I do Breakdancing, I teach, perform and have an unsuccessful youtube channel, I started dancing in 1998, here is what I have learned. 1. No matter how skilled you are, you will always loose to an attractive girl in a bikini. Every show we have done with go-go dancers, the girls in a bikini get more of the attention etc. 2. Performing seems fun but its mostly waiting in the back and staying warmed-up so you dont hurt yourself. 3. We get some odd requests, from performing in certain clothes, being full body painted etc.. But most of the requests are pretty normal, people just want to see some dope Breakdancers go crazy. 4. After you perform everybody wants to talk to you and share how they used to breakdance and try to describe the move they could do. 5. Kids LOVE YOU! They go apey when you do flips and the cool tricks like headspins. It is the only reason I still do it. 6. Teaching is fun in the beginning, but then it is repetitive as you teach mainly beginners over and over again. 7. Adults will sabotage themselves and tell you why they can't do something when you are teaching them. Kids will get discouraged when they don't learn the moves instantly. 8. Most people will quit dancing when they figure out how hard it is. 9.2024 Olympics will have Breakdancing! But for years I was ridiculed for dancing and kept it to myself. 10. Don't do it for the money, because there is little money in dancing, and less for a male dancer. Can you name three successful male dancers? 11. Breakdancing will keep you in superb shape and people are starting to realize it. Breakdancers are basically an offshoot of gymnasts/calisthenics but we focus way more on creativity. But we need excellent flexibility (full splits), strength to weight ration similar to a gymnast and stamina similar to a boxer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDClgIUmW0 EDIT: Breakdancing TC varies but its anywhere from 2-6k a year. Also failed to mention how many hours of training it takes, in the beginning I trained 2 hours every other day. Now that I just maintain, I train about 4-8 hours a week. #sidejob #gig #Breakdancing #dancing
This is awesome! I used to hang out with a friend who was a professional b-boy. He used to practice like crazy!! Put a lot of hard work into it & was always excited to show me a new move. He grew a community in a country where it wasn't existent. Plus, he really loved doing it. All the best OP. Hope you you keep dancing!!
Not your typical blind post. Thanks OP
This is cool. Thanks OP
Which one is you in video?
Neither, just some of the top talent in the US. But worldwide the talent level is very high. I'm about half of what these dudes can do.
I don't think I've seen breakdancing in about 15 years. It's come a long, long way. The guys in the video are insane! If you can do even 25% of that, wow.
How do you get started?
There are very few schools, there are some decent tutorials online, secrets of learning powermoves is a good one. My website has guides for newbies. But I'd suggest you start off with trying to do 60 pushups in under 2 minutes. It is the first of many hurdles and if you can do this you can climb up to harder and harder stuff
If dancing paid I wouldnt be on blind. I make a couple of thousand a year. Depends how hard I hustle, the lockdowns pretty much killed the business but its coming back now.
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Thanks OP. Do you recommend it to overweight men? I always noticed male gymnasts are some of the strongest fuckers But I can’t do a pull-up
You can always start the training for it, pushups stretching etcetera. The key to understand is you will struggle and overcoming the struggle is where you get results. If you are overweight you will struggle more in the beginning but by year 3-5 you will be as good as everyone else.
What’s a good starting point for the training?
Happy for you OP :)
This isn’t tech related
I have a website and youtube channel for it and I teach techies and their kids.
Clio : this is posted in side jobs. Just scroll by. OP : sounds like fun, great going.