Foundational Freezes

mr. Boogie · 04:20 PM

INTRODUCTION

Okay, here's my attempt to write a good guide. It's my first one, hope it'll help you guys out. Before growing big, you should have the foundation down. That is for every aspect of the dance, also for freezes. That’s why I made this guide for all the newcomers to the dance, to teach you the foundational freezes so you can advance to a higher level.

This guide exists from the following freezes:
* Turtle Freeze (Image)
* Handglide Freeze (Image)
* Baby Freeze (Image)
* Chair Freeze (Image)
* Combining

I'm sorry for the quality of the images, but it's just to give you an idea of what it looks like.

Warm-up
Before you start practising any of these freezes make sure you are warmed up and do some stretches. For freezes you have to use your wrists a lot, so your wrists are most important to warm up and stretch. Start with a little jumping/running around to get warmed up, swing your arms around and do some wrist rolls. Now that you're warmed up go on with some stretches. At least make sure you're shoulders, arms and wrists are warmed up and stretched. For stretches I recommend you to take a look at bboy Mystic Monkey's guide: click here

THE FOUNDATIONAL FREEZES

Turtle Freeze
This freeze is one of the easiest existing freezes, in the beginning it can feel a little unnatural to you, but with good practise you'll get it in no time. If you don't know what a turtle freeze is, take a look at the pictures which I linked to at the top of this page.
Okay, first I'll explain it in little steps and then there's a vid to visualize it.

Step 1: Sit down with your knees bend, top of your feets flat on the ground. When you sit down you should rest on your legs. Maybe there are more ways to start this freeze, but this is the way I learned it.
Step 2: Place both arms between your legs, bend at the elbows and hands pointing outwards.
Step 3: Now you should put both elbows in your stomach and lean to the front.
Step 4: Bring your legs to the back, but they should stay bend.
Step 5: Now bring your legs up by pushing them outwards and at the same time bring your head to the floor (it shouldn't touch it).
Step 6: Now try to find some balance in this freeze until you can stay comfortable in this position and breath at the same time.

Because it's a little hard to imagine how it works by only reading this guide, I made a vid for you guys, hope this will help a little more.

Turtle Freeze

Handglide Freeze
The handglide freeze is the same as the turtle freeze, but on one hand. I call it a handglide freeze because this is the beginning position for a handglide, but it’s also called a one-handed turtle. For this freeze you do exactly the same as with the turtle freeze, except the use of only one hand. The free hand is placed at shoulder width in front of you. To get better understanding watch the vid that I made.

Handglide Freeze

Baby Freeze
This freeze is a bit difficult to explain in words, but I'll try to do my best. I've made a vid for this one also.

Step 1: Go sit in a squat position.
Step 2: Both your arms should be on the right side of your legs. So place your left arm to the right of your legs. Your fingers should be pointing to the front and your hand should be placed slightly before your legs. Your elbow (still left) will be touching the outside of your right knee. Your hand has to be flat on the ground.
Step 3: Now for your right hand. Point your fingers to the back (so opposite to your left, which is pointing to the front) and your hand should be flat. Place it at the same line as your heels are.
Step 4: In this step you leave everything in the SAME POSITION except from your right feet. Slide it to the front of you, the side of your body should fall and rest on your right elbow now. As you slide your right feet to the front your ass can rest on your left heel.
Step 5: The only thing you have to do now, is falling to the side (right side) with both your elbows still supporting your body. So your left elbow touches the side of your right knee and your right elbow touches the right side of your body. You can place the right side of your head on the ground and just stay poised in this position. Once you are comfortable with it, try to raise your head slightly above the ground and stay balanced.

Here's the vid: Baby Freeze

If you still don't understand, maybe this guide will help you out, it also has some good stretching exercises: TaiChi’s Baby Freeze Guide

Chair Freeze
If you don't know what the Chair Freeze looks like, take a look at the picture that I linked to at the top of this page. There are 2 different ways to get into a Chair Freeze, the first one is from Baby Freeze and the second one is from the ground, going into it at once.
It's easier if you do it from Baby Freeze, but better if you can do it right away. So take a look at both, maybe you can start out with doing it from the Baby Freeze to get used to it and then practise doing it the second way.

From Baby Freeze:
Step 1: Get into the Baby Freeze.
Step 2: Place your right foot on your left knee.
Step 3: Place your left foot on the ground.
Step 4: Now place your left arm in your side.

Here's the vid

Straight away:
You can do this by getting in a handglide position and immediately go into it, I don't know any steps to explain this, but take a look at the vid that I made, here is it:

Straight away

TIP: The further you arch your back, the more balance you get.

Combining
Once you master all of these freezes, you can start combining them. I don't have an explanation for this, but these combinations just make common sense if you already master all freezes. So I'll only post a vid, here is it:

Combining Freezes

LINKS

Transitions from footwork to you’re freezes
Somebody asked me how to get into all these freezes from your footwork, how to do nice transitions. Instead of explaining all that, I just give a link to a guide made by d.N.a.. He made a great guide for this, also including videos, so here it is:

Transitions Guide made by D.n.A

Advanced movements
As I mentioned several times, all these freezes are foundation. When you have this foundation you can use it in advance to learn more difficult movements.

Turtle Freeze and One Handed Turtle Freeze (aka Handglide Freeze):
- Turtles [GUIDE:BBoyZone Breakdance Community - Move guides, videos, forums, and more!]
- Crickets and Jackhammers [GUIDE: http://www.bboy.org/forums/floats/50...clips-pix.html]
- Handglide [GUIDE: http://www.bboy.org/forums/spins/721...-bboy-d-n.html]

Chair Freeze:
- Air Chair [GUIDE: Cliche's Airchair Guide]
- Tracks [GUIDE: Not Yet]

FAQ

Here are just some questions that people asked me, not all of them, but only the most important ones. If you have a question not mentioned in this FAQ feel free to ask me or someone else in this thread!

Q: If you're doing the turtle freeze, should my toes touch each other like in the image, or apart like in the video?
A: Remember this... bboying is a danceform wherein you can put all your creativity. My guide is just to illustrate how a basic freeze is done. Put your own creativity in it and develop your own style. Do it the way you think it looks best or you feel most comfortable with. This is for all freezes.

Q: How long should it take me to learn each of these freezes now?
A: You'll probably get them in a couple of days if you practise hard, maybe even in one day, or even some minutes. But don't be discouraged if you don't get them so quick, just practise hard and you'll be able to hit them soon.

Q: Am I too tall/fat to dance?
A: You never are! It will probably be easier if you're not very tall and if you're not overweight, but don't let it stop you from dancing, just work hard!

Q: My wrists hurt! What am I doing wrong?!
A: You probably didn't warm up and stretch them, just do so and when practising keep stretching now and then. In the other case, you practised the freeze over and over again. In that case, just stretch them and take a rest, continue practising later.

LAST UPDATES

November 4th 2009
Wow! This thread is up for 3 years and 10 months now and is still helping people out. That's great! I'm sorry if the videos don't work anymore. I lost them and aren't able to post up any new ones. But hopefully the descriptions in combination with the pictures help you out enough.

END

This was my 'Foundational Freezes' guide, hope it helped you. Any comments and questions are welcome. If you know some points where I can improve the guide, just say so. Good luck practising! And remember, a solid foundation is more than half the work!

Peace,
mr. Boogie

Dweidran · 01-30-2006, 02:41 PM

thumbs up man

mr. Boogie · 01-30-2006, 02:47 PM

Glad you liked it.

Bboy AlpinA · 01-30-2006, 04:18 PM

hot. the only thing is newbs may want an explanation for an airbaby, but good job bro.

mr. Boogie · 01-30-2006, 04:36 PM

Well, I don't think an airbaby is that basic and I still don't control them, so I can't make a good guide of that. Btw, there's already an airbaby guide in the freezes forum.

s4mmy · 01-30-2006, 07:31 PM

yea a dope guide i made! titled: s4mmy's airbaby guide.. which i donno why it didnt get stickied yet!

Typicalusername · 01-31-2006, 04:49 PM

dope ass guide bro i never thought about trying turtles thatr way....then again i can never hold them for more than a second or two......just tried and it seems i can already go a bit longer...much props and thanx

mr. Boogie · 01-31-2006, 05:09 PM

It's good to hear that it helped you. But what way did you start your turtles then? Maybe I can learn from you a bit too

Typicalusername · 01-31-2006, 08:45 PM

well im hella newb but i always just stabbed and put my head on the ground....then i lift my legs and try and rock myself off my head into the freeze and barely hold it b4 smashing my face into the carpet...only thing to learn from that is....pain does not decrease stupidity

mr. Boogie · 02-01-2006, 11:49 AM

haha ok, thanks didn't know that

mr. Boogie · 02-02-2006, 06:31 AM

Isn't this worth a sticky?

Agent B · 02-03-2006, 12:31 AM

"Step 2: Place your right feet on your left knee.
Step 3: Place your left feet on the ground.
Step 4: Now place your left arm in your side."

Good guide. Nice vid combining the freezes. I just have to comment on your chair freeze part. I really liked how you wrote it for those of us with two left or two right feet. Ah I'm just kidding. I know you really wanted "foot" instead of "feet" nice work overall though

mr. Boogie · 02-03-2006, 04:05 AM

Haha, I'm sorry, you know, I'm from Holland, so my english is not that good

I'll edit it

Tmd · 02-03-2006, 07:40 AM

Thanks a lot man, Iv'e searched for Chair Freeze for years..!
And untill now I was sure that Handglide freeze is callled Baby, and I now know 2 more freezes.

mr. Boogie · 02-03-2006, 08:47 AM

Cool that it helped you!

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mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	Foundational Freezes - 01-30-2006, 10:19 AM INTRODUCTION Okay, here's my attempt to write a good guide. It's my first one, hope it'll help you guys out. Before growing big, you should have the foundation down. That is for every aspect of the dance, also for freezes. That’s why I made this guide for all the newcomers to the dance, to teach you the foundational freezes so you can advance to a higher level. This guide exists from the following freezes: * Turtle Freeze (Image) * Handglide Freeze (Image) * Baby Freeze (Image) * Chair Freeze (Image) * Combining I'm sorry for the quality of the images, but it's just to give you an idea of what it looks like. Warm-up Before you start practising any of these freezes make sure you are warmed up and do some stretches. For freezes you have to use your wrists a lot, so your wrists are most important to warm up and stretch. Start with a little jumping/running around to get warmed up, swing your arms around and do some wrist rolls. Now that you're warmed up go on with some stretches. At least make sure you're shoulders, arms and wrists are warmed up and stretched. For stretches I recommend you to take a look at bboy Mystic Monkey's guide: click here THE FOUNDATIONAL FREEZES Turtle Freeze This freeze is one of the easiest existing freezes, in the beginning it can feel a little unnatural to you, but with good practise you'll get it in no time. If you don't know what a turtle freeze is, take a look at the pictures which I linked to at the top of this page. Okay, first I'll explain it in little steps and then there's a vid to visualize it. Step 1: Sit down with your knees bend, top of your feets flat on the ground. When you sit down you should rest on your legs. Maybe there are more ways to start this freeze, but this is the way I learned it. Step 2: Place both arms between your legs, bend at the elbows and hands pointing outwards. Step 3: Now you should put both elbows in your stomach and lean to the front. Step 4: Bring your legs to the back, but they should stay bend. Step 5: Now bring your legs up by pushing them outwards and at the same time bring your head to the floor (it shouldn't touch it). Step 6: Now try to find some balance in this freeze until you can stay comfortable in this position and breath at the same time. Because it's a little hard to imagine how it works by only reading this guide, I made a vid for you guys, hope this will help a little more. Turtle Freeze Handglide Freeze The handglide freeze is the same as the turtle freeze, but on one hand. I call it a handglide freeze because this is the beginning position for a handglide, but it’s also called a one-handed turtle. For this freeze you do exactly the same as with the turtle freeze, except the use of only one hand. The free hand is placed at shoulder width in front of you. To get better understanding watch the vid that I made. Handglide Freeze Baby Freeze This freeze is a bit difficult to explain in words, but I'll try to do my best. I've made a vid for this one also. Step 1: Go sit in a squat position. Step 2: Both your arms should be on the right side of your legs. So place your left arm to the right of your legs. Your fingers should be pointing to the front and your hand should be placed slightly before your legs. Your elbow (still left) will be touching the outside of your right knee. Your hand has to be flat on the ground. Step 3: Now for your right hand. Point your fingers to the back (so opposite to your left, which is pointing to the front) and your hand should be flat. Place it at the same line as your heels are. Step 4: In this step you leave everything in the SAME POSITION except from your right feet. Slide it to the front of you, the side of your body should fall and rest on your right elbow now. As you slide your right feet to the front your ass can rest on your left heel. Step 5: The only thing you have to do now, is falling to the side (right side) with both your elbows still supporting your body. So your left elbow touches the side of your right knee and your right elbow touches the right side of your body. You can place the right side of your head on the ground and just stay poised in this position. Once you are comfortable with it, try to raise your head slightly above the ground and stay balanced. Here's the vid: Baby Freeze If you still don't understand, maybe this guide will help you out, it also has some good stretching exercises: TaiChi’s Baby Freeze Guide Chair Freeze If you don't know what the Chair Freeze looks like, take a look at the picture that I linked to at the top of this page. There are 2 different ways to get into a Chair Freeze, the first one is from Baby Freeze and the second one is from the ground, going into it at once. It's easier if you do it from Baby Freeze, but better if you can do it right away. So take a look at both, maybe you can start out with doing it from the Baby Freeze to get used to it and then practise doing it the second way. From Baby Freeze: Step 1: Get into the Baby Freeze. Step 2: Place your right foot on your left knee. Step 3: Place your left foot on the ground. Step 4: Now place your left arm in your side. Here's the vid Straight away: You can do this by getting in a handglide position and immediately go into it, I don't know any steps to explain this, but take a look at the vid that I made, here is it: Straight away TIP: The further you arch your back, the more balance you get. Combining Once you master all of these freezes, you can start combining them. I don't have an explanation for this, but these combinations just make common sense if you already master all freezes. So I'll only post a vid, here is it: Combining Freezes LINKS Transitions from footwork to you’re freezes Somebody asked me how to get into all these freezes from your footwork, how to do nice transitions. Instead of explaining all that, I just give a link to a guide made by d.N.a.. He made a great guide for this, also including videos, so here it is: Transitions Guide made by D.n.A Advanced movements As I mentioned several times, all these freezes are foundation. When you have this foundation you can use it in advance to learn more difficult movements. Turtle Freeze and One Handed Turtle Freeze (aka Handglide Freeze): - Turtles [GUIDE:BBoyZone Breakdance Community - Move guides, videos, forums, and more!] - Crickets and Jackhammers [GUIDE: http://www.bboy.org/forums/floats/50...clips-pix.html] - Handglide [GUIDE: http://www.bboy.org/forums/spins/721...-bboy-d-n.html] Chair Freeze: - Air Chair [GUIDE: Cliche's Airchair Guide] - Tracks [GUIDE: Not Yet] FAQ Here are just some questions that people asked me, not all of them, but only the most important ones. If you have a question not mentioned in this FAQ feel free to ask me or someone else in this thread! Q: If you're doing the turtle freeze, should my toes touch each other like in the image, or apart like in the video? A: Remember this... bboying is a danceform wherein you can put all your creativity. My guide is just to illustrate how a basic freeze is done. Put your own creativity in it and develop your own style. Do it the way you think it looks best or you feel most comfortable with. This is for all freezes. Q: How long should it take me to learn each of these freezes now? A: You'll probably get them in a couple of days if you practise hard, maybe even in one day, or even some minutes. But don't be discouraged if you don't get them so quick, just practise hard and you'll be able to hit them soon. Q: Am I too tall/fat to dance? A: You never are! It will probably be easier if you're not very tall and if you're not overweight, but don't let it stop you from dancing, just work hard! Q: My wrists hurt! What am I doing wrong?! A: You probably didn't warm up and stretch them, just do so and when practising keep stretching now and then. In the other case, you practised the freeze over and over again. In that case, just stretch them and take a rest, continue practising later. LAST UPDATES November 4th 2009 Wow! This thread is up for 3 years and 10 months now and is still helping people out. That's great! I'm sorry if the videos don't work anymore. I lost them and aren't able to post up any new ones. But hopefully the descriptions in combination with the pictures help you out enough. END This was my 'Foundational Freezes' guide, hope it helped you. Any comments and questions are welcome. If you know some points where I can improve the guide, just say so. Good luck practising! And remember, a solid foundation is more than half the work! Peace, mr. Boogie Last edited by mr. Boogie : 11-04-2009 at 04:20 PM.
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mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	01-30-2006, 02:47 PM Glad you liked it.
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Bboy AlpinA noob to the max Respect: 1 Posts: 137 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: East Brunswick	01-30-2006, 04:18 PM hot. the only thing is newbs may want an explanation for an airbaby, but good job bro.


mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	01-30-2006, 04:36 PM Well, I don't think an airbaby is that basic and I still don't control them, so I can't make a good guide of that. Btw, there's already an airbaby guide in the freezes forum.
	"What more can I say. Whe wouldn't be here today if the oldschool didn't pave the way." 2pac - Oldschool


s4mmy Registered User Respect: 1 Posts: 208 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cupertino	01-30-2006, 07:31 PM yea a dope guide i made! titled: s4mmy's airbaby guide.. which i donno why it didnt get stickied yet!


Typicalusername Registered User Respect: 1 Posts: 16 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Warren	01-31-2006, 04:49 PM dope ass guide bro i never thought about trying turtles thatr way....then again i can never hold them for more than a second or two......just tried and it seems i can already go a bit longer...much props and thanx


mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	01-31-2006, 05:09 PM It's good to hear that it helped you. But what way did you start your turtles then? Maybe I can learn from you a bit too
	"What more can I say. Whe wouldn't be here today if the oldschool didn't pave the way." 2pac - Oldschool


Typicalusername Registered User Respect: 1 Posts: 16 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Warren	01-31-2006, 08:45 PM well im hella newb but i always just stabbed and put my head on the ground....then i lift my legs and try and rock myself off my head into the freeze and barely hold it b4 smashing my face into the carpet...only thing to learn from that is....pain does not decrease stupidity


mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	02-01-2006, 11:49 AM haha ok, thanks didn't know that
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mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	02-02-2006, 06:31 AM Isn't this worth a sticky?
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Agent B Most Illinist BBoy Respect: 1 Posts: 73 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Petoskey	02-03-2006, 12:31 AM "Step 2: Place your right feet on your left knee. Step 3: Place your left feet on the ground. Step 4: Now place your left arm in your side." Good guide. Nice vid combining the freezes. I just have to comment on your chair freeze part. I really liked how you wrote it for those of us with two left or two right feet. Ah I'm just kidding. I know you really wanted "foot" instead of "feet" nice work overall though
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mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	02-03-2006, 04:05 AM Haha, I'm sorry, you know, I'm from Holland, so my english is not that good I'll edit it
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Tmd Random Respect: 1 Posts: 1 Join Date: Feb 2006	02-03-2006, 07:40 AM Thanks a lot man, Iv'e searched for Chair Freeze for years..! And untill now I was sure that Handglide freeze is callled Baby, and I now know 2 more freezes.
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mr. Boogie Funk E. Fresh Respect: 1.5 Posts: 256 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Haarlem (Netherlands)	02-03-2006, 08:47 AM Cool that it helped you!
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