Hip Hop (English name) originated in new york, USA, and was the product of jazz dance in 1990s. Its movements are various combinations of walking, running and jumping, which are varied. It is made up of joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs and trunk through flexion and extension, rotation, rotation, sparkling and wave-like twisting. Every movement has its specific fitness effect, which not only pays attention to the coordination between upper and lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and trunk, but also pays attention to the independent movement of each part. Therefore, street dance not only has the functions of improving heart and lung function, reducing fat, enhancing muscle elasticity and enhancing ligament flexibility, but also has the functions of coordinating muscle groups in various parts of the human body, shaping beautiful posture, improving human coordination ability and cultivating aesthetic feeling.

Hip-hop is a street culture developed by African-Americans, and it is a kind of exercise to vent emotions. It is characterized by strong explosive force, and the movements of limbs are exaggerated compared with other dances. The most attractive thing is to bring a warm feeling with the vitality of the whole body.

Hip-hop makes people pay attention, have strong interest, and act beautifully and casually. At the same time, street dance also has the function of slimming, because street dance is a low-intensity aerobic exercise, and the function of consuming whole body fat is quite strong in an hour's exercise. In addition, street dance is a small muscle exercise. Regular practice can increase the coordination of your whole body and make your body proportion more standard.

classify

Based on action, hip-hop can be divided into two categories: hip-hop and break dancing. Street dance can generally be divided into two types, one is personal skill street dance. Personal Skills Hip-hop is the earliest popular hip-hop because it can reflect the energetic side of young people. Many of their ground movements, such as somersault, handstand and bouncing, are high-skilled personal hip-hop performances. The other is group street dance, which is a popular form of street dance at present. It reflects the needs of the public, and it is relatively simple to jump and has a strong sense of rhythm. It has both the feeling of dancing and the function of fitness. Therefore, collective street dance is more common at present.

Open circuit:

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

In 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 in the world hold some competitions for B-Boys, the most famous of which are the annual BOTY (Battle of the Year) and the B-Boys Championship held in Britain. Hundreds of players from more than 65,438+00 countries will take part in such activities. The winner of the competition will soon become famous and become the star of teenagers.

Hip hop music:

The Chinese translation of the word hip-hop is Hip-Hop, which was born in new york 1974 and was invented by Starski, a famous DJ and MC lover. At the end of 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, a series of black cultural and artistic forms appeared in American East Coast cities headed by new york, including graffiti or writing, B-Boying, record playing (DJ or Deejay, DJ means disc jockey, that is, the person who controls records) and rap (MCing or MC).

The word Hip-Hop was originally rhymed by love bug Starski in rap. Hip means ass, and Hop means jumping. Together, it can be interpreted as jumping ass. In the early 1980s, Affri Bambaataa, the godfather of hip-hop, borrowed the word hip-hop to refer to the black urban cultural movement represented by the above four cultural forms, and it was quickly and widely accepted. The above four cultures became the four elements of hip-hop.

Hip-hop is translated into hip-hop and rap is translated into rap. These two concepts are different. Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term, but a cultural term, including rap, graffiti, street dance and DJ disc playing. Singing originated in the 1960s, while hip-hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor is RAP (sometimes with a little R(B)).

Literally, Hip-Hop is Hip, Hop is hop, and together it is Hip-waking. At first, it refers to the budding hip-hop (that is, we used to talk about break dancing), and then it gradually developed into a huge concept-the hip-hop culture we are talking about now also includes loose clothes, heavy pure gold ornaments, and "YoYo?" What's the matter? "Oral habits-in short, it is the lifestyle and their" style "of black people in poor neighborhoods in the United States.

There are many styles of dancing street dance, such as Poping, Locking, Electric, Turbo, House and so on. They don't need higher skills such as breaking, but they need more coordination and sense of dance, as well as flexibility and control of their limbs. Good hip-hop dancers also need to practice hard. Because street dance is not as skillful and competitive as breaking, it has not been paid enough attention by street dance lovers before. Now with the enhancement of dance concept, this situation has changed, and even B-Boy has begun to practice, and many all-round hip-hop players have appeared.

Hip-hop is a kind of dance that people often contact. It has big and simple steps, and can show a complex sense of dance. Because it is easy to learn and beautiful to jump, it is very popular with the public.

POPING:

Mechanical dance, using the muscles and joints of all parts of the body, with the beat of music and rich imagination, creates amazing dance steps. It belongs to the more difficult street dance type.

Freestyle:

This is a great dance step, mixing all kinds of dances together and performing at will. There is no limit to the style of dance, which is out of the norm of general dance. It can be said that it is personalized street dance.

House:

With House music, a kind of dance step is complicated and magical, which can be combined with the basic dance steps of Latin dance, martial arts somersault, tap dance and ballet circle. It can be elegant or quite wild.

New Jazz (for girls only):

This is a dance developed from jazz, specially for girls to dance. It pays great attention to femininity and instant bursting. Give priority to with arm movements, supplemented by waist twisting hip movements. It requires a high figure and is very popular in Europe, America and South Korea. Music is rhythm jazz.

RAGREA (reggae, only for girls):

It is said that this dance originated in France, and some people say that it originated in the United States. It's a sexy dance, and the dancers are naked, mainly using the movements of the lower body, mainly using the hips, waist and legs. There will be some simple handstands and shaking the thighs in the air. It has developed well in Japan, where the porn industry is developed. And normal interpretation is sexy.

Hip-hop is in China.

Hip-hop was introduced to China in the mid-1980s, benefiting from the American hip-hop movie "Break Dance" from 65438 to 0984.

1984 coincides with the first upsurge of American hip-hop, which has aroused widespread concern in society, stood out from the crowd and was reported by major media. In China, at that time, video recorders had just started to enter the home. The video of break dancing was transmitted to young people in China through various channels. The families of young people who were the first to own televisions and video recorders became the spread centers of break dancing. At that time, many "motors" appeared in the street, with cloth tied to their heads and sneakers on their feet-one of the leading characters in break dancing, named Bugaro? Bugalo Spiep is a famous dancer in the history of street dance. It's as if there is something wrong with their brains. One hand transmits electricity to the other hand, the other hand walks back and forth in space, and the other hand cleans the glass in the air.

In fact, at that time, the American media were confused in the first hip-hop craze, and they put the name of new york Break Dance on the West Coast Dance. The movie "Break Dance" should be called "Crazy Dance" or "Mechanical Dance and Mechanical Dance" because it was shot in California and basically reflected the dance on the West Coast. But in any case, break dancing has a great influence on China. There are a large number of street dancers in China and the United States almost at the same time, and the level is quite high.

Unfortunately, by the end of 1980s, break dancing had 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 speculation made hip-hop quickly become the chewing gum left by the public. Pop artists quickly stole the achievements of hip-hop and repackaged them into popular products more acceptable to the public, but the real hip-hop was abandoned. Break dancing has become an outdated thing in new york, and B-boys all over the world seem to be swept away overnight. Second, "break dancing" has not been correctly recognized by society. Young people who break dance are called juvenile delinquents. Third, there was no market environment for the development of "break dance". Hip-hop dancers have nothing to gain except satisfying their personal interests. There is no economic basis for lazy survival. As a non-traditional literary form, street dance can only lose its vitality in China.

In China, another figure who had an important influence on early street dance was Michael? Jackson, many young people still imitate his dance steps today, which shows the influence of this "king of pop". As early as 1974, Michael 16 years old? As a member of the "Jackson 5" singing group, Jackson sang the song "Dance Machine" on TV and danced robot dance, which made this dance popular in the United States. 1983, Jackson performed a spacewalk in the TV special program of the 25th anniversary of Motown Records Company, which caused a sensation. Since Beyond the Wall, many excellent music videos have been shot in each of his albums, including a large number of dance performances, and dance has become an important part of his music art. Thriller, Bad, and Memory of Time are the three most wonderful music videos of dance performances, among which dance is a new classic of hip-hop dance that combines crazy dance, hip-hop dance and jazz dance. Choreographer is a famous hip-hop master in new york, including Henry? Link and others. And Jackson's dance performance at the concert is even more popular in China, enduring.

In 1990s, hip-hop revived in America, which was mainly attributed to the worldwide popularity of hip-hop and the whole hip-hop culture. In 1980s, new york hip-hop artists made great efforts to spread this culture all over the world. Their hip-hop trip traveled all over the United States, went to France and Britain, and 1984 came to Japan. In 1990s, as a new fashionable cultural form and lifestyle, hip-hop developed rapidly in the world. 1990, Germany held the first annual dance competition, which has now become the most important annual street dance competition in the world. With diligence, intelligence and creativity, Japanese teenagers quickly mastered and developed street dance. The achievements of Japanese hip-hop dancers have been recognized by Americans, who spread this culture to neighboring countries and regions such as South Korea, Singapore, China and Taiwan Province Province. Since the mid-1990s, street dance has gradually spread in Chinese mainland, mainly in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

Guangzhou's street dance and its street dance culture appeared earlier. It is said that 1993 held a break dance competition, which made street dance popular in the province. The word street dance was first circulated in Guangdong. Shanghai street dance is greatly influenced by Japan and Taiwan Province Province. The level of the new street dance is ahead of the whole country. There are some masters in lock dance and mechanical dance, and break dance focuses on style and action. Beijing street dance culture came with "Korean Wave". Founded in early 2002, Beiwutang Dance Company has developed rapidly under the standardized management system and the market development of commercial operation, attracting almost all Beijing hip-hop masters and quickly becoming famous in the national hip-hop circle. In addition to the above three places, stomping yards can be seen almost all over the country, from provincial capitals to wealthy towns and villages.

In the second half of 2003, street dance quickly warmed up under the hype of the media and became the most popular youth cultural phenomenon. On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2002, three sets of CCTV "Dance World" programs filmed street dance special programs with street dance as the main content, and the Beijing Beiwutang Street Dance Team performed most of them. This is the first time that CCTV, the most influential mainstream media in China, introduced hip-hop culture comprehensively. This program was broadcast during the Spring Festival in 2003.

At the end of 2003, CCTV held the first TV street dance competition, which was the first time that China held a nationwide street dance competition. However, the professionalism of the competition is not strong enough, and the judges, program directors, photographers and other related staff have limited understanding of street dance. The competition also incorporates irrelevant contents such as aerobics, which makes them feel very amateur. At the same time of holding the first CCTV TV Street Dance Competition, China Mobile Communication Company held the "China College Students' Street Dance Challenge in M-Zone". This competition is only held on the university campus, but some non-university students also take part. Since the late 1990s, famous foreign street dancers have come to China, and occasionally they can be seen dancing in clubs in metropolises such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In 2005, the world's most influential street dance competition, the annual fighting dance competition, was held in China for the first time. This was also the first time that the international street dance competition was settled in China, which triggered a craze for the participation of street dance lovers all over the country.

Nowadays, street dance has become a popular fashion culture for teenagers. It is becoming a reality that China street dance has surpassed the advanced level in the world and reached the international stage.

What should I pay attention to when practicing street dance for the first time?

Beginners of street dance must not increase the amount of exercise at once, but step by step. Usually do warm-up activities first, fully exercise all joints and ligaments of the body, especially knees and ankles, to avoid injury when jumping; Then enter a certain intensity and time of practice, preferably not less than 30 minutes; Finally, use various stretching exercises to relax the body. Only in this way can we achieve better slimming effect.

Because everyone's age, physique and health are different, everyone's exercise intensity is also different. "Exercise intensity" is generally expressed as "maximum heart rate", so you should calculate the most suitable heart rate when dancing street dance:

If you are 25 years old and don't often take part in physical exercise, and your physical fitness is average, then your maximum heart rate is 220-25 = 195, and the appropriate exercise intensity (exercise heart rate) should be (60-75%) ×195 =195.

Looking for the feeling of dancing street dance

Usually, the most difficult thing for us to dance HIP-HOP is feeling. So how can we practice this feeling?

Step 1: First of all, you must love HIP-HOP several times more than others.

Step 2: Go to a nearby music studio or video store and buy a CD or tape of hip-hop dance music.

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

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

Step 5: Turn up the music as much as possible and follow the music! Big! Practice the shoulders first (let the shoulders only shake up and down); You will feel bored at first, but when dancing HIP-HOP, the shoulder is the most important feeling part.

Step 6: Continue the previous step and practice the up-and-down elasticity of legs and knees.

Step 7: Practice the left and right legs backward step by step with the music, and also practice the forward movement.

Step 8: Practice the flexibility of hand joints (from fingertips to shoulders like waves, both hands should practice).

Step 9: Practice your toes. Follow the music and practice walking with only your toes. Bounce back and forth, left and right with your toes. In this way, your feelings will also go up a storey still higher. When practicing this step, you must be careful not to let all your feet touch the ground.

Step 10: Combine all the above steps and shake your whole body at will, so that your hip-hop has a foundation.

Usually you'd better prepare a bigger mirror from the beginning, and it's better to practice in front of it. When you start, you will feel bored and tired. Because street dance is not a vigorous dance, but it is as tiring as vigorous dance, so we must have perseverance and keep practicing. Some people may feel nothing in practice, but don't think you have no talent. Many famous dancers were born suddenly while walking or inadvertently. So you can also become a spokesperson for hip-hop through practice.

Specific practice methods

POPPIN is very strong as long as he uses his limbs flexibly. Don't jump POPPIN until your limbs have become POP, because the foundation is unstable and you will never learn well. Even if you imitate an action and jump out, people in the industry will feel ugly at first sight, and POPPIN is no bigger than anyone else, otherwise the whole body will POP. When you pop up, the output point should be short and large. The more relaxed POPPIN is, the better it looks, so it looks very thin. Many people will use the sudden drop of the upper shoulder to drive the POP of muscles in various parts during practice. This practice method can't be said to be incorrect, but POP is not good-looking. More importantly, what needs to be added is that when you just practice, you will feel that your movements are very few. In fact, this is not a problem, as long as you dance for a long time. I feel good. I put my body into music. It doesn't matter if I repeat some actions in a song. What matters is the feeling. Dance to the music, be in tune, as long as you can dance to the music and play a song.

First, the method of hand exercises

1, put your hands in a posture much like riding a horse, and put your fingers down to feel relaxed.

2. Then you press your wrist down, but let the finger part go up. When you press your wrist down, do you see a concave hole in your forearm, that is, a small hole in the shaft (just practice it repeatedly)

3. When practicing, look at the upper part of your hand and see if the muscles explode. If yes, see if the connection between the chest and the arm is beating, and if the muscles in the back are beating. When the wrist is pressed down, the chest muscles are beating slightly, but it should be noted that the chest muscles are not jumping forward, but jumping upward. If you have the above points, you are right.

It is estimated that the beating of back muscles may not come out at the beginning of training, but forced training is still possible. It should be noted that when practicing hands, don't exert force on your shoulders, all the force is on your wrist. Please try to see if you can feel it.

It is natural that the practice of this hand should be coordinated with the practice of the upper foot.

Second, the practice of soaking feet

In fact, the thump in the footsteps is actually the thump in the crotch. Many people find it so complicated and difficult to practice. In fact, the practice of crotch is easier than the practice of hands. Just don't feel too complicated. Try to keep it simple. The simpler the better, pay attention to your knees.

1, you stand up first, then your knees lean forward slightly, which is a bit like sitting down.

2, you start from the first point, stand up slowly from this action, remember to straighten your feet slowly, but don't use force.

3. Stand up slowly. When your feet are about to stand up straight, you suddenly straighten your feet hard and fast (that is, your knees are backward). Has this kind of repeated practice become popular? Remember never to use any force or retract your ass. That's an incorrect practice method. Let's try to think simply.

It is natural that this kind of foot exercise should be coordinated with the upper limb exercise.

Third, head shots.

In fact, it is really difficult to explain the first part of the exercise by typing! In fact, it is an effect of the force on the head at 45 degrees.

When we meet acquaintances on the road, we often say "hello". Remember, the POP on the head is a bit like "hello". How can I put it? When you are calling someone "hello", is your head a little upward, that is, that "point" is actually POP, but you should work hard and finish it in a short time. Attention is to keep the original relaxed expression first, suddenly ask someone to feed you, and learn the POP in your mind after repeated practice. Do you feel something? But don't push your chin. It's on the back of your head. Can you follow me?

Fourth, hold out your chest

No need to practice chest. (But the real one-chest electric shock needs practice. When you straighten your waist for the first time, you will feel a little sore. Pay attention to your chest, and then suddenly POP when you relax slowly, but this POP is not waist strength, and the waist is straight just for the sake of being more beautiful when you POP! )

supplement

Finally, I would like to add some views of Popper: BOKY at the domestic level:

1。 POP on the arm mainly uses triceps brachii and brachioradialis muscle. You can try this action: hold the wall with your five fingers, and then push the wall with your palm (pay attention to the natural bending of the elbow joint, and don't straighten it hard). The muscle group used in this action is roughly the POP position on the arm.

2。 The muscles of the chest walk vertically upwards. Because it should be noted that few explosion points will be completed by stretching the joints. So on the other hand, pectoralis major does not go up, which is bound to participate in the bending of spinal joints. In addition, the POP of chest muscles and the POP of neck muscles are generally completed at the same time. It can be understood this way. When the chest muscles go up, keep the head in the original position or press down slightly, which naturally compresses the muscles in the neck. In addition, how to exercise neck muscles? Everyone tries to pronounce two sounds, one is "Oh". When this mouth is stretched to the maximum, it naturally tightens the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The other is "ha". This mouth shape can tighten levator scapulae and scapulohyoid muscles to the maximum extent. These three muscles are an important source of neck thumping.

3。 Open your legs. This is the only POP that needs to be done with joints. Because it is difficult to tighten the muscles of all parts of the thigh when the knee is naturally bent. In addition, it should be added that the POP in the lower plate is not only made of thigh muscles. In some specific movements, the muscles of the hips and lower back will also use POP.

The way hip-hop dresses.

In the busy city streets, we can sometimes see that many young people like to wear this way: a wide sweater or an oversized sports coat directly covers their hips, the upper body overlaps inside and outside, the waistband hangs low on the crotch, the trouser legs are directly supported on the ground, and the trouser legs are stacked on the heels, so that the whole person can be safely hidden in a tight clothing cover.

This comfortable and humorous dress style actually comes from African-American families. Originally, in order to save money, brothers and sisters were allowed to wear big clothes worn by brothers and sisters. Over time, such a loose street feeling has been formed.

With the popularity of extreme sports such as Hip——Hop and skateboarding by black people from all over the world, this dress style, which is deeply loved by black musicians and street sportsmen, has also begun to be loved by young people all over the world.

The typical wearing styles of HIP-HOP mainly include: a wide T-shirt with exaggerated Logo, similarly wide casual pants, jeans or sweatpants with side zippers, basketball shoes or workers' boots, fisherman's hats or baseball caps, headscarves with ethnic patterns, and hair dyed into ears of wheat or braided. Corresponding accessories include tattoo Tatoo, silver earrings or nose rings, arm rings, matrix sunglasses, MD walkman, scooter, backpack Back-pack, etc. Together, these sporadic clothes have formed a hip-hop fashion that has been popular in the United States for 20 years.

When you see a boy dressed like this in the street, he has knitted a long black hair, a long-sleeved cotton shirt, a short-sleeved baseball T-shirt, extra-wide sweatpants, a nail-thick steel bar passing through his left ear bone, a pair of foggy silver headphones hanging around his neck, a pair of skateboarding shoes to strengthen ankle protection and a big square backpack. In any case, they all look like children of Chinese Americans who have just come to visit their relatives. Don't be surprised, this must be a hip-hop fan!

However, as long as you carefully observe, it is not difficult to find that these typical hip-hop costumes can not be called "fresh". In fact, big T-shirts can be seen everywhere, and wide casual pants are not new. Pant jeans have been used by little girls to match tight T-shirts in recent years, and basketball shoes and workers' boots are even more common, not to mention baseball caps, headscarves, earrings, backpacks or sunglasses. Among all hip-hop devices, the only relatively new one is the scooter, but most children born in the 1970s should remember the "shaved ice" they used to play in kindergarten. It is also a high handlebar, with front and rear wheels and a single pedal in the middle, which is exactly the same as the popular scooter today. Therefore, hip-hop fashion, which seems fresh, is actually not so fresh.

It's not easy to reassemble those ordinary clothes and wear that unprecedented hip-hop feeling. What exactly is Hip-hopStyle? The answer is simple and clear: "You need to feel that way." In short, it is the word "feeling", but to put it more thoroughly, this word includes natural artistic talent, feeling for music and dance, keen sense of touch and taste, very outgoing personality, excellent English ability and sense of humor. In other words, people who want to maximize the feeling of hip-hop are very cool newcomers. Find an English word to describe it, and the most appropriate one is "Smart".

So, if you don't think your self-cultivation has reached the above level, then don't try hip-hop that you haven't felt in place yet, otherwise it will only make people feel awkward and unnatural. If it is seen by those who have already cultivated hip-hop, it will undoubtedly make people laugh.