How To Breakdance

People have been trying to learn how to breakdance or Bboy since Break Dancing became popular in the 70's. The best method to learn how to breakdance is by finding other breakdancers and practicing with them. The moves may look difficult at first but if you practice constantly and do not give up you will learn them. My suggestion is to take it one move at a time and build up your skills. Many bboys or breakdancers create "sets" or "routines" that they practice over and over. They go from one move to the next and practice the set over and over until they have it memorized. This way if they get into a battle they have routines that vary in difficulty they know they can count on. The most important thing is that you take your time and practice the basics. As you practice your basics and master them it will make your sets better and it will make learning the power moves and more advanced moves easier. You can even look for breakdancing lessons and breakdance classes online.

The Internet

If you cannot find a crew to practice with there are many resources to learn the moves. If you search Google for " how to breakdance " and "how to do breakdance powermoves" many sites that will teach you how. Also if you search for breakdance lessons you will find people who can teach you online or come to your home. Remember learning how to breakdance is easier than you think. There are tons of resources from really amazing dancers who can teach you how to breakdance easily.

Dance Classes

Dance classes are an easy way to learn how to breakdance. If you can join a studio or take classes online and learn how to dance by streaming the videos and following along. Dance class is often under rated but you get access to great teachers who have lots of experience. Also most teachers are proud to have students and they will tap you into the break dancing community and introduce you to others.

Break Dance Moves

When you first learn how to breakdance, you can get overwhelmed by how many different types of breakdancing moves there are. You can break the moves down to three main categories

Style Based Moves

Style based moves are moves like CC, and six step. These are footwork moves that you can easily use to match the beat of the music and dance. They are called style based moves because style can be easily customized to fit the dancers style. These are relatively simple to learn.

Power Moves

Power moves are the more flashy momentum driven moves like flares, head spins and air flares. They are the showstoppers and the main reasons that most people want to learn how to breakdance in the first place.

Freezes

Freezes are moves where you hold your body still and "freeze" for a while. There are so many different ways to freeze but the most common freezes are baby freezes and chair freeze. There are also Air Freezes, Hollow back and more.

Final Tips

If you really want to learn how to breakdance you are going to have to be patience and put in a lot of hard work and effort. The moves don't come easy but you will be rewarded once you get them. Join a crew or practice with your friends because the be bboy community is massive and a wonderful place. Dance classes are a great way to learn how to break dance and can connect you instantly to the bboy world. Once you join you will meet people from all over the world who share a love for what you do. Bboying is a lifestyle not just a dance. Learn how to breakdance and become a Bboy.

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The Most Important Tip for a Salsa Beginner

When first learning Salsa, it's easy to make a few assumptions about learning this wonderful dance. Being a bit more experienced, I now wish my teacher or someone else had pulled me aside and said, "This is the most important tip for a Salsa beginner." Do it this way and you'll have no problems learning. So, just in case no-one has already told you what it is, I am going to.

I'll just give you a bit of background first. I'm a musician and I simply went about learning to dance the way I learnt to play the guitar. That is; learn the scales, learn the chords, practice them as much as possible (unless you're a bit lazy or pressed for time) and then play songs. That should work for Salsa dancing. Right?

Wrong!

It's just not the same with dancing. Salsa dancing, for that matter nearly all dancing, is partner work, and a man has to learn how to lead as well as dance. (Women need to learn how to follow.) Added to that, a combination is not just the fingers but the whole body (with the parts usually working independently). Finally, unless you have a partner who is learning salsa with you, and you can practice at home, nearly all your learning and practice is in public, whereas a guitar can be played alone and can also be played any time.

Salsa dancing is very different to other learning.

Also, I guarantee you that you are unlikely to remember all the combinations you learn at lessons. There are just too many. For one, they are stylistically your teachers, so some will simply not feel right for your physicality. Secondly, only the girls in the lesson will be able to follow you at first because they know what's coming (and they unconsciously lead you as part of their learning strategy). Try these combinations out of the lesson context and you soon realize how challenging it is to reproduce a whole combination with a partner who hasn't done the lesson.

In a nutshell, you are never going to remember it all - so don't beat yourself up about it and come up with a good learning strategy instead.

With that said, here is the most important tip for a salsa beginner.

Start with a very basic combination of your own of say, five or six steps/moves you know you can lead well. For example, forward and back, open out step, followed by a cross body lead, a right hand turn for the lady, a right hand turn for yourself (low hand), a cross body spin for the lady, and a Cuban turn. Tell anyone you dance with that you are a beginner, and practice leading these really well, concentrating on staying in time (but having fun of course).

Each lesson, grab one or two of the new moves you just learned that you found the easiest, and add them to your 5/6 steps, but don't add another one until that one is solidly in your repertoire. If you want to add two per week, you will need to salsa at least 2 times a week - one to learn the combination/move and another night to dance it over and over again until you know it by heart.

There you have it - the most important tip for a salsa beginner!

Just think....if you do it this way, you will add 52 moves in only 6 months, and that is pretty impressive by anyone's standards!

Have fun and watch out for my next article at Salsa Beginners [http://www.salsabeginners.net] on discovering the easy way to remember combinations!

John Sammers has been working with people as a therapist, communications trainer and a coach for many years. Some of the work he does helps people rid themselves of painful memories and some of the work is to help people develop themselves and their skills. He is also a keen musician, guitar teacher and salsa dancer. John's history is in education and music. After 20 years as a musician and 10 years or so of teaching he retrained as a life coach (now incorporating NLP and Law of Attraction). He then continued his professional development to become a certified Master Practitioner of NLP & Hypnotherapy. John's personal interests are in writing and recording music, Latin dance, Tai Chi and all aspects of the guitar. He writes on a number of areas of interest.

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Salsa DVD For Beginners - Top 3 Dangerous Myths About Salsa

Is salsa dancing dangerous? Am I going to be able to still live a physically normal healthy life after I take a dancing class? Is Salsa Dancing dangerous for my relationship? These are all great questions that are hardly ever answered but I am going to give the real answers to the real questions you have.

#1 is salsa dancing dangerous? Well ask your self a simple questions first. Are you honestly physically in shape? Some people go into dancing with little or no physical training which usually leads to injury. You see dance is like almost every sport out there. If you are constantly playing basketball everyday, your body has what we call muscle memory and it makes it easier for you not to get injured.

But if you do not play basketball alot I can guarantee you that you will have a higher chance of getting injured. So If you don't do any physical exercises that keeps your body in shape then yes dancing salsa can be dangerous. But there is a quick way to change that. You can start working out, go to gym and get some cardio in your life and lift some weights so your muscles can wake up again. This can help you make sure that salsa won't be dangerous for you!

#2 Am I going to be able to still live a physically normal healthy life after I take salsa dancing? The answer to this question is simple, can you injure yourself walking up a flight of stairs? Of course, but if you are constantly paying attention to what you're doing then you have a lower chance of hurting yourself.

Most Injuries happen because people stop paying attention to what they are doing because they think that they know everything already. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Always pay attention to what you are doing even if it is a step you've done a thousand times, because if you don't pay attention you will get injured.

#3 Is Salsa Dancing dangerous for my relationship? Honestly I have found that dancing can actually help relationships. Usually couples will go and learn how to dance salsa together which is great because of the time you get to spend together. Also when you take dancing classes as a couple there's something new you will have in common. Who knows you might go out on weekend's and dance salsa together.

I'm pretty sure that being able to have your partner wanting to take you out dancing is not so dangerous as much as it would be fun. Relationships from my experience grow when you interact with each other. In my opinion salsa dancing is a perfect way to interact with your partner while having have fun together. You guys might end up even loving salsa so much you end up taking more classes to get better together which can be something you can share with each other for the rest of your relationship.

Salsa dancing has many dangerous myths that people associate with it. But if you really want to find out juicy info about Salsa DVD for beginner go to learning2dancesalsa.com and I will uncover even more mysteries.

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