Rabu, 06 Juli 2011

Breakdance Moves List

Top Rocks

The Top Rock is a combination of steps done while standing up. This is the entry dance that Bboys and Bgirls use to start their set. These steps are done before you do a power set or before you go down to the floor. This is the breaker's chance to show how well he or she can rock the beat and/or make gestures to intimidate their opponent. The object is to make a connection with the song either by gesturing on a horn or rhythm section while your feet usually step on the "snare" of the drum/beat section. Names of steps vary upon regions. There are an infinite amount of toprocks, you're limited only by your imagination. (Note: Uprock was a jazz/rock dance which influenced top rock, uprock is not toprock)
  • Apache Step (commonly known as Indian Step but is wrong because there are several indian steps)
  • Uprock (not a toprock but bboys sometimes incorporate uprock movements)
  • Side Step
  • Boyoing
    • Bronx Rock
    • Brooklyn Rock
  • Power Step/Power Circle
  • Power Step Hop
  • Latin Rock (or Salsa Step)
  • Derulo Rock
  • Outlaw step
    • Outlaw Dance
    • Outlaw Spin
  • Hip Twist
  • 4 Corners
  • Kick Step (a shortened 4 corners)

Floor Rocks

Floor Rocks are "rocking" or style moves performed while much of your body (hips and/or shoulders) are touching the floor. Although some moves may involve flowing or spinning like movements, they are not power moves. Floor Rocks are either used as transition moves (into a power move, freeze, etc.) or in between footwork.
  • Body Rock (aka Back Rock): A move in which you lay flat on your back and only torque you hip and legs, alternating left and right. This move is similar to the CC' in footwork, only being done with your shoulders and upper-back touching the ground. For example, your right foot will "tap" or "kick" over to your left while your left knee remains bent, then your left foot will "tap" or "kick" over to your right while your right knee remains bent.
  • Scissors: A move started while lying straight on your side, then bending your body in to touch your toes (simulating a scissor motion). Once you unbend and become straight again, you turn to your opposite side and repeat.
  • Belly Swim: While laying on your back, you splay out your arms to turn onto your belly then sweep your arms out in front of you to return to your back all while using a continuous "swimming" motion.
  • Body Glide: This move is similar to the belly swim but looks like the "superman" in power-moves because your legs and arms remain splayed as you turn over. Unlike only using your arms to "swim" you over (as done in a Belly Swim), a body glide requires you to swing your legs to "glide" your momentum for turning.
  • Side Slide: Performed on your side like a scissor, you kick a leg forward or backward spinning you on your hip axis. This move is like a side spin in power but more stylish with shorter rotation. Sometimes the forehead or hip is touched or, the arms are folded while rotating. Also, the dancer may scrunch in and freeze at the end.
  • Coffee Grinder/Helicopter: Go down on one bent leg standing on your toes with your hands on either side of your bent knee. Other leg is lying flat out on the floor beside you. Swing the leg that's on the ground. To avoid being hit by your swing leg; you pick up your hands and put them back on the floor, then use them to pick the rest of your body up lifting it over your swing leg. Drop your body and repeat.
  • Figure 4: 1 leg cross to another to form a "4" shape.

Freezes/Suicides

Basic Terminology
  • Platform: The part(s) of the body that touch the ground, holding the rest of the Body in position. In other words, the supports of your freeze. Examples of platforms are: Hand, Elbow, Head, shoulder, back, belly, side, sometimes knee (see difference between Freeze and Pose). A freeze could have multiple platforms: The platform of a Tri-pod Headstand would be 2 hands and a head. The platform of a Baby Freeze is also 2 hands and a head, but the body is horizontal rather than vertical as in a Headstand.
  • Stab (breakdance move): The act of stabbing the elbow up into the abs, hip, side, or back. Your hands are on the floor holding your body up horizontally off the ground. Your entire body is balanced on that elbow making your fore-arm the fulcrum and is your primary support. Stabs are not required for all freezes; however, it is basic and a foundational requirement to advance to a greater level of moves and freezes. note: Stabs are required for: hand-glide, going into Windmill from hands, any Turtle variation (Pogos, Jackhammers), and Crab-Walks.
  • Suicide: A group of finishing moves that share some similarities to the freeze but are quite distinct, involve jumping into the air and landing on back, head,shoulder etc. to appear out of control.
  • Bridge: You are laying down on your back, then with your hands (up by your head) and your feet (by your bottom) on the ground, you push your hips up until you are arched like a bridge facing upwards. From a handstand you could fall backways into a bridge.
performing an airchair(left) and one performing a pike(right)]] Ground
  • Beginner Freeze: A basic freeze in which you are on your back, high on your shoulders, the hands are on the back waist, and elbows stabbed on the ground.
  • Baby Freeze: A basic freeze in which one hand is stabbed and the head and opposite hand are used for balance in a tripod position. While both legs are held in the air commonly with the opposite leg's knee of the balancing arm is placed on the balancing arm.
  • Airbaby (Underground): A type of freeze with one knee resting on the corresponding elbow and both legs in the air. Note: the knee that is resting on the elbow should be bent.
    • 1-handed Airbaby: An airbaby with only the hand of the arm supporting the knee on the ground.
  • Reverse Airbaby: An Airbaby with all positions inverted.
  • Hanging Airbaby: An Airbaby without the knee resting on the elbow.
  • Lotus Airbaby; An Airbaby with the knees in a lotus/yoga position (The knee must be resting the elbow).
  • Airchair: A type of freeze in which the breaker stabs their elbow into their side and balances on it while keeping their legs and body in the air pointed towards the ceiling.
  • Double Airchair: An Airchair with both arms stabbed at the side. (This move is very contortionist like)
  • Elbow Airchair: A type of freeze in which the breaker holds their body up at the waist with either one or two hands and balances on only their elbows while their feet and head is in the air.
  • Sidechair: A freeze in which the breaker stabs one elbow into their side, like an airchair, and lifts his legs and body off the ground pointed towards the side.
  • 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 foot on the ground and cross the other leg over it. The other elbow can be used to balance or on the side of the body for viewing appeal.
  • Elbow Chair: A type of freeze where the breaker balances with their hand holding onto their side while their head and supporting elbow touch the ground. They will then place one foot on the ground and cross the other leg over it.
  • Handglide Freeze aka Table-Top: A type of freeze where the breaker balances on their stabbed arm and uses their free arm for support / A 1 handed Turtle.
  • Hong 10 Freeze/Halo freeze: A freeze popularized by Bboy Hong 10. Like a chair freeze, but with your legs in the air.
    • Dead halo freeze: A halo freeze with your legs or feet are nearly touching the ground.
  • One hand planche:A variation of the planche with only one hand supporting the body.The body is as perpendicular as possible to the supporting hand,making the one hand planche one of the hardest moves. Bboy Pop from Gamblerz is known for being the best performer of the move.
  • Planche push ups:The move is performed by lifting yourself into a full planche,doing push ups.Baisically,it's a push up with your whole body in the air except your supporting hands.
  • Planche/Jimmy Fingers: 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 horizontally.
  • Elbow Freeze: Breaker using one of his or her arm and elbow support the position.
  • Dead Freeze: Any freeze done laying flat on your back or stomach with out your legs or arms holding you up. Usually done after a power move or suicide. Your hands and legs can be in any formation but the typical Dead Freeze has the body flat and straight with the hands across the chest like a corpse in a coffin.
  • Air Anchor: A freeze where the ball of your foot supports the weight of your body. Your hand is latched onto your ankle and elbow is stabbed into your back. (This move is very contortionist like)
  • Elbow Nike: A Nike freeze only instead of being in a handstand, you are supported by your elbow planted on the ground and your other arm supports by helping to balance.
  • Shoulder Freeze: A freeze where you are holding you body up using one shoulder, one hand, and the side of your head. The other arm lays behind you and is not used to balance.
  • Spider/Frog Splash: A freeze where you start like in a push up position, but with your legs on and supported by your arms. This move can also be jumped onto. (This move is very contortionist like)
    • Spider Hops/Frog Hops: Jumping while in a spider.
Air
  • G-Kick: A kick with the legs and arm forming a G shape by reaching behind your back and grabbing the leg on the side of your arm on the ground.
  • Headstand: A freeze while standing on the head, with or without hands on the floor for support.
  • Head Hollow/Scorpio/Master Sausage A headstand where the body is leaned over in an extreme back arch with the heels almost touching the floor.
  • Hollowback: A freeze that involves leaning backwards from a handstand position in an extreme back arch. In a true hollowback, the legs are together. Imagine "The Bridge" Position (see above), however feet don't touch the ground.
    • Scorpion: A variant of Hollowback where one leg reaches back farther than the other resembling the tail of a scorpion.
    • Invert/Ponk: A variant of the hollowback that involves bending the legs forward instead of backwards. An inverted hollowback.
    • Lotus hollowback: A hollowback with the legs in a lotus/yoga position.
  • K-Kick: A kick with the legs and arm in a K shape. It is like a L-kick with the corresponding arm of the extended leg as the standing arm for the body to lean to that side, with the bent leg pointed up, and the free hand reaches either to its side or reaching downward almost touching the floor. it forms a leaning K.
  • L-kick/Aú Batido: A kick with the legs in an L shape, also seen in Capoeira.
    • Nike: A kick that resembles the Nike sign.
  • Pike: A kick with both legs straight in the air and the free hand holding on to the feet.
  • Flag: A difficult freeze in which a one-hand handstand is maintained with both legs together leaning to one side...body resembles a flag

Power Moves

A Power Move is any type of move in Bboying which requires spinning and/or rotating in a way that can be done so in multiple rounds. All Power Moves (or series of a type of Power Move) can be connected in combos to form a "Power Combo". was the Float, Headmills, Flares, Airtwist,...etc and was the first Breakdancer to bring this style together with speed control and was considered the first king of combinations in 1984. Now Breakdancers all around the world has advance this Power Moves theory into a level beyond imagination. Breakdancers that use mostly (Power combos) in their sets are commonly known as "Power Heads". Example: Flare-Air Flare-Elbow Air Flare-Air Flare-1990 The possible number of combinations are endless and only limited by stamina, strength and imagination.
On American reality series America's Best Dance Crew, Ronnie from Super Cr3w & Full Force, performed a combination, with these moves in this order: Elbow Air Flare-Munchmill-Gorillas. Shane Sparks recalled hearing, there are only four people in the world that can do that combination.
  • Air Flare An advance powermove starting from a 1990 or windmill or halo or headspin position. The bboy goes into a handstand with his body diagnal to the ground and legs spread out into a V-shape. The legs are swung, like windmills/halos, in a circular motion. Using the momentum, the bboy switches from arm to arm as the body rotates in the air. The most difficult part of this move is the switching of the arms (while in the air) while the back of the bboy is facing the ground (the circular leg swing is most important in a hand transfer). It is recommended that this move is tried on mats with a supervisor.
    • Piked Airflare/Bongo Thunder: Airflare with the legs straight together, instead of V-shape.
    • Munch Airflare: Airflare with the legs tucking in and kicking out, creating a "munch" motion.
    • Lotus Airflare: Airflare done with the legs crossed over one another, in the lotus yoga position.
    • One Legged Airflare: Airflare with one the legs sticking out while the other leg is bent in, looking like an L-shape. Sometimes it is done with the bent leg tucked into the shirt of the bboy.
    • One Handed Airflare: Airflare using one arm. These can also be done on the shoulder or the elbow.
    • Elbow Airflare: Airflare with elbows.
    • Forearm Airflare: Airflare with forearms.
    • One Arm Elbow Airflare: Airflare using one arm but on the elbow.
    • One Arm Forearm Airflare: Airflare using one arm but on the forearm.
    • Airflare 1.5: instead of landing on your hands after doing one rotation of an Airflare/Airtrack, you keep your body rotating one half extra turn and land onto your back without the use of your hands. This is considered one of the most difficult and most dangerous of the Airflare/Airtrack moves.
    • Elbow Airflare/Airtrack 1.5: instead of landing on your hands after doing one rotation of an Elbow Airflare/Airtrack, you keep your body rotating one half extra turn and land onto your back without the use of your forearms.
    • Shoulder Airflare/Caveman: Airflare with shoulders.
A flare in motion.
  • Flare: A widely recognized power move that involves swinging the legs around in a circular motion while balancing on the hands.
    • King Flares/Hopping Flare: A flare that is done while hopping from hand to hand.
    • Virgin Flare/Double Leg Circles: A flare that is done with closed legs.
    • Twin-legged Flare: A flare with the legs straight out together.
    • Crossed-legged Flare: Much like twin-legged flare, but the legs are crossed.
    • Chair Flare:A Flare starting and ending with an airchair position, much like king flares but with bent arms.
    • Double Chair Flare:A flare with both arms stabbed in the back creating a rotating double airchair.
    • Sandwich Flare: A flare with both legs in a piked position.
    • Lotus Flare: A flare with both legs crossed over each other in lotus/yoga position.
    • Thread Flare: A flare that is done with by threading the legs with the free arm.
    • One-legged Flare: A flare done with one leg over the breaker's head. Bboy Rubberlegz is famous for this move.
  • Floats: Is one of the first breakdance power move in the 80's that is an advanced version of the turtle that involves positioning both elbows in the pockets of the side of the abs. And both hands and walking in a circular motion and balancing body straight and with control. And speed and neat body stays stationary at all times.
  • Cricket: A breakdance move that involves hopping around in a circular motion while in the handglide position but hopping. Hands pump off the floor one after the other.
    • Hydro: Crickets pushing with both hands at the same time.
    • Jackhammer: Crickets on one hand pumping off the floor balancing the body with one elbow on the side of the abdominal section.(Hard for control to be a float but can be done).
      • Lotus Jackhammer: A Jackhammer done with the legs in a lotus/yoga position.
      • Super Jackhammer: Jumping really high while doing a jackhammer. Bboy Pop from Gamblerz is famous for this move.
    • Darkhammer: A breakdance move where you hop from one side to the other with elbows on the side abdominal section hand to hand with balance.
    • Hopping Turtles/Scratching Turtles: A Breakdance move variation of darkhammers that involves putting your elbow on the pocket of the abdominal side and hop on one hand at a time while the other reaches out in front of you.
  • Swipe/Stigg Swipe: A power move where the breakdancer starts with his hands and feet on the ground and rotates his upper body to build the momentum to rotate his lower body. (Stigg swipe invented by jueogo Stiggletts)
  • Windmill/Mill: a debatable move (considered basic move or power move) in which the breaker can use the momentum from a previous move or start from stabbing your elbow in your stomach and feet supported on the ground, where you kick the opposite leg from the direction you are spinning to gain the momentium to rotate your self around onto your back and back onto your front. A variation of baby freeze and backspin and sometimes called a 'Continuous Backspin' by the Old Skool.
    • Superman: Windmills using the hands so that the body does not touch the ground.
    • Bellymills: windmills where the arms are stretched out while the torso rotates on the chest/stomach.
    • Criticals:The first full 360 degree rotation movement is done from a turtle or crab position. It requires a pushing motion and whipping both legs similar to a windmill but fully rotating in the air landing back into a turtle or crab position. This move was created by a group call "Critical Mass Rockers"bka L.A.B.
    • Critical 2's:A variant of criticals that is from the swipe position landing nonstop into footwork or windmills or freezes.
    • Forearm: Windmills performed by landing back on forearms when continuing the next spin.
    • Windmill Critical: A variant where in freeze position during a windmill like Airflare 1.5 you push yourself off the ground and spin in the air back into a windmill.
    • Airplane/Highrisers/Highrises: A windmill but your arms high as possible and spread
    • Babymills/Cork screws/Munchmills: Windmills performed with tucked legs.
    • Germanmills/Tappingmills:Windmills performed with one leg tucked on top of the other leg, the lower leg taps the ground while the upper torso rolls over similar to munchmills/babymills. the tap leg should be the opposite of the direction the windmill is rotating, i.e. if rotating CW, the right leg taps, if rotating CCW, the left leg taps. (Similar to doing a one-legged-swipe)
    • Tombstone mills/Frankensteins: Windmills performed with piked legs.
    • HandCuffs: Windmills performed with your hands behind your back imitating being handcuffed. Must be performed high up on ones back to avoid injury.
    • Mummies: You do a windmill, but cross your arms over your chest.
    • Nutcracker: A windmill with your hands on your groin area.
    • Eggbeater: A windmill with hands to your thighs.
    • Barrel: A windmill where your arms make a circle as if you are hugging a barrel.
    • Confusions: A windmill with your hands on your ears or the side of your head.
    • Lotus mills: Windmills done with the legs crossed over one another, in the lotus yoga position.
    • Frankenstein mills: Windmills with your hands in the air almost touching your toes like Frankenstein.
    • Threading mills: Threading while doing windmills.
  • Back Spin: One of the first spinning and famous power moves ever made. A move which has the breaker balled up and spinning on his or her back.
  • Side Spin: Sometimes done after a windmill, the side spin is balled up like the back spin except the breaker is rotating on his or her side.
  • Shoulder Spin: Sometimes done after a windmill, but going higher to reach the shoulder then spinning. Bboy Zesty from Gamblerz is well known for this move.
  • Halos: Similar to windmills, the only difference is the back roll on the ground but supported by arms while rotating, thus causing this move to also spin on the side of head, like a halo. Sometimes called a 'Neck Move' by Old Skoolers.
    • One Handed Halo: Halos done on one hand.
    • Double Halo: Doing two consecutive halos without touching your hands on the floor after one full rotation.
    • Shoulder Halo: Halos done with the shoulders.
    • Threading Halo: Threading while doing Halos.
    • Multiple Halo: Doing more than two spins while doing Halos.
    • Toe Touch Halo: Doing Halos while touching your feet before landing a spin.
  • Headspins: A continuous spin done while balancing only on the head, the legs can vary indefinitely.
    • Hurricanes: A headspin done with both arms around the head.
  • HeadSplide/Gromeks: A combination of a headspin and a headslide where the dancer rotates around using a headspin/halo technique whilst sliding forward upon his forehead. Usually achieving between .5 and 1.5 rotations and catching it in another head move.
  • Headslide:* Pushing off with your feet while your head on the ground and sliding forward.
  • Running Headslide:* Gaining momentum by sprinting and leaning your head towards the floor with your hands by your head. When your head touches the floor, kick your legs up and lift your arms so that you are only sliding on your head. To avoid injury, make sure your hands hit the floor before your head when sprinting and also wear a beanie.
  • 1990/90: A spinning one-handed handstand.Booy Cico is known for executing most rounds.
    • Deadman 90's: Similar to the 1990, the Deadman 1990 is done without alternating between hands before the spin. The bboy spins on the same hand he initially places onto the ground, making the deadman 90 easier to balance but harder to create momentum.
    • 2990's: A 1990 that is executed by pushing up while in a headspin.
  • 2000/00s/Thousands: A 1990 with the spare hand on the wrist of your supporting hand.Bboy Master Yonn is known for executing the most rounds.
    • 3000's: A 2000 that is executed by pushing up while in a headspin.
  • Knee Spin: Spinning on a knee or both knees, in any direction.
  • Airbaby Spin: Spinning while in an airbaby.
  • Airchair Spin: Spinning while in an airchair.
  • Forearm Spin: A spin on the forearm.
  • Elbow Spin: A spin on the elbow. Bboy Physicx is famous for using this move.
  • Head Glide/Donut/Icy Ice: A spin performed after windmill where your hand is planted in your side and head drags on the ground and spins around your hand.
  • Slush/Elbow Spin: A spin performed on the tip of the elbow.
  • Reverse-Slush/Counterclockwise Elbow spin A spin performed on forearm or elbow. This move rotates counterclockwise if you are right-handed. Bboy Pop from Gamblerz is famous for this move.
  • Gattling Gun: A powermove where you are in a handstand, swinging your legs around you in a circular motion kicking about. Bboy Physicx is famous for inventing this move.
  • Spinning Flag/Flag Spin/Rivers 1990: A variation of 1990. A bboy rotates on his hand, but his body is doing a flag freeze. One of the hardest powermoves. Bboy Physicx is famous for inventing and using this move.
  • Hollow 2000/Rivers 2000:A variation of 2000. Similar to the spinning flag, except using 2 hands. Physicx invented and frequently uses this move as well.

HandGlide

  • Hand Glide Spin/Handspin: A breakdance move that involves spinning around in a circular motion, using one hand to push and propel you while the other hand is positioned in the side pocket of the abdominal section supporting your weight balancing your body from not touching the floor.
    • Side/Hand Glide: A breakdance move that involves spinning around in a circular motion, using one hand positioning the elbow in your side pocket of abdominal section like a (Head Glide) without touching the floor with the head; your elbow and wrist support your weight. This is also known as a sidechair spin or airchair spin.
    • Straight leg/Hand Glide: A breakdance move that involves spinning around with the legs closed like a planche but supporting one's weight by positioning your elbow in the side pocket of abdominal section supporting one's weight with elbow and wrist strength.
  • Turtle: A breakdance move that involves positioning both elbows in the kidney pockets on the side of the body and both hands walk in a circular motion balanced. Each hand distributes the weight of the person in an alternating action. The more advanced the more control this comes with strength.

Float

  • Float: is one of the first breakdance power moves in the 80's that is an advanced version of the turtle that involves positioning both elbows in the pockets of side of abdominal. And both hands and walking in a circular motion and balancing body straight and with control. And speed and neat body stays stationary at all times.
  • Cricket: A breakdance move that involves hopping around in a circular motion while in the handglide position but hopping. Hands pump off of the floor one after the other.
    • Hydro: Crickets pushing with both hands at the same time.
    • Jackhammer: Crickets on one hand pumping off the floor balancing body with one elbow in the side of abdominal section hard for control to be a float but can be done.
    • Darkhammer: A breakdance move where you hop from one side to the other with elbows in side of abdominal section hand to hand with balance.
    • Hopping Turtles/Scratching Turtles: A breakdance move Variation of Darkhammers that involves putting you elbow in the pocket of the abdominal side and hop on one hand at a time while the other reaches out in front of you. Tapping you opponent on his foot was the first version..

PowerMove/Float

  • UFO A power move and (airmove) combined the 1st version is an unsupported float but with the legs drawn in to pick up speed and the momentum spinning around on your hands with the illusion of a space ship.
  • Boomerangs: A (airmove)and power move combined spinning around with upper body strength. Done with your legs spread open:
    • Inside Boomerangs: hands down in front of you supporting you and propelling you in a circle.
    • Outside Boomerangs: hands down behind of you supporting you and propelling you in a circle.
  • Gorillas: A power move that involves spinning around in a circular motion, using your body position in a tucked planche and you spin with your hands. it's a bit similar to the U.F.O. but instead of your legs going around, your whole body goes around.
  • Buddhas:A power move Walking/spinning around while arms are the holding the body up from behind and legs are in the tucked planche position.
  • Gremlin Spins: A power move where you spin on only one hand down on the floor carrying body in a position with the knees bent. Can be done between and after flares.

Hand hops/Elbow hops/Other hops

Commonly known as Hand Hops or Rabbits, a "Hand Hop" is done in a two-handed or one-handed handstand. Legs will kick causing the hand or hands on the floor to hop. This is also done on elbows and other body parts using the same motion of kicking to "hop" you off the ground.

Two-handed

  • Basic 2 Handed Hand Hops/Rabbits: Hopping on two hands, pumping your legs up together.
  • 2 Handed Scissors: Hopping while kicking your legs back and forth.
  • Switch Hops: Hopping while switching from right to left hands.
  • Invert Hops: Hopping while in an invert.
  • 2 Handed Bicycle Hops: Rapidly kicking (or Bicycling) your legs multiple times in between hops.
  • 2 Handed Lotus Handhops: Hopping on two hands while legs are in the Lotus position.

One-handed

  • Basic Hand Hops/One Handed Rabbits: Hopping on one hand, pumping your legs up together.
  • Scissor Hops: Hopping while kicking your legs back and forth.
  • Threading Handhops: Threading while hopping.
  • Lotus Handhops/Yoga Hops: Hopping while Legs are in the Lotus position. Bboy Baek from Extreme Crew is famous for this move.
  • Handhop Pikes/Pike Hops: Hand Hopping while piked.
  • 'Split Hops/Open Hops:
' Hopping while spreading open and closing your legs.
  • Bicycle Hops: Rapidly kicking (or Bicycling) your legs multiple times in between hops.
  • Super Hops: Hopping and bending your elbow up while in the air to hop as high as possible.
  • Pretzel Hops: Hopping with one leg behind your head.
  • Clap Hops: Hopping and clapping your hand while in mid air.
-Elbow Hops-
  • Basic Elbow Hops: Hopping on one elbow, pumping your legs up together.
  • Elbow Switch Hops: Hopping while switching from right to left Elbows.
  • Elbow Scissor Hops: Hopping while kicking your legs.
  • Elbow Lotus Hops:Hopping with your legs in lotus position.
  • Note: Most One handed hand hops can be done on the elbow.
-Other Hops-
  • Chair Hops: The Bboy/Bgirl is in an air chair freeze position and kicks up continuously, thus hopping on one hand.
  • Head Hops: Hopping on your head.
  • Shoulder Hops: the Bboy/Bgirl is in a shoulder freeze position and kicks up, thus hopping on the shoulder.

Blowups/Rollbacks

  • Rollback Handstand: A bboy starts off on his back or sitting down and rolls back to a handstand. This move is common to start a 1990 or a 2000.
  • Rollback Pike/Nike: Similar to a rollback handstand but usually done with one arm into a pike or a nike.
  • Rollback Airchair: A bboy starts off on his back or sitting down and rolls back to an airchair.
  • Elbow Rollback: A bboy starts off on his back or sitting down and rolls back on to his forearm freezing him in the air.
  • Rollback 2000 A bboy starts off on his back, rolls, than goes into hanstand position. Sudden twist of the body creates momentum and allows the bboy to perform 2000.

Drops

  • Drop Airchair: Usually starting from a handstand move and dropping into an airchair.
  • Drop Elbow/Forearm: Usually starting from a handstand move and dropping onto the elbow or forearm.
  • Head Drop: Dropping onto the head from another move.
  • Shoulder Drop: Dropping onto the shoulder from another move.

Suicides

  • ' The term suicide is most frequently used as a suicide from a babymill/munchmill movement onto the back laying flat on the ground.
  • Front/back Headflip: A headspring done without the use of the hands.
  • Hard Dive: An aerial dive landing on the shoulder or upper forearm
  • Pencil Spin:A headspin done with legs together and hand at the sides.
  • Suicide Rubberband: A backwards dive landing in the kip-up position with hands behind head.
  • Airtrack 1.5: Done after the completion of an airflare, after one hand is placed down instead of hopping onto other hand momentum is used to complete one or two whole aerial spins, usually landed in a munchmill or windmill to avoid injury.
  • Suicide Corkscrew: A Corkscrew or B-twist is done but landed on back or upper shoulders.
  • Coin Drop Drops down on one arm and goes into a windmill somewhat gliding on your back, then pushing your self back up. *You can try with no hands*
  • The Winder: Dropping onto the back from a handstand. The Bboy/Bgirl removes their supporting arms whilst in a handstand and lands prostate on their back. The Winder can also be executed whilst moving forwards or backwards. The more painful The Winder appears the better. Pioneered by UK Breaker Major League Chubb D.

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COPE 2

The man, the myth, the legend - Cope2! He's done it all, and to this day he is still doing his thing. In my (black) book, he is the King of all Kings. He painted trains in the 80's and even 20 years later he's still out there rockin' walls (and clean trains). Not just legal walls but he still bombs to this day. And when he paints his pieces, he doesn't even draw a sketch. Hi pieces are literally straight off the dome piece!

Many feel he's the one that kept graffiti alive in the 1990's. In a time when the Mayor was doing everything in his power to stomp graffiti out he was still defying the law. Cope 2 also sent in pictures to the Source magazine to keep graffiti in the public eye. While may writers retired and hung their cans up, Cope2 was out there organizing productions. People from other countries even came to NYC to paint with Cope2.

If you haven's seen his video, do yourself a favor and watch it! This is the illest graff video of all time! Watch as he sneaks into train yards - not to do a quick throw-up and be in and out - but he actually does a piece! Watch him do an interview as transit workers look on in the background! He also goes into home depot and racks some paint.




T-kid

T-Kid has done it all and has been down with the New York graffiti since the 1970's. He sill paints not only in NYC but all over the world. He's also just arrived from a European tour to promote his new book. "The Nasty: Terrible T-Kid 170". This interview was done during this summer 2005. He was very honest and open and had some very good insights to share. It's a great interview which I know you will enjoy. This is the first in a series of interviews to come.

you can make graffiti dude

you can make graffiti dude
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graffiti is not crime

graffiti is not crime

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