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Summary: Learn about leg pops in hip hop dance in this free 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 I'm Safi Thomas from the hip hop dance conservatory. These are our dancers from the hip hop dance conservatory and we are going to teach you how to pop. So now as you can see we are moving down the body. So we start up here with the arms, we start at the arms, we moved on down to our chest with our chest pop and our next thing we are going to do is we are going to pop the legs. We are going to do the legs. This is called a knee pop. What happens here is we are going to lift one leg and we are going to just, you are pretty much taking your entire muscle. You are taking your quads, you are taking your hamstrings and your taking your calf and you are contracting them. When you can make that contraction, that is pulling from both ends and that is when your knee bends. That is pop or that hopping motion 1. Do the next and that is the same thing with the other leg 1 and then you do both legs 1. So you want to do hit, hit. "
eHow Article: Leg Pops in Hip Hop Dance