r freestylers in DDR showoffs?

~{theDDR_freak}~ · Trick Member Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Location: NJ

ive noticed alotta ppl in my arcade doin' freestyle. to me, it looks like their showin' off. idk if their meaning to or if their just practicing. wen they do freestyle, do u think they showoff or not?
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Mart · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:30 am Post subject:

Maybe they don't... maybe they do... And what if they do? I don't see this as bad. Some people like freestyles, some people don't. It's like saying that contestants in a dancing competition show off because they pull off amazing stunts.

Anyways, in my view, showing off isn't bad at all. If you can pull the stunt, pull it. You can show off what you can do without being obnoxious about it. As Kid Rock would say, it ain't bragging if you can back it up.
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not dryad · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

If you want to stereotype and be ignorant, then yes, we freestyle just to show off.
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dj 8-ball · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:43 am Post subject:

Freestyle, showoff...same thing.
You can't help it because of the way the game is setup i.e. you are playing in front of a crowd whether it's FS or PA.
Wouldn't a person full comboing be considered showing off as well? To me it can.
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Footstep · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

I agree with 8-ball.People call me a show off when I C** a song and end it with a 180 degree turn if the song has a double step at the end.
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SG · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Location: Minot,ND

I was doing some freestyling in the arcade and this punk comes up
behind me and said right in my face while i was dancing "you show
off i will challenge you" i was like whoaa chill out chillbert. I dont get
it dude they say your showing off if you freestyle...to me its a style
just like how poeple who do steps hold on to the bar its a style i mean
i pratice and work hard at them and i can only pratice in the arcades
my DDR pad sucks so i never do it at home. so would guys count
me as a show off? or just a freestyler doing what he likes

Papaya Lover · Basic Member Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Location: Grand Blanc, MI

It depends... If you just do like a turn and that's it , I call it showing off, because they are trying to get attention for something they obviously aren't good at. but if you play a whole song backwords or something(which seems to be popular at my arcade), then you aren't really showing off, you're just taking the fun out of DDR (IMO)
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it's probably stroud · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Location: Georgia

This is just like asking the question "are double players showoffs?" as the past few posts said...its just a style of playing...

SG · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Location: Minot,ND

I do about half of a song backwords cuase im still workin on it. I do alot more then spins thow like knee drops,hand drops,hand stands,freezes, kinda like break dancing stuff. And hey doubles i dont think are showing off becuase its just making it more challenging is all nothing wrong with that?

CatchRothy22 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Apr 2004

I'd say no because it's there style of play. It's more considered 'dancing' that way too.

sugarbyte · Trick Member Joined: 18 Apr 2004

I once saw this guy doing butterfly on heavy and he was soo bad at freestyling. He was stomping on the arrows like as if they were completly not responding (they worked fine btw) and when he was trying to freestyle, he missed like 15 arrows, it was pretty funny. I thought HE was a showoff, but freestylers in general aren't. It really depends how they act. I mean, if someone is looking around, wondering if they have an audience, then try really hard to look cool, when they look like an idiot, yes, that is a bad showoff, but if you've got the talent, then show it off

keef · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject:

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GdUp4liff · Trick Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Location: eht

i think when most poeple freesyle they dont do it to showoff but to have some fun while there playing. but if they are showing off i dont see that as a bad thing. poeple who can freestyle are extremely talented and they do have the right to "showoff" or showcase there moves. plus when poeple freestyle large crowds usualy gather making it easy to showoff and the poeple who are watching enjoy the showcase of danceing talent. so showoff or not it doesnt realy matter as long as they have fun during the gameplay.

plus...........if i could freestyle i would showoff too.

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~Reign~ · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2002 Location: Berkeley, CA

Here's a better question: Why do you play DDR? Do you play to showoff? Because it's fun? Friend got you into it? And why do you think us FS'ers are showoffs? Because we do something you can't do? That's what it seems like to me. So what if someone plays a song that you can't do. You think he's just showing off he can pass the song? Doesn't that sound stupid? I can't believe there's actually people who think like this...But then again, yea I can. World's a pretty fucked up place.

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goodtimesddr · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

Well dancing has ever and will ever be a form of showing off in front of a crowd. In a game that tries to imitate the form of dancing it's hard not to show off, freestyle, getting technical, and so on. If you are afraid of showing off in DDR, well you're just playing the wrong game.
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Mart · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: