Strong shoulders ensure strong bboys. If you want to be on your hands and make it look easy, get comfortable being upside down. Handstands are the basics you need to master. To get to the next level start training like a gymnast and introduce rings to your workout. This article gives you a peek...
Your body should be in balance, everybody knows that. Through one-sided strain and one-sided training routines, we tend to strengthen one side of the body stronger than the other. For example, if we use the wrist and forearm in breaking, we have to constantly push against the floor to get the power we need...
The Breakalign Method, Conditioning Article Series WHAT IS STAMINA? Stamina, or more commonly used within science, ‘endurance’, can be improved in several ways. There are many types of endurance which can be produced with the development of certain energy production systems of the human body. Endurance basically means that the body can exercise over...
Breakletics is a functional training that combines fitness with breaking. It is said that Breakletics trains strength, coordination, flexibility and body tension. The training is performed to HipHop, Funk or Breakbeats and the aim is to offer an exciting mixture of fitness and dancing. Breakletics does not have much in common with Breaking itself....
Mental training is essential for every top sportsman and there is practically no Olympian winner and world champion in the sports field who does not owe part of his success to his mental coach.
Bboys make this move look easy after hours of training. As a beginner, it takes time to train your body to keep your legs in a split while rotating. Unless you have a strong gymnastic background you should not try to learn windmill until you have completed at least 3 months of solid bboy...
Urban Health Yoga is an integrated concept that was specifically developed for dancers, body artists and other enthusiasts of body movement.
Breaking is a young subculture and has its origins in the 1970s. Therefore, there has been little scientific research in this field. In the early and mid-80s there was a boom in breaking as it increased in popularity through the media. At this time, a lot of research, mainly case reports, letters to the...
Passion is what pushes us to do something, even something that takes up a lot of physical sacrifice, time and often also injuries. In Breaking there is a high risk of getting injured and many Bboys and Bgirls suffer from it. For one reason, psychology is intended to provide information on possible psychological variables that...
A proper warm-up prevents dance injuries and improves the dancer’s performance. So how does a proper warm-up of a bboy or bgirl look like, especially at competitions? In this article the benefits and mistakes during warm-up, as well as an example of training halos/tracks are described.