Freestyling Tips

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Guys, I haven't gotten much from this (except that one guy's signature move, which is cool) but I think there's gold in the characters. I'm serious. I've gotten some interesting stuff from there.

If only Stepmania will get the $#^#@^ characters usable again...
SM, why have you betrayed me? Bad Bunny, you're gonna have to wait...
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NAOKi SYNDROME · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

Watching Kid Zero, J-doog, DJ8ball and especially clark kent helps...

I'm personally a fan of sweet pnoy though, dig that yellow wear!
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OreO · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

Maybe this should like be unstickied now cause its not very popular anymore.
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Captain-Invincible · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Location: Ireland

It's not made sticky because it's popular or not, but because it's a frequent question. Even if there haven't been any posts for a couple of weeks, its presence at the top of the forum stops people starting new "FreeStyling Tips" threads every couple of weeks.

For the same reasons, it keeps all the tips together in one thread, rather than having to hunt through five or six discontinued threads.

PS Go FreeStyle!
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dj_xero · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

freestylin!
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ZENtronic · Basic Member Joined: 01 Feb 2004

Aight ive done a few routines in my day but i still end up gettin stiff knees at the end of an improve(too much low ground action) i think that i need kinda a more on/off pad type sequence. See my latest song im working on is Paranioa KCET its a pretty good groove and im runnin out of moves to do. its a cool groove but too many steps, 262 to be exact and thats on basic!!! t3h main problem is that i end up with more of a on buttons routine meaning i dont look like im acidentaly hiting the buttons which a real routine should look like. Anyways i need some tips on this.

HOw can i get blacker with my dance?

The Game II · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

What are they made of? Carpet? Foam? What???

For me, I'm going to make a freestyle to Bag, it's really slow which is good. I can go run around off the padin the middle of the song

Hey do you think it having only like 50 arrows would be a bad thing? And what about doing beginner? 50 arrows on beginner.

I'm entering a tourney soon, I need to know this.
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QHeretic (^0^)\m/! YATTA · Trick Member Joined: 16 Oct 2003

Some tourneys don't allow beginner so make sure first. Otherwise I'm starting to see less and less reason to argue the whole beginner freestyling controversy. It basically just makes songs that aren't freestylable normally, to be much more open to possibility. So I'd say take advantage of beginner every chance you get... unless of course you have the opportunity to do a song like Sync Oni Little XD
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djmon · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

i totally agree with you on that

it sucks
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Captain Canada · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: yes

Yeah, exactly, I'm all for Beginner steps. It's sad that we rarely see stuff like Kind Lady, Feeling of Love, Put Your Faith in Me, Insertion, Air (list goes on) - all awesome, danceable songs, but they've been shot to freestyle hell by their dense Light steps.

Stepcharts should have little bearing on the judging of a routine - what matters is what you put into the routine, and how it fits the song. We haven't hated on Clark Kent or Tran Powah for choosing BBGYL or After the Game, have we? Highs Off U? Beginner steps have the same, if not denser, charts than most 1 footers.

Someone smack up some tourney organizers for me. =\
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The Game II · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject:

As a freestyler and tournament organizer, let me give you my $1.00 - $0.98.

One reason I don't allow beginner in my tournaments is because it's not on doubles. If beginner was on doubles, I'd be for it without question.

When Extreme came out, and later Max2US, I avoided beginner mode. I didn't like seeing the stupid background with the character telling you where to step, and I found that some of the steps were nearly the same as the ones on light. There's something about the regular background steps that just keeps you going.

As I continue to try freestyle on beginners, I'm seeing more reason to allow it. I am going to try that (allow beginner mode) for the next tournament that I run, just to see whether everyone goes that route.

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AznSimPliztic · Basic Member Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Location: Middletown, CT

Theres prolly been a reply of this somewhere in this forum but its so big i cant read it all but heres my q's. Ive been popping for over a year nw and have mastered many of the basics but how would u incorprate this into ddr.....like Tuts where would u place thoes or liquiding while moving ur feet alot dats hard.....any tips on how to do things to incorprate these cause u normally dont move ur feet alot duringa reguler popping routine but ddr its different im having a hard time putting it in....how?
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`CoCaZnInNoVaTiOn · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Hampden, MA

Songs with big gaps.
Can't find all that much with a good popping beat.

Then there's...
Move on to edit routines.
Try to Incorporate steps into a poppin routine with tutting.
So then you won't have complainers, complaing about how you make your edits so cheap with oversized gaps.

Bringing in popping/tutting into a regular DDR song can be hard, unless your A. a natural at Freestyle in DDR or B. You've played the song you choose to do it to a lot of times, and you know the song.
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Joose · Trick Member Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Location: Lakewood, WA

Damn, its been a grip.

Anyway, yeah so I took a break from DDR, and now I'm getting back in to it. I want the scene here to spice up, any ideas? I know throwing a tournament would be one, but sponsorship is low, and so are freestylers.
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