[aeon]

no video clip as of yet (still waiting to get my mates one)

but im gonna explain the way i do my strobing, i read another guide in here which is good, but i think my way makes things alot easier.


so!
things you should have down before you try strobing are:

-hitting, be able to do clean noticable hits before trying to strobe.

as the previous guide said, moving one body part at a time then starting to move another is a good way to practise,

so start with your hand, tense up the muscles in your arm and move it in a circular motion, now while doing the circular motion, start counting in your head 1, 2, 3, 4, then repeat this sequence over n over

on each number, hit. it makes strobing alot easier for me if im counting in my head to hit on(even if its not with the music, it makes it look cooler if you count quicker)

after doing that, having the one limb strobing, try with both arms at once.. then try moving your feet all with the counting pattern in your head.

once i get a video cam i'll throw a vid in with this to make it a bit easier to understand..

hope it helps some in the explanation of strobing!

-aeon

[crowd_pleaser]

umm..... well.... your supposed to stay relaxed for strobing.... when you hit instead, your ticking.... two very different looking things

[aeon]

same effect. different method :\

[ChippaStyles]

not true....ticking and strobing have different methods and dont give the same effect....you did explain ticking tho....

[Bugeto]

ya u dont hit while strobing right? its all dimestopps right?

[aeon]

my bad :P

[Jcas]

yeah i make the same mistake too. i try to strobe but i end up doing a bunch of hits.

[SyncroScales]

When you strobe it is snappy. It's got that snap to it. Like in a strobe light. Dimestopping is a stop or pause.

In my opinion and what seperates them for me:

Dimestopping: You stop.

Strobing:It's very similar to dimestopping, but it has a snap to it.

Not jerky, say like a robot or bouncy or anything. It's very crisp.

To me ticking is strobing while popping as hard as you possibly can. You flex your muscles very very hard when you tick. when your start at the beginning it really hurts and its very difficult to do it longer than 10 seconds. It's taken me a lot of practice to get the stamina for ticking. Does anyone not flex very hard to tick?

What I find to be a challenge (with all popping not just these styles) is to keep the rest of your body moving when you dance or to keep it still. EG: It's easy to be strobinging with your right arm and be doing it on the right side of your body and turning to the right. But its easy at the same time to forget to do stuff with your left arm and leg and just move them as you would normally. It kinda takes away from the whole illusion. You can isolate. It really stands out when someone does full body movements though. Don't forget the other body parts.

SyncroScales

[Dalton]

urgh, i talked to pete online...and he explained it to me when we had a discusion on soulseek one night.....he said strobing is relaxed controlled normal movements with the upper body(and the occasion lower body) to give off the effect of a strobe light....stop and go stop and go....ticking is a bunch of lil STOPS not HITS,STOPS STOPS STOPS.....ok may be confusing but his is just what he said...

[kobansora]

Ticking is dancing, strobing is doin normal things like takin off your hat.. Same sorta methods
~JJ