Freestyling Tips

Ryudori · Trick Member Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey

I've been playing DDR for about 9 months now, but only recently got into fsing. Problem is I have no clue what I'm supposed to do with my arms during the song...I watched some videos but I really don't know how to do any of that. Not too skilled at real dancing but I'm working on it. Anyone have any suggestions?
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OBF · Trick Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004

. Depends on your style and what you choose. Check out the videos

Kevin Kim Style/Tequila style/kaiborg style:Very impressive style based on sharp arm movements. will usually top tournaments
Move your arm every second. Arm movement>movement

DJ8-ball/Bruce Leroy/Common Syle: Moderate arm movement. Moves come in and add enterainment. You should move arms commonly maybe once every 10 seconds (pointing at audience,etc) everyones style Arm Movement=Movement

A-team/obsesedBoAFreak/Hypnotikz: Your arms move frequently to cope with your hip hop moves you string together.Hypnotikz he's kinda slower style. very tiring Arm Movement=Movement

Adult B/Clark Kent style: If you're lazy and don't want to move your arms make up for it with the lower body. Your lower body must be VERY good Arm Movement<Movement

*witty name* · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Location: Joliet, IL

kaiborg style...hehehe

uhm, anything i do on the pads is usually directly taking from a funk style or an illusion style of dance.

arm work consists of Filmore, Waving, Richmond, Locking (the oh so little that i know), Scarecrow, Puppet, or Poppin'.

to make that easier to understand: funky angles. complete sharpness using speed and muscle control (stopping on a dime, or hitting), or controlled looseness to make an illusion (ie scarecrow or puppet styles, you may associate waving with looseness, but its not).

best advice anyone's ever given ME in regards to the same question: keep it fawnky.

:-)
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Ryudori · Trick Member Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey

Ha ha thanks alot! Now I have an almost halfway decent freestyle routine...I'll keep working on it. And one more question: Am I going to be penalized for not dancing like a girl (ie not feeling myself up on the dancepad)? Cause that's pretty much all I've seen from female fs'ers
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Joose · Trick Member Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Location: Lakewood, WA

Oh you're a girl? hahaha, thats awesome.

You don't have to feel up on yourself. I would get kind of annoyed at it honestly. Its not ddr lapdance, its ddr freestyle.

I think..I'm gonna make a dynamite rave routine to end all dynamite rave routines...that or I'll revive them all together. I relooked at the steps, and find a lot of easy breakin combos can be done in thsoe steps. Not talking knee drops either. Crap, I just need somebody to record.

Another note, I was at gameworks today, and found another freestyler. A local, not a tourist. Thats dope, too bad i had to go.

(i live in guam btw)

How do you guys feel about missing arrows to do bigger moves. I'm guilty of this. But how do you guys feel. Have you done it?
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*witty name* · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Location: Joliet, IL

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

For me personally, it's hard to skip arrows. Like...I PA sometimes, so watching a few just float past the top doesn't feel natural. One FSer told me that a D is the grade he aims for, though, and I can see that...allows for creativity while still holding the person to some structure. Much better than making a "no arrow" edit anyhow.

And yeah, even though Nobody Jen has skill, it's not like every girl has to dance like her (I seriously think her crotch-on-fire move was what got her 2nd at CVGL =p). Go for a style of your own, like Joose said. I mean, still take advantage of the fact that you're a girl and can pull off certain stuff that a guy couldn't get away with, but don't go overboard.
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*witty name* · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Location: Joliet, IL

djmon · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject:

yeah you don't have to dance like a girl if your a girl

see some of vhg's fs videos and you'll see

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OBF · Trick Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004

Yes please end the Dynamite Raves. New banner turpnoi?

djmon · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

of course, much love for Ayumi

, actually i believe either Reign or I will end all the Dynamite Rave routines except Lynn Longboys DR routine. Reign will be making an edit and i will either FS to light or heavy little

i'm almost done with mine and i will exhibition it in HIV

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Joose · Trick Member Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Location: Lakewood, WA

Hmm, can you post it when you get it? What are thinking of doing? I'm was thinking of just blowing all that other trick stuff out the window with some compeletly new tricks.
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Niyo · Basic Member Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Location: georgia.

^ ^ KAKUMEI FREESTYLE ROUTINE QUESTION:

My friend's girlfriend and I have been trying to develop a Kakumei freestyling routine for an upcoming fs tourney...
We've been practicing forever...the whole routine is based around--ballroom dancing. We use 'doubles' so it's easy for both of us to move around the pads, but we still look incredibly stupid doing the gallops together...

...any suggestions here?
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Jing · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

Put it on little.
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miniman52 · Basic Member Joined: 01 Apr 2005

i just started playing DDR and i really like to free style! i breakdance so it sorta comes naturaly....im brand new so i dont really know some of the moves or what ever???

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djmon · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

Tenshanhan · Basic Member Joined: 23 Jan 2005

Hey guys, I've been reading the stuff on FS'ing lately (including Captain Canada's two recent threads), and I got some quick questions about it.
First off,
1)Did you FS'ers start off PA'ing? I'm going to assume most did, so that will lead into:
2) When did you start FS'ing, PA skill wise? After you could do heavy songs? As soon as you felt like it? Because right now I'm still doing 4-5 footers on standard, but I know I want to FS eventually. How long should I wait?
3) Up here in good old Oshawa, Ontario, I've never seen anyone attempt any FS'ing, meaning when I start, I'm going to have no one to get advice from. Did you guys teach yourselves? Or did you learn by watching? Or did someone actually teach you?
4) When you guys do FS, what difficulty are you playing on?
5) My main question... when I do decide to start FS'ing, how do I start? Should I start with certain moves or on certain songs?

Thanks to anyone who responds. I was watching a bunch of the videos in Captain Canada's Top 50, and... wow. Amazing, amazing stuff... I love Kevin Kim's Dam Darriam... when I an do that... fear me.
(btw, I am sorry if some of these questions have been asked... don't hate me, but 50 pages is a little much to read through. Please don't hurt me)

matthew · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004

i know next to nothing about freestyling but i'll try to answer as much as i can.

1)

some only play for freestyle. obviously a strong perfect attacker may be a poor freestyler and it works the other way too.

2)

pretty much whenever you feel like it. don't wait.

3)

well, in that case you'll impress the people in oshawa then. you have videos so you're well ahead of the game already.

4)

difficulty = your choice. whatever you feel brings out the essence of the song the most.

all notes hit = incorrect assumption. nobody really cares that much about simultaneous freestyling and perfect attacking. some will actually miss things on purpose to make their routine look better. the general standard is that you do not fail your song since that shows you really don't care about the song itself.

5)

definitely certain moves because those will be transferrable to any song. if you really want to loosen up, play some doubles and ITG. doubles requires lots of improvising if you don't play it as much and it has lots of interesting techniques. ITG has loads of hands and mines, nuff said.

remember that you want to make the song pop and show it's unique flavour. you'll find the best freestyle performances have some original content is not found in other normal freestyles. that said, all spinning and handplants = lame excuse for freestyle.

i think that about does it.

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

Tsinay Butterfly · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: