Sunday Class: Feb 25, 2024
In light of battle season coming up, this week’s class will cover battle preparation and power integration. Although the students’ skill levels have drastically improved, the ability for them to integrate power moves into their sets in battle contexts have yet to be explored. Stretches: Conditioning: Power Integration: Explore the different ways to integrate power […]
Sunday Class: Feb 18, 2024
These past couple months, we have focused on the fundamental aspects of breaking and have improved our top rock, footwork, power and freeze foundation. For the next couple weeks we will focus on “labbing”. Labbing is the process of developing new moves, sets and patterns that fit one’s style. Supplemented by our enhanced understanding of […]
Sunday Class: Feb 11, 2024
This week’s class will be power-move oriented. We will focus on the mechanics involved in fundamental power moves and explore novel transitions in and out of them. Stretches: Conditioning: (based on gymnast exercises: https://gymnasticshq.com/10-exercises-you-can-do-at-home-to-improve-your-gymnastics-skills-2/) Power moves: Transitions: Cypher:
Sunday Class: Feb 4, 2024
This class will take a less structured approach to gauge what the students have learned so far throughout the past few months of teaching and training. Stretching: Conditioning: Exercises: Footwork Concepts: Zeshen’s leg movement concept work Intact’s hook concept work Powermoves:
Sunday Class: Jan 28, 2024
Background: Conditioning (3 sets): Content: Concepts:
Sunday Class: Jan 21, 2024
Stretches & Mobility Break Specific Conditioning Cypher Break Breaking Content: Power: Concept Play: Cypher:
Injury Prevention Guide
Breakdancing is a very high-intensity freestyle dance form that enables the practitioners of this craft to perform explosive and dynamic feats. Notably, the concepts such as power moves, blow ups and freezes are what cause the most amount of injuries when breaking. The most common injuries I’ve seen in my 15 years of breaking are: […]
Sunday Class: Jan 14, 2024
Stretches: https://thephysioshop.ca/blog/upper-body-stretches-for-better-flexibility-and-posture/ Break Specific Conditioning: Top Rocks: Execution Focus: Power: Power Transitions: Footwork Concepts:
Sunday Class: Jan 07, 2024
Start off the new year with fundamental drills: Calesthetics based on Chris Heria’s Upper Body Workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUqMgbUdao (3 sets) Break-specific work out: Power fundamentals: Power Transitions: Concepts:
Modern Breaking (Battle) Methodology
In my 15 years of breaking, I’ve observed the trends and metas that guided the breaking battle scene throughout the world. I’m writing this piece to discuss the current dominating meta I see and glean some core foundational breaking elements from it to provide you guys some concepts, methodologies and structures to consider. Note that […]