Introduction

Hip Hop (English name Hip Hop) originated in New York, USA. It is the product of the development of jazz dance in the 1990s. Its movements are composed of various walking, running, and jumping movements. The combination is extremely varied. It is composed of a coherent combination of flexion, extension, rotation, circling, oscillation, and wave-shaped twisting of joints such as the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, and trunk. Each movement has its own specific fitness effect, paying attention to the upper limbs and Coordinate the movements of the lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and trunk, and pay attention to the independent movement of each component of each link. Therefore, hip-hop dance not only has the effect of general aerobic exercise to improve cardiopulmonary function, reduce fat, enhance muscle elasticity, and enhance ligament flexibility, but also has the function of coordinating muscle groups in various parts of the human body, shaping a beautiful posture, improving the body's coordination ability, and cultivating beauty.

Hip-hop is a street culture performed by African Americans as a sport to vent their emotions. It is characterized by strong explosiveness. When dancing, the movements of the body are also exaggerated than other dances. The most attractive thing is the passionate feeling brought about by the vitality of the whole body.

Hip-hop dancing makes people focused and interested, and their movements are graceful and casual. At the same time, hip-hop dancing also has a slimming effect, because hip-hop dancing is a medium-low intensity aerobic exercise. In one hour of exercise, it has a strong effect on consuming body fat. In addition, hip-hop is a small muscle movement. Regular practice can increase the coordination of your whole body and make your body proportions more standard.

Classification

Based on movements, hip-hop is divided into two categories: Hip-Hop and Breaking. Street dance can generally be divided into two types, one is individual skill street dance. Individual skill hip-hop is the earliest popular type of hip-hop because it can reflect the energetic side of young people. Many of their ground movements, such as tumbling, handstands, and bouncing, are relatively high-skill individual hip-hop performances. The other type is collective hip-hop, which is currently a popular form of hip-hop. It reflects the needs of the public. It is relatively simple to dance and has a strong sense of rhythm. It has both the feeling of dance and the function of fitness. So what is more common now is group street dancing.

Breaking:

Skilled street dance requires dancers to have high strength, flexibility and coordination. It is a highly technical sports dance, so it was first introduced to domestic teenagers. loved. Teenagers who dance this type of dance are called B-Boy/B-Girl.

In the 1980s, DJ Kool Herc, known as the "Father of Hip-Hop", created the concept of B-Boy, also known as Breaking Boy. Every year, many countries around the world hold some competitions for B-Boy. The more famous ones are the annual BOTY (Battle of The Year) and the B-BoyChampion held in the UK, with more than 100 contestants from 10 countries. Will attend such an event. The winner of the competition quickly becomes famous and becomes a teen star.

Hip-Hop:

Hip-Hop is translated into Chinese as hip-hop. It was born in New York, USA in 1974. The inventor is the famous DJ and MC love bug Starsky ( Love Bug Starski). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a series of black cultural art forms emerged in cities on the east coast of the United States, led by New York, including: Graffiti or Writing, B-Boying, DJing or Deejay, DJ refers to Disk Jockey, which means disc jockey, that is, the person who drives the record), rapping (MCing or Emcee, MC refers to Master of Ceremony, which means emcee).

The word Hip-Hop was originally used to rhyme in rap by the love bug Starsky. Hip means butt, and Hop means jumping. Together, it can be interpreted as a beating butt.

In the early 1980s, "hip-hop godfather" Afrika Bambaataa borrowed the word hip-hop to collectively refer to the black urban cultural movement represented by the above four cultural forms. It was quickly widely accepted, and the above The four cultures become what we usually call the four elements of hip-hop.

Hip-Hop is translated as hip-hop, and RAP is translated as rap. These two concepts are different. Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term but a cultural term, including rap, graffiti, hip-hop and DJing. RAP originated in the 1960s, while Hip-Hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor It’s RAP (sometimes a little R(B) is added.

Hip-Hop Literally, Hip is the hip, Hop is jumping on one foot, and together they are a light twist of the hips. It originally meant Street dance in its embryonic stage (that is, what we used to call break dance) gradually developed into a huge concept - the Hip-Hop culture we now call also includes those loose clothes, heavy pure gold jewelry, and usually The oral habit of saying "YoYo? what's up?" - in short, it is the lifestyle of black people in slums in the United States and their "style"

Dance-type hip-hop, including popping, Locking, Electric, Turbo, House and other styles are not as demanding as Breaking, but they require more dancers' movement coordination and dance sense, as well as body flexibility and control. Good Hip-Hop dance. Hip-Hop Dance also requires hard practice. Because Hip-Hop Dance is not as technical as Breaking and lacks competitiveness, it did not receive enough attention from hip-hop enthusiasts in the past. Now with the strengthening of dance concepts, this situation has changed, and even B-Boy also began to practice and many all-around hip-hop masters emerged.

Hip-Hop is the most common dance that people are exposed to. It has large and simple dance steps and can perform complex dances. Dance sense. Because it is easy to learn and looks pretty when danced, it is very popular among the public.

POPING:

Mechanical dance uses muscles and joints of various parts of the body to move to the music. The rhythm, coupled with your own rich imagination, create surprising dance steps, which are more difficult types of street dance

FREESTYLE:

This is a superb dance step that will Various types of dance are mixed together and can be expressed as you wish. There is no limit to the dance style and it breaks away from the norms of general dance. It can be said to be a personalized street dance

HOUSE:

Along with house music, it uses complex and magical steps to express a dance step. It can be added with twists of Latin dance, somersaults of martial arts, basic steps of tap dance and circles of ballet. When danced, it can be very elegant or quite elegant. Wild.

NEW JAZZ (for girls only):

This is a dance developed from JAZZ, danced exclusively by girls, and pays great attention to softness and instant bursts. It is mainly based on arm movements, supplemented by waist twists and hip movements. It is very demanding on the body and is very popular in Europe, America and South Korea. The soundtrack is rhythmic jazz.

RAGREA. , exclusive for girls):

This dance is said to have originated in France, and some say it originated in the United States. It is a very sexy dance. The dancers in the performance are also very revealing. The movements of the lower body are mainly used, mainly using the hips, waist, and legs. There are also some simple handstands and seductive movements of shaking thighs in the air. . The development of porn industry is very good in Japan. And the normal interpretation is also very sexy.

Hip-hop in China

Hip-hop was introduced to China in the mid-1980s, thanks to the 1984 American hip-hop movie "Break Dance".

1984 was the first boom of hip-hop in the United States. Hip-hop attracted widespread attention from society. It suddenly emerged from the ground and was reported by major media.

In China, video recorders had just begun to enter households at that time, and the video tapes of "Break Dance" were delivered to the hands of Chinese teenagers through various channels. Those teenage families who were the first to have TVs and VCRs became the dissemination center of break dance. For a time, there were many "motors" wearing floral fabrics on their heads and wearing jialai sneakers on the street. One of the protagonists in "Break Dance" was named Boogaloo Shrimp. Famous dancer. It was as if there was something wrong with their brains. Sometimes they were "transmitting electricity" from one hand to the other, sometimes they were "moonwalking" back and forth, and sometimes they were "cleaning the glass" in the air.

In fact, the American media was so confused by the first hip-hop craze that they applied the name break dance, a New York dance, to West Coast dance. The movie "Break Dance" should be called "Funky" or "Break Dance" because it was filmed in California and basically reflects the dance of the West Coast. But no matter what, "Break Dance" has had a huge impact on China. As a result, a large number of street dancers appeared in mainland China almost at the same time as the United States, and the level is quite high.

Unfortunately, by the late 1980s, break dancing quickly disappeared in China. There are three main reasons for this: First, the influence of the United States. Since 1986, the hip-hop craze has gradually cooled down in the United States. Excessive commercial hype has quickly made hip-hop the chewing gum left in the public's mouth. Popular artists quickly steal the achievements of hip-hop and repackage them into popular products that are more acceptable to the public. The real Street dance was abandoned. Breakdancing became obsolete in New York, and B-Boys all over the world seemed to be wiped out overnight. Second, "break dancing" is not correctly understood by society. Young people who break dance are called delinquents. Third, there was no market environment for "break dancing" to grow and develop at that time. Street dancers gain nothing from hip-hop except to satisfy their personal interests. Without the economic foundation to survive, as a non-traditional art form, street dance will eventually lose its vitality in China.

In China, another figure who had an important influence on early hip-hop was Michael Jackson. Today, many young people still imitate his dance steps, which shows the influence of this "King of Pop". As early as 1974, 16-year-old Michael Jackson, as a member of the "Jackson Five" singing group, sang the song "Dancing Machine" on TV and performed a robot dance, making this kind of dance popular throughout the United States. In 1983, Jackson became a sensation when he performed a moonwalk during the Motown Records 25th Anniversary TV special. Since "Beyond the Wall", each of his albums has been shot with many exquisite music videos, including a large number of dance performances. Dance has become an important part of his music art. "Thriller", "Bad" and "Remember the Time" are three music videos with the most exciting dance performances, in which the dance is a combination of funk, hip-hop and jazz dance A classic of new-school hip-hop, the choreographer is a famous hip-hop master in New York, including Henry Link and others. And Jackson's dance performance at the concert was even more popular in China and will last forever.

In the 1990s, hip-hop was revived in the United States, mainly due to the popularity of hip-hop and the entire hip-hop culture around the world. In the 1980s, New York hip-hop artists worked hard to promote this culture to the world. Their hip-hop tours traveled throughout the United States, France and the United Kingdom, and in 1984 they came to Japan. In the 1990s, as an emerging and fashionable cultural form and lifestyle, hip-hop developed rapidly around the world. In 1990, Germany held the first "Annual Battle Dance" street dance competition, which has now become the most important annual street dance event in the world. With hard work, intelligence and creativity, Japanese teenagers quickly mastered and developed hip-hop. The achievements of Japanese street dancers have been recognized by Americans, who have spread this culture to neighboring countries and regions such as South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, China.

Since the mid-1990s, street dance has gradually spread in mainland China, centered on the three cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

Guangzhou’s hip-hop and hip-hop culture appeared earlier. It is said that a break dance competition was held in 1993, which quickly made hip-hop popular in the province. The term hip-hop was first spread in Guangdong. Shanghai's street dance is greatly influenced by Japan and Taiwan. The level of new-style street dance leads the country. There are some masters in lock dance and mechanical dance. Break dance is mainly based on stylistic movements. Beijing street dance culture came with the "Korean Wave". Established in early 2002, the Beiwutang Dance Troupe developed rapidly through commercial operation methods under a standardized management system and market development. It attracted almost all hip-hop masters in Beijing and quickly became famous in the national hip-hop circle. In addition to the above three places, young street dancers can be seen in almost every place in the country - from provincial capitals to wealthy towns.

In the second half of 2003, hip-hop quickly heated up due to media hype and became the most popular youth cultural phenomenon. In November 2002, three CCTV "World of Dance" programs filmed a hip-hop special program with street dance as the main content. Beijing's Beidang Street Dance Team performed most of the dances. This is the first time that CCTV, China's most influential mainstream media, has comprehensively introduced hip-hop culture. This program was broadcast during the Spring Festival of 2003.

At the end of 2003, CCTV held the first TV Street Dance Competition. This was the first time that China held a national street dance competition. However, the competition was not professional enough, and the referee, program director, camera and other related work The staff had limited knowledge of hip-hop, and the competition also incorporated aerobics and other unrelated content, giving it a very amateurish and amateurish feel. At the same time as the first CCTV TV Street Dance Competition was held, China Mobile Communications Company held the "M-Zone Chinese College Student Street Dance Challenge". This competition is held only on college campuses, but some non-college students also participate. Since the late 1990s, well-known foreign street dancers have begun to come to China, and they can occasionally be seen dancing in clubs in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. In 2005, the world's most influential hip-hop competition "Annual Dance Competition" held its China competition for the first time. This was the first time that an international hip-hop competition was held in China, triggering an upsurge of participation among hip-hop enthusiasts across the country.

Nowadays, hip-hop dance has become the favorite fashion culture among teenagers. It is becoming a reality for Chinese hip-hop dance to catch up with the world's advanced level and make a splash on the international stage.

What to pay attention to when practicing hip-hop for the first time

When learning hip-hop for the first time, you must not increase the amount of exercise all at once, but do it step by step. Usually, warm-up activities are done first to fully move the joints and ligaments of the body, especially the knees and ankle joints, to avoid injuries during beating; then practice with a certain intensity and time, preferably no less than 30 minutes; and finally, use Various stretching exercises relax the body. Only in these three steps can you achieve better weight loss results.

Because everyone’s age, physical ability and health status are different, the intensity of exercise varies from person to person. "Exercise intensity" is generally expressed as "maximum heart rate". You should calculate the most suitable heart rate when dancing hip-hop like this:

If you are 25 years old, do not often participate in physical exercise, and have average physical fitness, choose hip-hop as a way to lose weight. For sports events, your maximum heart rate is 220-25=195, and the appropriate exercise intensity (exercise heart rate) for you should be (60-75) × 195=117-146 (times/minute).

Finding the feeling of hip-hop dance

Usually the most difficult thing when we dance HIP-HOP is the feeling. So how can we practice this feeling?

Step one: First of all, you must have a love for HIP-HOP several times more than others.

Step 2: Go to a nearby music studio or video store to buy a CD or cassette of HIP-HOP dance music.

Step 3: Choose the bass speaker that you think is the best around you (in order to better practice your sense of music).

Step 4: Choose the music that makes your heart beat the most among the CDs you bought.

Step 5: Make the music as loud as possible and follow the thump of the music! clatter! Practice the rhythm of your shoulders first (let your shoulders only shake up and down and back and forth); you will feel very boring at first, but when dancing like HIP-HOP, your shoulders are the most important part to feel.

Step 6: Continue the previous step and practice the upper and lower elasticity of your legs and knees.

Step 7: Follow the music to practice moving your left and right legs back step by step, and you can also practice moving forward.

Step 8: Practice the flexibility of the hand joints (like a wave from the fingertips to your shoulders, both hands).

Step 9: Practice on your toes. Practice walking on your toes only, bouncing back and forth and side to side on your toes to the music. This will also take your feelings to the next level. When practicing this step, you must be careful not to let the entire flat surface of your feet rest on the ground.

Step 10: Combine all the above steps and rock your whole body at will. This will give you a foundation for starting HIP-HOP.

Usually it is best to prepare a larger mirror when you first start, and it is better to practice in front of the mirror. You may find practice boring and tiring when you first start. Although HIP-HOP is not a power dance, it is no less tiring than power dance, so you must have the perseverance to practice persistently. Some people may not feel it during practice, but don't think you have no talent. Many famous dancers feel it suddenly when they are walking or inadvertently. So you can also become a spokesperson for HIP-HOP through practice.

Specific practice methods

POPPIN is very powerful as long as you use your limbs flexibly. Do not dance POPPIN before your limbs have mastered POP. This will make your foundation unstable. You will never learn well. Even if you imitate an action and jump out, an expert will find it ugly at first glance, and POPPIN does not mean that someone has a bigger POP arc or that the whole body can POP; when POP, the point of force should be short. But it needs to be bigger. The easier the POPPIN point is, the more beautiful it will be. It will look finer and thinner. When practicing, many people will suddenly pull down the upper shoulder to drive each part of the muscle to reach the POP. This practice method cannot be said to be incorrect. It’s just that the POP doesn’t look good. I also want to add that when you first practice, you may feel that your movements are very small. In fact, this is not a problem. As long as you dance for a long time and feel better, you can adjust your body. When integrating into music, it doesn't matter even if you repeat some actions in a song. The important thing is the feeling. Dance to the music and be in time. As long as you can dance to the music and play a song non-stop, that's fine.

1. How to practice hand exercises

1. Put your hands into a riding posture, put your fingers down, and feel very relaxed

2. Then press your wrist down, but keep the finger part upward. When you press your wrist down, do you see a hollow in your forearm, that is, a small hole in the shaft ( Just practice like that repeatedly)

3. During the practice, look at the upper part of your hand to see if the muscles have exploded. If so, look at the part where the chest and arm are connected. Are there any pulsations in the muscles of the back? When you press your wrist down, do you feel the muscles in your chest beating slightly? But what you need to pay attention to is: it's not the chest moving forward, but the chest muscles beating upward. If you have the above points, then you are correct.

It is estimated that the beating of the back muscles may not be noticeable when you first start practicing, but it will be OK if you practice hard. It should be noted that when practicing hands, do not exert force on your shoulders. The force is on your wrists. Please try it to see if you feel it.

This hand exercise should be combined with the foot exercise, so that it will be natural.

2. Foot POP exercises

Footstep POP is actually the crotch POP. Many people think it is complicated and difficult to practice. In fact, the crotch POP exercises It's easier than hand exercises, just don't think about it too complicated, keep it as simple as possible, the simpler the better, pay attention to using your knees.

1. You stand up first, and then bend your knees slightly forward, a bit like you are about to sit down. 2. What you said from the first point, slowly start from this When standing up, remember to slowly straighten your feet, but don’t use force

3. Stand up slowly. When your feet are about to stand straight, you suddenly use force to straighten your feet quickly ( That is, the knees are backward). Is it possible to achieve the POP of stepping down by practicing this repeatedly? Remember not to use any force on your buttocks or pull them in. That is an incorrect way to practice. Try to keep it as simple as possible

This foot exercise should be combined with hand exercises. This is only natural.

3. Head POP

In fact, this head part exercise is really difficult to explain clearly using typing! In fact, it is an effect achieved by applying force to the 45-degree angle of the head.

When we meet acquaintances on the road, we often call out "hello". Remember, the POP on the head is a bit like "hello". How do you say it? When you ask someone to "Hey", do you point your head slightly upward? That "point" is actually the POP, but you have to use force and complete it in a short time. Pay attention to keeping the original relaxed expression first, and then suddenly ask someone to feed you. After repeated practice, you will learn to do the POP on the head. Don't you feel it? But don't use force on your jaw, use the back of your head. CAN YOU FOLLOW ME?

4. Chest POP

There is no need to practice chest. (But the real single chest vibration requires practice. The first practice method is to straighten your waist. You will feel a little soreness in your waist. Pay attention to raising your chest, and then slowly relax and suddenly have a POP, but this POP is not your waist. Use your strength and straighten your waist just to be more beautiful when you pop!)

Additional information

The last thing I want to add is some of the opinions of domestic first-level POPPER: BOKY:

1. POP on the arm mainly uses the triceps and carpi radialis brevis muscles. You can try this action: hold the wall with five fingers, and then push the wall with the palm of your hand (pay attention to the natural bend of the elbow joint, and do not use force to straighten it). The muscle group used in this movement is roughly the POP position on the arm.

2. The muscles of the chest move vertically upward. Because it needs to be noted that very few explosions are done by extending the joints. So on the other hand, if the pectoralis major muscle does not move upward, it will inevitably involve the curvature of the spinal joints. In addition, the POP of the chest muscles and the POP of the neck muscles are generally completed at the same time. It can be understood this way. When the chest muscles move up, keep the head in the original position or press it down slightly, which will naturally compress the muscles on the neck. In addition, how to exercise the neck muscles? Everyone tries to pronounce two sounds, one is "oh". When this mouth shape is opened to the maximum, it can naturally tighten the sternocleidopapillary muscles. The other one is "ha". This mouth shape can be done to the maximum extent, which can tighten the levator scapulae and omohyoid muscles. These three muscles are very important sources of POP for neck work.

3. Leg POP This is the only POP that requires the use of joints to complete. Because it is difficult to tighten the muscles in the thighs when the knees are naturally bent. What needs to be added is that the POP of the lower body is not only completed by the thigh muscles. In some specific movements, POP on the hip and lower back muscles is also used.

How to wear HIP-HOP

On the streets of bustling cities, you can sometimes see that many young people like this kind of dressing: a large sweatshirt or an oversized sports coat. It covers the buttocks, the inside and outside of the upper body overlap, the waistband of the trousers is low and large and hangs on the crotch, the trousers legs are straight to the ground, and the trouser legs are layered at the heels. The whole person is safely hidden in the tight clothes cover.

This comfortable and humorous way of dressing actually comes from African American families. Originally, for the sake of saving, the younger brothers and younger sisters were allowed to wear the big clothes worn by their elder brothers and sisters. Over time, it developed into such a baggy street style.

As black hip-hop, skateboarding and other extreme sports originating from the streets become popular all over the world, this style of dressing that is loved by black musicians and street sports masters is also popular all over the world. became popular among young people.

Typical ways of wearing HIP-HOP mainly include: wide T-shirts with exaggerated logos, similarly wide and draggy board pants, jeans or side-zippered sports pants, basketball shoes or worker boots, Fishing hats or baseball caps, ethnic turbans, hair dyed and permed into braids or braids. The corresponding accessories include: Tatoo, silver earrings or nose rings, arm rings, Matrix sunglasses, MD Walkman, scooter, backpack Back-pack, etc. These sporadic pieces of clothing are put together to form the Hip-hop fashion that has been popular in the United States for 20 years.

When you see a boy dressed like this on the street, he has a full head of black braided hair, a long-sleeved cotton shirt covered with a short-sleeved baseball T-shirt, and super wide sweatpants. A steel bar as thick as a nail was passed through the bone of his left ear. A pair of matte silver headphones hung around his neck. On his feet was a pair of skateboard sneakers with enhanced ankle protection. He was carrying a large, boxy backpack. No matter how you look at it, they look like Chinese-American children who have just arrived to visit relatives. Don't be surprised, this must be a HIP-HOP fan!

However, as long as you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find that the above-mentioned typical Hip-hop clothing is not actually "fresh". T-shirts can actually be seen everywhere, and wide pants are not new. Jeans with large legs have been used by little girls to wear tight T-shirts a few years ago. Basketball shoes and worker boots are even more common, not to mention baseball. A hat, a turban, earrings, a backpack or sunglasses. Among all the hip-hop equipment, the only relatively new one is the scooter, but most children born in the 1970s should remember the "shaved ice car" they played in kindergarten, which also had tall handlebars. , two wheels at the front and rear, with a single pedal in the middle, exactly the same as today's popular scooters. Therefore, it seems that the seemingly new Hip-hop fashion is actually not very new.

It is not easy to recombine those common clothes and wear the unprecedented Hip-hop feeling. What exactly is Hip-hopStyle? The answer is simple and straightforward: "You need to have that feeling." In short, it is the word "feeling", and to be more thorough, this word "feeling" includes innate art. Talent, sense of music and dance, keen sense and taste in fashion, very outgoing personality, excellent English skills and sense of humor. In other words, people who want to express the hip-hop feeling vividly and vividly must be a very cool new human being. Looking for an English word to describe it, the most appropriate one is "Smart".

So, if you think that your cultivation level has not reached the above-mentioned level, do not rush into hip-hop that you have not yet felt is appropriate, otherwise it will only make people feel awkward and artificial. Unnatural. If it were seen by those who are already quite accomplished in Hip-hop, it would undoubtedly make people laugh.