Starting Breakdancing

Getting started Breakdancing

Everyday I get emailed asking me for tips, lessons and advice on Breakdancing. So, it took me a while (I'm a bit slow!) but thought it better to just write some thoughts, ideas, breaking tips and advice all down in one place. Viola- enter this blog!

There are plenty of reasons why people get started learning breakdancing. Physically, it helps with strength, coordination, flexibility and socially you can meet lots more people and occasionally, if you stick at it, impress your mates, randomers and other bboys and bgirls alike.

There are also plenty of places to see Breaking. Classes, youtube, clubs, adverts, dance competitions etc. This leads me onto the question- why don’t people just start learning? Well, I’m not sure I can really answer that, so I’ll just try my best to fill this blog with useful information and the newbees/wannabees and improvers out there can come here as a reference point if they need info.. (provided you find the blog in the first place!).

Why and when I started

I made the choice, and it really is a choice, to start breaking after seeing a small demo of a bboy doing some basic moves. I’d never seen any before, barring the RUN DMC video way back in the 90s- and there was no YouTube back then- so it was all pretty fresh and unbelievable for me. I saw it and was like’ Yep, that’s the thing for me- I’m going to learn that’. That’s the attitude I had back then, surprising I thought that as my arm was bound up (and had been for over a year) as I’d had a pretty serious injury to it. Anyway, that’s the moment I got started,… and I haven’t stopped since!