List of breakdance moves

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Downrock 6-step Drop Float Freeze Kick Spin Suicide
Power Moves 1990 Flare Swipe Windmill

Breakdancing incorporates a wide variety of funky and impressive moves that can vary as widely as a breaker's imagination and athleticism will allow. Breakers may prefer to do all their moves spinning either clockwise or counter-clockwise but being able to do everything both ways gives more variety.

1 Toprock
2 Common Downrock Moves
- 2.1 Other Moves
3 Definitions still needed
4 External links

[edit] Toprock

Toprock is how a b-boy or b-girl introduces his/her set. It is a style of dance in and of itself, but it frequently includes elements or influences from uprocking and other street dance styles. From toprock, drops allow the breaker to transition into footwork.

[edit] Common Downrock Moves

1990s, a spinning one-handed handstand
2000s, a 1990 with your spare hand on top of your supporting hand.
1-Step/coffee grinders/helicopter, a footwork sequence.
2-Step/baby flares, a footwork sequence, knee spin.
3-Step, a footwork sequence.
4-Step, a footwork sequence.
5-Step, a footwork sequence.
6-step, a footwork sequence.
7-Step, a footwork sequence.
12-Step, a footwork sequence.
Air Flare, a variant of the Flare
Air Track, a variant of Air Flare
Air Turtle / UFO, an un-stabbed spinning float
Airbaby - A handstand with one knee resting on the corresponding elbow
- 1-handed Airbaby - An airbaby with only the hand of the arm supporting the knee on the ground.
Airchair, a type of freeze
Baby, a freezes
Back Spin, a spin on the back
Butt Spin, a spin on the butt
Butterfly kick, a Wushu move sometimes incorporated into breakdancing
Caterpillar, The, a rippling of the body along the ground (see The Worm)
Chair, a type of freezewith elbow stabbed in the side with head and leg on the ground
Crickets, a hopping float
Darkhammers / Pumping Turtle, a hopping float
Drills, a variant of the headspin
Drop, a transition from toprock to downrock
Elbow Spin, a spin on the elbow

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Flare, a widely recognized power move.
Floats article, a fundamental element of breakdancing with many variations
Freeze, a fundamental element of breakdancing with many variations
G-Kick, a kick with the legs and arm forming a G shape
Halos, a variant of the windmill
Hand Glide, a type of spin performed while balanced in a one-handed float position
Head Invert, a headstand (see below)
Headface, a rippling of the body along the ground with the added face plant which sometimes results in breaking the nose
Headspin, a spin on the head
Headstand / Invert- A freeze while standing on the head, with or without hands on the floor for support
Headspring, a kip up executed from a kneeling position, going to the head and kiping up
Hollowback, an especially challenging freeze
Insane Corkscrew, a spin with the direction of rotation constantly changing
Invert, a synonym for a handstand
Jackhammers, crickets on one hand
K-Kick, a kick with the legs and arm in a K shape
Kick, a fundamental element of breakdancing with many variations.
Knee Spin, a spin on one or both knees, usually in the kneeling position. Breakers often perform freezes or stylish movements of the upper body while spinning
L-Kick, a kick with the legs in an L shape
Mill, an abbreviated name for the Windmill
Nike, a kick that resembles the Nike sign
Pumping Turtle / Darkhammers, a hopping float
Side Freeze, a type of freeze
Spins, a fundamental element of breakdancing with many variations
Suicides, a fundamental element of breakdancing
Swipe, a widely recognized power move
Threading, a technique incorporated into some freezes
Track, Another name for the Halo
Turtle, a spinning float
UFO / Air Turtle, an un-stabbed spinning float
V-Kick, a kick with the legs in a V shape
Windmill, a widely recognized power move
Worm, The, a rippling of the body along the ground

[edit] Other Moves

Applejack Squat on both legs, then fall backward onto your hands while at the same time kicking one leg into the air, as high as possible. Then you get back up onto both legs, and repeat.

Back 2 Back The Back 2 Back involves 2 people X & Y. X & Y stand facing each other (over 5 feet apart). X bends over bending his knees slightly and can rest his elbows on his knees (head must be down). Y runs at X and puts his hands on his shoulders and flips himself onto X's back and does a tumble while on his back anwith his legs in a 4 shape. He hops and lands with the leg that was bent behind on the ground and the other leg pointing straight out. The breaker points one hand in the air and bounces on and off each foot while turnin in a circle.

Bronco The breaker starts in a hand stand, kicking her legs and pushing off with her arms at the same time sending her feet on a mission. The goal is to spend as much time in the air before her feet touches the ground. When her feet touches, she bounces immediately off her toes, sending her upper body back towards the ground. When her hands touches, she repeats from step two and get a fly bounce going.

Butterfly 2? Step hard like you're going to jump really high forward. Then jump up really high in a diagonal direction and become horizontal in the air. Now, while still airborne, (you should be facing the ground) bend your back inward so your stomach is sticking toward the ground. At the same time, extend your arms behind you, close to your knees. Now snap out of it so that your legs are in a "V" shape and your arms are close to your chest to support your fall. Land with your arms in a push-up position.

Dizzy Run Start doing as you would do on the 6-step (lock your right leg to the back of your left one), at the same time your right leg "hits" your left one. Then sort of collapse your left leg so your left knee hits the ground (softly). Only naturally on this point also your right knee hits the ground. Also here your right hand comes to the ground. Now you come off your knees and your right hand is on the ground, right leg pretty much straight and left leg bent. Now bring your right (straight) leg to your left (bent) leg. Now bring your left leg a little bit back. Then bring your right leg back and to the right so that you are in the push up position.

Frogs You do the same motion as a Bronco, but you land in the turtle position, then you bounce back up and do the same thing over and over.

Headglide / Icey Ice With one elbow in your side, hand on the ground, your head slides around your supporting hand like a compass.

Helicopter/Coffeegrinder/Ball-and-chain - One leg rotates in circles below the body and just above the floor. The leg remains straight throughout. Begin in the third step of the 6-step. As your right leg swings out wide for step 4, put your right hand down quickly. Instead of letting the right leg hit the left, lean on the right hand and hop slightly so your right leg sweeps under the left leg and continues around for another full circle. Continue sweeping and hopping.

Leghop Bend your weakest leg in front of your strongest, creating a figure-4 with your legs. Use the opposite hand to grab the toes of that weakest leg. This should form a circle through which you will jump. Jump as high as possible with your strong leg. Quickly scrunch it up to your chest, bring it over and through your leg-hand circle, and shoot it straight again to catch yourself before you fall to the ground. Legitimate leghops leave the leg-hand circle unbroken throughout the jump. It helps to bend over a little rather than stand totally erect.

Rocket Go into a 6-step and go into a helicopter/coffee grinder and as soon as you jump with your crouched foot in a rotation, you jump as high as you can with your crouched foot straight in the air (you can use your hands if you want)and as you go up, swing your leg back under your foot before you land for another rotation.

Rolls The b-boy starts in all four with feet wide apart. Now he takes his right hand and throws it over to his left side so that his hands are with the same width that you would do a handstand in. Now he lifts his right leg off the ground, and kicks up into a handstand, with his legs bent and then jumps off of the hands and back onto the ground in the crab position. The body is twisted like a swipe.

Skyscraper The b-girl gets into handstand position. She lifts her left hand off the ground and moves it back. The right hand is stucked to the ground. Then once she gets her left hand moved back, her body will turn to the hand. Then she picks up the right hand and moves it more or less next to the left hand and the body will turn still. Then she moves her left hand backwards again, and she is facing the opposite direction.

Solar Eclipse A move where the b-boy balances on one hand and bounces in circles.

Switch/Pompo A 3-step inverse. The b-girl sits on the floor with her palms and feet on the floor with her butt in the air. Then she crouches her right leg so it's in a 90 degree angle. Then leans it to her left so that the left (inner) side of her right foot slightly touches the floor. She lifts her right arm up and puts her weight on her left foot as she lift her right leg up and a little bit to the left. Then straightens her right leg and bendd the left leg as she puts her weight on the right leg and lifts the left hand. And at the same time she lifts up her left (bent) leg.

Valdez From a sitting position, the right hand is swung behind the back, then the left hand. While the left hand is going up in the air, do side cartwheel over it.

Fly & Roll A B boy/B girl jumps forward "flies" forward hits the ground and rolls ending up back on their feet. this move can be dont between two people.

Planche A position from gymnastics which involves both hands being on the ground, straight arms, and the rest of your body is held off the ground completely horizontaly.

Dive Is a rapidedly going to the ground handstand. First you jump into a handstand and then you lower your hands until you touch the ground with your chest.