A freeze where you balance on 1 hand, with your knee stabbed into the lower side of your elbow.
Tips: You can use your free hand and free leg to balance, and you may develop an "airbaby callous" on your arm when learning this move.
Prerequisite: 2-handed airbaby
A basic stab but instead of in the front, you stab in your back and face up. Legs and free arm can take any form, allowing many variations and combinations to be made on this move. It takes shoulder flexibility, so chair first. You can stab low (by the hip) or high (by the armpit?) or go unstabbed.
Prerequisite: Chair
A category of freeze where you are on 1 hand, body in the air. Legs, free arm, and hips can take any form or direction, but there are a few basic ones: L-kicks, Nikes, and Pikes.
It's a flare in the air. Considered an advanced powermove, but is it really? There's 6 year old kids making it seem easy. You got your launching arm and your catching arm. Go in like a 90, and on your 2nd hand (launching arm) lean behind your shoulder, face, and hips to the sky and whip like a halo, (pop like a nutcracker, optional) catch like a swipe to handstand, except whip again so you can do multiples. Easy!
No-hand windmills with your arms sticking straight out like an airplane.
Basic freeze that every kid learns. Hit the stab, turn your body up and rest the knee on the side you're stabbing, on top of your free elbow. There are million and 1 variations and combinations with this move, maybe more. So make yours fresh.
Windmill with legs crunched in, crossed at the ankles like a fetal position.
Only in bboying can a person say "I'm hitting babies at practice today," otherwise it is not okay to hit babies.
A basic flip. Jump straight up, throw your hands up, tuck your legs like rolling backward. Practice on grass or something soft.
Opens the door to gainers, X-outs, flash kicks, back layout
A spin on your back, foundational prerequisite. Easiest to do from sitting, but if you want to learn windmills, do backspins from handglide/stab. Master the collapse.
From a Bridge position, kick your legs over so that they land on the other side of your arms. Your feet walk over like a rainbow.
Windmill variation that involves rolling through your stomach instead of hopping or hitting a stab.
Committing a "bite" is to steal another dancer's move(s), style, or routine, and pass it off as your own.
Clap the forearms together - it looks like a biting jaw - to call out a bite
On your arms and legs, belly-side up, arms up over your ears. Try to look at the ceiling and breathe. Get comfortable. Should stretch your shoulder and back out.
Caption: This MF is doing it on one leg, in dress clothes, while checking his DMs
aka Donkey Kick.
Jump from your feet onto your hands, then pop back onto your feet. It's simple and basic; make it fresh. You can go in and pop out of broncos with momentum, good for transitions.
aka Switches
Foundational footwork, tricky at first when you don't have "footwork rhythm". Although they are easy to do (ugly), you can never be too clean with them. Infinite variations for playing at the footwork level.
This move is considered low floor, high ceiling, meaning a beginner can do them, but they can be refined and elevated to a high level.
The name CCs comes from the original West Bronx crew Crazy Commandos, an All Latino Bboy crew from Burnside Avenue, which included the infamous "man of thousand moves": Spy.
Foundational freeze involving 1 arm stabbed in the back, head and foot on the ground, and torso facing up.
aka Kneedrop
Basic go-down where the front of one ankle, connects to the back of the other knee, and you drop to your foot. You're not supposed to bang your knee, you should be in-control on both feet.
Basic float using 2 arms to hop around in a circle. Executed with a Stabbed hand (dominant arm) that hops and rotates and a Stabilizing hand to help with rotating and balance.
The stabilizing hand is optional, and using only the stabbed hand to hop and rotate is called a Jackhammer.
Windmill variation with hands behind your head.
A bad fall, bad execution; typically when a dancer's hips/back/legs hit the ground, and/or they lose momentum. Worse than a foot scrape or simply falling out of a move.
Slap the floor - showing the other dancer how hard they just fell - to call out a crash
While spinning, bringing your legs together to speed up, making a drill-like effect. Headspins, 90s, and 2000s are moves that can be drilled.
Are you Clockwise or Counterclockwise? With moves going in circles, it'll be helpful to know the difference between CW (clockwise) and CCW (counter-clockwise).
Dominant right arm = CW power/stab/airchair; Dominant left arm = CCW
It's typically easier to do freezes, power, and footwork in your dominant direction. As you get better, you should learn moves in both directions to open up more possibilities and combinations.
If your windmill goes one way, and your headspin goes the other, you f*ked up.
No-handed windmill where you stick your fists out, and the spin/rotation of the windmill makes an eggbeater effect
Airfreeze on 1 arm, with legs together pointing straight back to resemble a flag.
aka Thomas in France, or Thomas Flare in gymnastics
Foundational powermove executed by alternating hands in the center and swinging hips and legs around your hands.
Freezes that are low to the ground, using hands/forearms to stab. Often used with the Hand Transfer style. Hips typically below the head, as opposed to airfreezes where the hips are above the head.
A float where the knees are stabbed in the forearm and dancer walks on their hands in a circle
A forward-moving backflip
aka coffee grinder, ball-and-chain
A basic footwork move involving the sweep, where 1 foot travels in a circle while the dancer hops over it.
Spinning on 1 stabbed hand
A freeze position where the dancer is balanced on their head, using their hands to support. Fundamental for learning headspins and headfreezes.
An iconic breaking move where the dancer spins on their head. Start by walking, then tapping, before gliding - a continuous headspin with no hands.
Windmill variation where the hands are placed behind the back, to resemble being handcuffed
A spring off your hands, back onto your feet
A handglide spin with the side of head sliding on the ground in a circular motion
Float using 1 arm, stabbed, to hop around in a circle.
If two hands are used, it is called a Cricket.
aka Colt 45
A go-down transition where one foot is tucked behind the other knee, and the dancer drops both feet to the ground in a controlled manner. The knees should NOT bash the floor
A footwork move where the dancer kicks their legs out from 0 position, using 1 hand to balance, often used to transition between steps.
Play with the leg shapes, angles, and your free hand to make variations.
An airfreeze where the dancer supports themselves on one hand while extending both legs in an "L" shape.
Known as 'au batido' or broken carthweel in capoeira.
A static strength move where the dancer supports their body on both hands while keeping their legs extended straight in front, forming an "L" shape.
An L-sit walking in a circle
While 1 hand grabs the opposite foot, jump and thread the other foot through the hole
A backward-moving frontflip
aka Baby mills
A variation of windmill where the legs are tucked in, creating a compact, bouncy motion as the dancer rotates.
A footwork move where the dancer alternates between switching feet and tapping the floor in a rhythmic pattern.
A freeze where one leg is extended high while the other is bent, resembling the Nike swoosh logo.
A power move that involves a quick rotation while tucking the body into a compact, airborne position.
A windmill variation where hands are placed on the dancer's coccyx
A high-impact power move that combines a dynamic flip or twist with a controlled landing.
A complex footwork or freeze that involves twisting the legs in a knot-like position while maintaining balance.
A freeze where the legs are extended straight forward while the body is supported by the hands, creating a "V" shape.
A strength-based move where the entire body is held parallel to the ground, supported only by the arms.
When dancers can't come up with new moves, so they repeat old ones from previous rounds.
You can use your fingers to keep count of how many times someone has repeated a move.
No-hander windmill variation where you place hands onto bent knees, similar to a sumo wrestling position.
A foundational move for building strength and balance. The basic stab is your elbow in your gut, between the belly button and the hip that you're stabbing on. The other hand can support or not, but the main hand is the stabbing hand. How you stab determines the direction of your powermoves, so make sure the directions you're practicing are congruent.
It's also a foundational concept because you can stab in infinitely many ways, and it's a basic strength needed for any freeze.
How do you do it? Step 1, get on your knees and lean forward. The hand you stab on (your stabbing hand) should have fingers facing outward. Forearm perpendicular (90°) to the ground. Elbow in your gut. Bend your knees and open your hips (so that knees face outward), this will bring more mass to your center and make it easier to hold. Start 2 hands, then 1 hand and fingertips, then 1 hand only.
here does the elbow connect to the body? It's where your obliques would be (if you had them), between the belly button and the hip that you're stabbing on.
It might overlap in technique with a calisthenic move, but it's not calisthenics, because bboying supposed to be dynamic. So though it's a static move to begin with, the goal is to become dynamic with this fundamental move/concept to use in your movement art.
It means "You're Wack"
aka Coupole in France
Foundational powermove/spin, executed by alternating support between the hands, head, and back on the ground. The legs remain open and swinging, resembling the blades of a windmill, and do not touch the ground.
A Y-kick is an ugly L-kick. Don't do that shit.
In a footwork squat with 1 leg out, rotate over the CC and keep rolling.
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