How to Pop in Freestyle Hip Hop Dance

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Safi Thomas from the hip hop dance conservatory, here in New York City. We are here to bring you freestyle techniques in hip hop dance. So the first element we are going to cover today is going to be popping and how to add popping to your freestyle. So first what we are going to do is break down popping and just give a couple of exercises in relations to it. Now popping is a part of hip hop folk style so it was first turned to a real art form by Boogaloo Sam. Boogaloo Sam was the one that stated that popping was a release of the muscle. So what you are going to do it is a flex and a release. Flex and then release. But it is very quick, very quick flex and release of the muscles. So we are just going to give you a short exercise that you can do that is called popping and press. So starting arms come up, take a deep breath and then you blow it out. 1,2,3,4, press it in 6,7, cross pop. So you are going to repeat that exercise go from 8s to 6 to 4 to 2 to 1 and that exercise would straighten your muscles. "