[Mogwai]

Hey y'all

This covers float/glide style (yes they are the same thing, but one travels), in detail.

People keep asking for a proper gliding guide, so I decided to break it down properly for ya. Blinkeys one is dope but is a bit brief.....

key points:

1) Isolate your upper body so it moves smoothly without jerks or twists.
2) pop the knee above the flat foot as you straighten the leg. (i forgot to mention this in the guide - but dont do it when you are floating)
3) Dont scrape the floor when you travel
4) Get on your tip-toes! Define the glide.......

Hope this helps you......

http://www.bboy.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=26602

peace funk n harmony

Mogz


p.s. yeah, my circles were wack back then - its months old!
p.p.s. Its apparently not cool to glide in a battle. But then i dont battle much, i like to dance alone, in my room with funk playing and float across the floor to myself, in a waving frenzy. Blow me. ;->

[Mogwai]

Just got an IM i thought should be posted here:

nguoiviet wrote on 01-26-2005 01:57 PM:
can you tell me the differance between glidin, slidin, floatin? thank you

Yeah. if you take the part of my tutorial before i tell you to slide the feet, (jus twisting the feet, and going up on the toes) and do that really smooth, that is a float. Its just like opposite leg motion walking really. see about 46 seconds in

Gliding takes the illusion that your weight is not on the leg that is actually bearing it, and takes it a step further, where you move the other foot flat on the floor, before putting your weight back on it. Call it a travelling float if u like. It is very important to pop your knee straight above the flat foot to complete the illusion for gliding.

Slides, hmm, slides and glides are essentially the same, but with foot/floor contact. Some glides (the backglide) are actually slides (backslide) because 90% of people scrape their feet when they move them. Its personal choice what you do, but most people agree its better to lift the foot a little (glide) rather than take the weight off and slide it against the floor.

It just looks better. You dont have to slide a backslide, if you learn it properly, then it becomes a backglide.

hope that helps......

[M0wicz]

I actually heard the three terms being interchangable; being different terms from different "areas" or such...like whenever someone was a "gangster" type, and saw me glide they'd always go "WHOA! LOOKIT HIS FLOATS!" but whenever I saw a popper, It'd be termed "gliding," and whenever I was talking to an "MJ style" guy he called it sliding (I guess A-La-Backslide).

I don't make the rules though, so I'm jus sayin'. lol.

*STICKY*

[Mogwai]

Yeah, i dont suppose it makes any odds. They're all the same thing really........then there's the "moonwalk" debate

MJ can call it whatever he wants i spose....as long as he leaves those kids alone! Innocent until Proven Guilty and all that though

too much bullsh*t not enough dancing!

tnx for the sticky mowics - you da man

[Riff's]

Told you you'll get a sticky! Aah like i said nice guide, I'm not much of a popper, but I have this obsession with glides...

[Sho_Nuff]

Yo Mogwai, Thanks for the guide, helps a lot-

got lots of practice ahead.

[Mogwai]

no worries man - im going to update this guide soon -

I'll post it in two chunks next go so i can go into more detail. There are MANY ways to glide, you can also use your heels and one foot and all sorts......once ive become "satisfactorially proficient" in all of them ill do a guide.......it'll be soon.....

p.s. That means "kinda ok, but shit compared to an OG" - its all in the practise


yo man - are you named after "Sho Nuff" from the crazy 80s gangster movie called......the somethings......I can't remember what it was called. bums.

[Freddy Rocka]

whats scraping, can u describe what i should do with the flat leg and how 2 pop it ?

[Mogwai]

erm scraping = sliding your foot against the floor,
instead hover it just above the floor

and you pop your leg by

a) straightening it (not too far - mind those kneecaps)
b) tensing the muscles in the leg hard (popping) simultaneously with (a)

but only do this with the leg that is gliding, no need to pop the other one, it needs to look light as a feather.

[Lil_bReAKz]

Hey cool guide, ive been looking for one of these in depth guides. very detailed, which is what i need thanks!

[FFWB]

good guide, mad propz. bong bam boom snap kablammablamma shazzam zam zing ping sling fing waaaaaaaa. soooo, basically that is all i have to say, peace.

[Freddy Rocka]

you mean it doesn't touch the floor, but i make it seem as its touching ?
and also do i not scrape the 1st leg ?
and i didn't really get where the weight should be
bah sorry if i'm botherin with my silly questions but i wanna learn it fast :S

[Freddy Rocka]

and also 1 question
when i slide the left foot
it will be on its toes
and my right on its heel
at that point do i put "ALL" my weight on the left ?
cos i can't cos here i need to twist the left
at the same time twist the right and slide it back 2 the left :|?

[Mogwai]

i cant explain it any better really - watch the slomo bit on the video, eventually you're brain will click, and you will just understand it.

[darigaaz12]

does your knee ever start hurting while u do this? i notice sometimes when im on my toe and gonna glide my other foot my knee will have a small pain in it and then its fine again until i get back onto that foot and go from my toe to a flat foot