. That sounds right ear by six coming back 77. We're going to repeat that one more time. You can go for a chance to pivot. Seeing the video. 18. Neck Drills - Explanation: The focus of the next stroke is movement of our neck. We want to try to get as much range as possible. Also keeping track with our timing and rhythm seems to help demonstrate 67812. Good, would try to as much as we came to hit that perfect name. I know it's kind of hard to get the flexibility and Google and try and get as close as possible. Remember, we're trying to do isolation as well. So the body is not only point in the neck, that's 1234 coming back to neutral center, 456, turning the other way to our left side, 78, returning back. Next one too, we're tilting tilting the head to again, depending on flexibility, you're trying to get as much as you can watch possible, as much as possible. That's 1234. Come back to the new truck, 5678, back to neutral. What do pick the site one more time. So we got 12 345678. Good. Next we're going to introduce the up-down vertical applications. One to try to get to China as high as possible. 34, back to neutral, I leveled 5 sixth, lowest possible chin tuck in, 78, back to neutral. And that's it. That's our four HM. Soon. 20. Waist Drills - Explanation: The focus of this next drill is movement in our waste. Is going to demonstrate her 67812122 bending forward where there's no movement in the shoulder or the chest, only the width, 34 and back to neutral, 5678, back to neutral. Next, we're going to tilt this way. 123456789. Ensure we're gonna repeat before again, 7812345678. Now we're going to turn our body 12, again returning just the body, so the head, the torso trends together. 34, That's a neutral, 5678. 21. Waist Drills - Exercise: It 22. Neck + Waist Drills - Explanation: The focus of the snakes drill is movement with our neck as well as our waste. So the pattern is little bit complicated. So let's pay close attention. We got before we start, we're going to put our hands around her waist, like the elbow or pointing away from the elbows. Back this week. We're starting with a neck, one, just a NIC 1234. So on the three for the head is not moving because the head already got to this place or isolating the head. For just divide by six. We want to be able to move just the head, even in this position. 78, all the way, 7812, this is where we're tilting our waste. 1234, being able to twist their body in. An annual were a waste of bending for five-sixths come up 78. Now we're back to a neutral position. Now we're gonna go to our left side, 1234, just torso, just the midsection, five-sixths and back 78. So remember on the 78 or training when I just turning 90 degree, returning a hug folio 180 degrees, 12345678, back to a neutral position. Alright, drip. 24. Combination - Explanation: In our final lesson, will incorporate all the stuff we learned from the previous lessons. The arms, the legs, the waste, the neck, into his one routine. So here we go. He's got to demonstrate and I'll count 781234. Notice this is our arm exercise. 5 sixth. This is where incorporated the arms and legs together. 78. We've done this before. 78, legs are coming in. Next one too. This is where the waste and the hands together, 345656. We're pivoting on the ball our feet, returning to our next 78. And now this week I'm pivoting. Now we're pivoting on the right, the right foot. So the first pivot 5 sixth, then instead, and incorporating them aren't instrument. Moving forward, it's just an egg 12345678 coming down and seven notice that 78 the right knee pops up. The right knee comes up. Let me pause back. And 78123456, just the head. 78 the sewer pivoting on the field. The right heel pivoting. That is our head. Okay. Alright. See you guys next time. 26. Conclusion Thank you: Hey guys, thank you for supporting me in this video and thank you for taking this class. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you guys definitely learn a lot. What are the things that's unique about my classes? I want to offer you guys opportunity to get personal feedback. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to leave my personal email here. I want you to share if you want to, and this is totally up to you guys. You can share your videos with me. You can set a private whatever. And I can personally take a look at it and give you a personal feedback because I am invested in your success. So what I want to do is really make sure that if you really, really want to improve your isolation, improve your popping, improve your, improve your timing is really important that you get proper feedback. And I know through these online courses, most, most people would just watch the video and think that they got it, not really getting a professional feedback. So I definitely do offer this free of charge. Obviously this is, this comes with the course, so utilize it and hope to, hope to get videos from you guys and share share with me your progress and thank you again for supporting me. Please be on the lookout for volume two will be coming up. So my plan is to make more and more volumes, more and more instructional videos. I, I'm doing it. I hope you guys have fun learning it and use it and have fun with it. All right, I'll see you guys in the next video. Thanks.