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Summary: Learn how to pop it in hip hop fitness in this free and easy dance lesson video.
Safi A. Thomas is the CEO and co-founder for Blade Dance Entertainment in New York City, creator of the Blade Technique (R), and the artistic director for the world's only Hip Hop...read more
"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Safi Thomas from the Blade Academy this is Cynthia Brown from the Hip Hop dance conservatory all here in New York City and we're bringing you hip hop fitness. Alright so the next thing we're going to moving into is muscle development. And for muscle development in hip hop we're going to be use popping, which is hard real hard hits, that actually gets your muscles tight and get them nice and strong, we're going to start off with whats called a popping press. Something that Mr. Wiggles in bay area came up with, so lets start. Arms coming up here, take a deep breathe in, and then tightened up, tightened up and bring it down on the count of 8 6 7 and on 8 you pop and up 2 3 4 5 6 7 pop, that's whats called a popping press and then when you get to that you can do like here, here and you can do fresno pop all types of different popping excersices which builds up your muscles."