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-: Hi I'm Anna Banana Freeze
and I'm back for our fourth
and final video for the Beginning Breaking series.
For this last video, we're gonna work on
our last group of movements, which are Freezes,
and Freezes are poses or positions when we don't move
and we hold still.
Okay, I get a lot of questions about freezes
and some of the ones that I hear the most are
can you breathe?
Yes, you can. You can breathe while you're freezing.
Can you blink? You can blink while you're freezing.
And how long, also, do you hold your freeze?
I like to hold my freezes for about
Oh, like one or two counts, like One, two,
Just like that or whatever position you gonna be
so you can count to yourself: one, two.
Okay, It doesn't have to be like counting all the way to 10.
You don't have to be a statue forever
but just, like, holding a position for two counts. Okay.
Freezes, I think we'll do like three or four freezes,
a few different levels.
we gonna do a standing up freeze,
we gonna do kind of lower middle kind of freeze
and we're going to do a freeze all the way on the floor.
Okay, so we gonna start with the one that's up, standing.
So, go ahead and stand up right now.
Just like I said, in the other video,
if this is your first time dancing today
and you just turned this video on, maybe it's in the morning
or you've been sitting on your couch all day,
I would like you to do some warm-ups
and some stretches, on your own.
So if you haven't moved yet today,
this is your first time moving.
I want you to press pause on the video
and do some stretches, or exercises, some jumping jacks,
like we did the other time, right now.
So go ahead and press pause if you haven't moved yet today,
this is your first time.
Otherwise, if you've been dancing already,
maybe you watched the third video right before this one,
you can get right into it, and we'll do it together now.
Like I said our group of movement that we're doing today
are Freezes and the first one is standing up.
All these freezes are pretty simple.
The only rule with freezes,
there's only one rule and that rule is to hold still.
Like I said earlier, you can still breathe,
you can blink, but you're not gonna wiggle around right now.
I'm not freezing because I'm kind of kinda moving, even
right now, I'm moving so I'm not freezing right now.
The first freeze we're gonna do
is gonna have our feet open like this,
make sure we can balance and stay standing up.
Our arms are gonna go up like this.
This is kinda freeze
when I'm not talking to this kind of freeze.
So my arms are open like this.
You have be like this.
I don't know, whatever your hands want to do,
and then I'm going to cross my arms.
After I crossed my arms, I'm gonna lean to the side,
so it's gonna look this.
Open.
Just like that okay.
You could do it kind of faster and not pause in between.
So... and you can lean over this side or that side,
maybe a little front, maybe a little back.
It's up to you. Ready? Set. Try it out.
And then with that, you could have a smiley face,
a blank face,
maybe a robot face,
or my favorite is a stinky face.
And when you do a stinky face,
you kind of scrunch your face up.
Like you smell something stinking.
You don't like it.
Okay. I don't know what that smell is
but whatever smell brings that face to mind,
so ready,
set,
freeze,
and then you can make a face.
It doesn't have to be a stinky face,
actually, whatever face you wanna do.
Let's do that one more time.
If you haven't been doing that,
try it this time. Ready, set, go.
And this freeze, standing up
and with your arms crossed,
it's called a B-boy
or B-girl stance, or a Break-kid stance.
The term B-boy or B-girl is for break boy or break girl.
It doesn't mean you will break your body
or anything it means you're dancing to the break
or the super exciting part of the music,
that's where that term comes from.
So, whatever you consider yourself,
B-boy, B-girl, or just Break-kid.
That's just a term for you to learn.
Now that was the first freeze we did that B-boy,
or B-girl stance, or Break-kid stance.
The next one, we're gonna go a little lower,
so we're gonna go down to the floor
so go ahead and carefully go down.
I'm starting with sitting on my bottom actually,
my two feet are on the floor in front.
My two hands are by my bottom, like here,
then I'm gonna go up bottom up,
one foot up.
This could be a freeze, you could stay here.
This could be your freeze
Or you could cross, this could be your freeze.
You could stay right here
or you could put one hand up,
maybe like you're raising your hand, you have a question
or you know the answer or something.
Put your hand on your hip, make a visor.
You could go over to the side, like this.
Lots of different positions, and that is, actually,
this is the High Chair;
you could go on the other side too.
This is a High Chair Freeze right here.
I don't know why it's called the High Chair,
maybe because it looks like a chair and you could sit on it.
I'm not sure. Sit on your bottom, let that go.
If you were on your hand or hands for a little bit of time
and it's a little sore during the freezes,
then you can rotate your wrist like this,
rotate it the other way, shake it out,
putting a lot of weight on the one hand
sometimes, it makes it makes our hands
and our wrists a little sore. So go ahead.
Make sure if you get sore, rotate them one way
and the other, just like that, shake them out
and take a break as well, if you need that.
But let's do that High Chair Freeze again,
like I said, this could be your freeze,
or if you wanna cross, this could be your freeze.
If you wanna just keep it up, that could be a freeze.
If you want one hand up, that could be a freeze.
Okay. There I wobbled a little bit, but I stopped.
And sometimes when I'm up like this, I get tired
and I end up sitting, and I stop being in that freeze.
If you end up falling out of your freeze,
like maybe you're doing a balancing freeze with one hand
like this and then you fall down.
When you fall down guess what?
Just get into another freeze.
Okay. So, oh, look at me.
Look what I'm doing.
This looks really cool and I didn't show this to you yet.
So this happened, this freeze, this position happened
because I kinda wobbled
and fell out with my High Chair Freeze
and I actually like how this really looks,
or it looks like this, I could go on my elbow
and this could be freeze.
I could hold one foot and that could be your freeze.
You could go the other way.
You could go like that.
So, because I fell because I made a mistake,
I ended up doing a different move and guess what?
That happens all the time with breaking
and with life.
Sometimes we fall,
we make a mistake,
maybe it's a mess up, but we could take that experience
and turn it into a new move
or something that we learned from.
Okay. So I actually really liked that.
So let's all just get into that freeze from the High chair.
So sitting on our bottoms,
two feet on the floor in front,
two hands down by your bottoms,
the bottoms up, this could be your freeze.
One leg up, this could be your freeze.
You could cross, this could be your freeze.
One hand up, or up, or up, this could be your freeze.
And then let's go ahead and, from this freeze,
let's go down to the side and let our legs go flat.
This could be your freeze.
Maybe on your elbow, or leaning on your arm like this.
This could be your freeze.
This one. That's lots of freezes.
That was like 10 freezes right there.
So again, if you all will, if you fall, go ahead
and get into another freeze,
and that'll save your move, okay.
No one, but you knows what moves you'll be doing.
So you can act like you did that on purpose,
or this on purpose.
And I really didn't do that on purpose, I just realized
I was in a freeze after I fell, so,
you could be cool all the time.
Anyways, so that's that low freeze.
Now I wanna take a moment to let you know that, for breaking
it's not just about moves that I show you
or that you see other people doing.
Did you know you could totally make up your own real dance
moves, your own real breaking moves yourself?
We're gonna do that together right now
and we're gonna do it with freezes.
Okay. So I want you to pick a pose,
something a little different
from the tall freeze that I showed you,
from this freeze, from this freeze,
a different position with your body.
Even if you just change one thing,
like maybe you change, change where you're facing,
change your hand positions, whatever,
or do something totally different.
If you know any freezes, or different positions
and poses, yourself, you could do them right now.
Okay, I want you to do a freeze
that I did not do right now;
you could pause this video if you need some time to think,
but I want you to do a freeze that I didn't do yet.
And if it's something you made up,
even if you made it just a little bit different,
I want you to give it a name.
I want you to give that freeze the name.
Okay, so I'm gonna count right now.
I'm gonna count to four.
And then, that'll be time for you to think about
what freeze you'll be doing.
Okay. One, think about it,
two, think about it,
three, think about it,
four, okay.
I hope you have an idea,
if not press pause
and you could have a little more time to think about it.
But I want us all to do our freezes at the same time. Okay,
I'm gonna say one, two, three, freeze.
All right. And I will show you my freeze.
This freeze that I'm gonna be doing,
I made it up a long time ago,
I think like 19 or maybe 20 years ago
when I first started breaking,
when I first started doing this dance, I made up a move
and it's called the Banana Freeze
cause the shape kinda, sorta,
makes me think of a banana.
And I was flexible back then
kind of, sort of, how I am a little flexible now
and it's kind of a flexible, twisty, pretzely move.
Anyways, let me show it to you when I say freeze, okay?
So get ready, get your bodies ready.
If you're gonna do a tall freeze, stand up.
If you're doing a middle freeze,
maybe you want to get up like this, I don't know.
If you're doing a low freeze, go ahead and get to the floor.
I'm gonna count to three, say one, two, three freeze.
Then I want you to do your freeze,
when I say freeze, I will do my freeze too.
Okay. One, two, three freeze.
And then you could get out of your freeze. Okay.
Good job.
That was my banana freeze.
If you wanna see it again,
if you wanna try to do it, I'll show you how I do it.
And you can kinda figure out how your body translates
and tries that move too, okay.
So I am sitting with my legs open first
one foot goes across one knee
and then my hands are gonna go down.
And then, see where my foot
and my leg meets, right here,
this corner, I'm gonna stick my elbow right there. Okay.
So watch, I'm gonna lift up,
stick my arm down, and then I'm going to lift my foot up,
just like that.
If you try it,
and it takes a few tries for you to get something like that.
That's okay.
If you get it right away,
or if you don't get it today at all, that is okay.
I just want you to try different positions
and work on making new freezes.
And I hope he did a really cool Freeze.
I'm sure your Freeze that you just did was really cool.
Actually, I wish I got to see it.
But now, that's it!
Those are all the different kinds of moves.
We're learning together for this series.
We did Top Rocks.
We did Drops,
we did Footwork and we did some Freezes
And now what,
what do you think we do with all those different moves?
I think we should put them together.
Actually, it doesn't have to be in that order that you do
these moves, like top rock, drop, footwork, freeze.
It can, you can put the moves together like that,
but if you want, you can go backwards.
You could just mix them all up.
So maybe footwork comes first
or maybe you do a drop first and then go back
and do a top rock.
I don't know.
I don't know what you will come up with.
It's a mystery and it's amazing.
I wish I could see it.
But let's try that exercise together. Okay.
So stand up
and, I think for now, we're gonna do it from the order,
we're gonna do a combination of moves
from the order that we learned them.
Top rock, one or two top rocks.
It's up to you.
One drop to the floor, maybe two, it's up to you.
At least one footwork move, and then a freeze at the end.
Okay, and these moves could be the moves that I showed you,
or it could be moves that you made up all by yourself
all of them.
Totally original It's just you, it's up to you.
Okay.
So for this,
I think I need some help with some music though.
So I'm gonna turn on the music by asking my DJ to turn it on
DJ.
Yes. Okay.
Coming up.
And it is that Aretha Franklin song again.
I love it so much.
I wanna hear it again.
Do you remember what I said earlier?
A few videos ago?
I said when I hear a song and I hear the beat,
we not amazed to go ahead, nod your head right now
and get used to the song.
Maybe your feet wanna move a little bit.
So we're gonna do our moves in the order of what we learned
footwork, or I'm sorry, not footwork.
Top rocks, drops, footwork, and freezes. Okay.
So you just have to do like one of each.
So I'm gonna, maybe, I feel like doing a sidestep top rock
like this.
I'm just gonna move my arms a little bit
and then go ahead and do a drop.
Let me see.
I feel like doing a W Freeze Drop,
but I'm gonna add something to it,
I'm gonna jump,
go down, then dummy freeze.
That's my drop, and now for footwork,
you know what, I think I wanna do this.
This is a pendulum footwork.
I love doing this move,
but I'm getting tired right now.
So I'm gonna stop and do a freeze.
Freeze. Okay,
I'm not sure what moves you did,
but I'm sure you did some really, really cool moves.
But I think that's it for now.
That's it for now.
So, you can practice in your living room, wherever you are,
and do your moves.
You can do the moves I've showed you,
or you can do the moves that you made up yourself.
I hope you practice often,
and I think there are some other videos by other teachers
coming up for you to look at for inspiration.
That's it!
I'm Anna Banana Freeze.
It was so fun dancing with you.
I hope these dances and these ideas bring you some joy.
I'll see you next time.
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