List of breakdance moves
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Breakdance incorporates many types of moves that can vary as widely as a breaker's imagination and athleticism will allow. Breakers may prefer to do all their moves spinning either clockwise or counter-clockwise but being able to do everything both ways gives more variety.
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[edit] Toprock
Toprock is how a b-boy or b-girl introduces his or her set. It is a style of dance in and of itself, but it frequently includes elements or influences from uprocking and other street dance styles. From toprock, drops allow the breaker to transition into footwork.
[edit] Drops
- Coin Drop
- Knee Drop
- Drop of Science
- Sweep Drop
- Thread Drop
- Back Drop
- Elbow Drop
- Acid Drop
[edit] Downrock/Footwork
- 1-step/Coffee Grinders/Helicopters/Ball and Chain: One leg rotates in circles below the body and just above the floor. The leg remains straight throughout. Begin in the third step of the 6-step. As your right leg swings out wide for step 4, put your right hand down quickly. Instead of letting the right leg hit the left, lean on the right hand and hop slightly so your right leg sweeps under the left leg and continues around for another full circle. Continue sweeping and hopping.
- 2-step/Baby Swipes/Knee spin: A footwork sequence.
- 3-step: a footwork sequence.
- 6-step: A footwork sequence.
- 12-step: A footwork sequence.
- Switch/Pompo: The breaker sits on the floor with their palms and feet on the floor and their butt in the air. They will then crouch their right leg so it's in a 90 degree angle and lean it to their left so that the left (inner) side of their right foot slightly touches the floor. They lift their right arm up and put their weight on their left foot as they lift their right leg up and a little bit to the left. Next they straighten their right leg and bend the left leg as they put their weight on the right leg and lift the left hand. And at the same time they lift up their left (bent) leg.
- Helicopter*: One straightened leg whips in circles around the body, low to the ground
[edit] Freezes
Ground
- Airbaby(Underground): A type of freeze with one knee resting on the corresponding elbow.
- 1-handed Airbaby: An airbaby with only the hand of the arm supporting the knee on the ground.
- Airchair: A type of freeze in which the breaker stabs their elbow into their side and balances on it while keeping their legs in the air.
- Baby Freeze: A freezes in which the breaker stabs one elbow into their side and brings their legs to their other arm.
- Chair Freeze: A type of freeze where the breaker balances with their elbow stabbed into their side and their head on the ground. They will then place one leg on the ground and cross the other leg over it.
- Handglide Freeze: A type of freeze where the breaker balances on their stabbed arm and uses their free arm for support.
- Hong 10 Freeze* Hong 10's signature freeze. ??? - pre-requiste level 100 freezes.
- Planche: A position from gymnastics which involves both hands being on the ground, straight arms, and the rest of your body is held off the ground completely horizontaly.
- Side Baby*
- Elbow Freeze* Breaker using one of his or her arm and elbow support the position.
Air
- G-Kick: A kick with the legs and arm forming a G shape.
- Headstand: A freeze while standing on the head, with or without hands on the floor for support.
- Hollowback: A freeze that involves arching the back in a handstand position.
- Invert: A variant of the hollowback that involves bending the legs forward instead of backwards. An inverted hollowback.
- K-Kick: A kick with the legs and arm in a K shape.
- L-Kick: A kick with the legs in an L shape.
- Pike: A kick with both legs in the air and the free hand holding on to the feet.
- V-Kick/Applejack: A kick with the legs in a V shape. Squat on both legs, then fall backward onto your hands while at the same time kicking one leg into the air, as high as possible. Then you get back up onto both legs, and repeat.
"K-snap: First you make a really high jump then in the air put your body like your flying then tuck your feet to your chest then realease your arms and legs so they are flat and you should land on a leap frog stance and get back up with a flip. note* you can sopport your fall with a trampoline first.
[edit] Power Moves
- Flare: A widely recognized power move that involves swinging the legs around in a circular motion while balancing on the hands.
- Swipes: A widely recognized power move in which the breaker twists their upper body in the air followed by their legs..
- Windmills/Mills: A widely recognized power move in which the breaker rotates on the upper body while swinging their legs.
- Halos/Tracks: A variant of the windmill that involves balancing on the head.
- Foreign Flare* First get your flare on then put your both legs snapped back and make your arms jump then do the same again.
Floats
- Crickets: A float that involves hopping around in a circular motion while in the hanglide position.
- Jackhammers: Crickets on one hand.
- Turtles: A float that involves balancing on both hands and walking in a circular motion.
Spins
- 1990s: A spinning one-handed handstand.
- Back Spin: A spin on the back.
- Butt Spin: A spin on the butt.
- Handglide/Handspin: A type of spin performed while balanced in a one-handed float position.
- Headspin: A spin on the head.
- Drills: A variant of the headspin.
- Knee spin:spin with knee
[edit] Other Moves
- Back 2 Back: The Back 2 Back involves 2 people X & Y. X & Y stand facing each other (over 5 feet apart). X bends over bending his knees slightly and can rest his elbows on his knees (head must be down). Y runs at X and puts his hands on his shoulders and flips himself onto X's back and does a tumble while on his back anwith his legs in a 4 shape. He hops and lands with the leg that was bent behind on the ground and the other leg pointing straight out. The breaker points one hand in the air and bounces on and off each foot while turning in a circle.
- Broncos: The breaker starts in a hand stand, kicking their legs and pushing off with their arms at the same time sending their feet on a mission. The goal is to spend as much time in the air before their feet touches the ground. When their feet touches, the breaker bounces immediately off of their toes, sending their upper body back towards the ground. When their hands touches, they repeats from step two and get a fly bounce going.
- Frogs: You do the same motion as a Bronco, but you land in the turtle position, then you bounce back up and do the same thing over and over.
- Butterfly kick: A Wushu move sometimes incorporated into breakdancing
- Butterfly 2?: Step hard like you're going to jump really high forward. Then jump up really high in a diagonal direction and become horizontal in the air. Now, while still airborne, (you should be facing the ground) bend your back inward so your stomach is sticking toward the ground. At the same time, extend your arms behind you, close to your knees. Now snap out of it so that your legs are in a "V" shape and your arms are close to your chest to support your fall. Land with your arms in a push-up position.
- Butterfly fly Run toward a hard object like a wall of a building. Then kick hard toward the object then take another step up and then spin around 90 degrees then spin in the air like a butterfly kick but spinning.
- Caterpillar: synonymous with the Worm.
- Fly & Roll: A B boy/B girl jumps forward "flies" forward, hits the ground, and rolls ending up back on their feet. This move can be done between two people.
- Headglide/Icey Ice: With one elbow in your side, hand on the ground, your head slides around your supporting hand like a compass.
- Headspring: A kick up executed from a kneeling position, going to the head and kiping up.
- Insane Corkscrew: A spin with the direction of rotation constantly changing.
- Knee Spin: A spin on one or both knees, usually in the kneeling position. Breakers often perform freezes or stylish movements of the upper body while spinning.
- Leghop: Bend your weakest leg in front of your strongest, creating a figure-4 with your legs. Use the opposite hand to grab the toes of that weakest leg. This should form a circle through which you will jump. Jump as high as possible with your strong leg. Quickly scrunch it up to your chest, bring it over and through your leg-hand circle, and shoot it straight again to catch yourself before you fall to the ground. Legitimate leghops leave the leg-hand circle unbroken throughout the jump. It helps to bend over a little rather than stand totally erect. Some b-boys may repeatedly jump back and forth through the gap.
- Rocket: Go into a 6-step and go into a helicopter/coffee grinder and as soon as you jump with your crouched foot in a rotation, you jump as high as you can with your crouched foot straight in the air (you can use your hands if you want)and as you go up, swing your leg back under your foot before you land for another rotation.
- Rolls: The b-boy starts in all four with feet wide apart. Now he takes his right hand and throws it over to his left side so that his hands are with the same width that you would do a handstand in. Now he lifts his right leg off the ground, and kicks up into a handstand, with his legs bent and then jumps off of the hands and back onto the ground in the crab position. The body is twisted like a swipe.
- Skyscraper: The b-girl gets into handstand position. She lifts her left hand off the ground and moves it back. The right hand is planted to the ground. Then, once she gets her left hand moveing backwards, her body will turn to the hand. Then she picks up the right hand and moves it more or less next to the left hand and the body will turn still. Then she moves her left hand backwards again, and she is facing the opposite direction.
- Solar Eclipse: A move where the b-boy balances on one hand and bounces in circles.
- Threading: A technique that is very similar to the leghop and is often incorporated into some freezes.
- Valdez: From a sitting position, the right hand is swung behind the back, then the left hand. While the left hand is up in the air, do a backflip after it.
- Worm, The: A rippling of the body along the ground.
- Emerican crab From a standing position, jump fairly high then kick your both legs up then with your hands rappidly tuck your hands under your groin then do a back flip. Then fall on your back lightly then flip up to a crab stance then from that keep your crab stance and flip on your head then land back to a crab stance then go back on your head. Reapeat
