learn bboys style of moves, moves name, and when it occurs...

General Terms

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Style of Moves

Blow Up - A dynamic movement that makes the crowd go crazy. Its a good idea to end your set with one.

Burn/Diss- a gesture to humiliate or insult the opponent.

Commando - When one BBoy dances out of the circle with a move and another enters at the same time doing the same move so it's as if one is fading out and the other is fading in. (ex: bboy1 doing CC's but at the same time backing out as bboy 2 enters while doing CC's.)

Drops - just what the name says, its a simple DROP to the floor usaully done from toprock. the bboy will generally toprock and then do a drop move whick will bring him down to the floor. ( such as a knee drop, you tuck one foot into the back of your knee and fall to the ground)

Flips - ... if you dont no wat a flip is ur stupid

Floorwork - The part of the dance that is mostly low to the ground

Leg work - A form of floorwork that involves all sorts of sweeping and other leg movements eg Helicopters, frontsweeps...etc

Footwork - A form of floorwork involving step patterns performed on the floor. eg Six step, Bicycle pumps, CCs... etc

Freezes - A move that is stall for a matter of minutes or seconds.

Kicks - balancing on one hand while formin a shape with ur body

Power Moves - A term adopted to describe the more dynamic moves that involve continuous spinning eg airflares, flares or windmills.

Routine - Two or more Bboys dancing in sync.

Spins - Moves in which you spin on a body part.

Floats - Moves in which only your hand(s) are in contact with the ground.

Toprock - The upright aspect of bboy dance

(Note: Uprock is not bboying, Uprock is the Rock Dance that influenced Toprock)

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Where BBoying Occurs

1 on 1 battle - A battle where only 2 bboys are present. The better individual is determined the victor.

Battle - When two groups of bboys (ranging from individuals to entire crews) perform sets in alternation with the intent of outdoing their opponent. The victor is often decided by judges, the crowd or the individuals in the battle and is based on several criteria.

Competition - Organized event for Bboys to showcase their skills in one or many of a range of different type of "battles".

Crew battle - A battle where an entire crew or part of a crew is involved. Each individual is not rated by themselves, the crew is treated as a whole and the winner is determined by how well the crew performed. The implications of this are that individuals can focus on a specific aspect of bboying rather than having to cover all aspects as they would in a 1 on 1 battle.

Cypher - Also known as an open circle, a circle formed by Bboys in which any one of them is free to come in and dance.

Jam - a party that involves Bboying, or all of Hip Hop's Elements.

Showcase - When an individual crew performs a show to a crowd with no opponents present. The aim is to show a variety of skills that the crew has ranging from foundation and power to style and choreography. The show is rated on several criteria usually by a panel of judges.

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Description Of BBoys

Bboy - Full term is "Break Boy", came from Kool Herc in the 70's when the people would dance the "drum breaks" that he would loop at his parties, so he started calling them Break Boys, which was then shortened to Bboys.

Bgirl - A female breaker.

Biter - Someone who copies a set or a move, without adding his own style to it.

Eboy - A Bboy who spends all his/her time on the internet frontin' like they practice. What bboy.org is full of.

Powerhead - One who is very highly skilled in Powermoves. Some powerheads lack much footwork, toprocks, and freezes.

Stylehead/Foundationhead - One who is seen to have ignored the aspect of power in learning bboying and focused only on foundation.

Stylist - One who has a unique style to their way of bboying. Seen as a compliment.

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Other

Beef - Tension or an ongoing dispute between Bboys or Crews.

Break(Beat)- part of a song/record/track where the music is purely a drum set.

Burry

Character

Crew- a group of bboys under the same name, such as a team or a family.

Flavor or Flava - The term used to describe the visual "taste" of ones dance.

Roast - to completely destroy another team

Smack - to hit, often with a hand open (similar to a slap)

Smoke - to defeat in a battle, circle, cypher etc.

Style - The way you do what you do.

Added a new structure. Hopefully will do so to the rest of the page, feel free to add to the blank descriptionsRingerINC 08:25, 24 December 2006 (CST)

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Move Names

1990s- A spinning one handed handstand.

2000s- Same as 1990s, but with your other hand on top of that which is being spun upon.

2-step aka Baby Swipes

3-step - a basic footwork pattern involving 3 steps to form a complete rotation

6-Step - a basic footwork pattern involving six steps to form a complete rotation;

Aerial (or no handed cartwheel) - a no-handed cartwheel

Air Swipes - Same as airflares, VERY often confused with Master Swipes.

Airbaby - A freeze that comes in two variations, 1-handed or 2-handed, where only one knee is resting on the corresponding elbow;

Airchair: a chair freeze with feet and head off the ground now commonly done with many different leg positions

Airflares - An air powermove where you make a 360 (a little less actually) degree turn before your hands touch the ground again.

Airtracks - Same as Airflares

Around The World's - The transitional move that alternates hollowback to invert, in a circular motion, where the legs circumnavigate the hips

Applejacks - like kipups but you stay with your hands behind you and your feet on the floor, you then crunch together and kick one leg, then you lean back and catch yourself, do this repeatedly

Baby Freeze - a freeze supported by your hands and frequently head with your ribs resting on one arm and with your knees bent, one foward, resting on your free elbow and the other backward to some degree.(sometimes switching legs)

Back Rock

Back Spin-a move that you spin on your back, using your legs to create power for the spin

Back hand-springs - leaping backwards onto your hands then back onto your feet, a great way to break your neck and wrists if you don't know how to do them properly

Broncos- Jump into handstand, then kicking your legs to land back on your feet.

Butt Spin - A spin on the butt

Bicycle Pumps - a footwork pattern that resembles jogging on the spot but in a push up position.

Bridge

CC's : a downrock move that involves twisting side to side while letting your opposite leg fly over the leg you've planted on the ground during twists

Chair Freeze - A freeze where you support your body with your elbow stabbed in your back, feet and head touching the ground.

Coindrop - a single windmill, can be started from standing or from anything. differences between is single windmill & you bounce/pump higher.

Crab Freeze

Crow Freeze - an airbaby variation

Crickets - A rotating, jumping hanglide freeze

Darkhammers - A pumping float move. Unlike Crickets and Jackhammers, you switch hands in every pump in this move.

Drop aka Go Down - The bboys way of getting from Toprocking to Floor rocking.

Eight-Ball Footwork

Elbow Freeze - A freeze on the elbow

Elbow Spin - A spin on the elbow

Elbow Tracks - Similar motion to airflares, but instead of using your hands you use your elbows.

Flares - Similar to the gymastics movement 'Thomas Flair/Flare'

Floats - Basically a moving freeze, usually when the body is facing down and the body is somewhat parallel to the ground.

Forearm Freeze - a freeze on the forearm

Freezes- sudden stops in motion frequently in unnatural positions.

Front Flip - A forward flip that does not involve tucking

Go Down - See drop.

Hand Glide- spinning on your hand whos elbow is stuck on the side of your gut.

Head Eraser

Head Hollows - a hollowback with your head on the ground

Headspins - a spin on your head

Heelspin - a spin on your heel

Helicopter-Rotating one leg in a circular motion, while in a crouching position

Hollow Backs - a handstand with a very arched back, with your head between your arms.

Jackhammers - a cricket with only your stabbed hand

Kerroppi - A 2-handed freeze where both knees and planted on both elbows

Kick outs - With one hand on the ground both feet are kicked outward from the body and then brought back in many variations exist.

Kip Ups- Pushing your two hands while on your back to get up. It gets you up while you're laying down on your back.

Knee Drop - The illusion of dropping on one's knee. Aquired by throwing one's leg back and placing the foot behind the knee of the other leg and dropping in one swift motion. The trick is to land on the ball of the foot that is between the back of the other leg's knee - NOT on the knee itself.

Knee Spin - A spin on one knee

L-Kicks- a one-handed handstand position and your leg makes an L-shape

Master Swipes - High Swipes in which your feet/foot don't/doesn't touch the ground when your hands are on the ground, and your hands don't touch the ground when your foot/feet is/are.

Munch Mills aka Baby Mills - Windmills with ur body in a fetus position.

Neck Move

Omega Bomb - A high-tier move that is executed by performing a kip-up into planche position, and holding it to some degree.

Pencil Drop: A headstand drop where your arms are at your sides and your legs are closed together

Pike - a postion where your legs are together, straight and perpendicular to your body.

Planche- a form of handstand where the body is horizontal to the ground and arms are not bent at the elbow but are angled in order to support body weight. Requires a lot of upperbody strength.

Rubber Band - Continuous kip ups.

Scissor Hops - jumping on your hands in a handstand while kicking your legs front and back, switching kicks inbetween each pump

Scorpions - kind of a reverse hollowback, a planche with your legs coming over your head from behind

Scrambles aka 12 step - The grape vine pattern of footwork done by Baby Love in the movie beatstreet.

Side shuffles

Sky Scrapers - hopping around in a circle from one hand to the other hand while in hand stand position.

Spins - Rotating in a circular motion, be it in a freeze, handstand, or toprock, etc

Stars - A shoulder spin with the body spread out like a starfish

Suicide- to land flat on one's back from a height

Supermans - windmills with arms extended outward like superman when he flies

Sweep catches

Swipes

Threading - while holding onto one foot with your hand, you bring the other foot through the circle created by your hand and foot. Sometimes done in a hand stand position, sometimes done while sitting down or in a freeze.

Tombstones - Like munch mills, except with your legs together and piked.

Top Rock - The standing element of bboying usually done at the start of a set.

Tracks - A movement done from the same base as chair freeze which involves turning your body over while held up by your hands then feet consecutivly while your head stays on the ground.

Turtle - A turtle freeze, except one walks in a circle. Elbows are always stabbed (/supports the body). One walks in a rotating see-saw like manner.

Turtle Freeze - A two handed freeze. Only two hands touch the ground. The elbows are placed near your abs, in order to support the rest of your body.

UFO's - hoping around with your hands straight down close to your crotch. however your body is not touching the floor and held upright.

Uprock- 1) a Dance that started in the late 1960s by Rubberbandman. It was originally called Rocking or the Rock dance, till people started coming to Rock Battles/Jams thinking it was going to be a Rock concert type thing, so they changed it to Uprock. It involves Freestyle, Burns, and jerks against a opponent to Funk and soul tracks of during that time. See www.dynastyrockers.com for clips, music, and more information on Uprocking.

2) a Bboy completely watered down from definition number 1. It consists of 4 counts. On the first count you throw a punch, 2nd and 3rd Counts you shuffle your feet back and forth (jumping putting one foot in front of the other), do that 3 times, then drop, or crouch down to the floor, which is then repeated.

Valdez - A variation of back walk-over started from crouching position.

Windmills- rolling around on one's torso with one's legs in a v-shape

Worm aka caterpillar - Noob