Breaking On Another Level
Culture is something derived from ethnicity, geographical location within the world, or religion. A sub culture on the other hand can be created at anytime by anyone. In the late seventies, an urban subculture in the streets of New York began to rise. This movement became known as Hip-Hop. This was a culture in which peoples from all backgrounds, religions, and race could all participate. The inner city youth, to create a sense of togetherness, created their own culture. Hip Hop as a culture is more than music, that is just one of the art forms that go along with it. Hip-Hop as a culture has four different elements that one must master to claim himself a true Hip Hopper. M.C.ing is the art form of creating stunning, thoughtful rhythmic ballads. A DJ masters the turn tables and can fluently mix an entourage of music creating it into his own masterpiece. A graffiti artist, known as ghetto Di Vincis, uses a wall or some other big place to express his views of the world. The hardest art to perfect, because it is forever changing, is break dancing. A good "breaker" can astound an audience with one move. Break dancing, like the other elements, has many branches underneath it. The sub elements of break dancing are pop lock
Doing these moves has high risks involved. Over rotating, not rotating enough, not having your hands where they should be, closing your legs, losing your balance, all these can have grave consequences. To get most of these moves to work involves cheating gravity a bit by rotating your body and kicking your legs in such a fashion that spins you around and throws your body up, generally this is a circular motion. This motion creates great momentum and hitting the ground at those speeds can have very perverse effects on your body. An example would be imagining doing windmills. You bend your leg slightly; this causes you to lose your balances and also effects the motion that is keeping you of the ground. The next time around your perfect motion is gone and your knee hits the ground. This is not just like falling on the ground, to recreate this type of pain you would have to get a running start and then knee a solid concrete wall. Now not only are there worries of spinning and hitting yourself, but also with all these new air moves you must also worry about having the same momentum and the new variation of falling add to your pain. This art form can also cause the damage of joints, muscles, ligaments, and broken bones if you are not careful. Break dancing requires pushing the body to its extremes. It is not for the weak, or for those who just want popularity. Over time, breaking will weed these people away. The sourness and injuries acquired are great, and only those with discipline who truly are committed will become true B boys. The art of breaking began as a simple art with simple moves. It is relatively a new art, with its forefathers still alive, and still breaking. In the very beginning breaking had few moves and was relatively thought of as being a few crazy moves that some kids had incorporated into their dancing. As more and more kids started to break it began to separate itself from the group, becoming its own phenomenon. Kids began to compete against each other to see who had the best moves, this competition became known as the battle. The competition forced kids to be more creative and come up with more moves to blow away the opposition. As a whole Hip-Hop tends to borrow from other art forms and create them into its own art, breaking was no different. Kids looked towards anything to get ideas. Watching a battle one might see interpretive dance, gymnastic
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