Freestyling Tips

Danceatron · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject:

Taking a pointless survey:

Freestylers who do routines-
Do you find yourself freestyling when you just play for fun?

I ask because since I started putting routines together, I find it much easier to freestyle songs when I'm just playing normally (as in un-rehearsed)

Captain Canada- nice stuff, do you do any doubles routines, or do you stick to singles?
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djmon · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 5:57 am Post subject:

i freestyle occasionally so ever time i go to an arcade with a ddr machine you will find me fsing to some stupid song ie somewhere over the rainbow

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

I am told that I play way more naturally then most players when I do play. So maybe there is some style to that.
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Captain Canada · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: yes

Overblast!! · Trick Member Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: somewhere

well first off it helps me when i learn the song really well so i dont have to constantly look at the screen and one thing is speed so you can do alot more with out having to freak out and make a step to late or to early that will really throw your routine off (that happened to me once totaly screwed it up) but anyways that should help just learn the songs and go with the flow to make routines

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djmon · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

Sorry but i only know a couple of abbreviation on songs so yeah, what is AtG?

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

ZERO200 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Location: phoenix.

AHHHH I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS THREAD BUT THERE WAS 666 POSTS SO I HAD TO FIX IT!!!

darkhour · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2002

No matter what, I'm always waving my arms in some fashion. I'm surprised I haven't hit any people yet.

Once and a while I'll try in a move that gives me a good idea for a routine.

Inspirasian · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: [six.two.three]

I only freestyle for tourneys. otherwise. If i wanna dance i just get off the pad and blast some music.

Which i can't do either so i suck

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Metal 01 · Basic Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004

Wow, some freestyling tips!! Awesome! These are some good tips. I myself and not very good at fsing but I would like to work on it and now I will

Inspirasian · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: [six.two.three]

So i finally got some of my vids up...

http://www.geocities.com/stev3r/vids.html
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DevilKhai IIDX · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:

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

WHAAT

Steven, methinks you stole JP Money's "heartbeat" in MSL. But nice shirt, and good improv. =)

Any way to get brighter videos?
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Inspirasian · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: [six.two.three]

That was yeah..JSB and friends...with the whole okay and yeah.

And about stealing jpmoneys thingy...ive never seen his routine so i don't know. So my bad.

and yeah...brighter videos..heh. dont have any. Ive entered like 10routines...but only 4vids heh.
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FlashingTen · Basic Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004

In reply to the "Pointless Servey"

Yes I do freestyle when I play just for fun. I have very few routines, i used to have about 10 but now i am down to 2 b/c i didnt realize how stupid the other 8 were.

I think, if you dont freestyle when you play just for fun then you are just playing to get a work out

And heck, its a stinking good way to workout!
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*witty name* · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Location: Joliet, IL

to be honest, i didnt read all 34 pages. i read the first couple and let me say this:

miss toy, excellent job on summarization.

however, i see people saying things like "watch other dancers, use their moves" etc.

how can you be ORIGINAL if you use other peoples moves? on the pad or off? how is taking a broken leg shootdown from wiggles and putting on a ddr pad any different from taking a move or routine you saw a ddr player do and imitating it in the next tournament?

im a dancer, i do mostly funk styles and liquid, and let me tell everyone right now that taking a "move" from a dancer and putting it into ddr ISNT DANCING, its biting. and its disrespectful to say the least.

and about miss toy's comment about "how many times do you see someone do a handslap or knee plant on a dancefloor" (or something along those lines), i see it quite often--its called LOCKING, and its one of the most respected dance styles world wide. everyone thats seen lots of the vids of west coast ddr freestylers have probably seen a lot of locking moves incorporated. i know for a fact that Lil B incorporates locking, whether he knows it or not.

as far as my tips go for freestyling, i try to do things ON THE PAD that normally people in the audience wouldnt be able to do OFF THE PAD. when you watch someone do a bar hop you're probably thinking "...whats so special about that? even i could do that" (or insert any ordinary freestyle "move" to replace "bar hop", you get the point). when you see someone do a backflip you think "wow, (s)he just did that ON DDR, i cant even do that on a trampoline for X's sake!" or something to that effect.

im not saying go try extraordinary moves like backflips on ddr, but do things that mean something and that are special to you. things that you know other people cant do. i met a guy once on the dance floor that could dislocate his shoulders and elbows and make boxes and do liquid very well behind his back. i was IMPRESSED. i know for a fact that i cant do what he can because i cant dislocate my elbows and when i DO dislocate my shoulders i dont have enough control to really do anything with it. but after talking to him about it he said he had never realised that anyone would be so impressed with it, he thought it didnt look good at all, but i definately think otherwise.

improv freestyles from the last tournament here--right click, save target as, accept secure connection:

https://cat2.ath.cx/kai/bzn/kai-freestyle.mpg

https://cat2.ath.cx/kai/bzn/jeffito-kai-exhibition-freestyle.mpg
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darkhour · Trick Member Joined: 13 Nov 2002

BTW Haven't read though all 30 some pages, but any tips on trying to breakdance on a pad? Kinda hard with the bar in the way, but it looks awesome when done properly.

ã©ã¤ã¹ · Trick Member Joined: 26 May 2002 Location: Los Angeles, CA

It's nice to see some breaking on the pad but it limits yo do so much.

uouuÉ · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004

the first FS routine i designed was on butterfly standard. i did it facing the machine. it wasn't in a contest, but it does attract crouds in the arcade
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