Rezerection of breaking (blog 19) Do you

-Express yourself while you break
 
Everyone starts off doing the same old cross step toprock then hurls

themselves to the ground to do some choppy 6 step and 12 step 

followed by an awkward baby freeze, a set that you almost feel worse

off for seeing. But that's just the beginning of their process. 

Eventually people will turn into much more awkward creatures, reason

being- they have the moves,the flow, and the knowledge to be dope

but they just don't for whatever reason. I find it to be (from my 

experiences) that people try to learn a new move or combos and 

concentrate on that set. Then their whole goal and meaning of being

is to find a way to do that in a battle or cypher. Then they forget

that they can dance, or be creative with anything other then their 

move they're trying to throw out and by doing so lose themselves.
 
So I've told countless people this and has helped them be themselves.

Here is a major tip. When you step out into the circle, before you 

start doing anything (duel note- this isn't always the best case,it

depends on the battle and the tactics your using with each battle)

walk out and walk around the circle, or walk out and booty shake, 

something goofy and dumb- reason being is no matter what you do, you

won't look nearly as stupid as you did when you walked out lol.it 

gives you a second to gather your thoughts together for that final 

decision of what you have planned for the rd as well.
 
Another thing is bring your own personality into the battles/cyphers.

Anyone can learn and do a flare airflare halo, but how you get into

it,out of it, and what you do with it is what makes it unique. So if

you play video games, you can be your favorite character, no one 

else needs to understand what your doing or while your doing it. Your

dancing for you.
 
Ex- I am a sexual flirtatious person but I'm also very competitive. 

So during my sets there's a lot of humping, rolling around, booty 

shaking, etc etc. This is just expressing some of who I am. 
 
Ex- if you lift, while your doing ytour footwork do pushups (1-3 max)

while your doing backrocks do crunches. While your doing tops do lunges.
 
There's endless possibilities to dancing and moves, but if your dancing

and you don't feel yourself dancing but just running moves, then you

might want to explore new avenues.